Where to post chit chat ?

Hey Guys and ladies, been a while since I have been able to post anything on here of any value.....still don't have anything much.

Been fighting my wifes cancer for 3 years, 2 different kinds and "Whupping the tar out of both of them".

But it has Whupped me down mentally and physically to where each day is necessity to get her to treatment, get her food of the highest value and back home to watch movies until we fall asleep.

There was a time when wood and stove was priority. We did not get to have a fire last winter due to chemo affecting her so bad to do with heat and all sorts of weird stuff so it was gas heat with 110 portable as a back up which actually served us very well.

We went through the loyal wood cutters and burners school of USA......or at least I did and how I miss it so.

Maybe next year she will be able to take a good wood stove fire. It is clean and ready to go and we have dried oak stacked that is at least 8 years, old.........some older.
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Man what a system we had, could heat our whole house (approx. 1850) with ease and keep it at 77 plus easily with blower on medium. We did it early on, had 100s of hours of learning and it works beautifully to this day.

Never got old or tired of a good hot fire. Just found out we did not need to load the stove to the max to get good long heat. We learned long ago we could heat our house with just a stick of good dry wood occasionally.

Somewhere on here is a thread I started back years ago about my experience with this method and we have used it for many years and will NEVER change or go back to a full load.......especially and leave it loaded all night or all day.

Of course the key to that type burning is being home and able to watch over a precise method of loading all day.

Anyway, we are here now, could not find a place to put this post so mods might want to move it and hello everyone...a special hello to the old heads and people I knew years ago.

Below is a picture of my Mission stove with one of last years fires.
The whole stove and system is about 8-9 yrs old now and still performs perfectly with no degrading of any pipes or stove parts at all.

Robbie

Thanks for the kind comments. Yes, amazingly the stove does still look almost new inside and out......weird. Really don't know how its done so well because we have used it like crazy for a total of 8 years. (we skipped last season).

This is a double wall, with all the pipe deals inside and they are stainless and still look new.

I am on my second blower but the first was ok just changed to a new one because it was making a rattling noise. Come to find out it was not bearings at all just vibration on shroud.

Robbie