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my wood pile(that is chopped and ready to burn) is outside. started off 40' long, 4' wide and 5' high. the last 18' of that is 8' wide. i bring wood in every 3-4 days. i store it on my front porch in a ring. in the living room where the stove is, i have a storage bin. like those you can buy at lowes or home depot. i fill that each day from the front porch when i get home. it is a lot of extra effort. but it is well worth that effort.

it will be. any moisture left on the blacktop will turn to ice tonight. they can treat the crap outta it, but it most likely will still be nasty going in to work tomorrow. coming home tonight wasn't bad.....only slipped a little at one spot where i took the right lane at a traffic light to get by the slow guy that was driving like he was terrified to be on the roads. when the light went green i took off......deep slush/snow mix. bout 6" or so, 'cause the plows only did the main lane. wasn't a problem for me in the suv though.

'cause she's a beauty! i've always liked the looks of the 57 fords.......they just have a kinda badass look to them. and in most cases they could back up those looks. https://www.ebay.com/itm/1957-Ford-Sedan-Delivery/253342368937?_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D49454%26meid%3Dbc3a1dc40f414f85a1060b02b0cb71dc%26pid%3D100675%26rk%3D4%26rkt%3D15%26sd%3D253338828692&_trksid=p2481888.c100675.m4236&_trkparms=pageci%3A4c43cd38-f1d1-11e7-b5e7-74dbd18080da%7Cparentrq%3Ac4968c021600abc1f8aaa02cffe83ac3%7Ciid%3A1

i like their santa claus comments, lolol. ain't no way he's fittin' down my chimney. but.......i'll maybe try burning some of it towards the end of this season, or for next winter n see what happens.

creosete buildup in the draft. you can even see how dirty it burns when you watch the fire. i'd have to see some kind of actual proof, as the few pieces of pine i've put in my stove burn VERY dirty. i've never found anything saying that it was safe to burn pine in the stove. and i'd LIKE to, 'cause i got a metric poop-ton of pine out back. had a guy delivered me a trailer load of free wood last year. was supposed to be all oak/maple. turned out it was 80% pine, 20% oak.

know what's getting me about this? they're pumping it like it's the storm of the century. i'm thinking they've forgotton the storms of 93/94, and 96. and 03/04.

glad to hear!, it's amazing how much difference little things make, isn't it? something none of us has mentioned yet.......you do know to NOT use pine in your stove, right?

good point. i keep everything covered. never anything visible from outside the truck at any angle.

dude.....it doesn't matter HOW much snow we have a good 95% of the drivers out there don't know how the hell to drive in good weather, much less when there's snow on the ground. no one knows what they're car will do in any specific situation, nor do they know how to correct if it gets a little outta shape. thanks FWD. there was a time that i wouldn't hesitate to drive my fox body mustang or my 2wd pickup in snow worse than this. i drove my 69 c-10 in the blizzard of 96. i needed chains, but i drove it.

i load my mags, and lock them seperate from the gun. all are in the very back cargo area of the suv. i've recently added a safe to the vehicle which is bolted solid to the floor. they go in there now.

i didn't know where it came from.....but when i was being told that my enbloc clips could be loaded, but my magazines couldn't(during transportation) i started looking. i speant a rather unhealthy amount of time reading the statutes. what i gleaned from that time was 1) first and formost, ALL of nj's firearms laws/regulations/statutes are ILLEGAL. 2) they do not tell us what we CAN do, but rather they tell us what we CANNOT do(or possess when/where). there is not a single thing saying that we cannot load our mags before heading out to the range.

i still haven't found anything that says we can't load our mags.

did i miss it? @Mrs. Peel has any of the suggestions helped?

the driver for my uniform service just told me he'd been talking to a customer that bought one of those heated jackets. guy says he loves it. opinions on those?

over the last few days this extreme is really making me fight. while i'm mostly able to keep it around 70'ish average, if i let the stove go out, it drops quick. while the oil boiler takes over, it's radiant, which in my mind is nowhere near as efficient than some form of forced air. with the stove and fans, it always feels good, even if i can feel a draft here n there. when the oil heat takes over, even though the stat may say it's 70, it sure as hell doesn't feel it.

i don't have to be outside much...but....older army field jacket. 4 shirts layered underneath that, including 1 underarmor. underarmor is useless unless you're moving though. older thick ski gloves(i don't ski, they were given to me), and this sort of hood minus the jacked. almost like a balaclava....'cept it's not snug fitting. but...it's warm as shit. plain old el-cheapo fleece lined made in china leggings under my jeans. things keep my legs so warm it's almost scary. i should add that the supossed fleece is very thin.......

i bet you ain't settin' up any matches in this weather. i'm anxious for the next meet though.

still better than single pane windows from the 40's

low batteries?

it's 17F outside. i just finished bringing in this weeks worth of wood. it's 77 in the house. on one hand, i wish i'd gone with a free standing stove, 'cause they're a little bigger, and i think would therefor give better heat and longer burn times......but on the other hand? goddam i'm glad i have this thing. also, my nose is numb, lololol

this is from a member on another forum...... ::::::: Should present a perfect opportunity to clearly demonstrate that the state of New Jersey is clearly in violation of the U.S. Constitution. :::::::::::::::::::: yet.....no one will present it as such.

for what it's worth........i would gather that much of the rest of the country has no clue how bad it is here. there's another forum i talk on. world wide. full of people from all walks...from a british socialist to guys in austrailia that keep telling us to never give up our rights like they did.... anyway, one of them posted a thread titled "fuck new jersey". it's about this woman. shaneen came up. it also came up that her judge was the only person in his county with a ccw. i told them how it rolls here concerning that. his response?"i didn't know it was that bad there." if the avg citizen/gun owner doesn't know things are this bad......we'll never see any help from outside. and lets face it. for all of the (VERY MUCH APPRECIATED) efforts of people like smokin50.......we are well outnumbered here behind the enemy lines. without outside help we sadly are fighting a losing battle. now.....before any of you boners go jumping on me and putting words in my mouth.....i'm not saying we should give up. i'm saying we need outside help, and that we should be looking into/for that. i just have no clue how to do that.

coldest room in my house right now is 70F. but i can feel the drafts. oil boiler hasn't run all day other than when we wanted hot water.

thanks. that is the specific class i was referencing, as in reality(i'm sure you already know this) most civvies are more at risk of an attempted carjacking than most on duty law enforcement.

any reason that certain courses aren't offered to civvies?