Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[MustangMike]

Remington made the right move. NY is not a gun friendly place to do business in.

On a Statewide basis, yes, but locally they were respected, they were a major employer in the area and had been there since the 1800s. What happened is a shame!

Ditto all the firearms manufacturing that has left MA and CT.

 

[GrizG]

Not defending NY, but the nail in the coffin for Remington was the lawsuit against them after the Newtown CT shooting.

How a gun manufacturer making a legal gun is held responsible for a killing spree, I will never understand, but that is what happened.

My cousins Husband worked for "the Arms" (as they called it) for decades.

I never understood how that lawsuit was allowed to proceed as there is a federal law prohibiting such suits…

 

[MustangMike]

So, when are we going to hear how much the fires in CA have contributed to global warming, and how the toxins released create cancer for people in CA???

And they are concerned about gas stoves, wood burning stoves and leaf blowers!!!

You just can't make this stuff up!

Being anal about the small things while ignoring/facilitating the major disasters seems like a pretty dumb environmental policy to me.

I think if my house had burned down, and I had lost everything I own, I would want to tar and feather a few politicians!

 

[GrizG]

On a Statewide basis, yes, but locally they were respected, they were a major employer in the area and had been there since the 1800s. What happened is a shame!

Ditto all the firearms manufacturing that has left MA and CT.

Politics has all but erased Ilion. Not only are the Remington jobs gone but when they built the Empire State Trail they rerouted the Erie Canalway Trail around Ilion proper and put it on state Highway ROW. The tourist dollars aren’t flowing into Ilion now either…

 

[Sampson]

Anyone have experience with adding a woodstove to an existing brick chimney? We have a chimney in our house that was originally used for a wood furnace in the basement. The furnace was removed some time before we bought the house. I have been wanting to add a woodstove to the main level of the house and I am wondering about the possibility of routing it through the existing chimney, probably with the use of a stainless steel liner. I already have a good supply of firewood on hand for my woodworking shop and I enjoy the process of scrounging and processing firewood. I figure what better excuse to dedicate more time and energy to that pursuit, it's good exercise. I will have to get a professional here to assess the condition of the chimney and determine feasibility etc, but I'm wondering if anyone here has gone this route.

 

[SimonHS]

Anyone have experience with adding a woodstove to an existing brick chimney? We have a chimney in our house that was originally used for a wood furnace in the basement. The furnace was removed some time before we bought the house. I have been wanting to add a woodstove to the main level of the house and I am wondering about the possibility of routing it through the existing chimney, probably with the use of a stainless steel liner. I already have a good supply of firewood on hand for my woodworking shop and I enjoy the process of scrounging and processing firewood. I figure what better excuse to dedicate more time and energy to that pursuit, it's good exercise. I will have to get a professional here to assess the condition of the chimney and determine feasibility etc, but I'm wondering if anyone here has gone this route.

Yes. It is common practice in the UK.

 

[MustangMike]

Anyone have experience with adding a woodstove to an existing brick chimney?

Yes, I did it with my first house. I believe mine was cement block with a ceramic pipe middle. Just routed regular 6" galvanized pipe into it. Not sure what the code would be now, this was in the circa 1980. It worked well. As you mentioned, you just have to make sure the chimney is sound. I cleaned it, with a wire brush from the rooftop, every year to remove the "scale" on the sides. It never got bad, but I did not want it to get bad!

 

[SS396driver]

Got the Dolmar 7910 up and running today

 

[Haywire]

There's a few of you folks who are not into the sleddin pics but these are for the ones who are..

 

[Lee192233]

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Beautiful pics! I wish we got enough snow around here to own a sled. I've always enjoyed riding but to only have maybe a week of open trails it doesn't pay. I would like to get one for ice fishing though. How has the Tundra been? Seems like it'd be an ideal fishing machine.

 

[GrizG]

Beautiful pics! I wish we got enough snow around here to own a sled. I've always enjoyed riding but to only have maybe a week of open trails it doesn't pay. I would like to get one for ice fishing though. How has the Tundra been? Seems like it'd be an ideal fishing machine.

Same here regarding open trails... in the late '60s and early '70s my family was able to ride snowmobiles right out of the garage and access a bunch of trails. Between the trails becoming unavailable due to development, municipal take overs of the defunct rail road corridors, and the unreliable snow falls, we moved away from snowmobiling by the mid-70s. It just hit me that it's been 50 years, possibly more, since I rode one!

 

[MechanicMatt]

Anyone have experience with adding a woodstove to an existing brick chimney? We have a chimney in our house that was originally used for a wood furnace in the basement. The furnace was removed some time before we bought the house. I have been wanting to add a woodstove to the main level of the house and I am wondering about the possibility of routing it through the existing chimney, probably with the use of a stainless steel liner. I already have a good supply of firewood on hand for my woodworking shop and I enjoy the process of scrounging and processing firewood. I figure what better excuse to dedicate more time and energy to that pursuit, it's good exercise. I will have to get a professional here to assess the condition of the chimney and determine feasibility etc, but I'm wondering if anyone here has gone this route.

Yes, my current house has a cinder block with clay liner chimney. I added a stainless liner when installing my woodstove.

It works just fine

 

[MechanicMatt]

@Haywire

Those pictures are absolutely stunning!!

 

[Haywire]

Beautiful pics! I wish we got enough snow around here to own a sled. I've always enjoyed riding but to only have maybe a week of open trails it doesn't pay. I would like to get one for ice fishing though. How has the Tundra been? Seems like it'd be an ideal fishing machine.

@Haywire

Those pictures are absolutely stunning!!

Thanks, guys. It sure is nice up there, and neat to get above the inversion clouds in the valley. It's 6800ft at the summit.
Lee, the other post got deleted by accident, but the Tundras have been great sleds and are a perfect rig for hauling ice fishing gear.

 

[benz66]

The wat NY treated Remington, they should have left long ago.

SR

But yet, we are told "the majority" of people voted for the crooks who ran NY into a "hellhole." Some people still think there IS a free lunch.

 

[Lee192233]

Thanks, guys. It sure is nice up there, and neat to get above the inversion clouds in the valley. It's 6800ft at the summit.
Lee, the other post got deleted by accident, but the Tundras have been great sleds and are a perfect rig for hauling ice fishing gear.

You had me at air cooled...the problem with most sleds is if there's no snow on the ice they overheat.

You are living in a beautiful place! Keep the pics coming. I'm sure I'm not the only one who enjoys them.

 

[MechanicMatt]

But yet, we are told "the majority" of people voted for the crooks who ran NY into a "hellhole." Some people still think there IS a free lunch.

“The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the Axe, for the Axe was clever and convinced the trees that because its handle was made of wood, he was one of them”

 

[Lee192233]

“The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the Axe, for the Axe was clever and convinced the trees that because its handle was made of wood, he was one of them”

Sad but true...