I guess this is sort of wood pile related. A little background. When I first put the chimney in this house, I took out a window and installed 2 metal plates. There's 6 pcs of threaded rod welded onto one of them, they pass through the other plate, and there's nuts on the inside to sandwich the whole thing into place. First came the chimney. I then made up a fresh air intake. That's the first pipe on the left. Then I put in the outside pipe on the left to run my ham radio cables through. I've since moved them, so I made up an adapter so I can put the exhaust of my shop vac out through it. Now...drum roll please.....I put in the final piece. The little door to pass wood through into the house. I'm so sick and tired of carrying wood in plastic totes through the house, then downstairs. It's messy, it's hard on my back, it's hard on my ears (think wife + mess = nagging)...just a pain all around. First, I cut the plate to size - 11" x 11". Then I welded the hinges onto the plate and made spacers for under the other part of the hinges so the whole thing sits flat. The latch is spring loaded so it'll always maintain pressure against the weather strip I'm going to put in there. The hole is cut 10" x 10" so there's a half inch overlap all the way around. The wedge that the handle rides up on makes sure there's always pressure on the spring. Unfortunately, I can't test it yet because the hole on the inside plate isn't cut yet. I have to do that from inside with a grinder and zip disks. The lady of the house has a super sensitive nose, so I'm going to wait until she's at work Wednesday morning before starting. Hopefully the grinding stink will be out of the house by the time she gets home. The wood tent/shed thing is 4 ft from the opening, and my wood rack inside...you don't even have to move your feet to take a piece from the door to the rack. This is going to make life SO much easier on junior and I. Picture time.
No ?!!?? Got a link ?!?! I was thinking that I should build some kind of chute, but the door is so close to the rack, I don't think it's really necessary.
Pull the plug on the bottom and climb up on the roof with the wire brush and fiberglass sticks. Last winter was the first winter I did most of my heating with wood. I climbed up there 3 times and the thing was whistle clean each time. I could hold the residue from the entire season's burning in one hand. Dry pine/spruce and hot fires.
I can't get on my roof it's metal but my clean out is up further so all I do is pull the plug and clean from the bottom up....
Nice job!! for future projects the welding supply i use has real nice weld on tube like hinges water cant get in them [eg no rusting] they have a pin on one side and a socket on other I have used them on many machine doors and other projects they are in different sizes Keen welding supply in PA and Delaware stocks them JB
Man that is slick, nice job!! Quick question on cleaning a chimney or liner. I will be cleaning it from the roof on down with a sooteater or something similar. Should there be any creosote does that get pushed down into the stove/insert? Where does it go? Hopefully there is not much if anything there when I clean it if my wood is properly seasoned but playing devils advocate here. Thanks in advance fella's!!!!
If you have a straight up from the stove chimney - on top of the baffle if you have a baffle - which is why you take the baffle out. Carefully . I have a chimney that goes up three feet and then over three feet and have disassemble all of that. Most of my soot is in that horizontal section so it is handled gingerly and not tipped so I don't get it all over .
Probly identical to mine.....itll be in your owners manual. On mine ....there 3 secondary tubes..each tube has a stainless cotter pin that needs removed...then you can slide tubes to the right a little b theyll come out. You only need to remove the front n middle tubes to get baffle board out. Small angle iron in the front that holds baffle...simply pic up n slide angle iron toward the front n turn n it will come out. Baffle board has insulation on top of it with a round weight to hold it against the board....you will see chimney then..
