Ash Bridging Pictures

 
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Post by scalabro » Wed. Dec. 07, 2016 5:43 pm

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 :D 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 :mad:

All you "Bridge Freaks" start posting pics!!!

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Post by Sunny Boy » Wed. Dec. 07, 2016 6:02 pm

My stove can't really compete in that category, so I'll just enter my other favorite form of bridging. :D

http://www.history.com/topics/brooklyn-bridge

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Post by scalabro » Wed. Dec. 07, 2016 6:04 pm

Your a nut job :lol:

 
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Post by Sunny Boy » Wed. Dec. 07, 2016 6:05 pm

scalabro wrote:Your a nut job :lol:
You been talking to my ex-wife, huh ? :roll:

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Post by scalabro » Wed. Dec. 07, 2016 6:08 pm

Hey.....is that bridge for sale?

 
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Post by Sunny Boy » Wed. Dec. 07, 2016 6:17 pm

scalabro wrote:Hey.....is that bridge for sale?
Yup, and it's very much in demand. It's only been sold about 10,000 times. :D

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Post by scalabro » Wed. Dec. 07, 2016 6:23 pm

This reminds me....we need a joke thread too!


 
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Post by Sunny Boy » Wed. Dec. 07, 2016 6:26 pm

But seriously folks,..... :roll:

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. :shock:

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Post by lowfog01 » Wed. Dec. 07, 2016 7:41 pm

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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Post by joeq » Wed. Dec. 07, 2016 8:01 pm

OK Scott, (the guy that taught me all about this), "this buds for you" :D
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Actually, I've already posted this somewhere, but this column is more deserving.

 
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Post by tcalo » Wed. Dec. 07, 2016 8:36 pm

Completely dug out!!! I can almost shovel coal right into the bottom of the coal bed if the teeth weren't blocking it... :D

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Post by joeq » Wed. Dec. 07, 2016 9:01 pm

Whoa! Nice shot Tom. That grill is clean enuff to cook on. I'll take a cheeseburger to go please. :D

 
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Post by Sunny Boy » Wed. Dec. 07, 2016 10:51 pm

Tom,
That looks kinda like a sinister smile. :shock:

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Post by joeq » Wed. Dec. 07, 2016 11:10 pm

Now that you mention it Paul, maybe a "Darth Vador" look-a-like"? :lol:

 
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Post by tcalo » Thu. Dec. 08, 2016 12:00 am

It's the gateway to hell... :lol:


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