Hi, I'm Rick and I have a {cough} flitch problem....

[MotorSeven]

....is there a 12 step program for flitches ? I don't saw commercial, just building a house and the pile(s) are getting pretty big. I do burn with wood, so I have sawed some up, but most of my flitches are pine, hemlock, and poplar. Once dry they burn hot and fast and yes I do sweep my flue on a regular basis. I am just behind on cutting them up as it is time consuming.

I have had folks stop by and ask for them, but I hesitate. I really don't like someone I don't know in my wood yard eyeballing my "stuff". I have learned by selling hay that once some are here once to buy hay they think they can pop in anytime even when I am not home and load up(so far they did leave the $).

So, what do y'all do with your flitches?...looking for ideas/suggestions......

[eastberkshirecustoms]

If you get really desperate, ship them up to me- I'll burn them all.

[MotorSeven]

If you get really desperate, ship them up to me- I'll burn them all.

...are you insinuating that I am laaay-zee?

[eastberkshirecustoms]

..are you insinuating that I am laaay-zee?

No, no, not at all.  I'm just saying that I'm not picky. I burn lots of pine!

[beenthere]

............So, what do y'all do with your flitches?...looking for ideas/suggestions......

Flitches (two sawn faces, bark on edges) or slabs (one sawn face and the rest log surface) ? 
Sounds like you have slab pile, not a flitch pile. If flitch, edge them and make lumber.

[cutterboy]

Hi Rick. By flitch I am guessing you mean slab wood. My hardwood I burn in my woodstove.

 

 

My pine slabs I give to a guy who makes maple syrup. He gives me a gallon of syrup each year. Do they make maple syrup up in the hills of eastern Tenn.? If anyone does, I'm sure he would love your slabs.

Good luck with your house.  Ralph

[MotorSeven]

Bt, it's both, but mostly slabs. The flitches are all thin, or semi rotted that I took off of bettle killed pine to get to the heartwood.

[terrifictimbersllc]

Mark a price  on the end of each one and leave a coffee can.

[MotorSeven]

Hey CB, it looks like you are heating from your basement, how is that working out?

[hamish]

Hey CB, it looks like you are heating from your basement, how is that working out?

A lil further north than he is......but heat rises and it makes the floor your walking on upstairs warm, hell heats the whole house, all that concrete acts a a good heatsink and conductor too.

[cutterboy]

Hey Motor, it works out great. Just as hamish said, my floors stay warm and that keeps my wife happy.   But I have another wood stove in the kitchen.

 

 

The kitchen stove is all I need in the fall and spring. I run both stoves in the really cold weather and the house is nice and toasty.

[MotorSeven]

Oh, man..CB, don't let my wife see that....she has been bugging me for one and I am resisting(don't want another flue)...or did you tie into the basement flue?

[eastberkshirecustoms]

Do they make maple syrup up in the hills of eastern Tenn.? If anyone does, I'm sure he would love your slabs.

Maple syrup production requires repeated cold freezing nights and warm days for the sap to flow properly from the trees. This climate is only found in the northeastern states (and our Canadian friends on the East coast).  So, at least that's one thing we have the market cornered on.

[cutterboy]

Motor, I put up a separate chimney for each stove. It was expensive but well worth it.

Eastberk, I thought maybe up in the hills down there it might be high enough to get cold enough to make syrup. I seem to remember reading years ago about a couple making maple syrup in the hills of Kentucky.

[wannasaw]

Motor, I chain saw mine and make better friends out of the neighbors one of which is my brother so...Cutter, I'm not worried about my wife even though she wants one too but, where did you get the cook stove? I want one! I could live with stovepipe and clay inserts in the kitchen. As long as it's not the only way to heat a hot dog or cook some ham.

[bugdust]

MS, My hardwood slabs and flitches go to the stove, the pine goes to another slab pile and burned in one big fire. Good luck on the house. Pictures?

[REGULAR GUY]

Cutterboy, this is Regular Guy's wife and I would like to know what make your kitchen stove is and where you got it. Its absolutely beautiful and we are having trouble finding one I like and that works the way its supposed. By the way are you satisfied with yours and does it do the work a regular cooker does?


Regular Guys Wife.( Hope you don't mind)

[cutterboy]

Wannasaw, My wife saw an ad in the local paper. That was 35 years ago. We brought it to a guy in New Hampshire who went through it repairing, blacking, and polishing. He told us never to sell it....it was worth a lot of money.

Your best bet is to look on Craigs List. However, if you find one in really good shape it will be expensive.

[cutterboy]

Hi RG's wife. I don't mind at all. I'll send a pm in a few minutes.

[MotorSeven]

Nope, no syrup production in these parts, but those slabs heat shine up mighty fine

[cutterboy]

Now you're talking! 

[MotorSeven]

 

 


This is going in the basement...a vintage 1986 Hearthstone H1 100,000 btu's an hr. I found it on craigslist cheap since some moron had overfired it due to a flue fire and melted a grapefruit sized hole in the 1/2' thick baffle plate. I rebuilt it and have it plugged into my uninsulated shop right now...what a beast.

It takes a 24" stick so I guess I have to just get off my arse and cut up those flitches & slabs

[thecfarm]

I know it's a long ways,but this place will have at least one.

http://www.bryantstove.com/

Here's the one we have,

 

 

It's our brand new antique. It's a Home Clarion, but I know they did have Glenwood and many more.Probaly about $1500-2000  now. We have one just like the pictured still in the farm house. Cracked oven and all.    We use to it to heat the house before the OWB days.