You know you heat with wood when.....

[chainsaw kid]

You go outside to fetch a couple of logs to get the fire going first thing in the morning in your boxers, T-shirt and slippers when it's -10 degrees....

 

[an?qus]

Guilty as charged. When I found the Black Friday ad I couldn't wait to post it here.

ditto! Got in on that Wild Thing special!

 

[an?qus]

You know you heat with wood when...

...you finally decide it's time to buy stock in ChapStik!

 

[unclemoustache]

While out for an evening walk with your wife you smell wood smoke. Your follow your nose to the house and check out the homeowners woodpile. and then decide if its worthy enough to strike up a conversation with the homeowner about wood heat
Jeff

Or rather, when you already know everyone within a 1 mile radius who heats with wood.


Thought I'd also post a layout of my setup.

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Yes, I drive a used funeral limo. 7 kids, you know!

 

[olyman]

...when those in more tropical climes ( Ct, Tenn, Iowa, B.C. PNW ) boast of their high BTU species ( e.g. oak, hickory, hedge ) and you feel insecure ( more Freudian ).

[/QUOTE]

IOWA??????? You got to be kidding!!!! Come out here,,in about the middle of jan,,and tell me of this "tropical" clime!!!!!!! NOTTTTTT!!!!!! Last year,,was the most recorded snowfall here, since i have lived at this address. Certain spot in yard, never had over 2 foot. Last year, it was 38 inches deep there. Its in a non wind blown spot........

 

[olyman]

Yes, I drive a used funeral limo. 7 kids, you know![/QUOTE]

And you had a handlebar at that time???

 

[1project2many]

IOWA??????? You got to be kidding!!!! Come out here,,in about the middle of jan,,and tell me of this "tropical" clime!!!!!!! NOTTTTTT!!!!!!

lol. I always look forward to midwinter snow. The temperature rises when a warm front arrives. Besides, snow's an insulator. Pile it high to stay happy and warm.

unclemoustache, you're long way from that stove. Are you warm enough?

You know you heat with wood when your garden tractor has attachments and modifications just to help move logs around the yard.

You know you heat with wood when you look forward to rediscovering what hardwood mix you stacked in the woodshed 2 summers ago.

You know you heat with wood when you own a jar of stove black and know how to apply it.

 

[upsnake]

unclemoustache, you're long way from that stove. Are you warm enough?

He wouldn't want his moustache to catch on fire now would he?

 

[scottb]

When 76 degrees is to hot in the summer, and to cold in the winter.

 

[Chris-PA]

...you have to visit your husband out at the woodpile...
and when you get there you find him sniffing a length of red oak he just split and going,
"mmmmmmm."

The truth is stranger than fiction! (are we for real???)

LOL - I can still remember the look on the kid's faces when I brought in some fresh split red oak and had them snort it! But they had to admit it smelled good!

 

[Whitespider]

...when those in more tropical climes ( Ct, Tenn, Iowa, B.C. PNW )…

IOWA??????? You got to be kidding!!!! Come out here,,in about the middle of jan,,and tell me of this "tropical" clime!!!!!!! NOTTTTTT!!!!!!...

Actually logbutcher is technically correct, the mean annual temperature for Maine is 7[sup]o[/sup] colder than Iowa (Maine = 41[sup]o[/sup], Iowa = 48[sup]o[/sup]). BUT, it ain’t so much ‘cause Maine has colder winters… rather it has very cool summers when compared to Iowa. Because of these (relatively) cool summers Maine gets ranked as the third coldest stated while Iowa is ranked fifteenth when comparing mean annual temperature.

Most other “cold winter” states (especially those in the interior) will see summer temperatures in excess of 90[sup]o[/sup] for several days each year, and many see over 100[sup]o[/sup] for at least a handful of days. The average summer high temperature in Maine is 64[sup]o[/sup], the average summer low temperature in Iowa is 65[sup]o[/sup]. Get it? During the summer, our average overnight lows are warmer than Maine’s average midday highs. It is possible for Maine to see frost 10 months of the year… the only other state that can claim that is Alaska.

Where logbutcher goes wrong is assuming that also means Maine has colder winters… which is an incorrect assumption. For comparison, the coldest temperature ever recorded in Maine was -48[sup]o[/sup] (Van Buren, 1925) and in Iowa it was -47[sup]o[/sup] (Elkader, 1996). And for reference, neither Maine nor Iowa even place on the top-ten list for coldest ever temperatures in the lower 48… In actuality, Maine is only slightly colder than Iowa during winter months (November – March)... where the northern third of Iowa is the same, or slightly colder than Maine.

But we can’t rank winter severity on temperature alone… the length of winter weather, the number of snow and ice storms, as well as wind must be considered. Maine surely beats Iowa on the length (compared to southern Iowa, winter never ends in Maine LOL). Maine may not always necessarily have more storms, but on average they certainly dump more snow and ice. Where Iowa out-steps Maine by a long-shot is blizzards and wind, and the average daily wind-chill temperature… most of Maine doesn’t even come close. And for reference, Iowa just barely makes the top-ten list for winter wind… heck, even Minnesota beats Iowa on that count.

Yeah, the winters in Maine are nasty… but Iowa winter sure the heck ain’t “tropical” by any stretch! And really, it is debatable whether-or-not one is worse than the other. If’n ya’ really want to experience horrible winter weather, spend a January in someplace like North Dakota or Montana… Rogers Pass, Montana hit -70[sup]o[/sup](without the wind-chill) in 1954… and the wind never stops blowing in Montana. The only U.S. location to ever record a colder temperature was Prospect Creek, Alaska at -80[sup]o[/sup] in 1971.

 

[rottiman]

Yes, I drive a used funeral limo. 7 kids, you know![/QUOTE


Might be worth lookin @ getting the T.V. fixed..............LOL

 

[artbaldoni]

...when you blew all the leaves out of the yard, put up Christmas lights outside, cleaned all the gutters and downspouts, brought all the boxes of Christmas decorations up from the basement, erected the 10' Christmas tree in the house, washed the windows in the great room and spent a couple hours cleaning the basement and feel like you didn't acomplish anything because you wasted a good wood cutting day... :msp_mad:

 

[unclemoustache]

unclemoustache, you're long way from that stove. Are you warm enough?.

He wouldn't want his moustache to catch on fire now would he?

Yes, I'm close enough to the stove. That room gets nice and toasty. Sometimes even that is too close, and no, torching the stache would be bad - very bad for business to say the least!

 

[Wood Doctor]

You know you heat with wood when...

Your neighbor asks you to sell him a load of firewood right after the first big snow of the winter falls.

 

[spike60]

......when you have a piece of hickory and a piece of cherry in the stove and you intentionally fan out some smoke into the living room because it smells great.

 

[Steve NW WI]

When you keep a box full of wood in the pickup in the eventuality that someone will call wanting to haul something, and you can make them help unload it. Worked for me today!

 

[electiccottage]

Your christmas list includes cast iron cookware and wood stove recipe books because you don't see any reason to use up propane in the kitchen range when the wood stove is right there and already hot...

 

[Wood Doctor]

You know you heat with wood when...

... that hoard of kindling you saved for starting new fires somehow vanishes in December. :biggrinbounce2:

 

[an?qus]

You know you heat with wood when...

...you start to yell at your husband for checking out the cute chick across the street
when you realize he's just eying the stand of fallen locust behind her!!