Seeing as we are getting close to ushering in the first few minutes of Fall this evening (or early tomorrow morning for you east coasters) thought I'd drop by for a post.
Nice to see the forum is still up and running and expanded some, too! As some of you know, (and as info for any newbies) I had a great time posting on the forum last winter, had some great debates and learned a lot, too. But I had to bow out for summer as free time went to about zero and the thought of fires and firewood was far from my mind. I really despise winter…If it weren’t for the comfort of a warm crackling fire, I think I’d pack up and head south! Well, now we’ve had a couple of chilly mornings recently and a cold, rainy day today, so I am kind of slowly transitioning out of summer mode and back to fall / winter. (bad as I hate to say it!)
So what have I done over the summer – well, sad to say – not much! At least not much fire related. I have been traveling a lot for work and family, trying to get more remodeling done on the house. But as far as work on the stove and wood gathering – not too much!
So far, I have made a trip to the scrapyard and picked up some nice stainless steel sheet to build a new secondary combustor for the stove (still need some parts for the TIG welder and a fresh bottle of shielding gas before work can really start) I may throw up by “back of the envelope” sketches later and see what the forum has to say.
Other than that, I’ve searched out a couple of sources for wood cutting, but haven’t actually made it out. Now that the weather is cooler, I’m hoping to score a big pile of dead wood for this year and a couple of cords to season for next. Sadly, if I can’t find dead – only have about ¼ cord left over from last year, and it is mostly junk wood like poplar and elm.
Well, I better get back to work now and get to sketching some plans for the new combustor. Hope to be posting more as the weather cools off!
Corey
Nice to see the forum is still up and running and expanded some, too! As some of you know, (and as info for any newbies) I had a great time posting on the forum last winter, had some great debates and learned a lot, too. But I had to bow out for summer as free time went to about zero and the thought of fires and firewood was far from my mind. I really despise winter…If it weren’t for the comfort of a warm crackling fire, I think I’d pack up and head south! Well, now we’ve had a couple of chilly mornings recently and a cold, rainy day today, so I am kind of slowly transitioning out of summer mode and back to fall / winter. (bad as I hate to say it!)
So what have I done over the summer – well, sad to say – not much! At least not much fire related. I have been traveling a lot for work and family, trying to get more remodeling done on the house. But as far as work on the stove and wood gathering – not too much!
So far, I have made a trip to the scrapyard and picked up some nice stainless steel sheet to build a new secondary combustor for the stove (still need some parts for the TIG welder and a fresh bottle of shielding gas before work can really start) I may throw up by “back of the envelope” sketches later and see what the forum has to say.
Other than that, I’ve searched out a couple of sources for wood cutting, but haven’t actually made it out. Now that the weather is cooler, I’m hoping to score a big pile of dead wood for this year and a couple of cords to season for next. Sadly, if I can’t find dead – only have about ¼ cord left over from last year, and it is mostly junk wood like poplar and elm.
Well, I better get back to work now and get to sketching some plans for the new combustor. Hope to be posting more as the weather cools off!
Corey
