Author Topic: chop,chop,chop  (Read 4249 times)

langdon

  • Joined Sep 2009
  • Pembrokeshire
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chop,chop,chop
« on: October 14, 2010, 08:01:45 pm »
for  the last few days now ive been getting down to getting logs cut for the coming winter,
i have to say i love it!!!!! its gota be a man thing????????
the fire is burning lush at the mo as im writing this.
just a little reminder to any of ye that has to get the logs cut, dont do what i done last winter, left most of the cutting well
into the winter, it was horrible cutting them in the cold burrr!
Langdon ;)

jinglejoys

  • Joined Jul 2009
Re: chop,chop,chop
« Reply #1 on: October 14, 2010, 08:30:17 pm »
It's supposed to warm you up twice!Once in the chopping and again in the burning ;)

darkbrowneggs

  • Joined Aug 2010
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Re: chop,chop,chop
« Reply #2 on: October 14, 2010, 10:15:39 pm »
Hi Langdon
Saw this clip on another forum and thought you might be interested if you like chopping wood :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDCnGl7QbKk&feature=player_embedded

all the best
Sue
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langdon

  • Joined Sep 2009
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Re: chop,chop,chop
« Reply #3 on: October 14, 2010, 10:49:04 pm »
wow thats a clever idea!! i just might try that one out!
Langdon ;)

doganjo

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Re: chop,chop,chop
« Reply #4 on: October 14, 2010, 11:55:06 pm »
OMG he's fit! ::)
Always have been, always will be, a WYSIWYG - black is black, white is white - no grey in my life! But I'm mellowing in my old age

lazybee

  • Joined Mar 2010
Re: chop,chop,chop
« Reply #5 on: October 15, 2010, 04:42:53 am »
If you're cutting green wood it's no good this year. It should have been cut last year for this winter and allowed to dry. If you burn green wood you will clog up your flue with hydrocarbons (tar) and probably end up with a chimney fire.

langdon

  • Joined Sep 2009
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Re: chop,chop,chop
« Reply #6 on: October 16, 2010, 10:09:16 am »
now now less of that, im sure he is taken! :D
Langdon ;)

 

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