That may have happened… Yes she likes it warm! Complete opposite of me. yep! With no real way to tell beforehand, it completely broke my heart to see the figure in that wood after it was already bucked and split. I would have turned the whole of it into planks. Makes nice heat though!
Is this a trick question? Joking of course... Anywhere on the stove top will work, just don't try to pick them up without gloves.
Barcroftb, are you finding you like east west better then north south, I tried E-W one day but with only a few coals and it took forever to get the fire going well, I put the andirons in a few days ago and discovered it reduces the length of the splits loading N-S and my wood was too long so removed them.
Ha, glad you noticed the question. Obviously it is in your boots after being warmed up. I noticed how it read but decided to keep it that way. I haven’t put it on top b/c I thought it could scratch. I was putting it on the ash shelf but they get in the way when cleaning up ash. One bit of note, my teenage daughter was having cramps, I put the heated soapstone on her stomach and now she won’t shut up about them.
I have a great coal rake that my chimney guy gives his customers. So simple, but perfect. What y'all using for a coal rake ??
Thanks for posting the vid oldspark. After starting the vid, I realize I had started this vid before but didn't watch it all, due to the bad soap opera or Mr Roger's field trip vib. But I will watch it all the way through this time..
Well I would say the verdict is out still. I bet it will take me the rest of the season to settle on a standard. I can say this if I have very few coals or a cold stove I use that “log cabin” style loading method to start a fire blazing quick. So north/south on the bottom then east/west and another north/south on top. Even with few hot coals opening the ash door on that will have the fire going in under 15-20 minutes. With lots of hot coals or if I had to add logs because I needed leave before the fire was burned down good I like to rake the coals into the center of the stove and place 2 north/south splits to either side. It allows room for those two extra splits and helps burn those coals up at the same time. For a cold fire I stack the same log cabin but follow the top down fire starting procedure. I believe Tom has a video of that on the Woodstock website.
That looks just like the one I started using when I was a little boy (if I could take a break from playing with my dinosaur).
