Winter already?

[wyoDreamer]

Thanks for the better picture of the axe. I was going to ask for one.
That looks like it would work great! nice find.

 

[baymule]

We don't have y'all's winter, but we still have rainy, wet, cold. It's been raining for 2 weeks, feel like it's about time to start building the ark. Going to have 2 days of no rain, then more rain for another week.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

We don't have y'all's winter, but we still have rainy, wet, cold. It's been raining for 2 weeks, feel like it's about time to start building the ark. Going to have 2 days of no rain, then more rain for another week.

Sigh....yep

 

[Beekissed]

We don't have y'all's winter, but we still have rainy, wet, cold. It's been raining for 2 weeks, feel like it's about time to start building the ark. Going to have 2 days of no rain, then more rain for another week.

We've been like that all spring and summer, Bay. Fall hasn't been too rainy yet, but I expect fall to be rainy. I just looked at our forecast and after tomorrow's rain we aren't supposed to have any for the next 5-6 days!!!! Sunny skies! So badly needed right now, as I have so very much to do outside.

 

[henless]

We don't have y'all's winter, but we still have rainy, wet, cold. It's been raining for 2 weeks, feel like it's about time to start building the ark. Going to have 2 days of no rain, then more rain for another week.

Yep. Like Bay said. Looks like we have quite a bit more in store for us tonight.

It's also been on the cold side this past week. Lows in the 40's here.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Hi Henless! Welcome from Texas. Where abouts are you located? (not asking for specifics - just your general area).

 

[Beekissed]

Got a little sunburn on my face today! Started out in the 20s and ended up at 60*, got to work out in the sun all day long.

 

[henless]

Hey FEM I'm in East Texas. About an hour or so southeast from baymule.

No sunburn here Bee. Rain, rain & rain.

 

[CrealCritter]

I really like your barrel stove it looks like it belongs against the logs in the corner.

Talor water stoves were manufactured not far from where I used to live in North Carolina. It wasn't uncommon to see a talor water stove sitting between two houses. It would heat both houses and also supply hot water year round to both houses as well. It's called a water stove because it has a jacket in-between the fire box and outside shell that heats water. The water is then pumped into the house into a tank and can then be pumped through baseboard radiators to heat rooms or used as tap water. I never owned a taylor water stove so I don't have any personal experience using one, but my friends that had them absolutely loved them. The only drawback was you had to go outside to stoke the stove. But i seen a large stove that you can load a pallet full of wood into with a tractor or yard lift that would burn for well over a week straight although I'm not sure if that was a taylor brand or not.

https://www.taylor-waterstoves.com

I guess you could think of it as an outdoor boiler kind of thing.

 

[Beekissed]

Nope, never saw anything like that! We have outside wood burning furnaces all around these parts but I've never seen anything as massive as that Taylor stove. A double pass like he has costs anywhere from $6.5K to $10.5K....that's more than I've ever paid for a car!

I could see that paying off if several homes shared it and there were big families that used a lot of hot water and also many, many hands to gather in that much wood. But a single family dwelling? That's a huge overkill.