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I burn mostly red and white oak, a little mesquite and hickory
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The present chimney has only been in use for about 24 years and I burn it hot and wide open at least once a week. I've never swept it and have no plans to. The chimney is a 7 inch Selkirk about 20feet long. We heat with wood exclusively and burn mostly lodgepole pine and larch. GD Show a pic please. What kind of stove do you have? 24 years and never been swept, I have never heard of that for a wood stove.
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Main thing is don’t fall off the roof I have 5 chimneys that I clean from the bottom up. The 6th chimney is the fireplace with a smoke shelf and have to clean top down.
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How often do you clean the chimney? Once yearly, just before I fire it up in late fall..
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LET'S GO BRANDON!!!
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That's some good goin's on there.
Never had the teachers act like that, they were mostly old folks and didn't go for the new ways.
Dugouts? nah, we used the handball courts (do they even have them things anywhere outside of the joint now?)
We did have a teacher that ran our summer archaeology program, let us take .22s on the digs.
Ah, the good ol' days, eh?
Geno
Dugout Aka bout the size of a deck of cards Hollowed out wooden container with grooved sliding lid Compartment to hold herb in and another drilled out to hold small straight brass 3 inch smoking apparatus pressed into herb compartment easily to.fill Very popular item in the 1970,s growing up in maine Easily made in wood and metal shop Some very well crafted . Everyone had one or was asking people to make one for em. I had like 5 or 6 hot cheerleaders while in high school come up to me on the sly asking me to make em a pretty dugout. Never got in any of their pants, but it spread my influence around to my advantage. Kinda like learning at an early age how to win over and influence people. Yeah, I guess the cheerleader types wouldn't be askin' for a "pretty" Prince Albert can, or a an old Altoids tin.  Nowadays they just go to the local smoke shop and get them some good juice for their vape pens. How in hell did we get here from cleaning chimbleys?  Geno
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men.
In it is contentment
In it is death and all you seek
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My father in law calls it a "chimley"
lol
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My father in law calls it a "chimley"
lol
Have heard folks say "chiminey". Then again, I hear you folks down south there talk funny sometimes.  Geno
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men.
In it is contentment
In it is death and all you seek
(Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
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The present chimney has only been in use for about 24 years and I burn it hot and wide open at least once a week. I've never swept it and have no plans to. The chimney is a 7 inch Selkirk about 20feet long. We heat with wood exclusively and burn mostly lodgepole pine and larch. GD Show a pic please. What kind of stove do you have? 24 years and never been swept, I have never heard of that for a wood stove. The stove is nothing special; just a no-name unit I got in trade for a barrel job thirty years ago. I never damp the stove down to where it smolders. It's either burning or it's out. A few years ago, I bought a small pellet stove. I cut a hole in the side of the woodstove and vent the pellet stove into the wood stove. In really cold weather, I'll run the pellet stove overnight or if we are going to be gone so it is no longer accurate to say we heat exclusively with wood but it is wood product and uses the same chimney via the wood stove. GD
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I clean once a year. Triple wall 6 inch. Takes longer to get the ladders out and the tools together than it does the actual cleaning. I burn 90% white birch, the rest a mix of cottonwood and spruce. Mostly ends of logs from the sawmill. I get about a sandwich bag or a little less worth of soot out of 20 feet of chimney.
Chronographs, bore scopes and pattern boards have broke a lot of hearts.
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My cousin, an adored pediatrician doctor, died at 36 years old cleaning his chimney cap on an icy morning. One of his tennis shoes was found in the rain gutter on the second story. Hit his head on the concrete sidewalk below and it killed him. His wife and young kids were home and heard a noise and found him.
So be careful.
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I have 6" Metalbestose pipe. About every 1 1/2 cord of Lodge Pole Pine I have to clean the cap an spin a chain in the pipe.. Then every summer I run a brush down the pipe. I burn about 5 cords in the house on cold winters. Which puts the cleanings at 4 or 5 per year.
The anti American Constitutional party (Democrat). Wants to dismantle your rights, limiting every aspect of your constitutional rights. Death by 1000 cuts is the tactic. Each cut bleeds constitutional rights to control you. Control is the goal.
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