Back to work

[hannabarn]

Well the vacation is over and it's back to preparing for the good old Northern Wisconsin winter

 

[AlFulchino]

shoot!.....i could you a person like you to help me around my place...thats a lot of wood

see if you can locate some plastic pallets to keep that wood off the ground...it keeps 'em dry and doesn't rot..i happenned across these by accident one day when the barber who cuts my hair mentioned that he worked evenings at a bottling plant that makes the plastic bottles for coke, and other companies...he said when the plastic pallets get a slight defect in them that makes them unable to pass thru the asembly line , they must destroy the pallets..i was very fortunate to have grabbed a bunch

stay warm!

 

[rrawhide]

Somebody knows how to keep warm - 3 times!!!!


once - when cutting
twice - when splitting
thrice - when burning!!!!!


great stack there hannabarn = wish mine was that high this early.


rrawhide

 

[hannabarn]

Getting it filled up!! About 3 more trailer loads and I'll be ready for winter. Thank the Lord my son is around to help me!!

 

[Tom]

Looks like you have a saw mill near you . Those flat bark cut offs look familiar.
ONE MORE TIME HE GETS WARM.. when he moves the wood from the pile to inside


Barney, Lets see the wood stove..

 

[grapeman]

I missed this the other day when you started it........


Good job on the wood pile! I don't really miss all the work of burning wood, but with the prices of oil and gas, I may need to reconsider one of these days.

 

[hannabarn]

Here she is Tepe!!!

 

[rrawhide]

lookie lookie ma


me gottom duck and white headed duck


we can 'et tonight!!!


looks goodBarney - now we know where all that wood goes!!!


stay warm


rrawhide

 

[Tom]

Here she is Tepe!!!

L@@KING fine !
Guess thats your main source of heat

 

[dragonmaster42]

What kind of wood is that Barney?

 

[hannabarn]

Tony, that is mostly red oak with a little bit of hard maple!! I have been told not to use red oak for oaking wine. That's too bad cause I have a lot of it.

 

[jobe05]

Tony, that is mostly red oak with a little bit of hard maple!! I have been told not to use red oak for oaking wine. That's too bad cause I have a lot of it.

If you can't use it in wine, I can tell ya that it is the absolute best wood ever for smoking meets with! I love that stuff but can't get it here. I'll have to see if I can get some when I go to Georgia, they have a lot of it there.

Try it on a rack of ribs Barney, you won't regret it.......... Just make sure that it's good and dry.

 

[grapeman]

jobe on one of your many trips in the future to NY we have a lot of red oak here also. They outnumber the white oak about 100 to 1.

 

[jobe05]

We might try to make it back up there for the State fair, not sure yet but if we do, I'll keep my eyes open for some.

I use to get it from "Fat Boys" restaurants in Florida (thats all they use) and it was extremely easy to use in a smoker and very good on the meats as long as you smoked with a pan of water. I guess it helps wash the bitterness out of the smoke.

 

[hannabarn]

That sound good, I'll have to try it! Tepe, that fireplace is ducted into my main ductwork so it distributes heat to the whole house. If there is no fire in the fireplace then the gas furnace comes on. So the wood is the main source of heat.

 

[Tom]

30 years ago I had a stove that heated 90% of the house. Had to get rid of it because of daughters allergies.

Wish I had yours now.