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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.
That would be considered child abuse these days.... There's nothing like hard to take the mischief out of a young boy though. Most of today's youth could stand a good dose. In my case it was a shovel, I swear my old man stayed awake nights thinking up jobs for me that involved a dam shovel.
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Makes me wish I was at my place up there. I put in a new stove two years ago (replacing an old Fisher) and never lit it. I got up there this summer and for a couple of days it was cool enough to light it. It did its job and darn it felt and looked great.
Conduct is the best proof of character.
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Campfire 'Bwana
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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! Sam, Nothing wrong with an old Monarch. This one still cooks cackle berries, sausage and hash browns well.
Conduct is the best proof of character.
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Makes me wish I was at my place up there. I put in a new stove two years ago (replacing an old Fisher) and never lit it. I got up there this summer and for a couple of days it was cool enough to light it. It did its job and darn it felt and looked great. What'd you swap out the Fisher for? Which model did you have?
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time. --Pat Parelli
American by birth; Alaskan by choice. --ironbender
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Makes me wish I was at my place up there. I put in a new stove two years ago (replacing an old Fisher) and never lit it. I got up there this summer and for a couple of days it was cool enough to light it. It did its job and darn it felt and looked great. What'd you swap out the Fisher for? Which model did you have? This Jotul F500.
Conduct is the best proof of character.
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Misread your question. It was a Mama Bear.
Conduct is the best proof of character.
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Knew quite a few people that had Fisher 'Bear' stoves when I lived in Fbx. Great stoves. So are the Jotul. Another friend still has the 'teepee' shaped Jotul. I had the same in a house I sold.
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time. --Pat Parelli
American by birth; Alaskan by choice. --ironbender
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This one: Also bartered for a chinese copy of this little box stove for a sauna heater.
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time. --Pat Parelli
American by birth; Alaskan by choice. --ironbender
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When we had our house built I insisted on a word burning stove. Nothing like curling up in front of a good fire when the mercury drops.
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Nothing like curling up in front of a good fire when the mercury drops. Looks like my place cept I have two dogs vying for position front of it so I can hardly get close enough to feed the dam thing..
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Field,if you have two dogs, you are a lucky man! I would love to see them.. If not give them a treat for us! Have a wonderful fall!
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Horse's name was Whoa Dammit and kid's name was Get Wood.
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This one: This is where I went when I saw that.
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That was the design influence!
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time. --Pat Parelli
American by birth; Alaskan by choice. --ironbender
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You can't tell a dog a woodstove isn't a good thing,
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You can't tell a dog a woodstove isn't a good thing,
Oh....you can tell em but they'll ignore you....
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You can't tell a dog a woodstove isn't a good thing,
Oh....you can tell em but they'll ignore you.... Why lie to a dog?
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time. --Pat Parelli
American by birth; Alaskan by choice. --ironbender
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Field,if you have two dogs, you are a lucky man! I would love to see them.. If not give them a treat for us! Have a wonderful fall! Finally got my photobucket working after not being able to access it for over a month so here ya go WCH. And happy hunting to you too. I don't know how I let that Cur Dog get so fat but I've had her on a serious diet. Just took this pic this morning. She looks and feels better much better now.
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Took out a propane fireplace and replaced it with this. One of the best things we have ever done.
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