Brent S
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I hope nothing is banged up too bad. Listen to your body and if something feels too off get it checked. I don’t panic too much about things but agree that having someone around to keep an eye on you is sound advice.
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Silent Earth
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Get well soon.
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Leaving in a few, girls taking me to the hospital, ain’t breathing right.
Brent S
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Wish you the best.
Silent Earth
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Sounds like busted ribs? Stay well.
Danil54grl
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Heck Mav. . I've been working and today with grandbaby. I come back and your all banged up! Hope you get better and back on your feet soon. Glad you had the radio on you to give the alert. That wife of yours and kids will take good care of you I know.
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We got back 30 minutes or so ago, broken collarbone, broken nose, bruised ribs. No internal bleeding, slight concussion and a bunch of needle holes from all the probing, tired and hungry. I'm going to eat and hit the sack.
Silent Earth
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Dumbass I hope the wife gives you HELL and lots of love and affection, Get well soon.
WGregMiller
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Glad it’s not worse. Get well my friend.
I hope you heal up quickly Mav. Glad it wasn't something more serious. The pain will suck for a while though. I've had broken nose, cracked ribs and broken collarbone, but not all at the same time...
Brent S
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Life has a way of making us slow down sometimes. Just glad it wasn’t worse, and hope you don’t hurt too much during this little vacation.....
I'm sure in DrHenleys case it was someones fist that fell on his face rather than a hay stack. LMFAO!
I'm sorry I just couldn't resist. I'm kidding...ok not really.
Maverick as I said yesterday...i wish you a speedy and pain free recovery.
Arcticdude
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This morning the wife and I took a couple of our vehicles down to get the studded tires put on. It's about a 150 mile round trip to the tire store. We got home about 9 pm to a cold cabin. The fire in the wood stove had gone out and it was 36 degs inside the cabin. I built a fire in the stove and thought everything was normal, but soon the stove pipe turned red hot and then the stove started glowing red. I shut the stove down and went outside to check the chimney. Flames were shooing out the top and sparks were pouring over the roof. Had to carry buckets of water up on the roof to put the fire out. It was 13 degs out and the water on the roof froze solid so of course I slid off the roof. No problem as the ground broke my fall. Went back in the cabin and the stove was still glowing red. Had to pour water over and inside the stove to put the fire out. Once everything cooled down enough I took the chimney apart and cleaned it out. Then cleaned out the inside of the stove. Had all the windows and door open to clear the smoke out. Got a new fire going and so far everything looks good. We've been burning in this stove 24/7 since October with only 1 cleaning. I think I'll be cleaning the chimney every couple of weeks from now on. A chimney fire is a pretty scary thing, I hope to never have another one.
Brent S
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I had a friend that built a log cabin mostly himself. He wasn’t done yet and was building it as he could afford, so he didn’t have insurance on it yet. Anyways, it was done enough to live in, so they moved out of their camper and into it. It was winter, so they used the wood stove as their primary source of heat. The flue on it went up about 6 ft and did a 90deg turn going thru a wall. Sometime during the night that 90deg fitting came apart and the heat and sparks went straight up to the wood ceiling above. They grabbed a hose to put it out, but being winter the hose was frozen and they watched as everything they had and had worked so hard on burned to the ground. The point of all this is to never take for granted the safety and maintenance of a wood stove. I’m sorry you had a rough night Arctic, but am glad you were able to contain the damage and kept both your cabin and yourselves safe. My friends eventually recovered and rebuilt, but it took years.
Danil54grl
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We have one of those 90 degree turns for our wood stove in the bedroom. It was lite at the time I noticed it had come loose. No smoke was coming out so I just let it burn out keeping an eye on it. When cooled down enough, put washer and bolted so it didn't slip again. Just happy that the 90 is on this side of ceiling and not in attic to go unnoticed. That could have been a bad deal. Thank you Arctic for pointing out having to clean it every so often.
Glad you caught it Arctic. What kind of wood are you burning?
Brent S
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Not just cleaning but inspecting the whole system periodically. I normally just cleaned the flues and inspected once a year sometime in spring, but may check mid cold season now.
Arcticdude
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I burn dry doug fir and larch only. All of my fire wood came from standing dead trees that we're cut in summer, then split, stacked and covered with a tarp.
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