Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "jay legere" channel.

  1.  @lolcatz88  McDonald's was never the same after they switched to vegetable oil for their fries.
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  2.  @buckrockerm  Yes. Same with a maul for splitting wood. You still give it a boost on its way down, but most of the "work" is "throwing" that 10-pound or 8-pound weight into the air, with your right (main) hand close to the head. Then slide that hand down to the end of the handle.
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  3. Burning small, hot fires, rather than just stuffing your stove full of wood and building a smoky fire, will cut down the buildup. You've got so much built up in the pipe that you should sweep it out. But it won't build up, much, or at all, if you burn clean. A secondary air intake near the top will also help finish the burn, preventing most of the creosote from forming. You can burn a long time without stoking by just stuffing the box full, but you're going to choke your fire and put a ton of smoke up the chimney.
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  4. One of the things I loved about living in Gunnison, CO was the 2nd-hand stores. With Crested Butte ski resort just up the road, there was a LOT of clothing and outdoor gear on sale that'd only been used once or twice by some rich vacationer. They'll buy the stuff, use it once for one trip, and then it makes its way to the thrift store. I got lots of wool and goretex that way
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  5. You'll make someone very happy, it sounds like! Good for you!
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  6. How new to that kind of work were you? Sounds to me like the old man was trying to tell you without telling you that you didn't have the hang of it, yet. But more likely, he was just toughened up from years of hard work.
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  7. I think your stove was still smoking when you opened the front. I don't think it works the way you think it works, quite. The solution is to squeeze down the air flow even more, by inserting the damper. When you get too big of a fire going, you exceed the capacity of the chimney to (basically) get rid of all the smoke. Even with the door in place, the opening in the front is big enough that it becomes a 2-way, air-in-and-smoke-out situation. What you want is an opening in the front that is smaller than the chimney, by a fairly large margin. Then the breathing is all in one direction. Stoke the fire, once, and don't re-stoke it until it has burned down to the point where the draw from the chimney will handle every bit of smoke. Throw in a load and let it breathe wide open until it catches, and then close the door, again. For the best burn, you want a small, hot fire.
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  8. I've lit thousands of fires and never heard of priming the chimney until recent videos. I guess I'll keep it in mind, but I don't see myself changing the way I start fires. The smoke wants to go up, and the chimney's up. But maybe it's a lowlander thing in extreme cold. I've never lit a wood stove at under 2600 feet (about 800 meters) elevation, and that one low one wasn't a very tall chimney. All the others were a mile or more above sea level, where the air ain't as heavy. I like seeing the down-to-basics hiking and camping in snow conditions, but a snowmobile and an outfitter's tent or line cabin would be more my speed. Something closer to what Jay's doing, maybe canvas the first year or two, and then something more substantial, I see those videos where the guy or gal is using a hand-saw to cut up stove lengths after they reach their destination, where I see myself doing all that work ahead of time and dragging loads of firewood on a sled, like Jay's doing, so the only wood processing is making kindling. I can see spending weeks at a time out at the camp/cabin, year-round. I've got a job that works me hard for long stretches, but I get some nice stretches off in all 4 seasons. Best place for writing and contemplating.
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  9. A rocket-style stove (with insulated riser) will burn the wood all the way down to nothing, with CO2, CO, H2O the only things escaping, which won't plate out on your chimney, at all. If you want to leave your tent up for long periods in one spot, I'd look into a mass heat rocket setup, and run the pipe under the floor of the tent!
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  10. Maybe what made it feel off was the shortness of the days. Lack of sunlight/daylight can mess with you. You don't realize how much that can drag you down, and all you know is things feel a little off. Or you feel a little off. I didn't even know I was depressed until I moved to Colorado and it was like a weight lifting off my shoulders. Idaho has a lot of gray days. Mountain valleys in Colorado you get direct sun almost every day. There can be a weather front going through, but local convection cells will punch holes in the clouds in the middle of the afternoon almost every single day. One of the local steak houses gave away free steaks on days that had no sun as a promo they almost never had to pay for.
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  11. Just looking at the smoke coming out of your chimney, my thought was that you're smothering your own fire in the firebox. Let it breathe. Don't throw all the logs on until you've got a hot fire going. A tent that size doesn't take a house-heating load of firewood. Wind across your stovepipe should improve its draw, if anything. I doubt the wind was the source of your smoke.
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  12. $1900 for the tent, $360 for the floor, plus wood stove. I hear good things about the Caminus wood stove, but they're out of stock on the manufacturer's site. I think that in most conditions, you probably don't have to mess with any guy lines, but in high winds, I think the convenient pop-out walls can pop in, especially after many uses, as I imagine it softens up a bit with repeated use.
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  13. I don't think the walls pop the way I used to think.
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  14. Why don't you start at the top when you're knocking snow off your tent?
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  15. -34 C is about -30 F.
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  16. I used to ride my friend's old Massey-Ferguson snowmobile. Rope pull. We were never without a can of ether to spray down the throat of the carb.
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