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Go the pin pulled last Monday, don't have to tape up unless working with my hands on some project.
Still hurts though but much better, got a tiny piece of nail growing back, thankfully!
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Good to hear you doing well. It is a great feeling to be able to start using injured parts.
I'm only suppose to have 50% weight on leg but have been pushing that. Usually end back up on crutches with all weight off for a couple of days.
Unhook loader bucket and hook mower up. Used leg pretty hard a few places this am. Mow for 4 hours so in chair with leg up this afternoon.
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Harvey,
Hope you continue to improve rapidly. Healing is a slow process but it is a miracle to watch, but much better in retrospect 
Dennis
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Wow! I just saw this. Real sorry to hear about your injury Dennis. Also glad to hear the Doc was able to fix it and you are on the mend. You and Harvey both take care. At our age, you don't heal like ya used to.
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Hello, thought to mention after reading about the injury that now there is a patented solution for all log splitters to be WEDGE LESS . Some day my engineered solution sill be on all log splitters.
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Hello, thought to mention after reading about the injury that now there is a patented solution for all log splitters to be WEDGE LESS . Some day my engineered solution sill be on all log splitters.
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Do not know about your invention, but do not see how it would have prevented the injury.
The three problems for me were:
1) running splitter in vertical mode requires steadying the log during compression.
2) Cutting log with sloppy additional saw cuts that my thumb slipped into
3) Operator error , me too much rush...
I split wood only once a couple months after the injury. None since.
I stopped burning wood in a wood stove after my neighbors house burnt to the ground last year and I have seen several houses that have had wood stove chimney fires and significant damage as a result.
So I have a large collection of rotting split and un split log rolls.
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The other thing is that to make running a wood stove at all doable it is common to load the stove to the brim before going to bed, and then run it at a lower temperature to try to be able to restart in the morning with some leftover coals.
From a safety perspective this is the worst possible thing to do, as it builds up creosote. During that last load of the night the fire is really roaring embers spark as the new wood is stoked, what if you miss a stray ember and go to bed. What if you have a chimney fire or a down draft while you are asleep. So running the stove the way it should be run means starting the fire from scratch every day which in my view is too much work, so no stove for me.
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Dennis I will not argue with you last post but use wood stove for several years as did my father in law and his father. I helped to some degree with the wood for all three in the cutting and splitting it and also servicing the chimney.
First we all had masonry chimney and one story house so one story chimney. I bought wire brush that fit and run it through the chimney at most once per year and maybe every other year being more correct.
We each used a different brand of fireplace insert and we none had issue with fire and we each used the insert as our only source of heat once we lite it. Now our wood burning season is not that long from at most early October to middle March. We also ONLY used hardwood and most of the time it was a year old cut, so dry.
We could close our units drafts fully and still have good roaring coal bed with morning. Now we cut to length to get full wood box when we loaded. We also would do a heavy roaring fire from time to time to help prevent buildup. For me it was normally when I got home of the day to get temp up for baths and such and for the night to have house warn when children were running around.
I would think the metal chimney and the higher it is all leads to more issues as more cool air hits the chimney and the longer fire season and based upon watching the shows out of Alaska they burn every greens which is what they have but here are major no no.
All this from a person who's parents lost a house before he was born due to chimney fire. I suspect there was a defect in the chimney for they saw the fire between the ceiling and the roof first. This would have been late 1940's. It really busted them for they had three small children and lost all they owned. It took years to recover and we heated with wood all those years. Hey, we have lots of woods. Not much oil or gas here.
I very much understand the fear of chimney fires. kt
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On a side note, was talking with a power equipment dealer who was a large wood burning stove dealer. We see very little used here now due to EPA rules on stoves. Said very hard to meet those requirements.
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Hi KT,
Thanks for the reply. I have a exterior wall masonry fireplace that is very tall and is not accessible from the the top. Have a stainless steel liner and a Jotul cast iron stove. The house is on a hill and gets blasted by high winds from the North in the winter making for downdraft issues mostly to start but rarely so severe to cause concern otherwise. I have a commercial chimney pole system and brush that I used before the heating season.
My first season with this stove I had a chimney fire that ran its course with no damage. But it is like watching a jet engine go out of control,the stainless has a very high heat tolerance, but who knows how long it can sustain it or desire to test it out.
Cutting,collecting and burning wood has long been a fascination for me. I was the kid who begged his grandfather when on vacation at the Jersey shore at a rental bungalow that happened to have a masonry fireplace; please please Papa can we have a fire? What a loving man he was to set a blazing wood fire for me with 95 degrees and no AC. He loved his grandsons, the boys...
We have been burning some of my wood supply in outdoor campfires but it will take 50 years to burn all of it that way. May have to see if anyone bites on Craigs list
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