What the heck is this stove/fireplace thing??

[burleymike]

http://twinfalls.craigslist.org/mat/2234776985.html

Is it a zero clearance retrofitted with a stove door?

 

[Wood Heat Stoves]

That's scary! Better check to see what's behind those doors and see what type of chimney is inside that enclosure. If it is a ZC fireplace that would be a big no-no and a dangerous situation to add doors like that.

 

[firefighterjake]

That's scary! Better check to see what's behind those doors and see what type of chimney is inside that enclosure. If it is a ZC fireplace that would be a big no-no and a dangerous situation to add doors like that.

I'm betting that there isn't a brand new car behind Door Number 1!

 

[Fsappo]

Wow, this is twice in a very short while that I have seen a photo of something hearth related I have never seen before. Looks like some kind of a retrofit. I would not burn that thing until a true pro came out to look at it.

 

[Wade A.]

You know what I'm thinking? I'm thinking that somebody took the doors off a boiler and slapped them on a fireplace opening. The only thing I've ever seen comparable is probably the set-up I saw last summer at a High Sierra Camp in Yosemite. It had been used as a wood-fired hot water heater from the mid-20th century, long out of commission by the look of it. This thing looks like a danged locomotive firebox. Could have even been coal fired.

 

[Adios Pantalones]

That's where they keep The Gimp.

 

[Fsappo]

AP Bakes is pottery in there.

 

[DanCorcoran]

AP Bakes is pottery in there.

Translation (took me a while):

Adios Pantalones bakes his pottery in there.

 

[Wade A.]

And if you wanted to buy the rest of the boiler, they'll be glad to sell you one: http://kewaneeparts.com/

 

[Wood Duck]

You shovel coal in there and the house moves down the tracks.

 

[weatherguy]

You know what I'm thinking? I'm thinking that somebody took the doors off a boiler and slapped them on a fireplace opening. The only thing I've ever seen comparable is probably the set-up I saw last summer at a High Sierra Camp in Yosemite. It had been used as a wood-fired hot water heater from the mid-20th century, long out of commission by the look of it. This thing looks like a danged locomotive firebox. Could have even been coal fired.

Thats what I thought but how can you move that thing? Does a house come with it?

 

[Mt Ski Bum]

You shovel coal in there and the house moves down the tracks.

:lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[begreen]

Google leads me to the Kewanee Type C boiler. Hard to say what is going on here. Maybe just a custom unit using the boiler doors for visual effect?

 

[dafattkidd]

That's where they keep The Gimp.

Blah haha!! Good one.