Here it comes! We will not be sparing the pellets next week. It will be chili, hot coco and snuggle time next week. I will be experiencing this cold spell looking out my double-pane gas filled windows watching football. :new_year:
Always nice when one can look out from the inside, leaning back, with mostly anything hot to wet the insides.
:) :)
Looks like we are working Sat and Sun and hibernating Mon and Tue. High is 4 on Mon. I know , I know. You are going to be a lot colder up north.
It's all relative. ;D
Throw two logs at it instead of just one.
Times like this make me think about my childhood when we lived in a totally un-insulated, drafty house with a coal fired stove in one room. We now live in a fully insulated house with state of the art heating, just a few yards from the old home site. The strange thing is that I don't have memories of suffering from the cold in those days. Were we just tougher then? I do remember coming in from sleding and hunting frozen to the core but quickly warming up in front of that old coal stove.
I try to beat the cold at the mill with my old hand made wood stove a friend gave me.
Saw a little, warm up and go back to sawing. We keep a pot of coffee on the stove also.
My son Paul stays warm busting firewood for the stove that keeps me warm. :D
He gets paid though. ;D
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Great Idea! We are going to be sawing pretty steadily for the next few weeks. I think I'll keep my little box stove stoked up in the shed.
Good to see a young fella that knows how to split wood.
Around here a wooden handled maul usually comes back in 2 pieces! :D
I can't believe your cold . You even shaved , can't be that bad to have a fire :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D ;)
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here you need a fire :D :D :D :D ;D
Quote from: Weekend_Sawyer on January 02, 2014, 06:22:19 PM
Around here a wooden handled maul usually comes back in 2 pieces! :D
Around here, that's 2 more sticks of firewood.
And Peter, I did shave....we got to go get family pics made this month. Got a memo from the wife. >:(
Your pics of your snow are very nice. Snow looks its best when the sun is shining on it. :)
I love your set up Poston. :)
Quote from: Mooseherder on January 02, 2014, 08:35:10 PM
I love your set up Poston. :)
Thanks! When I'm sawing....the sawdust is flying and the lumber is being stacked.
But when I'm laying back......I still like to be close to my mill. Just a country thing. :D
Love the rockers, ifin I ever go visite, you best check the back side of the pick-up for they could be stashed in there. :D
Quote from: isawlogs on January 02, 2014, 08:47:47 PM
Love the rockers, ifin I ever go visite, you best check the back side of the pick-up for they could be stashed in there. :D
I only have 2 rockers....1 for me and 1 for you. Come on down Marcel! :)
Posty!
I had to chuckle @ the last pic of Paul whacking away...looks like there are a few dents in that block.
Brings back some memories. Glad I had to do it back then....glad for hydraulics now!
Looks like he is a "lefty" swinging a right-handed maul! ;D
Quote from: blackfoot griz on January 02, 2014, 09:20:19 PM
Posty!
I had to chuckle @ the last pic of Paul whacking away...looks like there are a few dents in that block.
Brings back some memories. Glad I had to do it back then....glad for hydraulics now!
As I raise my son...I try not to include hydraulics. :D :D :D :D :D
Sometimes I'll slip a piece of SWEET GUM in on him just to see how warm he can get. :D
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Quote from: blackfoot griz on January 02, 2014, 09:20:19 PM
Posty!
I had to chuckle @ the last pic of Paul whacking away...looks like there are a few dents in that block.
Brings back some memories. Glad I had to do it back then....glad for hydraulics now!
As I raise my son...I try not to include hydraulics. :D :D :D :D :D
Sometimes I'll slip a piece of SWEET GUM in on him just to see how warm he can get. :D
Yet, YOU have hydraulics on your mill...... ;D
Quote from: clww on January 02, 2014, 09:27:36 PM
Yet, YOU have hydraulics on your mill...... ;D
Shhhhhhhh! no_no
You look presentable, now.
:D :D :D
You do look much better without that beard. That's not saying much though. :new_year:
Quote from: WDH on January 02, 2014, 09:31:00 PM
You look presentable, now.
Magic and Chief still things I'm UG-LEE. poston-smiley
Presentable...... ::) ::) ::) Questionable at the very least. :snowball:
:new_year: just the same . :D
Y'all don't make me take my Squirrel suit off......That "S" on my chest don't mean Sycamore! :D
I thought it was for sweetgum ;D
Or smart a$$ :D ;D
Quote from: Peter Drouin on January 02, 2014, 10:01:48 PM
Or smart a$$ :D ;D
smiley_curtain_peek Is that you Peter?
At least I have a long fuse. smiley_nananana
Peter,Peter,Peter. I thought we had this talk once before. :( There is nothing smart about that critter.
Peter, for him to be a smart ***, first he has to be smart, otherwise he is just an ***. :D :D
It's good to be loved! smiley_love
Well he keeps changing the aver the pic. so you have to look out, like 007
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Peter,we can pick on him all we want for a few more months. No way he will take the chance of frost bite.
I have to be carefull, though, I am just a little Due West of him.
Don't worry he won't leave sight of that fire. :D
That is country living Poston! Sitting by your outdoor wood stove. Love it!
Quote from: thecfarm on January 02, 2014, 10:15:59 PM
Peter,we can pick on him all we want for a few more months. No way he will take the chance of frost bite.
he will bring the wood stove with him. When you see this man sitting next to a wood stove on the road eating grits in a rocker chair we'll know. :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D ;D
I ain't stopping for any man sitting next to a wood stove on the road eating grits in a rocker chair.
He might be able to hitch a ride with Paul and the gasifier, he would be just what Paul needs , a fire stocker . Then again , I don't think he could ever take the -° temps, its tee-shirt weather down there and he's got a fayer goin' fire_smiley and has his son on splitwood_smiley duty. ::) :snowball:
Naw, he will have the stove in the back of his truck with the driver's seat replaced by the rocking chair. Grits, so many and so much down here as to raise no comment.
Quote from: thecfarm on January 02, 2014, 10:36:30 PM
I ain't stopping for any man sitting next to a wood stove on the road eating grits in a rocker chair.
If I had won 5th place in the Christmas contest, I would be sitting on the road eating Blackberry Jam and wearing new boots. :D :D :D
How many new boots will you need to walk to Maine with a wood stove on your back and grits in your pockets dragging the chair. :D
Well I'm going to stoke the fire. Have fun Postonlt40hd with your wood stove. I think I have to plow snow in the morning :D :D :D :new_year:
Looks like we'll be stoking the fire pit in the morning, as the skid steer blew a hydraulic hose on New Year's eve and it's parked outside. A friend of mine and I built this fire bowl few weeks back. We made it from the cutoff end off of an old 500 gallon propane tank that I had acquired for a bio-diesel project:
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The fire pit looks good. And those BIG blocks too. Always enjoy seeing your dog in the pictures. good luck with the fix.
How thick is the wall on the tank ends ? That has mishoui writen all over it. digin_2
Note to self: If driving by , pick-up a block they are way too cool.