Wife lit first fire LOL

[Dix]

Hand a woman a fish dinner, and she'll eat. Teach her how to fish, and she'll eat for the rest of her life. She already knows how to cook, usually

 

[Freeheat]

I see the cow - white face on it's side in the middle?

I start at least as many, if not more, fires than DH. I am here and he is not. Splittting is all him though.

Give me 1/2 of one of whatever you guys are on , I DONT SEE A COW

 

[Dix]

Hand a woman a fish dinner, and she'll eat. Teach her how to fish, and she'll eat for the rest of her life. She already knows how to cook, usually

Hay, I was being nice

 

[osagebow]

Go easy on her. I hear homemade bows make very good kindling.



wife just said "I never thought of that...I'm gonna go fire the stove up" LOL

 

[Woody Stover]

Exceedingly tough to get BL going with a rolled-up newspaper...especially top-down.

I'm going to ask my wife to start a fire top-down, and hope she peels off her shirt. Heh-heh.

 

[Beer Belly]

Get her an estwing fireside friend - 4 pound splitting maul and she won't have to go to the gym any more....best excercise ever I have found.

No way....I like my Wife with fingers, but I was thinking of getting a small electric splitter for the garage so she can split her own little pieces

 

[Beetle-Kill]

Give me 1/2 of one of whatever you guys are on , I DONT SEE A COW

City people, ugh.
It's a Hereford cow, resting on her side, head propped on a salt block and waiting to birth a calf. It's..right...there. Wha's a matta fo you?
For B.S., if it had horns, it'd be a bleached skull of a longhorn.

 

[firefighterjake]

Am I the only one who sees a cow in that picture?

My wife has never been good at starting fires but when we got super cedars she did great. But time seems to dim the memory banks and even though I did not think it possible, she tried to start a fire this fall and even used a super cedar....and it didn't work. Wow! I'm still amazed. Anyway, I dug out the mess she had in the stove and started the fire for her.

Did you use your "magic poker"? . . . Hehheh . . . I remember you telling us about that last year.

 

[firefighterjake]

HehHeh . . . love that picture.

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Cow . . . nope . . . don't see it. I do see a unicorn riding a motorcycle side car with Elmer Fudd driving and a dragon chasing them.

 

[ScotO]

Am I the only one who sees a cow in that picture?

DAGGUM, Dennis! You've got quite an eye for the little details!

As for the "wad o' paper-on-top-of-a-heap-of-big-splits-to-start-a-fire" method, the dear wifey has also tried that with similar results with junk mail......I think it is a pre-programmed defense that she has in her. I know she can start a fire, but as stated by others, she wanted ME to do it!

 

[Ashful]

Hand a woman a fish dinner, and she'll eat...

Unless she's an organic granola local hippie food nut. "There's Mercury in the fish!"

 

[osagebow]

Exceedingly tough to get BL going with a rolled-up newspaper...especially top-down.

I'm going to ask my wife to start a fire top-down, and hope she peels off her shirt. Heh-heh.

Giggity!

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Maybe it is because I milked so many of these animals but the cow is the first thing I noticed about the picture. So here it is circled.

 

[mfglickman]

Maybe it is because I milked so many of these animals but the cow is the first thing I noticed about the picture. So here it is circled.

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That's the one.

Eta my 8 year old saw it right away too...

 

[etiger2007]

kinda looks like Spuds McKenzie too

 

[Ashful]

It's time to put away the bath salts, Dennis.

 

[DianeB]

No way....I like my Wife with fingers, but I was thinking of getting a small electric splitter for the garage so she can split her own little pieces

she will keep her fingers, don't worry. Another thing to look at is the super splitter, almost got that

 

[DianeB]

she will keep her fingers, don't worry. Another thing to look at is the super splitter, almost got that

oops - meant smart splitter

http://www.amazon.com/Lucky-Distrib...744622&sr=1-1-catcorr&keywords=smart+splitter

 

[melissa71]

I have one of these manual splitters, it works really nice. Not as fast as an electric splitter, but it works. I bought mine from Harbor Freight.

http://www.amazon.com/Horizontal-Cu...id=1350744862&sr=1-3&keywords=manual+splitter

 

[DianeB]

I have one of these manual splitters, it works really nice. Not as fast as an electric splitter, but it works. I bought mine from Harbor Freight.

http://www.amazon.com/Horizontal-Cutter-Splitter-Manual-Hydraulic/dp/B0045V122A/ref=sr_1_3?s=lawn-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1350744862&sr=1-3&keywords=manual splitter

melissa, almost got it but then went with the fireside friend - unbelivable ab. work out. Hope I don't take any fingers off - got to get a more level end of log to use when splitting to get me out of the habit of trying to balance the piece I am striking. Need hubby to cut me a taller level log.

 

[albert1029]

"Am I the only one who sees a cow in that picture?"

Uh, .....yes Dennis, yes you are.

Yes, a white-faced Heffer, rare.

 

[melissa71]

melissa, almost got it but then went with the fireside friend - unbelivable ab. work out. Hope I don't take any fingers off - got to get a more level end of log to use when splitting to get me out of the habit of trying to balance the piece I am striking. Need hubby to cut me a taller level log.

I'd love to try one of those! I need to get a decent cutting stump, too.

 

[Treacherous]

My wife had many years of experience starting fires with a poorly drafted smoke dragon. We used to use one of those small air mattress blowers and a lot of newspaper to get things going. With the new stove and Super Cedars we often talk about those former times and say.... "it sucked" .. in addition I think my firewood in those days was still too wet.

In the winter we often enter a cabin that is in the mid to upper 30's so rapid heat up is paramount.

We are both much happier on a grand scale with the new stove and SC's.

Super Cedar..Super Cedar...Super Cedar....