Safe to lean wood against a wood stove? You tell me.

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yooperdave said:
safe to lean against a wood stove??????? absolutely not...you already know, right?
a few years back, a fellow i know was ice fishing (drinking) at a big ice shack he made with his buddies. (drinking) they used a barrel stove for heat since the shack was so big...something like 12x20 or 12x24. had to dis-assemble and re-assemble whenever it was moved. lp cook stove, kitchen table/chairs, tv, beds, cabinets...you get the picture. once when everyone was out on a weekend fishing (drinking) he decided to stand a little close to the stove and leaned up against it (drinking). ended up with burns from his knee to his lower back and was rolling around in the snow in his bvd's (drinking). took months for him to heal well enough not to be in pain. i guess the stove felt that he had invaded the "stoves space". (drinking)
with that example in mind, don't lean anything against the stove
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Sounds like he, too, caramelized his ash...
 
Sure and it's also safe to put your pale of ashes with glowing embers on your deck. FYI 2 house fires this winter from people doing that in my county. I mean really folks just set the wood in a rack next to the stove and it will dry if it has been in the rain or has snow on it etc....
 
I feel like no one picked up on why I wrote this story: a bunch of hearth.com members had written that they did it, or they put it on top of the stove to dry out, etc.

I experimented with this and found it to be distinctly unsafe. So I wrote on here about it to clearly discourage others from thinking "Maybe its ok, I've read about some people doing it."

I wasn't actually asking the question - I chose my subject line to stimulate interest and catch the eye.
 
joefrompa said:
I feel like no one picked up on why I wrote this story: a bunch of hearth.com members had written that they did it, or they put it on top of the stove to dry out, etc.

I experimented with this and found it to be distinctly unsafe. So I wrote on here about it to clearly discourage others from thinking "Maybe its ok, I've read about some people doing it."

I wasn't actually asking the question - I chose my subject line to stimulate interest and catch the eye.
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Seems to have worked! I never lean wood against my stove.. there is no room to do that with all the gasoline and kero containers in the way. :)
 
joefrompa said:
I feel like no one picked up on why I wrote this story: a bunch of hearth.com members had written that they did it, or they put it on top of the stove to dry out, etc.

I experimented with this and found it to be distinctly unsafe. So I wrote on here about it to clearly discourage others from thinking "Maybe its ok, I've read about some people doing it."

I wasn't actually asking the question - I chose my subject line to stimulate interest and catch the eye.
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If I remember correctly when they posted that it was pointed out it was not a good idea at the time.
 
On the other hand, you get a lot more heat out of your wood without all that metal soaking up the BTUs.
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I suspect most folks who know me or what I do for a living will know my stance on putting anything combustible too close to a woodstove . . . much less deliberately putting a combustible right up against or on top of a woodstove.
 
joefrompa said:
I feel like no one picked up on why I wrote this story: a bunch of hearth.com members had written that they did it, or they put it on top of the stove to dry out, etc.

I experimented with this and found it to be distinctly unsafe. So I wrote on here about it to clearly discourage others from thinking "Maybe its ok, I've read about some people doing it."

I wasn't actually asking the question - I chose my subject line to stimulate interest and catch the eye.
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Aw shoot! Here I was waiting for the pictures of all the firetrucks........ :)

Of course this practice is not safe. Duh!
 
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