Got the wife set-up today.

[Marley5]

Wife loves wood heat and wants to tend the OWB while I'm away for 2 weeks on a hunting trip.
This will be her first time tending the boiler but we have one issue.....I don't split anything small.
So cut her a trailer load of small maple and red oak. she can't lift the the wood I cut last year. Lol

 

[cantoo]

I cut my Ash OWB wood 32" long and I split it fairly small, maybe 6" to 8" triangles. I used to cut it 24" and 10" rounds were split in half. My Dutch wife says the longer splits are easier to handle than the shorter ones. I'm away all week so she has to do it herself. I make it as easy as possible and then I very seldom have to do it.

 

[muddstopper]

I either keep a stack of wood small enough for her to handle or she hits the dial on the thermostat. She aint getting cold I have been told.

 

[sawjunky23]

Wife loves wood heat and wants to tend the OWB while I'm away for 2 weeks on a hunting trip.
This will be her first time tending the boiler but we have one issue.....I don't split anything small.
So cut her a trailer load of small maple and red oak.View attachment 681402 she can't lift the the wood I cut last year. LolView attachment 681403

Is that really two weeks worth of wood for your boiler? Is your dog a border collie?

 

[Ronaldo]

Good Job......and where are you hunting and for what?

 

[Marley5]

Is that really two weeks worth of wood for your boiler? Is your dog a border collie?

2 weeks is being very optimistic.....and yes Border collie.

 

[Marley5]

Good Job......and where are you hunting and for what?

It's actually a yearly thing, have had a hunting camp for nearly 50 years, mostly family members.
We hunt the Appalachian mountains of VA for whitetail.

 

[sawjunky23]

2 weeks is being very optimistic.....and yes Border collie.

Border collies are awesome dogs, very smart and great instinct. My FIL has had several. Someone left a gate open once and his horses got out. The dog went to work and rounded them up and right back into the fence they went. He said the dog had zero training it was just a farm pet. Their instincts as a working dog are amazing.

 

[rancher2]

Had a couple border collies over the years when we still had cattle on the farm. They were like having another person when moving or loading cattle. I usually handled the cattle myself and the dog . Old age got both of them. I always try to split the wood for the Garn so the wife can handle it if needed. I had heart surgery last winter and shoulder surgery this spring so the wife got to handle a fair amount of wood as we burn year around. White tail season is coming up soon so I will have a couple of budding staying at the farm for 10 days.

 

[066blaster]

I either keep a stack of wood small enough for her to handle or she hits the dial on the thermostat. She aint getting cold I have been told.

I am with you on that!! I have to make it real easy or she just turns the heat on. and if i get it too warm,i get home and the fricken windows are open. And it dont pay to bitch about it ,because it doesn't do any good.
And if she is really mad at me,the electric heat is on and the windows are open