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Yeah you've got a good point there! I probably would've wrapped myself around one of the apple trees .... I tend to have a heavy .. thumb .. on this thing. Plus the brakes were designed for maybe 2k lbs on a good day ...

Whelp ... We couldn't take it any longer. 2 days ago, house was 72° ... just 12 hours later on Sunday morning it had dropped to 64° (got down in the 40's that night). This morning, it was 61° (38° out).

So I threw the coils, grates, firebrick, doors & pipe on and lit up. Same deal every damn season ..... what should take 10 minutes takes all friggin' day, fixing leaks in that damned elbow I made for the coils! I must've been in and out, up & down these damn stairs 100x today. Hook everything up, load up with Ultra Copper, turn water on, sprays everywhere. Go out to barn, re-solder, come back in, now won't line up! Go back out, reaheat, move into position, now it leaks again!!! Every F'ing year I go through this *censored*!! It's got a slow drip now. The hell with it.

At leas the house is getting warm .... only, I ain't burnin' coal .....

It's amazing how much warmth was contained in the decking of the back section of my barn!

But, with wood I've forgotten how much work it is to put the heat out. I lit up around 15:00 .... and as of right now I've loaded it up 3 times already!

SMITTY wrote:At leas the house is getting warm .... only, I ain't burnin' coal .....

HAHAHA I thought you were gonna say asphalt shingles or ...tires

After reading the lighting up thread I killed the fir 4x4 stock I was saving for bench legs I'll never build Started with cardboard and encouraged with a splash of paint thinner Threw some oak firewood on it and baked.

I have a crawlspace under the living area, really thinking of putting a schnorkel in. I could run a length of 8" duct to the ceiling at the stove, put in a duct fan, and dump my excess heat into the crawlspace! That would warm the floors. Might invite critters in though.
Also thought of putting in a return grate and ductwork right at the foot of the stove, hook up an exhaust fan, and turn it on when I take out the ash. All my fly ash problems occur when I take out the ash.

SMITTY wrote:At least the house is getting warm ....

I thought you were going to say it was all the BTU's you gave off from 100 freakin' trips up & down the stairs!

Yeah I suppose that added to it.

If only I could fit a tire in there ...... ... just need a good saw ..... maybe I can rebuild the old original Harbor Freight Chicago Electric sawzall I bought in Phoneix back in '00. Paid $50, got 7 years out of it until the clutch gave up the ghost ...... while cutting tires ...

Gee, stay away for a few days and the forum goes wild...4 pages of new posts.

Coffee Gone Wild!

Watch out burning old decking, if it was pressure treated wood, may contain arsenic.

Come on mozz, you're talking to MY kind of guy. A little arsnic never hurt anybody, plus the visuals are great.

Yeah, nothing quite like a night of shots & arsenic!

You know dang well I'll be burning up bits of the old deck I had to tear off the porch to roof it this season! Initially, it all went into the brush pile but then I got new cordless Bosch circular saw and had to find some stuff to slice up and see how the battery lasted. Smitty, you can always get me laughing with your escapades B! I know only too well the frustration of repeat frustrations!

I'm traveling this week and using a new laptop. It's a great machine but my fat fingers are used to my desktop. It's core I5 HP with 17" screen and still I can't type worth a dang on it yet!