It's cold outside, stove is on

500 Magnum Nut · #1 12-04-2009, 09:57 PM

I'm sitting here in my shorts while the wood stove is doing it's thing. This is the only thing about winter I like is the nice warm fire in the room. The smoke smell is refreshing as when I was a kid the fireplace was always making flames.

I guess some won't know what I'm talking about...

Wilson54 · #2 12-04-2009, 10:10 PM

The only prob I forsee is that your hair and clothes will smell like smoke!
Burn something nice and aromatic! tee hee hee.
On another note.........I remember my Aunt's home in the country many decades ago..it was a welcome smell. Many just don't have any idea. You really shouldn't be in your shorts though. That smoke will permeate EVERYTHING!

Damn Yankee · #3 12-04-2009, 10:10 PM

It"s Snowing in mid state Mississippi and coming your way.

500 Magnum Nut · #4 12-04-2009, 10:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Damn Yankee

It"s Snowing in mid state Mississippi and coming your way.

That reminds me....

Gas for the blower

News man said only a few inches, so it won't stick, the ground is too warm

Deckard · #5 12-04-2009, 10:19 PM

I have a lot of memories of the fire place in the winter from growing up in the hills of Tenn. Snow is in the forecast for North AL tonight but I don't think it will amount to much. I spent one winter in Conn and that was enough for me when it gets cold there it stays cold till spring.

Deckard

500 Magnum Nut · #6 12-04-2009, 10:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Wilson54

The only prob I forsee is that your hair and clothes will smell like smoke!

What clothes...

JcMack · #7 12-05-2009, 07:21 AM

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Originally Posted by 500 Magnum Nut

What clothes...

Smoked Butt?

Big Fred · #8 12-05-2009, 01:02 PM

I can relate 100%. Just came in from hunting to get a hot bowl of Chili. The pellet stove is doing its thing and the house is nice and cozy, the snow is falling outside and the ground is white. I don't really like winter but it is pretty today. Well, better go back out or the warmth will bring on a nap and I can't kill a deer on the Lazy Boy.

500 Magnum Nut · #9 12-05-2009, 08:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Big Fred

I can't kill a deer on the Lazy Boy.

Sure you can. Winch that chair up your tree stand!

Snowing here now...Yippie!

BobK · #10 12-05-2009, 08:36 PM

I think it's much better to get Donna to bake one of her great Apple Pies! It warms the house, and provides some great aromas, too! She makes different kinds, but our favorite is Apple. I always tell her...."If your going to bake a pie.......it might as well be Apple."

The best part is eating warm Apple pie, with Cool Whip, later on tonight.

I had a woodstove in the cellar, for the first 6-7 years. It's alot of work!!! Anyway, I sold it, then installed a propane gas stove, to replace it. No problems, and it heats half of the house, too. We just don't have problems with...... getting the wood, stacking the wood, bringing it indoors to burn, keeping the darned fire going, having it too hot and dry inside, dealing with dry skin and scarecrow hair, and cleanning up the ashes, and black soot on the walls and ceiling. We had to repaint several walls every couple years, too.

Guess maybe I'm gettin' too old to appreciate all the BS. We do have a fireplace that gets used a couple times a year. Had a great fire on Thanksgiving, for my Ma (90) to enjoy. She really loved it!!!! So...it makes me happy, too. Bob

500 Magnum Nut · #11 12-05-2009, 09:04 PM

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Originally Posted by BobK

I had a woodstove in the cellar, Bob

I have a wood stove insert, the back wall of the fireplace was getting loose, so I fixed it with a insert.

I don't buy the wood, it's off my own land. If a tree needs triming or removing I use it for the winter time. I have about a cord or more so I figure I will burn some of it to trick the oil man....
When I was a kid, that same fireplace ran 24-7 all winter long. I don't have the time to run it like I use to, but watching the fire is relaxing for me.

Damn Yankee · #12 12-05-2009, 09:30 PM

500 Magnum Nut

Did the snow get up there yet? It snowed in Jackson Ms so much that the lines were covered up on the football field.

CW Spook · #13 12-05-2009, 09:46 PM

Wish't I had a wood stove. They're forecasting an inch or two of snow tomorrow night and 6-8" on Tuesday/Wednesday. I think flying is done 'til spring.

rchance · #14 12-05-2009, 10:00 PM

I've got one of those fake fireplaces if that counts. We grew up with a wood stove in our living room for heat and it really did its job. My son has asma and we can't have one so I'll stick with central heat/air. I don't miss cutting the wood anyway. We always waited until it was winter to cut wood and it was really cold.

hsguy · #15 12-05-2009, 10:10 PM

I have a wood stove in my basement and it is great when it gets cold. This photo is from last winter, it is 25F tonight so we will wait for the cold weather to fire it up.

scoutsdad · #16 12-06-2009, 09:04 AM

I worked with a guy that bragged about how cheap it was to heat his home with wood. And every week he complained about taking his kids to the doctor for respiratory problems. go figure.

Saying that I loaded up the fireplace 2 days ago for the first 40 degree day we get. Emory oak from the north side wash.

Forester · #17 12-06-2009, 03:38 PM

Haven't paid for a cord of wood in years. Most of my wood comes from cleaning up log landings from jobs I supervise.

With the new windows, this stove is all the heat we need. I start it when I get home and it runs through most of the night. I don't get up in the night to fill it though, just let the propane furnace kick on. Last year we burned only about 600 gallons of propane, thanks to this stove.

