Update, we got hit HARD with snow last night, just west of me got 18 inches last night and I got 10. I think a white Christmas is to be expected...
I didn't really clean my stove at the start of the season because I didn't know any better, I'm scooping ash out weekly right now because if I...
I've got 37 on Christmas Eve, partly cloudy, cloudy and 30 on Christmas Day, might have some snow left on the ground by then, depends on if we get...
Sweet, I will probably just vacuum the ash out and leave it be until spring, right now the stove never goes cold for long enough to pull it all...
What about soot and creosote build up behind the fire bricks and on top of the baffle boards?
Does anyone know of a good video tutorial on cleaning a stove, I looked on YouTube but could not find anything worth while. What kind of tools are...
Nice to meet you, welcome :campfire:
Growing up downstate, the first house I lived in was natural gas heat, we had 9 acres that I spent a lot of time in when I was young and I can...
I say swing away:axe: I split all my fire wood with just an ax. I don't have a maul or wedges or anything like that and so far have run into very...
Yeah, poured floor and block walls. It's also unheated and to get to it you have to go through my mud room which has an exterior door on it
I would shoot a doe happily if it was legal. No doe tags in the whole U.P. I'm not a trophy hunter by any means, just trying to fill the freezer,...
I sat out in my blind probably 10 mornings through the season and a couple evenings looking out on my bait pile, I had been throwing out apples...
Yeah, that makes sense, I have the galvanized roofing covering my stacks like you recommend and my stacks are only 25 feet from the door, but if...
I think then that I will give it a try, the last blast of snow is melting off so it would be a good time to move what I've got. But this weekend...
The thing that appeals to me about it is not having to trudge through the snow to bring in wood, but like you said, mold isn't anything I want...
I'm still trying to work out my ideal setup for storing firewood. This is my first year burning wood and I have been learning a lot from you all...
I live in 1000 sq. foot two story home, mediocre insulation, a free standing wood stove on the main floor and a propane furnace in the basement....
I buy my coffee from the local food co-op. Whole bean, I usually switch between a nice French roast if I want something darker and a breakfast...
Red maple, ash, elm, yellow birch, and spruce for this year. My start on next years wood is about the same minus the spruce :D
I see those around a lot up here, they make the snowmobilers really angry if folks ride them on the trails:hair:
