Colder here. What's your temp? What ya burnin?

Who needs a midlife crisis when you can have a midlife crisis in denial! Thats how that works right?

We better go up a few degrees so I can start my van it wouldn't turn over this morning AGAIN! I reallllllly need to get work to let me stick a block heater in it.... Theres some people counting on me todayMy wifes heat blanket is on the starter vacinity right now No Joke...

 

I saw somewhere where people where stacking bricks up to the top and adding a baffle that made it much more efficient but for the life of me I cant remember who did that.
WeldrDave might remember maybe it was coaly?

It was a pretty neat little trick that gave out more heat and better burns.

 

She went to work at 7am and even in the garage the car banged into cold life. She had to warm it up for 15 minutes... Thats usually a sign winter is in full force around here. Unfortunately the van has to sit outside because my truck is locked away most of the winter in the garage so it can stay out of the salt and cold winds.

Its how I can use the heat blanket and not get yelled at till later.

 

I do not think that is an actual temperature. Maybe a wind chill but that just tries to make the temperature sound bad...

 

Methinks it is a safe bet to say that most of us are into winter now.

 

Still has to go some to reach -40 or lower! But you and I both know it very well can do that, but usually in January.

 

I’m not sure the article didn’t specify but I’m betting it was wind chill.

 

Wow the van started! Very hard but it started! Thank god for Walmart heat blankets

 

If you have a Fisher, "which" he doesn't sadly, you could stack fire brick up on the lower brick. It was a "easy" thing to do instead of welding in angle iron on the sides and setting in a piece of steel. Pete, you were right, it was Coaly! I believe he did it first. I welded the pieces in on the sides and set the baffle on it. I'm not to sure if he can do it with the earth stove? I've never seen the inside of one and only seen one in a antique here locally "which" they burn all winter long! , Sorry can't be of much help. I do know that when bricks were stacked it worked fairly well unless you had a thin 1/4" or less plate and it warped, then the bricks would fall. You need a minumum of 3/8" for a good baffle.

 

The Theory from what little I've read on them is it was to create a better pull into the chimney. There were many "copycats" of the original Fisher design and the only one that was the closest was the Kodiak stove, By Alaska stove works. The all nighters, big moes, Timberline, and several more. All served the purpose, some better than others and they were all trying to get into the wood stove market back in the late 70's and early 80's. EPA came into play and slaughtered most of them financially, even Fisher took a major hit!