Pushing your ashes Back

I can't believe your still awake after that maple today. I'd be dead tired.

 

And I'd just be dead.

 

I did that yesterday, and not much of anything else.

 

The winning answer is Papadave, you win an all expense trip paid to your house with all you can eat food in your fridge with a warm stove
to boot (if you loaded it)

By pushing those ashes/coals back then pull the hot coals forward every time you reload you take the air out of the ashes and increase the time you can go before having to empty your stove.

 

Not sure this will help but I bought a TSC spring sale special for $150 bucks at the local TSC in the spring of 2005 or '06. Can't remember for sure as I moth balled it for a few years before I used it at all. One of those what the hell impulse buy deals figuring some other schmuck would pay that for it down the road or at least carry it out for free.

It is obviously a pre EPA stove but does have the metal box center of the floor rear of the stove covering an air inlet and this "dog house" stands vertically and replaces the rear wall center fire brick. Same size as the typical 4.5" x 9" inch fire bricks. The air slot is at the seam of the floor and the back wall center of stove. It lays flush on the floor standing upright like the back fire bricks and covers an air slot in the rear of the stove to let in air, and keep ash and embers from getting out.

In the manual it is referred to as a back air intake. It has numerous 1/4" round holes in the metal to let air into the firebox from the slot below. Nothing like fresh warm room air to fuel the fire. I could weld on a real OAK type deal and seal it but it is in a wood shop. Not too concerned about that and it may be getting re-gifted anyway. Rarely use it as I have other heat sources out there. More of a novelty to see fire.

Sorry, the little stove is a USSC Acorn/1851B 1.5 cu ft box. Keeps the arms tuned up when used quickly reloading. It is actually made by SBI and has some Drolet instructions in the manual and a Drolet blower. Or it was some type of joint venture...... No idea. That's about all I know about the little stove. But point being if you had some type of "dog house" you should easily spot it inside the fire box or see some perforation on your box for air intake.

I'm not very hip to the newer EPA stoves but am reading and looking. Being a Drolet Durango I'd say they stay fairly true to form but the pre and post EPA changed things.