from running a wood shop i have learned far more about rigging machinery than is healthy for a person to know. the black color on the stove is...
good variety of yankee ingenuity and experience. thanks guys. edit. just looked at the wax situation one more time. you can get soy wax on...
i like to use an aid like the super cedar to get that initial ignition of the kindling. i've never bought the super cedar however. in the past...
brian. just a thought. if you like to clean with a full bed of coals, which is always going to be harder than when the stove is very low, then...
i see you have the IS stove. the factory says the center front burner is hottest, followed by the left and right front positions, followed by the...
neighbor's father is down south. on a visit to dad he finds the old guy and his new wife making hamburgers on the grill over small chunks of...
you shouldn't mention something like that to an addict. with the discount it's sort of reasonable. i have a 3.5# head forester 31.5" handle on...
there's an ash shovel with a grate on top of it that you can slide into a fireplace or stove that makes the process pretty easy. i should...
i ordered the stove sans ash drawer and needed a strategy to deal with cleaning. what bothered me about my previous jotul 500 stove was the large...
i use an x25 mainly for splitting dry sticks down for fire starting. had the same experience as you guys. i've used all the heavy stuff over the...
dennis if you reread my last post i mentioned that the paradigm would not apply when the stove was running continuously which it would in...
not applicable in all cases but in some. you can have negative air pressure in the house. i do in mine because my basement shop's exhaust fan...
my initial thread on the hearth pad during the summer produced the same sharp divisions of opinion and skepticism. i am not over thinking things...
no, career tradesman as i mentioned, jack of all trades carpenter cabinetmaker everything else nearly competent brick mason as the hearth pad...
this is a follow up on a thread a number of months back. the old stove was a jotul oslo 500 and to this day the floor requirements are fine with...
i can't see how the double glass hurts, save costs, and they aren't over charging in the first place. maybe the thrust of the franklin is for...
yeah. the 500 p looks nice as well. you can get a deal on the 490. enjoy.
well i go for the simplest system figuring down the road there's less to go wrong. i'm not an old pro but have used chainsaws on and off for a...
yank thanks for this. you inspired me to order a council tool 6 pounder. it will be a handier size to use with wedges than the 8# sledge i...
re effluent efficiency the IS has about one <ounce> of schmutz going up the chimney per day. the maximum heat that could be gained from burning...