Thanks everyone!
The pics may have been better if adult beverages did not apply....
I took a cool vid on my Droid though..pen will help me post it here....
Good secondary action on it...
To answer pen's question....I started her up like this:
2 envi blocks n/s in a v with half of a super cedar in the middle, (I know I only need a quarter of one but wanted to make sure she got going good)I then put some smaller splits on top about 3 or 4 (n/s). For not putting a lot of wood in, she really put out the heat, it was amazing.
I am not sure how much wood Mr Gamma put in after I went to bed....he goes to bed a lot later than I do. I am curious to ask him when he gets up later.
At 6 am when I got up, the stove top is about 300, it is in the coaling stage, but good strong coals putting out still good heat.
Last night after things got going good, I put the box fan on the floor (on low) pushing into the stove room, and I turned on the ceiling fans in the rest of the house on low, clockwise. The blower is not installed yet. There will be time for that...we have some 60 degree daytime temps coming so I think we will just have some night fires for now.
Right now the stove room is 78, the part of the house furthest from the stove is 70....pretty sweet....all is good...
Can't wait to see how this mother works when it is really cold out and I fill her right up.... :ahhh:
Oh, about the stink, we had a fan pulling out as you can see in the one pic, and another window opened for a bit. The smell was not that bad. I closed off the rest of the house for about an hour. You can see the top of the stove smoking slightly when it is curing and then it stopped fairly quick and the smell went away quick...easy peasy...
Oh, about the IR thermometer, Mr Gamma shot that thing everywhere in the room...I think I better get some new batteries. The stack and stove top thermometer temps matched the IR gun very very closely...
