Posted on 01/08/2015 6:19:04 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
Easy test: shake their hand. If their hand feels like 80 grit, then they are the real deal. Soft, lotiony hands? well ...
I lament I have pretty much lost my man hands to the hours of my real (read paying) job.
A decade plus ago when we constructed our house I didn’t need gloves to ward off splinters and blisters.
Good article. Fun read.
Besides, do you really need to wear your kevlar chaps and gloves into the house?
People have laughed at me when I wear my helmet with face shield and ear covers, but it has certainly save my head and face from the whip-saw of small limbs. I don’t wear the helmet into the house ;-)
But I agree - I do prefer to leave the ‘aroma’ of the 2-strokes outdoors.
7 times if you count hauling out the ashes. ;-)
pfl
It is the 70’s all over again.
NYC women came up to the northern New England and snagged themselves a woods men and brought them back to the city. Happened all over.
Lisa Alther documented it in her book Kinflicks.
My kids are cutting bottles into glasses, terrariums are in style and all the twenty year olds want to be organic farmers. Seventies retro furniture is in style too.
I have nightmares of being chased by an orange shag rug.
I am reliving my teens!
and herds of wild Naugahyde being rounded up and slaughtered for furniture coverings...
My neighbor has an auto pellet stove & loves it.
All the work to get firewood is therapeutic in so many ways, more than just physically and mentally. As I’m 70, I’ll be doing it as long as I can as part of staying in shape.
We have a $4k “Fireplace Extraordinaire” fireplace (not insert) designed for our 4,700 sq. ft. log home (15 years now):
http://fireplacex.com/ProductGuide/ProductDetail.aspx?modelsku=98500104
with the 24ct. gold plated doors in the lower left pic.
As house floor plan (3 story) is very open, ceiling fans circulate the heat throughout the house, and a special duct system with blower pulls heat from the peak of the Great Room ceiling (highest point of house, where heat would collect) and then distributes it throughout the lowest level (fireplace on middle level).
Woodbin to right of fireplace on huge stone fireplace is a totally concealed “Woodwaiter” that lowers to the lower level where wood can be brought in, bin filled, and then raised to mid-level next to fireplace. Similar to this:
http://www.woodwaiter.com/en/about
Duck Dynasty had the look down first. Real trendsetters, that.
Ah, so true......only that really isn’t enough work to warm one up.......... ;-)
Nobody cares what you think
and herds of wild Naugahyde being rounded up and slaughtered for furniture coverings...
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How could I have forgotten the Nauga? In olive green.
I know!
I’ve been hearing of this “lumbersexual” silliness for a few months now. My first thought was of Larry, Darryl, and Other Brother Darryl.
(h/t Newhart)
I stopped growing a beard in the winter a couple years ago, as I thought it made me look older than I was.
But it seems I should have grown one this year - it would probably make me look younger than I am if I copied the unique and individual look of the hipsters - all missing the irony of looking unique and individual in exactly the same way as everyone else.
I have a Tulikivi, soapstone from Finland, that weighs in at 11,500 lbs. Had to put extra support beams under it when building our home.
Cost as much as a new pickup back then, but it heats up the upper two stories of our home very well. I only go through 3 cords of wood a year, and that is in Montana. All that mass radiates heat for 24 to 48 hours after it is warmed up.
Pizza oven is a nice touch too.
(h/t Newhart)"
They were dumbersexuals.
We should start a club. ;-)
Yup. They are top of the line, for sure.
You don’t have hardwood to heat with there, do you? Doesn’t the pine burn too fast?
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