I know I need a chimney pipe cricket especially since we got 150" of snow last year and with the $5 /gallon for K-1 has driven me out in search of a metal fabricator to build me one. I do plan to to put brackets, braces , supports, whatever they call them in your part of the world in front of my 6" HT chimney, rising 5' above the roof. I have a low pitched metal corrugated metal roof 2 on 12" which holds snow throught a freeze-thaw cycle for days ,weeks and months depending on the temps around here. Last year we lost, and snow came in Nov and lasted till may. I shall post a pic with the snow load on my roof and then you will know.The snow then goes through it's daily cycle that builds up a 6" to 8" ice bed below the snow on the roof and then crashes to the ground whenever it wants too... Bad stuff...especially if you depend on one source of fuel. wood, and have spent all your buttons, on a new stove, $750, $1000 for wood, $200 for a hearth and are still trying to negotiate a price for stove pipe and chimney. Plus I need a chimney cricket. As an engineer i know exacatally what i need. A sheet of 20 oz copper cut to 4'X4' and then bent into a shape that will divert snow. Unfortunately i don't have the Pro III capable of bending 20 OZ copper into the proper shape. Secretly the pro 3 cant handle 20 Oz copper as it puts the brake into unadjustment, but the warranty allows these guys to have it re-aligned for free for the 3 year warranty, and they sell them before the warranty expires.
For those of you that don't know, 20 OZ copper is hard and nasty stuff. Typically 16 oz is used, which the pro3 brakes handle well. But 20 Oz means that a square foot of this grade copper weighs 20 ounces . See how easy this all is. The metal guys have huge 10-12" brakes in their shops which would bend 100 Oz copper like butter. I used these beast and they move so easily that it would make you laugh. I did used to have a key to to one of maine's biggest sheet metal roofing pros, but then I fell ill and the roofers moved , so now I at the mercy of the paying public and have to absorb their exorbitant prices,,,Well maybe not...surely not. I will construct a barricade of logs and stone before i pay retail to companies i kept alive during the 70's, 80's, and 90's.
Remember one thing, ...if you forget everything else ...Fate is inexorable"
Thanks guys, all my best to you and your loved ones , Joe
For those of you that don't know, 20 OZ copper is hard and nasty stuff. Typically 16 oz is used, which the pro3 brakes handle well. But 20 Oz means that a square foot of this grade copper weighs 20 ounces . See how easy this all is. The metal guys have huge 10-12" brakes in their shops which would bend 100 Oz copper like butter. I used these beast and they move so easily that it would make you laugh. I did used to have a key to to one of maine's biggest sheet metal roofing pros, but then I fell ill and the roofers moved , so now I at the mercy of the paying public and have to absorb their exorbitant prices,,,Well maybe not...surely not. I will construct a barricade of logs and stone before i pay retail to companies i kept alive during the 70's, 80's, and 90's.
Remember one thing, ...if you forget everything else ...Fate is inexorable"
Thanks guys, all my best to you and your loved ones , Joe
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