Am I The Only One That Thinks This Is A Scary Rig?

How u load it?

 

It's a side loader, two cast iron doors on the side. Big door on top and there is a smaller one on the bottom for the ash pan. I have burned it for a month without having to let it go out. I removed all the original tags then stripped the outer cabinet paint in my shop and repainted it with high heat Black Paint. It looks like a NOS 1985 stove. The picture is not too good.

 

I have burned my stove close to 3 months never going out. Or do u mean never having g it coal up? I have removes ashes with a full bed of coals.

 

Not sure what you mean, I just pull the pan and empty it, there are very few coals in the pan, the bed of coals stays above the grate.

 

I am trying g to say I dont let my stove go out clean it...just shovel the ash out and reload on the coals that I leave.

I have an ash pan but dont use it...its a pain.

 

Oh I see. With my WoodChief, I can clean out my ashes while the firebox is loaded with the wood in the firebox burning strong, don't have to mess with a shovel, coals and a bucket. I guess what ever you get accustomed to is fine. Burn On.

 

How do you go about leaving enough coals behind to re-kindle the next fire while cleaning out the ashes? I've tried a bunch of different methods including custom made coal shovels made out of various sizes of mesh but between the coals, charcoal, and fine ash I can never seem to get it to work out right.

 

I just use a normal shovel. My stove burns front to back. So if I wait long enough the front is powder and back is coals. I scoop the front then scoop n kind of sift the back. The coals fall off usually. I still get coals in the bucket but get at least 50-60% of the ash out. I have even done it with a really hot stove. You dont get as much ash and get lots more coals but when its cold I can't wait the 15 hours or so to let it cool down that much to get mostly ash.

I sometimes out some kindling in there like small splits I r split and sometimes a fat liter chunk. Use a match to burst it into flames but not anything g like starting a fire from cold. If it was the hotter ash removal I just rake coals and toss in the wood.

 

I would agree with that with the emphasis on "if you know what you are doing. Thick barrels and sand in the bottom help them last longer.
Cant use one here in Iowa (insurance company says) even in the shop as it has to be a manufactured stove with the UL rating.

 

Your buddy had a chestnut in his yard?

 

There still a few around barf. Butaybe he was talking a chinese chestnut or chestnut oak?

 

I know, that's why I was wondering. It'd be cool to have a survivor in the yard

But good point, maybe another "chestnut" something or other

 

Thats a chestnut of some sort.

Chestnut oak doesnt have the same prickly not thing. But American chestnut and chinese are close, I just dont remember the difference cause if I see one its a chinese cause pretty much all americans are stump sprouts.

 

Chestnut blight killed almost all american chestnuts in the 20th century. There are still some around, but generally they don't get very old before succumbing to the blight. Some sprout from old stumps

 

B light kills the tree down to the ground level not the roots. Barf is right. I would bet you my saw that is a chinese chestnut you have. If out were an american and it was in a yard I can promise you the american chestnut foundation would have been beating your door down for seed. Someone would of sent its location in I bet, unless its way hidden from a road.

The small sprouts are not susceptible to it as the spores from the blogs can't get through the tight bark. Once the tree edges and the bark furrows and splits the spore can get I to the cambium and it kills the tree back. They usually made killed prior to bearing seed/fruit.

 

When I saw the setup he had I really thought it was a joke. So many things wrong and akward with his setup to take seriously.