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Come farther north and your opinion of cold and “loving it!” will change I promise you.

-1 with wind 25 gusting to 36. First I have really run my oil boiler. Think I could get away without it, but don't want to risk frozen pipes.

Interesting information! Coldest weather Florida has had in years. I’m loving it!

What I dislike with the hand bellows is the air flow in surges and nothing in-between. The generated heat is blown away and inconsistent. I prefer a slow but steady flow by the lungs. It's still interrupted but that gives more time for the small flame or embers to thaw a given area.

Emergency overtime making a 6” dia shaft from a 7” shaft. Pretty hardcore welding, no gap no filler purged TIG Order all messed up

Looky what I got

I'm throwing no stones, I promise. M and I rented and then bought our 5 acres with an ancient 35-foot mobile home on it and lived in that hovel happily for 9 years before we could afford to build a small house. It was a roof over our heads; cheap, and that was the only way we could have swung...

True, but some things don’t have a monetary value. Honestly I envy them. Living and working a ranch.

B, your bellows story reminds me of when my wife got me a 4 wheel wheelbarrow for Xmas. I was like r u feeling ok, I have 2 (regular) wheelbarrows already. Well sure enough it is awesome and I haven’t used a regular one in a few years. Great for firewood tasks. Geez, women!

I've always kept about 2 and a half feet of half inch or smaller copper pipe near the stove. One end is flared for a compression fitting, the other is flattened off, nearly closed. Makes a nice fan shaped pattern that helps wake the coals quite quickly. A hand bellows is much better, but the...

If healthy, the trees would be worth far more than the home :D.

Need to get those suckers down and dead away from the healthy ones.

Potential down only job. May go see it tomorrow.

GSOB : if the limbs are chipped and dumped in a leaf compost pit, the larvae should not survive, correct? Or will they maybe survive in the compost? Thanks

Bellows FTW

I think I bought my last ones from Wesspur, though I'm not positive. I have bought quite a couple off Amazon. The last couple I've bought are okay, as far as the cube itself is concerned, but the holes in the corners are big enough for a stray cat to get into, it seems. I am exaggerating, for...

The straight in log method must require a stove that is quite deep. With my Hearthstone, it is fine with 18 inch wood sideways, but it would have to be no longer than 12 inches or even less to go in straight on. No way am I going to be cutting firewood at 10-12 inches. That's just silly :).

I have found the straight in log method to work well also. Also found when running the stove hot ash burns down more and coals burn up. Not even a lot more air, just with more wood. I usually don't burn too hot, but with cold plunges we have had the fire has been getting packed with more wood...

That's a great price. I don't need another one at this point in my life, but not so long ago I'd have jumped on that. There are innumerable things I no longer need more of at my age, but are quite attractive nonetheless :). Also, some things I do need that are somewhat less attractive, but...