Weather is being all over the place, much colder than average, and blasts of warmer than average. Sitting at +9 C ( about 48 F) right now. Blipped...
Lots of reading here and it will eventually stick in your brain. That, and just experiment with different wood placement/wood size and air...
Sitting at +9 C (48 F) and dreary sort of drizzle. Poplar kindling sort of chugging along. Too short a chimney for her to get up and go with these...
Sitting at +7 C ( about 44 F) and heading for +14 C ( about 58) today. The end is getting near for actually needing a fire but we'll keep having...
Also look for canning stuff at garage sales, as where you find old canning stuff, you may find canning paraffin. However you spell it. My gal...
I take mine out as soon as there's snow/ fairly cold weather happening. I really don't know how much difference it makes though.
Sorry for your loss.
Sitting at +4 C ( 40 F) at the moment. Burning dinosaur juice today.
Muffler mod/slightly fat tune/non safety chain 91vxl? is what that saw needs. It will always be a small saw, but at least it will be an angry...
With beef, any cut that's tough as a boot, and has less fat, or easily trimmed fat. I mostly use venison though, and front legs/bits n pieces...
Sitting at -3 C (27 F). Burning up some pine cookies with poplar.
I laughed because as soon as I read the title, I said to myself "Someone discovered wood splitters."
Bunch of great pictures and looks like fun had by all!!! I'd like all the posts, but I'd be here all day with my slowpoke system.
Looking at -2 C (29 F) and snow. April showers brings May flowers? I guess we're keeping pace with the rest of the year being above and below...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Too windy to bother with the smoker, so it's poor man jerky in the oven for me. Just over 2 1/4 lbs on the racks.
Sitting just below freezing, and looking for +5 C (40 F) later. A nice stack of poplar kindling that took off like the devil was chasing it.:fire:
That looks pretty decent!
I make a conscious effort to try and not eat so much venison right after deer season. That's hard. :DIt's almost slumming it (for me) to cook it...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] The venison eye of round ended up a bit rare. That's ok though. Also chicken last night.
I use whatever bar oil is cheapest mixed with used canola oil. Can I get an Amen! I'm a 3-4 cord a year wood burner and it seems to work fine for me.