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it's never enough to make up for the aggravation.

I did it due to how knotty and twisted the wood I had at the time was.....and time. when I first got it, I kinda lost control of myself, and split almost 5 cords over the period of a couple weekends. weekends to me are sunday afternoons. it's still great exercise.

you guys are making me feel like a lazy shit for using a power splitter.

i think i made that same mistake with the 18"...'cause if i put them in sideways they're touching the walls. if i put them in front to rear they're too close o the glass. 16" works perfectly. i wish i'd have gotten a slightly bigger stove though.....but it had to fit in my fireplace..... i've gotten my maul stuck in quite a few twisted logs. and then a wedge. then another wedge. then i ended up carefully cutting around them to be able to get them out.

how big's your stove? mine takes max 18", but i do better with my stuff cut to 16". it's tough to split sometimes when it's still green. sometimes gets stringy and doesn't wanna let go. do yourself a favor, and take a chainsaw into the woods, cut that stuff to length, load it, then split it at home

yaknow it is relatively easy to make your own spike strip.......

if your wood's relatively well seasoned......get a maul, and axe, sledge and a wedge. you'll need em all. if you wanna do it by hand. i was a stubborn sob, and tried doing that for the first season i had my stove. then i took the plunge and bought a 27 ton log splitter. best investment i made regarding my wood for heating.

would hafta be lowes for me. i stop at those types of stores otw home from the shop. the depot in lawnside has gone to all self checkout. i refuse to use self checkout without getting a rather significant discount.......

most of the wood I have is oak. I've got a little maple, and somewhere mixed in is some cedar and a bit of cherry. which reminds me...a customer's got a bunch of cherry saved for me. I gotta get over to his place and grab it

it's not cured. it's seasoned. I season my wood usually 2 to 6 months. I've got about a cord left over from last year, which I think is gonna go up like balsa wood. I used to save the bark to use for kindling. it sucks. I don't like the way it burns, and it's a pain in the dick to get the bark to light. I gather twigs outta the yard for kindling now, those things go up if you just look at em with a match in your hand. I use dryer lint to get everything started in the stove. that shit's borderline scary.

sounds too good to be true. you know what they say about that...….

had someone in the ham community tell me this is false. i asked her directly because it seemed kind of extreme.

link to the class?

aahh dammit. sometimes i'm a dumbass. this is one of those times, lolol

is it me or is a chunk of this thread missing'?

b-roll of ntsb people checking out...…..kinda painful to watch knowing the beauty of this aircraft.....

i've seen those pictures before. incredible what those kids did with so little. imagine being on a 12 hour mission, and nearly half of it is spent fighting that big old airplane?

i know once they're in flight that a 17 can do amazing things with even 2 failed engines. on take off though? i'm not sure. i would imagine that they may have had enough power to climb to pattern alt, but i've never flown anything that big......

yea. one of the articles i'd read said that one of the pilots reported an engine failure or some form of engine trouble. sadly, in that same article there was a certain person of a certain "profession" calling for more "oversight and regulation" already. this is a crying shame for the victims and their families, and for the loss of a classic beautiful aircraft. at one time she was the queen of the skies. i'd toured this aircraft both at kissimme/gateway airport back in the early 2000's, and at trenton/mercer also in the early 2000's. never got to fly in her.

mighta been me that mentioned j&j.

well considering that according to the wording of our statutes, all ifrearms are illegal(with exceptions and exemptions) i think that many more will be victimized than expect it.

ON ONE hand i get it. on the other hand, we should be able to buy the EXACT same rifle that the military and police can buy. https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2019/09/19/colt-continues/?fbclid=IwAR065atMuoLwO35VDOeVwGu4pxYaPp69EG3_gXEMK0sC1hcuB59QcqW6ZGY

thought those all were already included too?

and of course ZERO information about the firearm or whether or not the purchase actually went through, "just in case" they don't destroy the record...... i thik it means that things will stay as they are?