Smitty335
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If I didn’t take it from my parents when I got married, they sold it for pennies. Even stuff I made. Haha
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It’s not a cat, but it reburns the smoke. New camp stove throws the heat. Both have blowers.
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No kidding. My mom also gave away a Blue Hole canoe and a fully restored Old Town wood and canvas canoe. I was young but i remember it was BEAUTIFUL.
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Smitty, if you burn DRY <15% moisture content wood in the cat stoves, you won't have an issue...well unless you're burning pine or similar. Hardwoods that are dry is what those cat stoves were designed for. My Jotul has a 20 year warranty on the cat element. Have a friend that has the exact same stove bu earlier version without the cat, and he burns way more wood than I do for roughly the same heat and home size.
Hardwood only. Softwood creates Creosote , a buddy only burned softwood and caught his chimney on fire. My wood has been cut 2 years ago and I put it under cover the first of June. Definitely dry.
What’s a cord of hardwood in Texas. Up here it’s $300, but Cape Breton it’s $200. Or free behind my camp. We have 5 cord of rock maple stacked beside the container, and was looking at 5 or 6 big maples that blew down. Perfect beautiful it’s off the ground with the branches.
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Yea, we get a lot of "hurricane" wood too... Water oaks, red oaks and the like grow right on top of the ground with no tap root... Live Oaks, have a good root system, but they are squirrelly to split. Branches on large Live Oaks are sometimes 18 to 24 inch diameter, but a typical trunk of a mature Live Oak may be 36" or bigger, but very short... sometimes only a few feet of "trunk" before big forks/splits start new giant limbs... The grain is wavy and very irregular. Once dried though, it burns just like any other oak. For cooking fires, most here like Post OaK", But any oak is a premium cooking wood (for smoking briskets, pork butts, etc...). We don't have cherry and maple here, but we have hickory and walnut along with pecan.
I guess you need a good splitter. 😊
My buddy in Cape Breton has a homemade one that he was splitting huge maple, at least 2’ across. We have some walnut and elm and beechwood. And some ash. My old neighbor made axe and hammer handles from ash . Did most with a double bitter axe. I still have two axe handles. Probably will never use them,
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That's cool! My grandpa used to "whittle" handles out of ash and for the serious loggers, he'd make their double bit handles out of hickory... He had some kind of double handle draw knife that he'd use to rough the shape in and it was cool to watch him work... With ash, he could whip out a hammer or hatchet handle quick... Coolest handle I ever "helped" him make when I was a kid was an "eye hoe" handle... Long and perfectly straight with just the right taper on the head end to hold the hoe, but allow it do draw right down to the end of the handle... Most of my dad's side of the family "worked in the woods" as loggers in various functions... Much different than like out west in the mountains... Here around the Gulf coast of East Texas, it's flat as a pancake, but some serious mud in the river bottoms...
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I think we have the wood cutting figured out at the cabin, at least a 24 inch saw, splitter and a tractor with forks. Cut 10 foot logs, haul them up to camp, while still on the forks cut them into lengths. Then fire the splitter up, Katie Bar the Door. It's easy to cut and split 3 ricks of wood in 1.5 hours.
Southern Alberta is flat too. Only coolies are the only holes. No trees except cottonwood along the river. And most are on my buddies place. 250 acres of alfalfa. Can look out in the field and see 75 deer in the morning. And I walk to the blind at the edge of the field, and in about 15 minutes, they are all back. A few bucks hanging around, but usually a couple big guys end up fighting right in front of me. Very cool. Don’t see that here. Saw a giant cross the road a couple years ago. Watched him walk with the does to about 300 yards. Just about ready to shoot, and a friend missed a buck in the woods. The giant lifted his head, and gone. Didn’t see him again. Not sure if I wanted to shoot him in -25 and 2’ of snow, and the snow just stopped. Inside, it’s warm, but taking your hands out in that cold, your hands freeze fast. Plus I always take my jacket off. Haha. Maybe this year I’ll see him again. He’ll be bigger.
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First of Oct, I helped a friend load and split 5 cords, for his mom, and two other people, in 4 hours. We were moving. 2 1/2 cords a trailer.
Then went to my brothers after thanksgiving and moved and stacked 6 cords in 3 hours plus stopping for breakfast. It was split at 20” and some were quite heavy, he has a wood furnace.
All he uses I winter in Margaree. Up there they can get 7’ of snow in a year. He has a double stack snowblower for his JD. He loves it, so do his neighbors.
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Looks like a rainy end to Muzzy season. In coming @Caper .
Looks like a rainy end to Muzzy season. In coming @Caper .
The sun is headed to south America down here in FL Summer is having to let go. Finally!!!
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