My outdoor stove

[EPS]

My wife and I bought our house last year and immediately started coming across nice little nuances about the house and property. It was built in 1939 in a town whose economic base at the time was ice harvesting. I learned from a neighbor that the house was erected to house seasonal ice harvesters. What's more is that she said that somewhere on the property was a outdoor stove that they used to cook their beans on for supper. When she said that I knew exactly what she was talking about!

This stove appears to be put together by someone, not necessarily from a kit or anything. The front says that it is from a furnace company in Syracuse, NY. After we moved in I dug out all the dirt and debris that had built up in there and cleaned the thing. Now I use it to grill. My fuel is all the oddly-shaped pieces of wood that come from splitting all summer.

 

[Z33]

Very cool little piece of history there. I would be interested to see the house too.

 

[begreen]

Nice, I like the improvised lid too.

 

[Ashful]

Cool!

Your lawn must be hell on mower blades. ;-p

 

[begreen]

It's so lush and green compared to here.

 

[Warm_in_NH]

Nice. I sat in on a couple of ice harvests on Squam lake a few years back. There's nothing fun, safe, dry, easy or warm about the process.

They still do it every winter to provide ice to the camps at Rocky Wald Deep haven camp where people spend too much money to stay in cabins with few too amenities. Each cabin has an old fashioned ice box, thus the ice harvest.