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Now that I don't have to any more, I wouldn't mind doing a little wood work...no need here and my saws are with my sons in Missouri. That's okay, I've done my share.

Great pics all!

Great looking woodshed there llama2, and your home as well.

Been working this pile of oak down for the past week. Have about 1/2 left[what is shown.

All white and red oak that has been windrowed for 2 years at a housing development.
Neighbor surprised me with a tandem dumptruck load of it.


He brought in a portable mill last spring and also gave us a few nice white oak slabs back in August. Those top boards are 18" +
Good neighbors are hard to beat!

That makes our woodpile at the cabin look small, i've got probably close to 2-3 cords already cut and split, just waiting on me to build it home (woodshed).

Thank you MM. I really enjoyed your pics of the job you have been putting in on your firewood- great job. This work helps to keep us alive and active.

We also came close to losing our house and everything around us last month on Labor Day when that big East wind event hit the western US. The fire ( Holiday Farm fire - 173,000 + acres burned) was moving fast towards our area quickly. It traveled 18-20 miles within about a day and came within (2) miles of our place on the ridge above us. Our home was in a level 3 evacuation within 12 hours of the fire starting 20 miles away. It destroyed a couple of towns E of us in no time. After all the work I have put into our place, we would have been heartbroken if it wiped it all out.

We were on vacation in Utah and Idaho when it started. Have friends and a lot of other people we know that lost everything. Thankfully there was only one fatality in our big fire here, and it is by grace that there was not more that perished. A bunch of people stepped up and helped get people out. Even though we are thankful to have ours still standing, we feel terrible for those that were not as fortunate. The destruction in that area and in the woods around it is incredible. It will not look the same in my lifetime ( I am 61). Fire is amazing what it can do. But I do enjoy a nice contained, controlled fire every night in these cold months.

is there anything you wood heat guys need to do for managing humidity in the house...?

If you don't mind a bit of mess, a kettle on the stovetop. Home Hardware sells a stainless that works as a water heater.

We put a water kettle on top too.

Can't talk for everywhere, but here any fuel burning hearing appliance has to
draw it's combustion air from outside. They install a pipe through the wall
that goes into the Firefox. My buddies fireplace even had to have one.

With that setup, their is no way for it to affect draft.


Mine is pre code. And my house is tight.
The stove vent fan or bathroom one can draw smoke out of my chimney.
If I close the caller door, the circulation fan causes negative pressure and
draws smoke from the chimney into the caller. Then it picks it up and blows
it upstairs. It took me a long time to figure that one out.

We would smell smoke.
I went downstairs to investigate, breaking the negative pressure.
No smoke.

Go upstairs. Maybe run a vent fan too. Smoke.
Repeat.

One day I was working on something down there, and the fan kicked on.
I saw something around the joints of the pipe.
Smoke.


Hmmmm?

Opened the outside door, it quit.

I
Will
Be darned....

Morewood
That was a close one with the fire, did you put it out or was it the firefighters?

Here is a question for you guys.
What is your method to measure your firewood lengths, or do you just eyeball it?

I was gonna go cut firewood today, but it is too damn cold out.....

little surprised it doesn't require more than a boiling kettle, but no big deal if it's not an issue

LMAO @ Hunts

Simon,

that's very kind of you, but I would be hard pressed to craft a 2x4 out of a nice piece of Walnut, much less a nice rifle stock.

something I wish I had started on much earlier in life.

I do like getting the firewood in every fall, and enjoy the woodpile pictures!

Sycamore

That's hilarious, Huntsman. Thanks for the morning laugh.


The entire area was evacuated the day before, 673. We couldn't get up there even if we tried. 50 plus cabins out of about 100 burned to the ground in our little private lake community. Judging from reading the sign on the forest floor I figure a crew was up there dragging fire hose around and they put out the fire just before it torched our place. God bless those firefighters. Thank you, men. Beers on me anytime.

That saw isn't very popular with the girls.