Heat in the future shop out at the woodlot
Mike in Paradise
>Before Christmas I brought a few truckload of wood to a friend for her wood stove. Her ex-husband had acquired an old fireplace insert that he was going to put in their detached garage and she want it gone and gave it to me. Boy those things weigh a ton!
I have converted it to a wood stove. I cut off the face frame and welded feet on it.
I replace the door gasket!
I put in new firebrick and they seemed pricey to me at $4.00 each. This was the most expensive part fixing the stove up.
I weld on threaded rod to fix the two front vents that had broken off and I gave it a nice coat of new hight temperature paint.
On the weekend I installed it in its new home at the woodlot. I am getting old cause moving the 24x30 patio stone for underneath and the stove took a lot out of me and I used a hand dolly. When I was young one summer I worked in a concrete plant making the patio stones and used to carry them around all day now I can't even lift one.
I can at least burn some that wood that I have been cutting and have a warmer place to get out of the cold in the winter. I have some wood that I milled drying in the cabin so I won't crank it up too much of course with no insulation in the cabin I don't think it will get too warm anyways.