I have come to the conclusion that the Ideal Steel very much likes to eat 3-year old hickory. I was keeping a stash of it for extra-cold nights...
The Ideal Steel is destroying my 2010 tube stove, and the real kick in the testicles is that the Ideal cost less than the tube stove. It's doing...
The Ideal Steel is kicking @$$ so far. They key has been to give it a full load, engage the cat when flue temps have breached 500, let the cat get...
Whoa! My Ideal Steel is doing something that is either really cool or really scary depending on what is happening. I loaded her full up at 5:00 AM...
My buddy is a small engine mechanic and he swears by Honda Quads. You can find some decent, used quads at 2500.00, but they will likely be older....
The stove is a Pelletmaster Titan 3000....no winners on this round, so I get to have the beer...:drunk::cheers:
Oh, this is bad. In my 1993 Grand Cherokee, I heard the serpentine belt snap and almost immediately lost power steering. I pulled over, had it...
Here is the JANKA scale. Note that hickory is the hardest domestic flooring. There are exotics which are tougher, however, they tend to be very...
I read somewhere that a new cat for the Ideal Steel is $125.00? Heck, that that price, I'll buy three of them and have them sitting in storage....
Howdy: I redid my floors with hardwood and conducted an exhaustive review of available brands, species etc. Here we go: 1. Your subfloor must be...
Ah my favorite, sharpening knives. I had the Lansky Diamond system and it was as useless as boobs on a bull. The Spyderco was similarly useless....
The Rutland glass cleaner works pretty well. If the glass is really dirty, remove the door from the hinges and lay it on a work bench etc so it is...
Any time is a good time for ravioli.
There are a number of products out there that will help, assuming that crud is your issue. Like people, cars slow down as they get older and short...
Simply flipping awesome.....
Brian, Thanks for your note. You have the Tjernlund AD1.....it will not work on my setup as I have double wall stove pipe and the AD1 is...
Smoke spillage on reload is proving to be a real pain in the @$$. My chimney is double wall insulated stainless, strong draft and nothing helps....
Here is the instruction manual for the Ideal. More information is needed to ascertain if what you are doing will work. At first glance, the...
Pellet stove, however, here's a clue: the manufacturer claimed it could burn cherry pits, corn and walnut hulls as cleanly as pellets.
They were mind-blowing.
