New Wood Stove

We had a challenging time with controlling our old wood stove last winter. We bought it for $50.00 out of someones back yard. It was in worse shape than we thought. But we did make it through the winter using it. So we did get our money out of it. However we lost a bit of sleep with it blazing out of control. That brings us to this year. We were determind to find something better. After some searching, we opted to get a stove made by a local person.

Our new stove looks like a barrel stove. It is made from a piece of 24” diameter pipe 1/2” thick. It is pipe left over from the “Alaska Pipeline.” It is 33” long and has a brakedrum from a pickup welded up to make the door. It is an amazing monster of a stove.

We brought home our new stove on the back of a trailor. Ater unloading it we had to put several coats of stove black on it. It cleaned it up and conditioned it. Then we had to cook the stove HOT outside to set the blackening coat on, and cook off all the odors.

We had a forklift (Squirt boom) come out to the house and fork the old stove out and the new one in the front door. If someone fell off the stairs and a stove fell on them, it would have been awful. So the little extra money for the forklift was more than justifiable.
Sorry, I missed a great photo opportunity when the forklift was here.

The new stove is in place now and we have been using it for about 3 weeks now. The hardest part is we tend to burn it too cool, trying to keep from cooking us out of the house. So we are getting too much creasote. But we are getting a little better at controlling it at the temperature we need.