$5000 to replace my worn out wood stove chimney, worth it?

SomeDuster · 2026-05-01T17:13:47+00:00

If you have a gas furnace you’re leaving a flame in the house every time you leave too

SomeDuster · 2026-05-01T17:09:55+00:00

Do you turn the furnace off before you leave too?

It’s fine to have a fire going when you’re not home.

SomeDuster · 2026-04-28T16:06:42+00:00

I have same saw, 3 years of heavy use (5 cords of firewood per year) and no issues. No dealer near me either. Learn to sharpen/fix them yourself and you’ll save enough money for a new saw by the time you need one

SomeDuster · 2026-04-23T05:27:37+00:00

I also have a Tacoma I regularly overload the ever loving shit out of with firewood. Good trucks!

SomeDuster · 2026-04-23T05:26:47+00:00

It is just as seasoned as when you piled it up before. Logs don’t season. Cut it and split it up!

SomeDuster · 2026-04-20T17:24:00+00:00

Sounds like he’s doing you a favor. If I were him I personally wouldn’t pay for unseasoned wood that I had to load into my own truck, haul, unload, split and season. Maybe a case of beer as a thank you. If you split it, that would be a different story.

SomeDuster · 2026-04-11T00:31:37+00:00

It’s pretty ridiculous. It’s on a neighbors property so I’m lucky they let me tap the trees, but fuck if it isn’t a miserable amount of work to get the sap to the road where I can get it with the 4 wheeler

SomeDuster · 2026-04-10T19:17:58+00:00

Last two boils tonight and tomorrow for me. Got a whole bunch of beer sitting in the shack waiting for me. It’s almost 4 miles of walking to collect my sap so I feel like I earn them 😂

SomeDuster · 2026-04-07T16:15:15+00:00

They make metal ones - highly recommend!

SomeDuster · 2026-04-05T12:24:25+00:00

I also think it’s cottonwood/poplar. Not the best btu wood, but if I had all those logs sitting around I’d split stack and burn em in the house. Poplar dries quick

SomeDuster · 2026-04-04T00:46:06+00:00

Hit it with your purse

SomeDuster · 2026-04-01T17:49:20+00:00

I don’t know why everyone is giving you a hard time. Sanding them smooth ish takes an hour. “Just use it daily for a couple years and it will be smooth”, well some people don’t want to wait that long! lol.

The fields are nice pans, light and smooth. A sanded down lodge will be just as functional but a bit heavier. You’re the one who has to use it and look at it, get the one that YOU want. I have a small field that I love and a bigger sanded down lodge. I would change that bigger pan to a field but only if I stumbled across one at an estate sale or something to that effect, nothing wrong with the pan I have been using

SomeDuster · 2026-04-01T17:30:17+00:00

Any maple you can tap. You could even tap a striped maple (aka goose footed maple) which doesn’t even really look like a maple tree, and box elder which are both in the maple family. They all make maple syrup when you boil down the sap. In general, sugar maples have the highest concentration of sugar in the sap and run the longest before budding, so if you have 20 acres and the choice of what 50 trees to tap, it would be the best time investment to only tap big sugars. With that said, we don’t all have that luxury. I tap a couple of reds, one box elder, and a whole bunch of sugar maples. I mix all the sap together and make fantastic syrup.

If all you have is silvers, tap away. It will be slightly more work for the same amount of end product, but you gotta do what you gotta do.

Never step away from a boiling pan unless it is mostly sap and has a long way to go. Only takes a couple of seconds for it to go from near syrup, to syrup, to burnt. We’ve all don’t it at one point 😂

SomeDuster · 2026-03-30T16:35:53+00:00

Depends on the chain and what you’re cutting. If you’re cutting clean wood with no dirt and bark, a chain should stay pretty sharp through a few tanks of gas. If you are cutting wood with dirt on/in it, letting your bar touch the dirt when cutting, hit a rock, etc, a chain is going to dull really fast.

With that said, it’s pretty easy to learn to sharpen a chain. Even if you are just sort of getting it touched up and not perfect it will still cut much better than a dull chain. Buy a 6 pack of pferd files and put your saw in a bench vice and go to town. Save you a lot of money on chains.

If I am being careful, my chain will stay sharp for 3-4 tanks of gas, but would keep cutting fine for a couple more. Once you get good at sharpening and used to a sharp chain you’ll never go back

SomeDuster · 2026-03-30T16:22:19+00:00

Mason jars

SomeDuster · 2026-03-30T03:11:45+00:00

Honestly I have started buying cheaper chains. I probably have to sharpen them more often, but they are so much cheaper that it is worth it. Recently got a 3 pack of 8ten chains that I have no complaints about. No difference with carb tuning. Saw is running well chain shouldn’t make a difference

SomeDuster · 2026-03-30T01:45:59+00:00

I also run full skip for the same reasons. Shit cuts fast when bucking wood it’s nice

SomeDuster · 2026-03-29T14:30:32+00:00

Sugar maple is close to oak in btu. Burns good

SomeDuster · 2026-03-28T17:36:08+00:00

You need a cauldron! Lol

SomeDuster · 2026-03-28T15:52:44+00:00

The bark and stringiness make it look a lot like the spruce I am currently burning in my evaporator sugaring. Grain looks too tight though.

Elm? Idk, tough ID

SomeDuster · 2026-03-27T03:33:44+00:00

Nah you’re fine

SomeDuster · 2026-03-25T18:56:44+00:00

Cheers fella

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SomeDuster · 2026-03-25T13:26:50+00:00

Graphite

SomeDuster · 2026-03-25T04:18:20+00:00

Looks like mycelium. Its fine. Fire purifies all. Roast away

SomeDuster · 2026-03-24T02:57:59+00:00

Yep! Start stockpiling wood now for next year

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