Straight up- let me have it. (I hi-jacked the wife's laptop to post this) I'm literally tripping over welding gloves, yet I loaded the stove barehanded . CAT was almost to the "inactive" mark, so opened up the by-pass for awhile and got ready to load. Alas, some of last years wood is rather lengthy, but it still fits- so shorties went on the bottom N/S, and the longer ones go E/W on top. Since the CAT wasn't quite dead yet, I tried to hurry up. The last two E/W splits were good sized, and after fitting the second one in only then did I start to notice-" Why do my wrists hurt?" Yup, I wedged in the last split and my wrists made contact with the CAT housing. 2nd degree burns on both wrists, about the size of a large nickel. Skin sloughed right off( good thing, hurt less). Lesson re-learned, so feel free to hammer it home. (Even though I'm nothing more than a scared kitten, with really big , blue eyes)- ;-)