Big wood fireplace for ambiance and gas for heat. This isn’t a home and without a dedicated operator for a wood heater it would be difficult to...
There are different types of bricks. Some are mixed with wax and sold at supermarkets for fireplace use, do not use those in your car stove. Some...
Good summary. I do believe that the thermostat helps to hide the cat failure at the beginning especially. I do notice that I need to use a higher...
Sure, 5 years if you only burn on weekends!
the site now has bk as a sponsor or bk in your shop?
I dump a bucket of drops in with my 11 chickens and it takes them about a week to eat them all. Now dropping in a big sack of spent, hot, sweet...
Did you believe him? He was pulling your leg. Unless he specified that after the leaves drop. Radio geeks have a pretty dry sense of humor! I...
I built one antennae for proof of concept and then bought a channel master antennae for like 40$. It’s in the attic and I’m about 40 miles away...
Just fed 15 gallons of drops to the cows!
I make lots of hard cider. I tried the fancy cider route but find it just as great to use tree top juice from Costco. Ferment to dry with...
Cut that sucker in half. They’re commercially cut at around 8# and that’s not an accident. I also trim off all of the fat cap or other fat...
After many years of double rows on pallets I’m moving to a woodshed. These rows are each about 1.25 cords and have sat there for 2-3 years waiting...
If I was to replace the lakos I would use the rusco. It’s pretty dependable and low cost. The lakos is a little too complicated. Both filters are...
The Rusco is a very common grit filter with a decent reputation but it’s only for very coarse grit/sand/rust scale. I use a lakos brand...
It’s not centered on the glass. Too much of the gasket is pulled towards the firebox to the point that it is barely pinched between the glass and...
The factory did a total crap job on the glass gasket. I wish I could just remove and reinstall it correctly.
No tubes in these cat stoves.
I’ll also add a data point for cat life from a full time burner, September to June. We get two years and maybe a little more before the cat is...
They sell “double” joist hangers. Four of those and then two regular hangers for the rafter. I really like my palm nailer to drive in the nails...
I would leave the rock off until the insurance company buys off on the fix. Then they own it. So glad you did not use 1x lumber.
