Ordered a wood burner

[taiwan_girl]

@George-K said in Ordered a wood burner:

@bachophile Crocs...

Maybe this is somewhat interesting, but my understand is that crocs were developed by the Swedish(?) military for use during river crossings.

[Jolly]

@George-K said in Ordered a wood burner:

@bachophile Crocs...

Probably wears the solid-tied versions in surgery.

Or cowboy boots.

[bachophile]

@Jolly I used to wear plastic clogs, not crocs. Too many holes. Now just new balance sneakers which I don’t mind if they get dirty with gunk.

Crocs are for going outside in the garden or anywhere short distance so I don’t need to tie any laces.

[Axtremus]

@Klaus , it looks nice installed. Does the stove draw fresh air from the house or is there an air in-take pipe behind the stove that's not shown in the pictures?

[Jolly]

I've seen several surgeons wear solid toe Crocs.

And I've seen several wear cowboy boots. The guys who wear the boots claim it helps keep their back from hurting.

[George K]

@Jolly said in Ordered a wood burner:

I've seen several surgeons wear solid toe Crocs.

A couple of guys I worked with used to wear 'em as well. For about a year, I tried, and then gave up. Mine were the open-air version, since my feet (usually) didn't come in contact with bodily fluids. That would have been my hands.

I just found them uncomfortable, and went back to wearing regular plastic/rubber clogs.

[Klaus]

@Axtremus said in Ordered a wood burner:

Does the stove draw fresh air from the house or is there an air in-take pipe behind the stove that's not shown in the pictures?

The latter. It's almost completely isolated from the air in the house. Otherwise there would be all kinds of issues with both kitchen exhaust hood and the house ventilation system (danger of negative pressure, which would pull the smoke into the house) and all kinds of sensors would have to be installed to make sure that doesn't happen.

[Klaus]

@bachophile said in Ordered a wood burner:

We have it on a brick platform to keep it up from the wood parquet

Luckily our wood is fake wood which is actually ceramic floor tiles.

[Jolly]

@George-K said in Ordered a wood burner:

@Jolly said in Ordered a wood burner:

I've seen several surgeons wear solid toe Crocs.

A couple of guys I worked with used to wear 'em as well. For about a year, I tried, and then gave up. Mine were the open-air version, since my feet (usually) didn't come in contact with bodily fluids. That would have been my hands.

I just found them uncomfortable, and went back to wearing regular plastic/rubber clogs.

In my neck of the woods, open-air was verboten by INFCON, hospital wide.

True story...We had a surgery resident who could have been a poster for the Marlboro Man. West Texas as a tumbleweed, he was tall, dark, with striking Paul Newman eyes. Women chased him all over the hospital.

Most of the time, you'd see him in boots, but occasionally he'd have on a pair of Nike cross-trainers. They were remodeling surgery, so for several months surgery was in the old pedi wing, which was adjacent to the lab. We got used to seeing the residents a lot more, as they'd pass through checking on results or path reports. This particular doc was a favorite, since he was an outdoorsman and fit in really well in our place, which was majority male (that's kinda unusual for a hospital department). We always had a hot pot of coffee and he'd sometimes stop by for a couple of minutes for a jolt.

It was one winter Sunday morning somewhere around 0630. We'd stuck the inpatients and the centrifuges were humming as we were stealing a cup of coffee before firing up the morning run. Dr. W came strolling through the back door and you could hear his Nike shoes squishing with every step. He still had his booties on and you could see the blood inside of them. He'd been working on a GSW for most of the early morning and he looked like he had been dragged through a keyhole backwards.

He flopped down in a torn, green vinyl chair and told the room, "Fellers, I'm so tired I feel like a mashed cat. Could y'all spare a man a cup of coffee, black and bitter?".

As I handed him a big Styrofoam cup of what looked like used 30 weight, he looked down at his shoes and I heard him mutter, "Goddammit, I knew I shoulda worn boots".

[bachophile]

Soooo, I went yesterday to see about getting wood for the winter and to my surprise the Ukraine war has caught up with me personally. I’ve mentioned that I usually burn European oak which is imported here, but it turns out the biggest exporter of European oak firewood is….Ukraine. And all shipments have stopped.

So I took home this time home grown olive wood and peach wood. I’ll have to get more but I’m not overly pleased. The olive is from the root, super hard and therefore harder to split into smaller pieces. It burns well but u need a hot stove to get it going. So the idea is use the peach to get the stove started and throw in a hunk of olive.

Damn sumbitch putin.

[Jolly]

If you lived a bit closer, I'd let you borrow mine.

Shame about the peach, it makes good cooking wood for the smoker (I do mix it with some oak, though).