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What a spot of luck! I tend to work with a Lot of 9" planks. Often generating stupid little off cuts that are no good to man or beast. In fact, having got a chop saw, last year, I spent some quality time and effort slicing them into little sticks, three or four inches long, which I'd build into a little tower, inside my stove. Drop a fire lighter inside it and there's the makings of getting the thing lit.

Well, the damn thing sneaked out today. My fault. Got up too late. Seeing I didn't have enough sticks, I went down the shed. Grabbed the wrong bag though and found myself with half a sack of general wood. On top of which was a load of uncut, 9" off cuts?

Guess what? Offered one to my empty little stove. Fukker fitted, width wise, perfectly! Stuck one in, front to back ....? :icon_eek: Muvva Fukka!!!

All these years, fukking around with 9" off cuts. Beavering away to make them 'useful' to my stove? What a kunt! Never fukking saw that, did I?!

Happy days! :D

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9 minutes ago, sid g said:

wtf are you like , saying that i can fit bigger stuff in my fire than i thought simply  found out by not be arsed to cut logs up ,,, 

Ah right.... I wondered what it was all.about.... lol

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Sid; The sad but brutally simple fact is ... I light that fukker once a year. I keep it burning, 24 / 7, all winter.

You ever stopped and thought about a burning stove? " I wonder how big it is, in there? " Not a fukking lot to be done, in honesty!

Of course, comes the summer? Stove's the last thing on my mind! I never once put two and two together at the optimum time ?

Today, the planets just aligned. Now since slung a load of scrap wood in there. Went past the trombones in the blink of an eye!

I wish I had a kid, so I could pass onto them such little tips, which they'd remember and use all their lives. But, then, on reflection? I'm so fukking thick it's probably for the best that I never did pass on these genes!

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  • 4 years later...

I had the same issue with inconsistent sizes before, so now I always keep a ruler in my kit to double-check new ones before buying more. Saves hassle down the line. Some batches are spot on, others seem to shrink in the wash faster than expected. The ruler keeps it simple and helps make sure replacements match the ones that work.

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