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It's a little early yet...I don't usually fire up the wood stove until mid Nov. or so...but I put a new gasket on the door yesterday and the directions said to bring the stove up to 500 degrees for a while within 24hrs to cure the glue so I fired it up this morning. It was only 38 degrees but the dogs immediately piled up in front of the stove and we stood around in front of that fire drinking coffee and warming our backsides like it was Dec....LOL I let it go a little too long and ended up opening a couple of windows and I'll be sick and tired of feeding the beast by March but that first fire of the year sure feels good...
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It's not unusual to have a fire or two in July here!
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
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It was 85 yesterday. I cant imagine needing a fire in October.
Yall have a good day.
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It's not unusual to have a fire or two in July here! Yea but you live on the dark side of the planet.  It was 85 yesterday. I cant imagine needing a fire in October.
Yall have a good day. Our temps run in the mid 30's to mid 50's this time of year. The fire was nice but it didn't take long to get to be too much. Normally I just run a little infa-red heater for a couple of hours to take the chill off every morning but I needed to cure the glue so I fired her up.... Toasty...
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It ain't dark in July Charlie! A bit dim at 45 - 50 deg. and rain. Warm and dry is the ticket on those days.
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I was just funning ya.....hell....I saw it snow on the 4th of July when I lived in the "high desert" in NV....
One thing's for sure though....wood heat warms you to the soul no matter where you live...
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We can't even have them here.
Pollutes the air doncha know.
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I was just funning ya.....hell....I saw it snow on the 4th of July when I lived in the "high desert" in NV....
One thing's for sure though....wood heat warms you to the soul no matter where you live... Indeed! Not to mention the "Warms you twice" factor. 
Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla!
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We can't even have them here.
Pollutes the air doncha know. That's what ya get when your state's be run by a bunch of pie-in-the-sky socialists....
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I was just funning ya.....hell....I saw it snow on the 4th of July when I lived in the "high desert" in NV....
One thing's for sure though....wood heat warms you to the soul no matter where you live... Indeed! Not to mention the "Warms you twice" factor. True that but as much as I hate to admit it...between my back and arthritic shoulders I had to break down and buy some wood this year...  I still scrounge up a little when ever I see a nice log that's drifted down the river and hung up in a spot where I can get to it but my days of going to the woods are about over with...
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Charlie, If I could get up there, I'd help you cut some firewood.
Founder
Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
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I still cut a little KW...
Up until this year I'd spend Sept. Grouse hunting in the mornings and cutting wood in the afternoon. I always looked forward to it but I have to admit standing there watching em kick a couple cords off the truck about three feet from my wood shed was kind of nice....grin
Besides....now I can Grouse hunt all day (when my back lets me)...
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Charlie, it really is tough too beat a wood stove for heat.
We've been out in the hills for the last few days moving cows and while we're there stay in an old log house.
It has a pretty old halfway wore out Monarch in the kitchen and of course we fire it up every fall.
We'll bring a chainsaw and scrounge broken corral rails and posts for camp wood.
This year the chopping block was getting pretty soft in the center so I climbed up on a REALLY old dozed up pile of cabin remains and cut a new block out of an old cedar log.
Wood was still nice and solid so I cut another chunk off and we split it. Smelled and looked great and burned like a hot sonuvabitch!
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We have been in our new place for about a month and have been figuring out wood heat since I haven't had a wood stove since childhood. Turning on the furnace circulation fan we're able to get the whole house comfortable. Our first electric bill just came in and it looks like the stove will pay for itself. It is definitely work to feed it but it makes for good family time working on wood gathering.
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I was just funning ya.....hell....I saw it snow on the 4th of July when I lived in the "high desert" in NV....
One thing's for sure though....wood heat warms you to the soul no matter where you live... Indeed! Not to mention the "Warms you twice" factor. Well aware of that expression, Barry, But it seems to me it a few more warmings than that. By the time it's cut, loaded in the truck, unloaded at home, cut to length, split, stacked, hauled inside, and then burned....I need AC!
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
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I was just funning ya..... Yup. Knew that!
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
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Turning on the furnace circulation fan we're able to get the whole house comfortable. I use a ceiling fan when the electricity is working.....
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I'm only heating about 700 Sq. Ft. so I get by with just the fan in my stove but yea...a ceiling fan's the way to go if you need to move a lot of air....
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I was just funning ya.....hell....I saw it snow on the 4th of July when I lived in the "high desert" in NV....
One thing's for sure though....wood heat warms you to the soul no matter where you live... Indeed! Not to mention the "Warms you twice" factor. Well aware of that expression, Barry, But it seems to me it a few more warmings than that. By the time it's cut, loaded in the truck, unloaded at home, cut to length, split, stacked, hauled inside, and then burned....I need AC! Tell me about it! When I was kid, we lived in a house with 3 fireplaces, and my dad was pyromaniac. If it got below 70 degrees, he'd build fires. Hell I was 18 years old before I knew my name wasn't Get Wood! There wasn't any of that easy chainsaw work either... He never got a chainsaw til I left home. Double bitted axe.
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Ceiling fan works great for the living room but doesn't seem to push air down the hallway. If we leave it off the heat stays high and the cold air return is 10' from the ceiling fan. I can get 75 degree air coming out of the vents in the bedrooms. I don't mind sleeping cool but the little kids don't get using blankets yet 😁
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