What to do with an unlit stove...........

When the pot plants budded and the stoves hooked back up can we come over for the double lighting? lol

My neighbor has his stove on the old stove casters. He just rolls it over to the wall for the summer.

Mt Bum said:

I don't blame ya- I wouldn't want to have to stare at a BK all summer either! :lol: :lol:

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KTLM said:

Pot plants need growings lights and circulating water to bud.
We don't grow pot in ours but I guess it would speed up the payback.

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seriously funny, guys . . .

One more reason to be glad I went with stone. I never have to ask myself, "Should I carry that out to the garage for the summer?"

I would consider a potted plant (assuming that this was what you atually meant) to be a little discordant--like opening up the frig and finding a pile of freshly-folded laundry. As poster above noted, plants need light; as you noted, they need water (although a cactus could work, but that, too, would be a little weird).

On a winter's evening, I love coming home to a stove where the ashes were cleaned out, the glass wiped down and a fire has been laid. A snap of the match and I can go on to the next chore on the evening list. I suppose that after I get the stovepipe cleaned this spring, I'll do the same.

I have to say, this is really an interesting thread.....for me anyway, because in almost 40 years of burning wood, I have never given my stove more than a "warm" passing thought after the last fire, and until I get cold and fire it up once again. (except to clean it of course) :smirk: Interesting thoughts and ideas though. Danno, love the picture!

Bub381 said:

When the pot plants budded and the stoves hooked back up can we come over for the double lighting? lol

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+1! lol

Inspired by this thread last night, I cleaned the door of my stove, emptied the ashes, and put in newspaper, kindling, and nice fire-starting wood, and imagined the comfort it would give some rain-swept, drear, chill evening when I had a fire ready at a moment's notice. I came home today after work, nice warm sunshine still flooding all the big windows on the south side of the house. Found my son, sitting in front of the woodstove with a fire blazing in the stove.

Me: Son, it's 73 degrees in here and the sun is shining. Why did you light a fire?
Him: Oh.

snowleopard said:

Inspired by this thread last night, I cleaned the door of my stove, emptied the ashes, and put in newspaper, kindling, and nice fire-starting wood, and imagined the comfort it would give some rain-swept, drear, chill evening when I had a fire ready at a moment's notice. I came home today after work, nice warm sunshine still flooding all the big windows on the south side of the house. Found my son, sitting in front of the woodstove with a fire blazing in the stove.

Me: Son, it's 73 degrees in here and the sun is shining. Why did you light a fire?
Him: Oh.

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Hmm... maybe you should try the pot plants instead... :lol:

Last thing I'd consider is pulling the stove out and putting in the garage. Before I put the stove in that corner was just the dog's bed so it's not like it was prime real estate. Dogs' bed got moved to another corner.

Has anyone every used their stove as a dehydrator, or to smoke jerky?

(I have not, just thinking outside the fire-box so-to-speak)

Mt Ski Bum said:

snowleopard said:

Me: Son, it's 73 degrees in here and the sun is shining. Why did you light a fire?
Him: Oh.

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Hmm... maybe you should try the pot plants instead... :lol:

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I can understand why that might seem a reasonable response, but using mood-altering substances while parenting would probably leave me even more befuddled than I currently am.

Raising children is kinda like being on 24/7/52/21 sentry duty, while floating white-water rapids in a bathtub with the Three Stooges. Not a time to let down your guard.

How about a couple tubes of silicone, an areator, 2.5 cubic feet of water and a couple gold fish? It would of course be easier to feed the fish with the top loader stoves. Will have to watch for rust with the cast and steel stoves. Soap stone stoves would work good provided you leave the door open and allow them ample drying time before firing up in the fall. The soap stone stoves with higher porosity may not hold water that well? I don't have much experience with this. Would also have to make sure you have no cracks in the stone of course before filling the stove with water.

Aquari-stove? A whole new market.

And then, as jj was asking about, you could drain out the water and convert it to a fish smoker. Probably wouldn't get much protein out of it, but as long as there were pix to post, someone on this forum will surely go for it.

And if you're combining the aquaristove with hydroponics, you could still do the little agricultural project referred to in earlier posts.

Which just leaves me wondering about the ambiguity of the term `smoking fish' . . . really thinkin' it's past my bedtime now . . .

Mine's going in the garage for the summer. It did such a great job at keeping us toasty this past winter that I'm going to suprise it with a SWEET new hearth when it comes back in. After that it will be a permanent fixture.