The perfect Christmas present

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In the new SeaRay online magazine, there is a special offer from Shurhold for their buffer...with a case and pads and various what not, including shipping, for about $140. I bought one and am giving it to my three college age kids for Christmas...

Go me!
 
Greeat idea, Dad. If I gave it to my kids, it would be on Craigs List December 26th. Tell us how it works out.

Don
 
JediJD - You'd have gotten along well with my dad. He gave me a Poulan chainsaw for Christmas when I was 13. (we burned 100% wood to heat our house when I was a kid) Remind your kids how lucky they are it is a buffer!
 
Masterful,
Tell them a shiny boat is a chick magnet so they will be anxious to polish it up. Then when they ask to use the boat to entertain said chicks, you say fine as long as they fill it up with fuel and they have to pay cash!:smt043
 
Stray Cat said:
He gave me a Poulan chainsaw for Christmas when I was 13. (we burned 100% wood to heat our house when I was a kid) Remind your kids how lucky they are it is a buffer!
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Same with us(we heated 100% with wood), but my saws were homelite(pig slow cutting compared to my current chainsaws (Jonsared/husqvarna) back then. Some of my fondest memories are from out in the backwoods cutting down trees and such in the winter (for the following year) so we didn't have to worry/deal with mud and wetland areas. We cut about 8 cord per year - sometimes 4-8 cord more and we'd sell it to cover costs. After the wood was cut, split and stacked, we had the rest of the winter to snowmobile, play hockey, dig snow caves, ice fish, etc.
 
Stray Cat said:
He gave me a Poulan chainsaw for Christmas when I was 13. (we burned 100% wood to heat our house when I was a kid) Remind your kids how lucky they are it is a buffer!
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VTSeaRay said:
Same with us(we heated 100% with wood), but my saws were homelite(pig slow cutting compared to my current chainsaws (Jonsared/husqvarna) back then. Some of my fondest memories are from out in the backwoods cutting down trees and such in the winter (for the following year)
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Ok, so I grew up that way too, and still do heat my home 95% with wood (oil furnace backup when the fire dies out!). I have two young daughters....never thought, until now, about buyin them each a chainsaw in a couple years! Though my oldest is now a pro at running the log splitter lever. :smt001

Tom
 
AKBASSKING said:
Has anyone tried the wood stoves that burn the wood pellets?

Christmas present: 50 bags of pellets or 10 cords of chopped, stacked wood......
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I have had a pellet stove for 15 years now. We bought it for the basement to warm the air down there. Plus as the warm air rose so did the temp upstairs. House is about 2000sf.
 
AKBASSKING said:
Better than a regular wood stove?
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Not sure if it is better than a wood stove. Easier for sure. Go buy the bag. Lift it to fill the hopper and lit it. Clean it out and do it again.
My son used to live in upstate NY in a small farming town where his mom and I grew up. Plenty cold and snow. He bought a corn stove. When he first got it cost wise it was very nice. Then Ethanol came along and the price of corn went up. Heat from the corn and the clean were super.
I think if you have access to wood and you really don't mind chopping wood then the wood stove. If not Pellet or corn will work fine.
 
The box arrived today from Shurhold...and the only thing I could think to make the gift perfecter-was to give it to the kids to wrap.

Christmas afternoon I'll let 'em know they can leave it on the dock so it will be handy for them.
 
AKBASSKING said:
Has anyone tried the wood stoves that burn the wood pellets?

Christmas present: 50 bags of pellets or 10 cords of chopped, stacked wood......
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I have had both a wood stove and a pellet stove. I currently have a pellet stove, and have for about 10 years. I didn't have a place to cut my own firewood, so I had to buy it. So for me, it was a trade off....I had to buy either wood or pellets. The pellet stove is so much easier and cleaner burning. I dump a 40 lb. bag of pellets in the hopper, turn it on (mine has an electronic igniter) and in about 8 minutes, I have a fire.
 
JediJD said:
The box arrived today from Shurhold...and the only thing I could think to make the gift perfecter-was to give it to the kids to wrap.

Christmas afternoon I'll let 'em know they can leave it on the dock so it will be handy for them.
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Are you sure you want to turn your kids loose on your boat with a buffer?:smt043:smt043
 
JediJD said:
In the new SeaRay online magazine, there is a special offer from Shurhold for their buffer...with a case and pads and various what not, including shipping, for about $140. I bought one and am giving it to my three college age kids for Christmas...

Go me!
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Do you have a link to this special. I was waiting till spring to buy from them but at that price I might jump at the opportunity now
 
Gunn said:
Ok, so I grew up that way too, and still do heat my home 95% with wood (oil furnace backup when the fire dies out!). I have two young daughters....never thought, until now, about buyin them each a chainsaw in a couple years! Though my oldest is now a pro at running the log splitter lever. :smt001

Tom
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Yeah, my parents converted a few yrs ago to wood pellets. After I left home, they'd converted from wood to coal. But they found coal dust dirty. They did like the longevity of it's burn over wood though. The pellets feed in automatically, so this allows them to last a long time between load/cleanouts.

Wood cutting is hard work, I heated that way for the first 10 yrs of my first home. I hope to never do that again. I have natural gas now.

I think I started working in the wood lots when I was maybe 11 or 12 (started out just stacking), and did it, till I was about 18 or so.
 
Bottom Line said:
Are you sure you want to turn your kids loose on your boat with a buffer?:smt043:smt043
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I'm thinking that my job will be supervisory in nature and that their experience will be enhanced if Dad is admiring their efforts while enjoying a Cohiba and a Nauti Mojito. <g>
 
"Gee Dad. Don't know what happened - it just fell off the dock into the lake."
 
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