It's Almost Time My Heaty Brothers and Sisters...

Here are the specs on the coal I'm getting in St.Mary's PA. He was cool enough to print them out for me

That's some good *censored* right there!

Thanks Smitty I'm hoping to keep warm this winter lol hopefully it will do the trick! It does seem to have some fines in it... I probably set up a little screening station in the basement. Thats what I had to do last winter when I got to the bottom of the pile.

So, I made my own fitting for my draft gauge out of stuff I had lying about.

I'm On Fire wrote:So, I made my own fitting for my draft gauge out of stuff I had lying about.

Wow, that looks like a Cadillac of a manometer hose assembly. Sweet!

Well, it was from the fuel pressure gauge that was in the Neon.

The copper line I used last season was from the oil pressure gauge that was in the Neon.

I'm kind of glad I didn't throw these copper and stainless steel lines away that I had from the car. They've definitely come in handy with the stove. Now if I could find a use for the boost gauge from the Neon. You think it could be used to measure draft on the stove? I keed I keed.

I love it! Recycling at it's best!

Here's a pic of the pipe all installed. I'm still hoping the stove drafts properly. I didn't have room on the pipe to fit the draft inducer.

I still have to seal the pipe at the stove opening and at the throat plate. I won't be officially firing the stove until the end of this month but I figured it'd be better to be ready than not.

American Ingenuity at it's best nice set up IOF

Got the stove all buttoned up last night. Having my first fire of the season.

Small Cowboy Charcoal fire. I wonder, does this count against the one match club?

I do hate how wood turns everything black. The glass is completely black now. I hate it.

That's a beautiful sight IOF, I especially love the coal bin.

That Rubbermaid container was the greatest unused discovery in my basement. It holds 300 pounds of nut and 400 pounds of pea.

I'm not lighting up the coal just yet. I'm gonna wait until November for that. This is just a small wood fire to take the edge off the house.

But I have noticed that the insulation job and window removal in the vicinity of my kitchen and daughter's new room this summer is helping. My daughter's room is 70° and the kitchen is 71° while my living room is 73°. I don't even have the ceiling fans on in the living room. My kitchen is never that warm. I'm so tempted to throw coal in.

Had a few small fires already, but the temps been too warm during the day to keep the stove going. A bit chilly the next few days, we'll see how long I could stretch this fire out. Had to crack every window today to keep from passing out...but much better to have it going than to deal with this damp weather!

I finally closed my windows last night.It's been nice and cool sleeping at night. I plan on firing up in 2 weeks after I cut all new fire bricks,I think I need 40 of them.I bought a 20 lb, bag of cowboy charcoal and that should last 4/5 years.

Knowing that the temp was dropping tonight I moved the stove off of idle and had it the stove equivalent of 1st. gear. I closed the upstairs windows that we had open and went to church. Walked into the house and got slapped in the face with 80 in the LR and 78 upstairs. Stove is cruising at 250 above the door. let the temps drop.

I'm ready!!!!!