So I started my hearth area demo

Nice Josh

Smokeyja wrote:It better be cold next winter!

Get rid of your snow blowers and plows. That alone will prompt a cold and snowy winter. (Murphys law #352)

Congratulations Josh,
I bet your very excited, I know I would be. Is Doug able to send you any progress pictures of the stove before and during the restoration ?

I am sure your going to be pleased with the No 6, they are great looking antique stove, not to mention what they can do heat wise !

Don't forget to update your signature too.

echos67 wrote:Congratulations Josh,
I bet your very excited, I know I would be. Is Doug able to send you any progress pictures of the stove before and during the restoration ?

I am sure your going to be pleased with the No 6, they are great looking antique stove, not to mention what they can do heat wise !

Don't forget to update your signature too.

You betcha !

I will ask him about the photos next week when I send him some doe



By the way I am super impressed with the concrete I used . The base seems to be cured now thanks to the stove and looks great! In fact the job has turned out so well that I will be pouring my own pad for the new steel building I'm going to put up

You know another place to put a coal stove

Smokeyja wrote:By the way I am super impressed with the concrete I used . The base seems to be cured now thanks to the stove and looks great! In fact the job has turned out so well that I will be pouring my own pad for the new steel building I'm going to put up

You just can't leave well enough alone,can ya.
Good to brodin your horizons

Dennis wrote:

Smokeyja wrote:By the way I am super impressed with the concrete I used . The base seems to be cured now thanks to the stove and looks great! In fact the job has turned out so well that I will be pouring my own pad for the new steel building I'm going to put up

You just can't leave well enough alone,can ya.
Good to brodin your horizons

I have an addiction to projects I think!

When I bought this house with land I knew I wanted another garage for a car lift and welding and the standing garage for a wood working shop a long with a photography and music studio plus my office upstairs . I plan on working for myself within the next 5-10 years as well as having my house paid off and while doing that I will be rallying people to try to change property taxes and get rid of them all together so that when Virginias retire we don't owe anyone anything.

I have a lot of plans and goals and maybe some won't work out and to my surprise some will. But it's all in Gods hands and one wonderful life .

Hows the old saying go? Whoever dies with the most... projects(?), wins?(Or something like that). I'm not going down with-out a fight.

Smokey, reading your last post, I think that the best place to realise all that and plus would be here in the Québec Province. We also have a lot of dreamers here
But anyway, just take care

nortcan wrote:Smokey, reading your last post, I think that the best place to realise all that and plus would be here in the Québec Province. We also have a lot of dreamers here
But anyway, just take care

Pierre! I actually love Quebec . Although I have not officially been out of the airport there, I had a friend who lived there and I studied it a lot. Coming from French decent myself I don't think I would have a problem fitting in with my last name plus I can speak a little bit of French right now. And I hear it's a pretty conservative, rights based place to live!

Well the concrete is definitely cured !


I also just put my deposit down on a glenwood #6 from Doug yesterday and I plan to pick it in may. He also said he would send me restoration photos through email.

Smokeyja wrote:

Well the concrete is definitely cured !


I also just put my deposit down on a glenwood #6 from Doug yesterday and I plan to pick it in may. He also said he would send me restoration photos through email.

Very nice job. What did you put in the stove to get that glow, nuclear carbon? We can even see irradiations in the steam pot
If allowed don't forget to send the restoration photos...

Glad to see the concrete project came out well. Next year at this time you will have a Glenwood setting on it. I can see the WM is really cranking. Watch those boots don't ignite, only kidding. Nice job.

Glenwood? did you say Glenwood? (the green represents "envy") can't wait to see the finished product. We all know you've got a good sturdy base there Josh. Looks good. Keep the pix coming.

nortcan wrote:

Smokeyja wrote:

Well the concrete is definitely cured !


I also just put my deposit down on a glenwood #6 from Doug yesterday and I plan to pick it in may. He also said he would send me restoration photos through email.

Very nice job. What did you put in the stove to get that glow, nuclear carbon? We can even see irradiations in the steam pot
If allowed don't forget to send the restoration photos...

Haha Pierre , thats some funny stuff !

It was a bit fire and the light levels on the phone camera were just washed out. Although I did have the stove cranking pretty high. The problem with this stupid warm weather is when it gets cold it takes a few hours to get the stove up and going and heating the whole house so I push it a good bit in the beginning. But I know it's limits and what not after last year. I am very proud of this Warm Morning stove and I don't think I can ever get rid of it because it was the first coal stove I ever burned in.

Oh and Pierre I forgot to mention the plutonium in the humidifier , you know it helps to keep my families skin nice and ran through the winter and power a 3rd world country at the same time

buck24 wrote:Glad to see the concrete project came out well. Next year at this time you will have a Glenwood setting on it. I can see the WM is really cranking. Watch those boots don't ignite, only kidding. Nice job.

Every morning I get to put nice warm boots on before I go to work! Plus the stove dries them out well. yes next year should be a little easier to heat this house!

joeq wrote:Glenwood? did you say Glenwood? (the green represents "envy") can't wait to see the finished product. We all know you've got a good sturdy base there Josh. Looks good. Keep the pix coming.

Yes sir ! Glenwood #6 ! Now I can stop bugging William and Keith with a billion questions about base heaters lol.

They do cost a lot of money though. It was a sort of tough decision to make... I really could have used some new computer equipment for my side company but I want to be warm and have a bigger stove !

If this winter doesn't put out anything soon it looks like I will be starting the hearth sooner than later.

Thanks for all The kind words guys! I couldn't have had the knowledge and drive to do all these things with out the help of everyone on this site!

I put a little video of the stove burning bituminous and showing off the hearth area with a few pokers... It seems a little dark and did not seem so dark on the camera when I was shooting it but this is the first time I've uploaded video from this camera to YouTube . It is a Nikon Coolpix AW100 . The all weather camera . Maybe next time I'll use the built in light.

http://youtu.be/RH50GAPUPUA