Years ago I found a hardened puddle of aluminum in the ash pan of the woodstove. ??? No clue where it came from but there was a fair amount of it, perhaps 5 or 6 oz. leaving a rough disc about 7 or 8 inches in diameter, enough to make a medium sized sauce pan. Again, ????? I never even suspected where it came from or what form it was in before it went into the fire (or should I call it the bauxite forge?)- wild guess maybe some heavy pieces of hinges or gate hardware or something similar. I most certainly did not throw an old pot or pan in the woodstove. Really, really strange.
Yep, genuine aluminum. Shiny silver, much lighter than lead in color and weight for instance and I have never had a wood stove that could smelt iron or steel.... well, at least not smelt those and continue to work.
Did someone throw an aluminum can in the fire when you werent looking? Seen similar in campfire pits.
Talk about finding things in the woodstove! Austrian woman’s wood stove explodes from WWII grenade hidden in firewood
I am the only one who uses the stove so I would think it was me who put anything found inside the stove in there in the first place. And it absolutely was not 'a can', it would have had to be 100 cans or more.... it was quite a bit of aluminum. I suppose it could have been my brother as 1) he likes to burn everything possible and some things not possible. He once found two steel rounded 'things' in his own stove and pondered for quite a while as to what they could be but eventually remembered they were the steel toes from the old boots he burned. Yeah, we mention that back and forth a lot and I call him Mr. Environment. or 2) I threw something in the stove with some heavy, thick pieces of Al. stuck or nailed to it. That is less likely because I really do pay attention to..... well, everything and it is unlikely a half- pound of Al. would slip past me. ??????? I would not let it go on knowing it was there 'cause there is no point, Al does not burn and so produces no heat. Honestly I have no idea how it got in there but it certainly was there, at the bottom and had smelted and poured down to get there. A big, flat blob of Al with some coals and even a few bits of actual wood sticking out of it. ??? Of course I have also found the same hardware that others mentioned but at least that stuff is understandable- nails, screws and a very occasional piece of hardware or piece of steel wire goes into the stove attached to wood. And I have burned quite a lot of scrap wood in the past although not for years now. But that cast puddle of Al was downright amazing!
I agree with most of your post, but the "Boondocks of the Dakotas", I will politely take issue with. Out here in Dakotah Territory we are very happy to take the statue despite the ignorance that sent it our way to the Great State of North Dakota. My grandfather was one of the engineers who designed the national park.
It was meant as a comparison to the sheer population numbers of NYC in comparison, nothing beyond that—certainly nothing derogatory. 8 million people alone live in NYC vs not even one million in all of N. Dakota. Over 30 years ago I lived in Manhattan on the upper west side for a short time and the MoNH and the TR statue was a mere 6 blocks away. I walked past it countless times and visited the museum many other times. It’s huge and one visit is not enough to see everything. But what is New York’s loss is your gain. Congratulations. At least it will be appreciated in its new home.
Nope. Its copper. Itll slice right through it and i wouldbnt even know it. Any non ferrous for that matter.
Interesting…. I actually thought it would bind up in the sprocket. I pulled a plastic grocery bag into the sprocket on a call once. Bound up the saw bad. Took about an hour to get it all out. That’s what I was envisioning.
Ive sliced right through it. That particular split the axe found it. Never have bound the saw up with foreign stuff...just noodles.
