Ash Bridging Pictures
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This could be interesting. I guess any stove with a center draw grate will work. Here's a picture of some 12 year old bagged St Nick that a friend dropped off to me, from his friends backyard It's dull black and is huge by "stove" size standards but burns well. It produces what I think are amazing "bridges". I almost got a picture of the entire bottom of the bridge cleaned out but it collapsed as I took the pic
All you "Bridge Freaks" start posting pics!!!
All you "Bridge Freaks" start posting pics!!!
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My stove can't really compete in that category, so I'll just enter my other favorite form of bridging.
http://www.history.com/topics/brooklyn-bridge
Paul
http://www.history.com/topics/brooklyn-bridge
Paul
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You been talking to my ex-wife, huh ?scalabro wrote:Your a nut job
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Yup, and it's very much in demand. It's only been sold about 10,000 times.scalabro wrote:Hey.....is that bridge for sale?
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This reminds me....we need a joke thread too!
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But seriously folks,.....
My stove did bridge a lot until, I very delicately, got around to removing the decades of clinker scale that had built up on the fire bricks, with a flooring chisel and a hammer.
That got the firebox from about 6 inches wide back to it's original 7 inches wide, made it smoother, and not tapering narrower toward the bottom of the firebox where the scale was thickest.
Having the mica windows in the secondary damper openings now, I can watch the top of the fire bed as I shake ashes. It moves downward very consistently.
After all that firebrick scale removal, bridging is no longer a problem for me,.....
................ unless I'm trying to get onto Long Island to go visit my brother.
Paul
My stove did bridge a lot until, I very delicately, got around to removing the decades of clinker scale that had built up on the fire bricks, with a flooring chisel and a hammer.
That got the firebox from about 6 inches wide back to it's original 7 inches wide, made it smoother, and not tapering narrower toward the bottom of the firebox where the scale was thickest.
Having the mica windows in the secondary damper openings now, I can watch the top of the fire bed as I shake ashes. It moves downward very consistently.
After all that firebrick scale removal, bridging is no longer a problem for me,.....
................ unless I'm trying to get onto Long Island to go visit my brother.
Paul
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Thanks for posting these pictures. I'm burning stove coal for the first time in the Marks Brothers and over the last couple of days I couldn't get the stoves to produce as much heat as they had been. I thought they had been ashbound but now see that I've had bridging going on. I just did some major poking around and the coal bed fell about 4 inches. I'll have to keep an eye on it from here out. Lisa
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Tom,
That looks kinda like a sinister smile.
Paul
That looks kinda like a sinister smile.
Paul