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Brian, that's what I thought too, no free hand to help support the wood if needed. With the speed in which that ram moves though, you probably don't want your hands near. Not that type splitter, but a friend of mine's son sustained a leg fracture when a wood chunk flew out from the splitter...

A friend of mine just bought a rotary type wood splitter. I guess they've been on the market for awhile. It has some kind of flywheel in it that builds up energy and then a shaft rams the wood. You have to push two levers to initiate the splitting, a safety release and then what starts the...

Joel, good score on the scrap steel. That seems real lucky.

Koreans heat their houses and homes with hot water under the floors, have done so for a long time It's a cold country. I've never been there but a friend tells me that they have it down.

We're probably about thirty years behind other industrialised societies when it comes to safety standards. After I had the fire and became friendly with the fire department, I asked one of them, "Don't you guys ever come around and inspect places?" He looked at me kind of funny, said "Nah"...

Squishy, you are likely very right about my stove and inclination to burn green wood sometimes. A modern efficient stove would be better for controlling the heat as you say, I have no doubts. Then again, I'd probably be hesitating to smoke and grill all kinds of meats and stuff inside and...

You never much hear anyone talking about ideally burning anything less than well seasoned wood. I find it useful to ALSO throw in wood that is still of a higher moisture content. I even like throwing in some very wet Oak at times. That's in my shop where the stove is made from part of a big...

I'm not surprised to hear that creosote is carcinogenic. The stuff in stoves smells like it could not be good for your health when it is still soft and gooey.

In well seasoned Pine, like the rafters, the pitch seems to stay permanently around knots. I made some tables for a restaurant once out of ancient resawn Pine slabs. They didn't have any budget for anything else. There were knots. I'd say that it took like about two years for the pitch to...

Tar is the one I know. A funny bad smell to it, nothing like the smell of the stuff that they have by the same name to preserve wood. I can get my stove pipe red hot with no fire risk, nothing flammable near it and it goes through a slate roof. That's how I get rid of the creosote. burn it...

Candoarms, my situation seems to bear that out. When i leave the shop at night i shut down the air intake and close the damper. If there was much of a fire left it usually will keep burning slowly for awhile at low temperature, sometimes a long while (home made stove). In the morning I can...

The first year when i moved in, I had to scrounge around for firewood and about all i could get was Pine, a lot of it poorly seasoned. The pipe had an elbow in it then. I couldn't believe how much residue (creosote?) collected in the horizontal part of the chimney. It seemed like I had to...

Good firewood isn't cheap here if you have to buy it, so more folks have resigned themselves to burning Pine. What I hear about Pine is that it becomes safe or safer when extremely well seasoned. I suppose it's true to a certain degree, but I've seen pitch still coming out of wood that was in...

Is Jack Pine a pitchy Pine? A little pitch sure helps get things going. Because of the huge number of logs that are available from the borer insect infestation in my area, boilers specifically designed to burn the heavy pitch Pine are becoming more common. The same species of tree that they...