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Butch(OH)

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Was 22 this morning when I left for work. Somebody was in the shower, warm in the house, shop was warm AND gas meter was sitting still. Hadda smirk on my face as I chunked a couple small rounds in the OWB before I left.:)
 
Gotta love it Butch! :clap: :cheers: Some day I'll have the outdoor or wood furnace. I'm up at 5am stoking the old glenwood cookstove so that when other's wake, it's warm. It's become a bit of a ritual though and I don't mind it so much, just me and the cat and the crackling pop of hatmatack kindling the stove. I sometimes think about all the others who have done the same on the old girl (cookstove from 1909) and I'm transported back in time a bit, too a simpler time.

Of course I could always turn the oil furnace up too a reasonable person's minimum temp, but no one ever called me reasonable :clap: and I just hate the thought of it kicking on! :cheers:
 
I am looking forward to the same experience. My dealer said my OWB is in and he will deliver it next week. It will take a couple weekends to install and then I'll the gas company and tell them to pick up their tank. I should be able to buy a new chainsaw with the refund I'll get from the gas they have already put in it!!:chainsawguy:
 
I couldn't agree more. The work, if you call it that, starts paying off now with that feeling of satisfaction.

To early for beers, so ...... java !
 
Gotta love it Butch! :clap: :cheers: Some day I'll have the outdoor or wood furnace. I'm up at 5am stoking the old glenwood cookstove so that when other's wake, it's warm. It's become a bit of a ritual though and I don't mind it so much, just me and the cat and the crackling pop of hatmatack kindling the stove. I sometimes think about all the others who have done the same on the old girl (cookstove from 1909) and I'm transported back in time a bit, too a simpler time.

Of course I could always turn the oil furnace up too a reasonable person's minimum temp, but no one ever called me reasonable :clap: and I just hate the thought of it kicking on! :cheers:

Yes indeed, Mr Zodiack. There is truly something special about kicking the old wood burner into drive first thing in the morning when no one else is stirring yet and catching that wonderful aroma of hardwood as it wafts past your nose. Always takes me back to my deer camp since I am the one who gets up first and fills the old downdrafter around 4am while everyone else is still groaning in the sack and hollering, :censored: is it really time to get up yet? It sure can stir up a lot of great memories. I'm down with you on this one.

Maplemeister :chainsaw: :clap: :clap:
 
nowthat my stove is working its great not hearing the wife complain one night she was so hot i just laid there laughing in my head she thought i was asleep she was tossin and turnin throwin covers off now i did have the stove cranked up :clap: but to see the roar of that fire and the smell of oak in the air is there anything better?
 
Amen my fellow woodoholics! this is one wagon I'm not getting off anytime soon. My yellow lab gunner awakes with me in the morning at 4 am to go outside to check the Hawken OWB. throw a couple pieces of wood into the jaws of energy independence and chuckle as a call gunner to come on inside to a warm house, hot shower knowing and knowing wife and children are sleeping in comfort.

High my name is Hawken08 and i am a woodoholics, I have been propane free now for 3 months and my gage is stuck on 60%.
 
in our 6 house block, three are total wood aholics!, the oil man keeps asking, if we want topped up.. just keep saying maybe next month!:greenchainsaw: :clap:

Just a pity that the older guys don't have cad, Would love to give my ms260 a run against his 350... he just don't under stand!
 
zodiac you can do what i did. i ran the tank damn near dry theni drained the oil burner and all the water outta my heating system. so if im at work and the wife wants heat shes gotta use the stove bwahahahah. all wood or nuthin at my house.
 
I love sitting in front of the fire place insert at 5 am., open the door and stir the hot coals a while. Ginger ( boxer dog ) is always leaning on me.
PEACE , the way God intended for us.
 
Was 22 this morning when I left for work. Somebody was in the shower, warm in the house, shop was warm AND gas meter was sitting still. Hadda smirk on my face as I chunked a couple small rounds in the OWB before I left.:)

Ever since I put in my wood burning insert the gas company keeps sending me letters in the mail saying they need to come replace my gas meter (it's located in my basement) They must think the thing is broken with the gas bill only being $30 in January/February. I'm waiting for them to show up one day and ask to see it.
 
propane tank was repocessed

been propane free since 1991
came home one day and something looked different. note on door said tank at been repoed for lack of usage. my hardy h2 was 2500.00 installed in the fall of 91. wonder if its paid for itself yet?
 
Just an after note. I heard the oil truck beeping as it backed down my drive yesterday. Took him longer too back down than too "top off" my tank :clap: That was the first delivery since last year and I took 11 gal. :clap: Price was down too $2.62 a gal also :clap: Would have been less had I not had too travel.
 
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Ever since I put in my wood burning insert the gas company keeps sending me letters in the mail saying they need to come replace my gas meter (it's located in my basement) They must think the thing is broken with the gas bill only being $30 in January/February. I'm waiting for them to show up one day and ask to see it

I had this happened too. I live in a huge 100+ year old house filled with gas appliances and its always had high gas bills. Three years ago the City called me at work and told me I had a credit coming on my next month bill. They said they thought my meter went bad and then I told them I just installed a wood furnace. That was a good feeling.
 
Gotta love it Butch! :clap: :cheers: Some day I'll have the outdoor or wood furnace. I'm up at 5am stoking the old glenwood cookstove so that when other's wake, it's warm. It's become a bit of a ritual though and I don't mind it so much, just me and the cat and the crackling pop of hatmatack kindling the stove. I sometimes think about all the others who have done the same on the old girl (cookstove from 1909) and I'm transported back in time a bit, too a simpler time.

Of course I could always turn the oil furnace up too a reasonable person's minimum temp, but no one ever called me reasonable :clap: and I just hate the thought of it kicking on! :cheers:

This poem hangs on the wall of honor in the stall in my barn where my wood is stacked.

I was a young man of 20 or so when I first read this - that age when you begin to really see what a father's love is, and what a snot you've been in not realizing it earlier:

Those Winter Sundays
Sundays too my father got up early
And put his clothes on in the blueback cold,
then with cracked hands that ached
from labor in the weekday weather made
banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.

I'd wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.
When the rooms were warm, he'd call,
and slowly I would rise and dress,
fearing the chronic angers of that house,

Speaking indifferently to him,
who had driven out the cold
and polished my good shoes as well.
What did I know, what did I know
of love's austere and lonely offices?

Robert Hayden
 
This poem hangs on the wall of honor in the stall in my barn where my wood is stacked.

I was a young man of 20 or so when I first read this - that age when you begin to really see what a father's love is, and what a snot you've been in not realizing it earlier:

Sadly Mr Woodbogga,

TO SOON WE GET OLD, TO LATE WE GET SMART


Maplemeister: :cry:
 
This poem hangs on the wall of honor in the stall in my barn where my wood is stacked.

I was a young man of 20 or so when I first read this - that age when you begin to really see what a father's love is, and what a snot you've been in not realizing it earlier:

+1 WB. Excellent. Apropos too as my own Pops is ill and teetering at 82yrs old. Thanks :greenchainsaw:
 

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