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TreeHouser
Sticks go in the chipper or to the burn pile. I kind of enjoy cracking some kindling. It’s a mindless joy for me.
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CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Mill slash. Excellent kindling.
One guy at the club set his chop saw next to the pile he had at his house fr om some milling Rob did. Drives his wife crazy. But that pile keeps shrinking over the last year.
One guy at the club set his chop saw next to the pile he had at his house fr om some milling Rob did. Drives his wife crazy. But that pile keeps shrinking over the last year.
Altissimus
TreeHouser
Kindling , I save out and use dead mostly lower lower limbs , break them down and have them in boxes for restarts. Air dried old Spruce is best , always have a box of Birch bark saved out as well ... the combination is quickest way to go from from cold to comfort
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TreeHouser
I like taking the nicest straightest grain oak and turn it into pencil sized sticklets. Lol
And the dead straight grain hemlock snag I got last year is such a joy to make kindling out of. You can practically split it down to each growth ring. Tooth picks.
And the dead straight grain hemlock snag I got last year is such a joy to make kindling out of. You can practically split it down to each growth ring. Tooth picks.
PCTREE
Treehouser
Cobbleskill if you quit moving you are dead. Ive seen inside many nursing home so can attest to that. Habitual tasks are very important in the later years. Maybe you could get her a contract for a couple of yard clean ups with a local tree co. I would love to pay someone good coin to do the mind numbing habitual part but to the right person its therapy .....
Burnham
Woods walker
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Kindling here on my place is almost exclusively split out of oldgrowth cedar fence posts that rotted off at ground level after 30 to 50 years of service. After we replaced them with PT 4x4 posts and steel T posts, I cut them up into 12 to 16 inch lengths and let them dry a few years in a segregated part of our woodshed. They split sweetly, and make the best kindling ever imagined.
I reckon we have at least 20 years' supply available
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I reckon we have at least 20 years' supply available
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stikine
Treehouser
Waste not want not B. Well done!
Did you have livestock of some sort at one time, Burnham? Or just fencing to keep unwanted critters out?
I'm regularly cutting the lower, dead stubs off of pines, both alive and dead, and when seeing one is full of fat wood, I'll chunk it to the side to be saved. I have quite a few saved up from one the years.
I'm regularly cutting the lower, dead stubs off of pines, both alive and dead, and when seeing one is full of fat wood, I'll chunk it to the side to be saved. I have quite a few saved up from one the years.
Patrick A
Treehouser
Woodstove maintenance (rope gaskets) done and bent part fixed. Getting some nice secondary burn on 2 year old sugar maple.
Dem ol canines just love a good wood stove fire.
Speaking of finding just the right kinda wood OTJ and bringing it home, I've done that many a time with stone dead, no-bark, no twigs/just the stem, oak limbs. Mind blown repeatedly when they hiss in the fire box.
Speaking of finding just the right kinda wood OTJ and bringing it home, I've done that many a time with stone dead, no-bark, no twigs/just the stem, oak limbs. Mind blown repeatedly when they hiss in the fire box.
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TreeHouser
Yeah but it makes real nice firewood!
vharrison
Island Girl
I read in this thread something I did not know, that a stove generates more heat for a house than a fireplace. Can some explain why?
Cobleskill
Treehouser
So much warm air taken out of the house when it goes up the chimney. Air tights only take out the air you allow to go in. After the fire dies down you still have to vent the coals til they are dead. All that warm air up the chimney.
Nutball
TreeHouser
A stove also slows down the heat flow giving it more time to radiate out before going up the chimney, but the draft is the main issue as Cobleskill mentioned.
vharrison
Island Girl
Thanks!
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TreeHouser
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TreeHouser
They may make it to the he odd and ends shelf.
treebogan
Treehouser
stikine
Treehouser
I'm sure your kids can make some sort of Christmas tree ornament out of those.
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TreeHouser
My youngest could. She has a good eye for artsy things.
Nutball
TreeHouser
I'm thinking of setting up a stove in a friend's house with a heat exchanger around the chimney pipe like this.
Thoughts?
Later on we might figure a way to blow air through the heat exchanger in reverse for higher heat output, but this is the initial low cost design.
Thoughts?Later on we might figure a way to blow air through the heat exchanger in reverse for higher heat output, but this is the initial low cost design.
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