Cubic Mini Grizzly Wood Stove

Can you load those NS? Certainly would be safer! Good luck with the fix. That sucks.

 

Thanks! This current issue is quite minor.

This fall I fell into pretty serious congestive heart failure due to heart damage from prior heart attacks and a serious left bundle branch block.

In early December they implanted a biventricular pacemaker/ defibrillator and I’m doing much better now, though my stamina is shot.

 

I had two on the bottom NS then two on top EW. It’s the top two that did the damage. Should have known better...

 

I reassembled the broken glass in the door frame and cut out some steel (the bottom of an old rusty cake pan) and reassembled everything. It might not look like it but all the glass is there and held in the frame by the piece of steel I cut to fit.

I’m seriously considering covering all the glass in a layer of furnace cement before I use it.

Maybe it will hold til February 19 when the new door glass is scheduled to get here?

 

I found a tube of furnace cement/ fireplace mortar in the garage. Warning it up in front of the ceramic tower heater now. I’ll put a layer over the inside of the glass once it warms up.

 

Hello; looking great with all the stuff you have accomplished. Sorry to hear about the congestive heart failure. I do hope your health improves.

 

I replaced the door glass at the end of the season last winter. I’ve found average burn times to be around 2 1/2 hours, but it doesn’t hold hot cools very long, so I’m starting a lot of fires from scratch.

After about six months, the used Predator 212 motor I put on the log splitter wouldn’t start. Reading various forums and watching various videos, the most common problem on these Predator motors was carb related, probably due to ethanol in the gas. I ordered a replacement carb on Amazon for $13, put it on, and got a couple more months out of this Predator 212. It again gave up the ghost last month. Apparently they’re notorious for letting rainwater into the engine via the exhaust.

I found a used 6.5hp motor off a Dewalt pressure washer last month and swapped it for the Predator. It starts easily every time, but doesn’t have quite the power of the Predator so it stalls easily if the actuator lever is held just a moment too long with the hydraulic cylinder fully extended.

The Dewalt pressure washer had an electric start, powered by a Dewalt 20v battery. I only have Rigid 18v batteries but I found a cheap plastic mount on eBay that lets you adapt Rigid batteries for use in Dewalt tools. I put it in and was instantly able to start the new Dewalt engine with the electric start. So now I have an electric start log splitter. Awesome!

I do have to do a lot of extra cutting and splitting for this mini stove. Average size of the logs compared to my large hand:

 

Nice work - I bet splits that size dry pretty quick.

 

Nice stash! How much will you likely use for the season?

 

I’m burning all dead ash wood. Most of it was still standing so it’s already pretty dry. But yes, even the stuff I collected lying on the ground dries fast when it’s cut and split this small.

 

That’s probably 1 3/4 cord of wood. Of course when it’s cut and split this small, and piled in these totes, there’s not much space between these small pieces of wood compared to larger logs in stacks, so it may be more than that. I’ll use most of it this winter.

 

Along the lines of tiny stoves I recently came across one I had never seen before.

SMALL STOVE: The Dwarf 4kw - Tiny Wood Stove

Interesting couple who got that buss. up and running. BrianK I hope its ok that I posted that link in your thread? Figured you may find it interesting reading as a small stove user.

 

LOL! No problem, I linked to them earlier in the thread. I think when I replace my current Cubic Grizzly stove I’ll opt for the Tiny Wood Stove option instead, for the reasons I outlined in my earlier post.

 

Great set up. And Cool fat bike !!

 

Too bad you weren't near me. I would have given you a 12" Ryobi chop saw that I got for free. Last year when I was recovering from complete left rotator cuff reattachment surgery I needed to cut up a bunch of poles and brush. I set it up on a wooden box that I keep my little Kinetic electric splitter on. My wife fed the material into the saw and I just ran the saw 1 handed. Worked Great !
The extremely lively kick backs are caused from the keef pinching. I put a 1 by board on the deck of the saw on the left side. Worked great. The cutoff piece would droop and drop and no more kickbacks.

 

Thanks. It’s an e bike with a Bafang BBS02 mid motor. It was originally a “hunting” e bike, geared very low for slow off-road riding and pulling a trailer with game out of the woods. I swapped the front sprocket from 34tooth up to 46t then to 52t so I could use it at higher speeds on the road and rail trails, and had the top speed on the motor controller increased from 19 to 25mph. I also added a second battery in the pannier with parallel wiring to the original battery so it will actually go 60 miles without pedaling, more with pedaling.

Since I had multiple strokes I need the motor and hand throttle to get the bike moving, and get me back home when I hit the wall.

I got a pacemaker a year ago so I no longer have chf (congestive heart failure), but heart isn’t as strong as it was prior to the chf. Still, the farthest I’ve gone on it was 30 miles earlier this fall on a rail trail, on the lowest two assist levels of five, pedaling the whole time.

 

I learned quickly how to turn each branch so it doesn’t pinch. The only problem I still have is how to cut small side branches off small pieces of logs. They tend to fly once cut and they’ve hit my fingers twice fairly hard, hard enough to cause bruising or a blood blister. (I’m on two blood thinners so that’s common.)

 

Small cordless circular saw. Small limbs just zip right off.
I have a 6 1/2" , 20 v DeWalt. And my 18x2 , 7 1/4" framing saw. The little 20 volt is really handy for lots of things.

You said you have Rigid batteries. I know they make some cordless circular saws.

 

Yes, thanks. I have a 7 1/4” circular, a reciprocating and an oscillating Rigid 18v saw.