[TheForge] cutting wood

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

That evil birch is presently parading through Jerry's stove, and 
becoming an ash instead.

Paul wrote:
> On 1/23/2010 12:25 AM, Jerry Frost wrote:
> <snip> (politely)
>> I wasn't holding one type of wood burner up over others. My only problem
>> with pellet stoves is the expense of pellets here, about 3x the cost per lb
>> of buying stovewood. I know if I lived where pellets were more available and
>> better priced we'd probably have one. A REALLY good thing about pellets is
>> you can make darned near any wood into pellets and they work well. Trash
>> wood, right of way slash, land clearing and just about any other source will
>> make good pellets.<snip>  (politely)
> I didn't mean to start a firestorm of comments regarding wood pellets... 
> it was a rather oblique way of suggesting that Frosty take revenge upon 
> the offending tree in a most satisfying manner.
> Reducing the wood fibers to pellets requires great force and heat to 
> fuse the wood into pellets. Seem like sweet revenge... Probably not as 
> much fun as metal bashing, but there are many forms of stress relief
> 
> Paul
> WB9HCO
> My Grandfather WAS a blacksmith...
> and it didn't do me one damn bit of good.
> All opinions are the personal beliefs of the author, and are based on decades of experience... so use your best judgement, I'm just a lowly crafstman.
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