Hitzer!!

Make sure you keep that hopper full once ya get goin regular & yes, tend twice daily. Nice set up DW:)

Yes, Nice Stove!!! I see you put some kind of skids under the legs.

oliver power wrote:Yes, Nice Stove!!! I see you put some kind of skids under the legs.

Yes, those are 1/4" thk X 4" angle iron 36" long cause my hearth lacked the depth to place the stove on it with the Baro damper. This spring/summer going to add stones to hearth to extend it about 6" then in front of that lay some flagstone for my safety mat.
Pic is of current safety "mat". 1/8" sheet steel. Real ugly but got to live with it till I can shut the stove down and modify the hearth.

American ingenuity my friend, ya done real good:) Something ya just can't buy.

deepwoods wrote:

oliver power wrote:Yes, Nice Stove!!! I see you put some kind of skids under the legs.

Yes, those are 1/4" thk X 4" angle iron 36" long cause my hearth lacked the depth to place the stove on it with the Baro damper. This spring/summer going to add stones to hearth to extend it about 6" then in front of that lay some flagstone for my safety mat.
Pic is of current safety "mat". 1/8" sheet steel. Real ugly but got to live with it till I can shut the stove down and modify the hearth.

Oh goodness, that pic is classic.

congrats !nice stove enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!

With NJ weather in the 40 s, Sue is shaking the Hitzer in the evening every 24 hours. If the manometer is edging down to 0 she is cracking the ash door slots to a 1/2 moon. No windowstats quite yet.

davidmcbeth3 wrote: The pic shows nothing to protect the floor in front of it. Is that a wood floor? Need something there IMO rather quickly..I see you intend on doing that. Make sure it happens for your own benefit.
Looking good.

Take this note seriously. Mine has about 20" in front, and just recently, when I opened the loading door, to push down some of the dead ash, a few live ones "jumped" way out of range, right onto my hardwood floor, and burned spots right where they landed, before I could blink. the Mrs. isn't too happy about the scars
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freetown fred wrote:Make sure you keep that hopper full once ya get goin regular

I'm told this is the trick to keep these hoppers from distorting. But it's almost impossible to do, as the coal level drops, especially on long or overnite burns.

After thinking this out, I am going to build some forms in front of the existing hearth after cutting the carpet away of course. The whole chimney is dressed in fieldstone got within 100 yds. of the house from old hedgerows. Wife (final word) wants continuation of the fieldstone for the add-on to the hearth. It will be extended out 30" and be 48" wide with slightly beveled edges.
After deciding on the 480 lb Hitzer I installed two treated 6X6 posts under the front edge of the Hearth from the concrete basement floor up to the two floor joists that support the hearth. The old woodstove previously on it weighed only 250 lbs. I figure the Hitzer plus another load of fieldstone, those posts will be welcome reassurance.
Short story for burns on floor.
In a previous house we owned. Had an airtight woodstove with front glass window. My daughter would throw a small sack of facial tissues and other approved burnables into the stove occasionally. Eating supper one evening and we all thought a bomb went off! Daughter started crying and made for her bedroom. After minor fire control we surveyed the damage. Carpet was done for. soot everywhere and pieces of the glass stove window embedded in my prize birch paneling 12 feet away. And the "bomb"? one of those aerosol moose cans peeled open like banana still inside the stove. Teen brains like Bill Cosby once said are not fully baked! She's still my best buddy and has three of her own. She runs a pellet stove and has never blown it up to my knowledge.

Nice project DW. Sounds real good:) Damn kids!!