The dogs of OPEforum

[Hinerman]

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Old Simon...in his prime
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His last night with us. Made it to 16.5 years. Hell of a run for a hell of a dog.

Good looking dog; half lab, half pit?

 

[tallgrass_coyote]

Good looking dog; half lab, half pit?

Yep. Friend of a friend was breeding pits. Good rednose mom. The lab-ish mutt next door jumped the fence and beat out the stud. Best 40 bucks I ever spent. Leaving some big shoes to fill.

 

[Woodtroll]

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Old Simon...in his prime
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His last night with us. Made it to 16.5 years. Hell of a run for a hell of a dog.

I'm sorry about that. Losing a canine friend is heartbreaking.

 

[They call me Mr. Kibbs]

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Old Simon...in his prime
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His last night with us. Made it to 16.5 years. Hell of a run for a hell of a dog.

Sorry to hear that. Have been lucky enough to have had 3 best friends go to 14 / 15 years. Obviously cannot speak for you, but I always have to take several months before getting another one...not sure why, just do

 

[kingOFgEEEks]

Teddy keeps on growing! He's now over 40 pounds at only 6 months old.

 

[Wilhelm]

Pupper wanting her Sunday walk, adamant about it really!


Tried the coat I got for her, again.
N O P E ! ! !





She just freezes, won't move, looks as if she is about to fall over.
Same thing happens when I place a chest harness on her.
Collar she is perfectly fine with.

 

[Wilhelm]

All natural it is then my little one!

Snow up to her chest, she kept head diving into & plowing through the snow for 2 1/2 hours.

 

[Wilhelm]

Pupper got herself a facial on our walk.
She had to wait in the shop for me to warm up some water so I can clean her before going into the house.

 

[Maintenance Chief]

Frank's always ready to ride!

 

[Wilhelm]

View attachment 476116Frank's always ready to ride!

My pup likes car rides too, a bit different though - she insists to be behind the wheel, head out the driver side window.

It is kinda impossible to take a selfie doing it.
This is my sister giving my pupper a ride.

 

[Maintenance Chief]

My pup likes car rides too, a bit different though - she insists to be behind the wheel, head out the driver side window.

It is kinda impossible to take a selfie doing it.
This is my sister giving my pupper a ride.
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Frank would like to be in my lap.

 

[Wilhelm]

Frank would like to be in my lap.

Then let him!
He don't know his size, in his mind he is Your puppy.

 

[Wilhelm]

She digs holes narrow & deep, then gets angry at the hole for getting stuck with her chest.
She did get the mouse though!

 

[Maintenance Chief]

seriously thoughts! Haha

 

[Woodtroll]

The pup is enjoying her woodstove time during our frigid spell. 6 degrees F right now and the wind is howling! She's a smart dog...

 

[Wilhelm]

My Queen loves contact!




She is asleep & mildly snoring in the second picture.

 

[Hinerman]

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The pup is enjoying her woodstove time during our frigid spell. 6 degrees F right now and the wind is howling! She's a smart dog...

Cool looking stove...

 

[Woodtroll]

Cool looking stove...

Thanks. It's a good solid old-school stove. It will take up to a 30" stick of wood and will hold fire (down to coals, anyway) for 36 hours if I set it up right. My dad worked in a machine shop, and in 1977 he asked the shop owner if he could build a stove. The owner said yes, if he would build him one too. So my dad and grandfather built three of these; I was 13 then so I helped where I could. The doors were cast in a local foundry in Roanoke, VA, as a lot for some manufacturer but the rest was hand built out of 1/2" steel plate except for the apron and the angle iron legs. With the firebrick liner we think it weighs about 600-650 pounds.

Dad passed away a year ago but his stove is still keeping Mom warm; my brothers and I keep her well-supplied with dry, smaller splits of wood but she feeds it herself. My grandfather moved into a house that wouldn't take this stove in 1986, right after I was married, and so I got it and it's been keeping my wife and I warm for just under 40 years. Ironically enough, we live in the house my great-grandfather built and my grandfather lived in until he was 16; he slept in the corner right next to where this stove sits. I have no idea what happened to the third stove.

 

[Wilhelm]

Cool looking stove...

I was thinking the same!

I have two of these, one "first & only owner" bought some 30ish years ago & repacked once just to get new sealant in between the individual parts.
The other one I bought "burnt out & in need of a overhaul", it needed new internal shields.
The latter is this one in my tiny shop!
Fully cast iron, no bricks, no steel other than bolts & nuts.
Once hot it'll burn dripping wet rotten wood & bark (short chimney pipe helps a lot with that!).