Wow Wayne, I needed to put my short pants on and a short sleeve T shirt to watch that video.
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Hey we got about the same temps! It is shorts and t-shirt weather up here too! The mid-7s are great!
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Sometimes I envy people in warmer climates, since half our time and expenses in colder climates are about fighting the cold. Not to mention snow clearing - ask @tcholton717 
When I built my garage the slab was poured on top of 12 inches of styrofoam. The walls have 8 inches of insulation and 16 inches on top of the seiling. According to code, trusses should be able to withstand 10 feet of snow and frost free plumbing = 6 feet under. Considerable extra work and costs on top of heating.
Also, the list is endless when it comes to public infrastructure. Rail and road maintence - not only snow clearing, but maintence due to frost damages. Ice brakers in fairways to keep ports accessable and managing electric grids to withstand wintertime draw. Those are only a few examples of extra efforts and costs. No wonder places in warmer climates are more heavily populated.
The other day @giorgio made a funny comment - teasing @JohanM about his nice shop and where all the gasifiers produced were hiding. Nothing wrog with that, but Iâm pretty sure Johan would have been able to have half a dussin of them on display if winters didnât exist.
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When you live somewhere were the snow comes early and heavy there are a few advantages. I can go out and dig down to dirt and it wonât be frozen. The deer can dig down and find unfrozen grass. When I was building we could dig out foundations in the dead of winter and pour footers. Fill the trenches with hay.
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Well one of the benefits of living up in the cold, cold snowy Norths is the by nessesity a fellow is forced to learn well how to turn local on-site woods into heat benefits.
I have often wondered how fellows out in the dry deserts; or the rainy Souths can ever really learn the deep-downs of using wood for heating.
Obviously from W.K.; ChrisS and the Norths they can.
Ha! Ha! I am an in-between the Deep freezing; or the humid Souths. Here our wet lowland snowing or deep freezing is at most a week then back to more moderate days of 40âsF, and nights of in the high 30âsF.
Needing house and shop heating here for 200-250 days of the year is the sweating challenge. The multiple challenges of getting old and slow to get wood-hustled-in, in the late hot summer sun when itâs best dried down.
And then for the last ~30 years living in a valley where every year progressively more would scream and toll-free dial in a complaint for ANY visible smokes.
Them now culturally programmed from little kids now thru adults that wood burners were greedy and selfish. That tree-fellers and harvesters are Tree Killers. Planet Rapists. Thieves of the kidâs Futures.
The years of woodgasifiacation did show me how to be much better woodstover. IN any wood stove:
I can make pretty blue combustion flames any time I would wish.
The acceptance must be it will be a transition phase after a new wood fuel add.
The slow gone to orange flaming has better heating benefits.
The later evolved burnt down to orange-red char burning has the best heating benefit of all.
Ha! And Now I do live in a valley where I can make 60% of the year chimney smokes.
I just choose not to.
Yesterday sick in the bedroom laying down the wood stove was not being tickled, stretching out the very last of the summer cured stored outside wood.
The wife still just insists of either campfire Tee-peeing the wood in the stove. Or making widely spaced chriscrosses stacks. She then has to over-air let-in to keep it burning.
I am NOT going to picture that up.
Yeah @JO_Olsson and @tcholton717 It is a bit tough when your own spouse and the household labels you as a WoodNazi.
Nope. Nope. Nope. Wood-for-power energy sailers or energy surfers is what we are. Learning to stretch out that water sail ride; the up in the air glider/soarer sailplane for all we can squeeze out of it.
Steve Unruh
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I confess. Iâm a Kriscrosser. Put some wood shaving in the middle and leave the door barely cracked open to get it going well. Then pile some larger pieces on the stack. Works best for me. Been a cold assed winter here, relatively speaking. Not Montana , North Dakota or Minnesota cold but well below our normal 20âs F. We should be right around freezing by now, but it wonât be the rest of this month. Glad I dropped everything else last fall and concentrated on fire wood. Kind of amazed at how much Iâve burned so far. Flue should have been cleaned by now but wife thinks Iâm to old to go two stories onto a snow covered roof. She forbids it. So far all the wood burned was full year seasoned so not much residue.
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Ha, sounds romantic
Four days ago a new shift cycle started. Wood burning 12 hours a day at work, 3 hours a day at home and 40 min a day in the car. Squeezed in some human fueling up and a few rests on the porcelain chair. Romantic? You be the judge
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It is romantic or possibly addictive.
As you know J-O (since we are on the same shift), I also have those 12hr burning wood at work plus the woodburning at home and still I long for burning more wood, this time in a gasifier. So it must be romantic, not sure about the romancing mental image of you on the throne though
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On the last pic is one of my favourite cuts, the tripe. You love them or you hate them, there is no middle way. I am blessed that all my kids and wife love them.
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Hey would you explain the tripe Iâm not sure what you are talking about.
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Jakob, tripe is made from beef stomach, which is first cleaned and boiled in salted water⊠very good food.
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Steve, I can see you in a Nice big picture with you hugging a tree with only part of your face showing behind the tree and then next to that picture in the same frame showing you putting wood into a woodstove. With a title under it " Steve Unruh A True Tree Hugger and getting the true benefits of it". This is what I am and all DOW members are, and we are loving every piece of wood of it we use.
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On todayâs news:
Beavers saved Czech taxpayers millions.
Authorities have been debating for 7 years about building a dam southwest of Prague to protect the area from Klabava river. Meanwhile beavers finished the job
@KKubu may know more about this.
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Surely do I know a beaver. 
Our meadia are full of it. I only worry two things.
First, our govt get bigger clown hat than so far. Currently, they almost disappear under it 
Second, from now on no artificial dam is going to be build, because beaver solution is much cheaper. All Greenpeace and Mother Earth folks would break the heaven if we would not allow beavers take their opportunity.
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politics is the same everywhere. I can olny think of one thing if I hear something like that, would politics in Ukraine talk about such subjects or are they busy with important things. My opinion, you are blessed to live in a country that can spend money on talking about unimportant things ( politicians take home a lot of money).
Beavers in our country are back too. Cousing trouble with holes in the dykes.
The same with wolves. They get shot and put aside on the highway as roadkill. Wolves in the city? How would that look?
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What Tone sayd, althugh l first soak them in lime solution wich disolves the mucus layr and it washes off real nice with a powerwasher or by hand. When l come around at your neck of the woods we will make them 
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The idea of eating anything with a mucus layer wouldnât get my Castro-intestinal juices flowing. I think organs should be played, not eaten. 
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Worse TomH.
We all here; except for our Danish Princess exchange student in her tower room upstairs are down with this new âsouthernâ Influenza-A strain. The 11 year old brought it back from a three day winter cabins-trip outing. 6 days to 4 days into it for the four of us.
Looking at Toneâs pictures . . . and descriptions . . .
Guess we fall into the high percentage that the annual flue vaccination; swings and misses!
S.U.
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