Big Fred · #18 12-06-2009, 05:51 PM

500 Magnum, If I built a bigger tree stand for the lazy boy I would probably find a way to take a nap there!!

We are on our second year heating with a St. Croix pellet stove. I didn't grow up with a wood stove and never had one, but we love the pellet stove. It heats the entire house, Ranch style 1700 sq. ft. Last year we burnt 3 tons of pellets and plan on that again this year. Both years pellets cost us $750. I don't think thats to bad, plus the stove is nice to watch burn. Something about seeing the flames dance just makes me feel warm.

sureshotbob · #19 12-06-2009, 06:25 PM

Damn Yankee 500 Magnum Nut didn't answer you but I live in the next town up the hill and we didn't get much only about one inch of snow but today did turn windy and cold

500 Magnum Nut · #20 12-09-2009, 07:18 AM

Sorry, I got off on another thread and forgot you guys on this one...

Well for sure it's snowing right now. I just drove thru 4 inches and it seems like this will be a nasty storm, this time.
Saturdays storm was a joke, they predicted 6 inches and the driveway never got coated...

tallpaul · #21 12-09-2009, 07:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Big Fred

I can't kill a deer on the Lazy Boy.

A few years back a friend n I went hunting deer in a new area on a bitter cold day. I convinced him to go to a local mart type store where we bought a couple bean bag chairs... they keep ya warm and comfy in the deer woods. I really need to get another one... the guys laughed at
us but we were able to sit all day where most could not- they weren't laughing so hard after.

As far as wood heat it is a nice heat. I use an outdoor burner and love that the house does not smell as smoke but I get it when I go feed the fire.

Wayne02 · #22 12-09-2009, 01:00 PM

14 degrees here this AM. Woodstove is keeping the place nice and toasty as usual.

truckemup97 · #23 12-09-2009, 01:48 PM

Those of you who complain of the smoke smell have a ventilation problem, or rather a lack of ventilation. I grew up with a wood stove and our house never smelled like smoke. With a small amount of outside air coming in, and the vents on the stove slightly open, and a warm flue, the smoke won't come into the house.

JcMack · #24 12-09-2009, 02:22 PM

It's gonna be a 2 dog night here tonight. If it gets any colder I'll have to get another dog.

Spotteddog · #25 12-09-2009, 02:52 PM

Well,
In keeping with the government's ceaseless march towards doing what's "best" for the children in it's charge, this. Apparently with the Seattle area having a week long below freezing period for it's nearly uninsulated housing stock to contend with, the week long azure blue cloudless skies were just too much for the bureaucrats to resist. Solution to cold, clear, cloudless weather? A burn ban in the county just north of Seattle! There's a price to be paid when the EPA becomes a hydra.
http://www.mindszenty.org/report/2009/JUL09.pdf

500 Magnum Nut · #26 12-09-2009, 03:19 PM

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Originally Posted by JcMack

It's gonna be a 2 dog night here tonight. If it gets any colder I'll have to get another dog.

Good one.

gunlovingirl · #27 12-09-2009, 03:44 PM

Turning cold here. Still windy too. The wind snapped in half the huge Christmas tree downtown in front of the state capital. I think it was sabotage by the "holiday" tree group!

Engineer1911 · #28 12-09-2009, 10:24 PM

Drove from the southside to the north side of Augusta, GA at noon time going to the indoor range. Windy, sunny, and miserably muggy -- heck with it -- rolled up the windows and turned on the air conditioner. Sinuses opened right up after 3 minutes of cool, clean air. Weatherman says 29° F tomorrow morning.

Pete99004 · #29 12-09-2009, 11:05 PM

HEADS UP ALL...the wife has decided we have had enough of these below zero nights and 8 degree high for the day weather patterns and have decided that it simply needs to go!! So as of tomorrow we are going to ship it east - (that means just about all of you will get to share...please forgive us).

500 Magnum Nut · #30 12-11-2009, 07:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Pete99004

HEADS UP ALL...the wife has decided we have had enough of these below zero nights and 8 degree high for the day weather patterns and have decided that it simply needs to go!! So as of tomorrow we are going to ship it east - (that means just about all of you will get to share...please forgive us).

AAHH Your the one that's trying to ruin a nice shootin' weekend....

Onomea · #31 12-11-2009, 07:44 AM

I recall, when I was 11 or so, living in what was then rural northern Va, one of my jobs was to track down firewood in winter. So, if there was snow, I'd cinch on my dad's WWII wool pants with the elastic cuffs, grab an axe and a dog, and off I'd go.

In the woods on our property there were a fair amount of fallen trees, and I'd chop 'em up with the axe, which my dad had taught me how to use, including comments about six-toed feet on careless axe men, and then I'd tie a bundle of logs together with a rope, and drag 'em back home through the snow.

We had a furnace, too, but we liked the fireplace a lot. That house was built in the 1800s, and that chimney sure could draw.

Wayne02 · #32 12-11-2009, 12:19 PM

17 here this AM, 14 yesterday. I put a heat lamp on the hummingbird feeder to try and keep it from freezing, but it still freezes up overnight.

Spotteddog · #33 12-11-2009, 01:35 PM

Yeah I hear ya' Wayne!
That's what I meant about Gregoire's EPA gestapo telling Sno/King/Pierce counties "wood burn ban"! These freakin' dopes seem to think the atmosphere is trapped under a terrarium's dome, and will forever make their clothing smell of (gasp!) burning wood?