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How I resize firewood to fit the stove. ( video )

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  1. Pallet Pete

    Pallet Pete Moderator

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    This is a cut box I made a while ago but I've never recorded it till now. Enjoy!

     
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    Nice idea & build
    Petes painted pallets

    Got one question
    Who cut the wood the first time ? LOL :rofl: :lol:
    What do yo do with the shorties ?

    I know, that,s 2 ?s :)
     
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    Those where the road crews so there. :p I scrounge a lot and had to make something to fix the OCD issue I have with firewood fitting my stove. Usually it's between 2' and 3' pieces that I pickup on the roadsides.
     
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    I knew that.
    But was just to good of a set up to let it slip by. LOL :)
     
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    I just swear at it and try the split in a different stove. It's bound to fit in one of them.
     
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    I just spit my coffee out:rofl: :lol: that's the second time in two days someone's made me do that.:whistle:
     
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    You laugh, but it is a shockingly accurate description of my stove loading routine.

    "Oh &%&$ you, you filthy mother &%&$! How the &%&$ are you not fitting into the &%&$ &%&$ Encore?!"
    - Proceeds to shove split into the 30.

    "Oh, are you &%&$ing kidding me? Stupid &%&$ &%&$ fire brick! Two inches, I need two mother &%&$ing inches!!!"
    - Proceeds to shove split into the Defiant.

    When I get one that doesn't fit in the Defiant I breakout the ax and take off the root system and the branches as I have obviously brought in an uprooted tree.
     
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    You're trying to re-invent the wheel here BBar.
    Just leave the door open.:fire:
     
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    Why do I believe that! :rofl: :lol::whistle:
     
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    Pallet Pete's painted pallets perfectly poised for perfunctorily precise pruning of poles.
    Yep, that's all I got.
     
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    I got some wood recently from a tree service with more than a few that were a little oversized. It is a pita. I much prefer cutting logs myself. I put 2 more pallets under the box so I didn't need to lean over so far to load, unload or cut or clean up the mess as often.
     
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    Usually it's on cinder blocks but they where frozen to the ground so I just moved it and left the blocks. :emb:
     
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    Sounds like Papadave has been reading books like "Fox In Socks" and "Oh Say Can You Say".
     
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    Funniest post I have read in. Long time. :) Thanks BBar! :thumbs:
     
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    I do so enjoy "Green Eggs and Ham". One of my gooderest favorites.:)
     
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    You have no idea how close I've come to doing that.

    "&%&$ it, it'll burn down..."
     
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    What's the smallest stove you've owned? I can't imagine you trying to get along with this dink.

    I have left the door cracked, waiting for the coal bed to settle a hair so I could get the #$%%^&** split the rest of the way in the#$%^& door. It was either that or take the smoking split back outside, I've done that too.
     
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    Encore is 2.3 cu ft
    30 is 3.5 cu ft
    Defiant is 3.2 cu ft.

    The Defiant is an E/W stove and can take 24"+ splits with no burn tubes to get in the way.
     
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    What about the Hearthstone you had?
     
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    That was a claimed 2.3. But, it had a usable firebox size of about 1.7-1.8. The Encore is supposedly the same size and I had them both installed at the same time. The Encore can easily hold more wood.
     
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