Surdiac Bird Cage

Woke up this morning, and the wife tells me there's a bird in our coal stove.The little booger actually came down about 18' of 6" metalbestous chimney pipe, took a 90* turn thru the cleanout Tee, another 4-5' of horizontal pipe, past the heat exchanger, into the fire box. 15' in front of the stove was the front door. So I opened it, then the coal door, and the little fellow flew right out. Now I've wrapped the chimney cap with chicken wire. Who'ld've thunk?

joeq wrote:Woke up this morning, and the wife tells me there's a bird in our coal stove.The little booger actually came down about 18' of 6" metalbestous chimney pipe, took a 90* turn thru the cleanout Tee, another 4-5' of horizontal pipe, past the heat exchanger, into the fire box. 15' in front of the stove was the front door. So I opened it, then the coal door, and the little fellow flew right out. Now I've wrapped the chimney cap with chicken wire. Who'ld've thunk?

You've got a bird speleologist!

dj

Maybe it was a coal mining Canary? Just trying to get back home

dlj wrote:

joeq wrote:Woke up this morning, and the wife tells me there's a bird in our coal stove.The little booger actually came down about 18' of 6" metalbestous chimney pipe, took a 90* turn thru the cleanout Tee, another 4-5' of horizontal pipe, past the heat exchanger, into the fire box. 15' in front of the stove was the front door. So I opened it, then the coal door, and the little fellow flew right out. Now I've wrapped the chimney cap with chicken wire. Who'ld've thunk?

You've got a bird speleologist!

dj

A speleo....what? Have to look that one up in my Funken Wagnals

Spelunker...
http://members.socket.net/~joschaper/wspelunk.html

CapeCoaler wrote:Spelunker...
http://members.socket.net/~joschaper/wspelunk.html

After reading that article, I'm probably on a "lower level", knowledge wise, than the bird I freed. Thanx for teaching me the word "humble", yet one more time.