Faulkner
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Well, winter is coming before you know it. I just finished up with my firewood splitting and can check that task off the list for this year.
Getting ready for winter boys, it's coming.
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I do mine in March for the following year. Here's the start of my 2026/27 pile. Dolly is the project supervisor.
I only have the upstairs fire place burn on Christmas.
Down stairs fire place was converted to gas for my wife.....
Still have about two cords of split Tamarac in the wood shed.....
Down stairs fire place was converted to gas for my wife.....
Still have about two cords of split Tamarac in the wood shed.....
I put in a vent free fireplace with gas logs in the new house I just built. The salesman kept trying to talk me into it but I asked "how can a vent free fireplace work without an odor"? The logs are porcelain instead of ceramic and are set where the flames never touch them and sure enough, it has ho odor or smell of any kind and man, it cranks out the heat! My furnaces down stairs and upstairs barely turn on.
I'm looking forward to shooting outdoors again without sweat rivulets running into my eyes. Joe
Maddog 521
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Aw the good old days.
I know the feeling. That's one of the reasons I bought the mini excavator. It moves those 350 lbs rounds onto the splitter so I don't have to wrestle with them.
Remember the old saying, "Man who cuts his own wood for fire warms himself twice."
We have petrified pine stumps that are unearthed at major construction sites that tear off the top layer. Hard as concrete but busted up will catch fire with a match hence the name "lighter wood/knots." It was more common around these parts 40+ years ago. Joe
Oh no! Winter is when all the Snowbirds clog the roads! 
Protocall_Design
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The chainsaw is a power tool, but you have to put gas in it and pull the cord. Things should be a lot easier next year. You can thank me later...
Maybe he ran his just by pulling the cord. If so, I respect the heck out of him. I also suspect his arms look like Popeye's.
Skyhunter
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We always referred to that as "fat wood". And you're right, even wet it'll light with just a match. I always carried a few pieces when I was "woods walking" in the Mississippi Delta or at BIL farm in Arkansas.
WYT-P
Skyhunter
I need to start on my firewood pile- haven't used as much in the past few falls/winters as they've been pretty mild save some snow we got here in January. Hopefully will get a bit more this winter.
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My strategy worked well last winter. Years ago I read in one of my mother's women's magazines:
"Giving your kid a sled for Christmas will sweep every snowflake from the sky for the next 6 weeks."
I buy old sleds, fix them up, hand them out.
"Giving your kid a sled for Christmas will sweep every snowflake from the sky for the next 6 weeks."
I buy old sleds, fix them up, hand them out.
LVSteve
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Buy a set of spare wheels and fit them with snow tires and you can guarantee snow free winters in England until you sell the car. You may guess how I know.
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Living in SE Texas we have never in 50 years used the fireplace in our house.
