TassieTiger wrote:Hard to talk about this when it’s 37 degrees but yeah - main reason I bought my block was so my family could go enjoy themselves cutting their own wood...about 4-5 of them get up there and play around dragging logs with 4 wheel drives, etc...
Chappo wrote:This is mine.
(Stock internet photo)
It’s called an ultimate 500 from Sherwood machinery in bundanoon. They don’t make them anymore and it’s a shame cause they are the best wood heater I’ve ever come across.
Its legal (aus standards approved) but built like a brake drum heater and I can get it glowing red hot but it’ll put you out of the lounge room!
A very interesting design that draws air from the top through a short cone under the lid.
Top loaded firewood and burns everything and I mean everything to a white powder so fine that I clean it out once a year.
Closed down it’ll feel cold and burn for 48 hrs.
A friend of mine was impressed and made one from scratch for his shed.
I too love cutting wood, they say it warms you three times. Cutting it, splitting it and burning it!!
There’s something very satisfying about seeing a huge pile of wood on the ground at the end of a long hard day. Makes the beer taste good too.
Stix wrote:That heater looks a beauty big fella...
I too rather burn wood than gas or electricity..
& being a carpenter whos layed many a kilometre of hard wood decking, at the same time as being a self confessed wood addict, i have no shortage of kindling out back...
I usually go for a drive through the eastern suburbs when we have our bad storms blow through & send big eucalypts down to ground level...with that ill hike there quick smart with an empty ute, the new stihl 351 & a bottle of fuel & get to work.
I cut the logs further over the following couple of weeks then leave them laying throughout the garden & slowly split & stack them ready for the following winter.
Its a good deal of hard work, but there is something very satisfying about the work involved...& something homely about a few tonnes & a couple of seasons of split & well stacked firewood...
Its great coming home on a stormy night after a hard days work & firing the heater up with a Scotch in hand.
I live in a character home so unfortunately i have an insert into the existing chimney stack...
I would much rather have a unit like yours where you can chuck a pot of bunny & vegies on it, followed by a desert, followed by the kettle...
I grew up with a pot belly in the lounge room & Sunday nights as a kid were often the obligatory roast, followed by a self saucing pudding done on the belly & a good cuppa tea & lying on the beanbag before bed...
There is nothing like the ambience of a wood heater & a good feed of warm winter cooked meat...
A little off track, but tell the truth i love cooking meat over wood flame & coals too...infact i cooked this the other day out the back...its a small rack of beef, 15 mins each side over flame & coals followed by around half hour in an oven tray on a grate closer to the coals & covered in 2 layers of foil...
Anyway, off track a little--but still related to burning wood...
Im in no hurry to wish summer away...i love summer, the long days & being outside at dawn & dusk during the warmer months...
But wood heating in winter rocks...!!!!
Ziad wrote:Ahhh well I too love the wood heater... actually my wife loves it more as she keeps it running at full boil... reckon rooms at 35degs. Plus I am glad the AC inverter bill is low.
Best of all it's a 15 year old with as fan and it works, will put a vent/duct for next winter so the whole host can be toasted.
But I am a....., we get a mate to drop off 1 trailer load at a time of old hardwood fence posts.... already cut up. He gets some grog I get to relax
Blr243 wrote:When I visit my dads farm in the country I feel like I should chop wood for him but he is a hard old Vietnam vet and he still chops wood better than me Makes me look like a pussy
Gaznazdiak wrote:I used to, Scott.
My trailer at the time had had an unfortunate sexual encounter with the rear end of a large tractor and was no more, but I had an old, unregistered VB commodore sedan that I'd take up into the scrub blocks at the back end of the place.
Never a fan of splitting, I'd cut 3 logs about 6 foot long and 3-4 inches diameter and stick them into the boot so there was about 3 foot overhang, then cut more logs the same size and lay them on crosswise until I had no more suspension travel.
I'd take that back to the house and cut it all into stove size.
Funny thing about the brain injury, I used to love it hotter than hell, but since the crash my thermostat goes a bit mental over about 28°, BP and pulse spike, spew, fall down. And I can't whistle anymore
But the flip side is I don't feel the cold anywhere near the same, so I usually don't bother with heating unless the dog complains or I have humans in the house. When I do I use a little 2 burner ceramic jobby that runs one burner for almost 2 weeks on an $18 9kg bottle refill.
The fact that I'm also lazy is purely coincidental.
JimTom wrote:Mate I’d love to be able to cut firewood and sit around a fire in winter. Unfortunately we don’t have winter up here.
Very envious of your fire mate. Enjoy it when the time comes.
deye243 wrote:Gday Scott yes yes and yes ..... cutting wood burning wood and the armed bushwalk ......
Cheers D
bigfellascott wrote:Mick, it's amazing how an incident in someones life can change it forever, the brain injury doesn't sound like much fun at all mate, hopefully it doesn't stop you from enjoy other aspects of your life too much mate.:
Gaznazdiak wrote:bigfellascott wrote:Mick, it's amazing how an incident in someones life can change it forever, the brain injury doesn't sound like much fun at all mate, hopefully it doesn't stop you from enjoy other aspects of your life too much mate.:
It's all relative though Scott.
Sure I'd prefer to not to have ticked "headbut a speeding semi" off my bucket list, but mate, I was extraordinarily lucky to survive.
So a few little niggles like not being able to handle hot weather without getting the vapors, I can handle. At least I can live almost normally, do my own thing and wipe my own bum.
There are young people out there in nursing homes because of catastrophic acquired brain injury from far less than what happened to me.
While in the Brain Injury Unit I met a young guy who had fallen 2m from a tree in his yard.
He was alone, so by the time he was found, a small bleed from the surface of his brain, into the surrounding cerebrospinal fluid had raised the pressure, squeezing shut tiny capillaries all through his brain resulting in him becoming a ventilated quadriplegic. He'll spend the rest of his life in an old folks home with his electric ventilator breathing for him.
His biggest dream was for a midnight blackout.
I truly hope the poor bugger got his wish.
bigpete wrote:I wish I had a wood fire....
Daddybang wrote:As Jim Tom said we don't get much of a winter but we still love a good fire. Cutting wood with a mate a couple of sensible beers in the middle of the bush(or just in the back paddock) is a very special way to spend a few hours then later a couple of not so sensible coldies and what we like to call Inferno Nite !!
Cooper wrote:Yes. I quite enjoy cutting firewood. I find it relaxing. Even though using a chain saw is something that you need to make sure you do safely.
Got a bit caught out this year. Had to order a few metres of red gum in as couldn't lift anything and I was home off work for 7 weeks so I was burning a fair bit of wood.
Daddybang wrote:F@#kin oath BigFella that'd keep ya warm on a cold night!!!!!
bigfellascott wrote:Daddybang wrote:F@#kin oath BigFella that'd keep ya warm on a cold night!!!!!
Yeah she was welcomed alright, you can see in the pic with the bobcat the snow had just started coming in so a good fire was sure welcome!