unreal snow.we have like 2 inchs here in central pa and i dont want to even go hunting for buck.
last 3 weeks we have seen temps in 20s and high winds.i guess i am spoiled compared to you folks......

its just too cold here,we are used to 35 and above for deer hunting..........

Gee I'm surprised anyone noticd. It's an Okonom deluxehttp://www.tradad.com/venkov/cook_stoves.htm
We got it about 5 years ago. It's nice because it's small( we have a small house) but the whole top is a cook surface so you can get 5 or 6 pots cooking st the same time. The firebox is only 9"x 14" but it cooks a whole meal with about 6 or 7 pieces of wood. The extension cord you see hanging on the wall is for when we don't fire up the stove. My wife uses a hot plate or electric skillet , but most of the time it takes the stove for a family of 10. It's a great cook stove. She loves it, unless I don't get wood split

Well the snow is blowing and the wind is howling here. You just could not keep it out there in the Dakota's could you!! Although all they are calling for is snow showers. This is probably lake effect snow.

I had to go and get a little more wood for my wood stove this morning. My old Ford really groaned when I drove it to the woodshed to fill it. The nice thing about wood heat... it was seventeen degrees out, but after I unloaded that truck load of wood you'd of thought it was 90 degrees out the way I was sweating...

A couple years back there was an old abandon farm out in the middle of no where and they were going to bulldoze it. The guy (from the cities) that bought the land wanted to build his family a new "cabin" where the old house was.

A friend of mine got permission to go in there and take what he wanted. Well in there was one of the old porcelain door wood cook oven/stoves and it was in real good shape. It had the water boiler on the side, but that was rusted out.

So of course he called others and me to come and help him get it out of there. He put that in his kitchen and that thing almost heats his first floor of the house. His wife cooks on that all the time.

boy, i thought i was in sticks here in north central pa.you guys are having it rough not only with weather but hard work with wood etc.
not many in my area use wood anymore,its oil/electric heat but we very seldom lose our power and most have a 4,000 watt generator and 5 gallons of gas all time in winter to run our homes until the power comes back on .i only used my generator 2 times in last 30 yrs.....
women here will not allow wood heat in home or coal.......most both work so they just come home and turn up thermostat.ones using wood are catching their homes on fire, we had 3 homes last week on fire......they dont clean chimneys in summer before using or get crack in liner and it takes off..
a lot are going to outside wood/coal furnaces BUT their chimneys are too low and are causing the fumes to get in others homes.so they made them put up 25 ft chimneys on them.then wind came and blew the chimneys down on neighbors homes.......
some went to corn burning stoves.but corn has to be clean and dry to work and you get mice..........
wood pellet stove/pellets are great one BUT now price of pellets went way up like everything else.............

after you buy furnace,5,000 dollars,,,,then cut wood and have to replaced furance in 25 years,i felt i am way ahead just useing my electric baseboard heat.
but i can see why you guys are using wood, your conditions are unreal in winter.........

DANG Chet. Those first two pictures near froze me to the bone. But the third one warmed me up real nice. Beautiful.





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Chet I've got just one question, How the heck do you get around in all that snow? If that happened here in Arkansas we would go no where until the spring thaw. Nice family pic there.

Hi Chet, Just to let you know we used the same plates at our Christmas Dinner. I am a Senior Citizen now but I am also 1 of 8 children. I also like the stove,

Do you have any snow shoes? with that snow you should be able to shoe right in on them and then worry how your going to get all that meat out. :-)

Ken
Central NY.

back in 70s here in pa. we had snow about 4 ft deep.i actually walked on top of laural with snow shoes.laural was about 5 ft high and snow drifted and we walked on top to hunt........
we have not seen snow like that inongtime.this year its COLD/WIND that is killing us here.we are not used to temps like 11 degrees to 22 degrees.everyone wanted me to go hunting today at 15 degrees and 45 mph winds.

no way, yet thats a great time to out fox a nice buck.

When it crusts over and I can walk on top it isn't so bad. The kids can walk on top but I had one to many Dinners and I sink in to deep I am going to invest in snow shoes though. It's a chore sometimes just to try and get the chores done. I'm still trying to come up with a plan to get hay in for the goats and milk cow. I should have brought more from the far pasture during good weather but I was to busy hunting. Now I'm in trouble with the wife if her milk cow runs out of hay

they have cheaper aluminun ones now in snow shoes.mine are 40 yrs old and make a great looking thing on your wall.they are wood ones.
but i only used them 1 time in all those years here in pa.it was fun.i remember i was wearing hip fishing boots too.i walked right up to within 10 yds of 9 deer and 3 had holes in their head from losing their horns..............

boy, that was great hunting in pa then.every hollow had deer.now you dont see 9 deer in 2 weeks of hard hunting.......