Here's a couple pictures of my worn out, leaky, inefficient old beast (assuming the picture link works) that came with my house when I bought it twelve years ago. Notice the broken door held together with many nuts and bolts, the large gap at the back allowing flames to come out, and the "straight shot" air intake in the door, ideal for sending crackling embers far out onto the living room rug.
Worst woodstove still in use
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And I just realize that there's a towel drying a few inches from the incendiary action.
Let's see if anyone can do better (i.e. worse) than this!
Let's see if anyone can do better (i.e. worse) than this!
Holy crap man! I hope you're intending to replace this before the upcoming burning season. That things a house fire just waiting to happen.
Scrap the "worst wood stove still in use" award. You need to go after the "Darwin" award. Of course, most of those award winners are dead.
sawdustburners said:
Not a chance. That hole is doing nothing but letting cool outside air to enter a smoke dragon (at the top of the firebox, no less). This wouldn't be like adding secondary air to "super heated" tubes expecting it to burn up the smoke. Aint gonna happen.
Burn coal in it and see what happens. I'm curious.
Just get a wood fire going, and load it up with coal.
Just get a wood fire going, and load it up with coal.
Hogwildz said:I seen a few stoves on Craigslist that would be perfect for you
yeah -spend a $100 on a crappy stove at a minimum. That one is nothing but scrap.
Be careful with coal. It creates carbon monoxide that you cant smell . With wood if it is leaking carbon Monoxide you will at least smell the smoke and know . Carbon monxide from coal can very dangerous. Make sure you have a detector in the house if you do this.
Also coal gets all its air from below the grates. If the stove is not designed to burn coal it very likely will not burn. Coal stoves can burn wood but not all wood stoves can burn coal.
I agree that you win this contest hands down . All done
Just throw in some kerosene and see where the flames go. Then plutonium- you only need a little to get you through the winter.
(Scott- I was joking dude-
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(Scott- I was joking dude-
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OOPS no offense taken, I think I stayed up too late working on the addition for the stove. Still a little groggy. Sorry bout that.
Man you guys are really a bunch of "glass 1/2 empty types. I think the stove has character...........maybe a bit to much though.
Nah . . . that stove looks fine . . . just put a little bit of black stove paint on 'er and wad a ball of tinfoil in place that the flame is blowing out in the side and you'll be all set to fire 'er off again . . . just give me about 5 minutes to contact your local fire department and get them heading your way.
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Actually, I missed this call, but heard all about it last year. Guys in my hometown were called out to the Unity Plantation for a possible structure fire.
Arrived to find smoke in the building . . . guy had a woodstove going with a horizontal chimney pipe running from one room to another room (passing through a wall with no pass through protection) before running out the exterior wall (again no pass through protection). At that point the pipe (still regular old stove pipe) took a 90 degree bend and went up for a few feet . . . of course it was minimally supported . . . by a floor jack with a 2 x 4 running from the jack to the bottom of the elbow.
To make a long story short the guys determined that there was a fire in the exterior wall (surprise, surprise) and were about to make a few small entry points to search for the fire when the home owner took charge by firing up his chainsaw and cutting out a huge section of the wall of his house. After that the guys put the fire out . . . and left before the home owner could do any more damage.
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Actually, I missed this call, but heard all about it last year. Guys in my hometown were called out to the Unity Plantation for a possible structure fire.
Arrived to find smoke in the building . . . guy had a woodstove going with a horizontal chimney pipe running from one room to another room (passing through a wall with no pass through protection) before running out the exterior wall (again no pass through protection). At that point the pipe (still regular old stove pipe) took a 90 degree bend and went up for a few feet . . . of course it was minimally supported . . . by a floor jack with a 2 x 4 running from the jack to the bottom of the elbow.
To make a long story short the guys determined that there was a fire in the exterior wall (surprise, surprise) and were about to make a few small entry points to search for the fire when the home owner took charge by firing up his chainsaw and cutting out a huge section of the wall of his house. After that the guys put the fire out . . . and left before the home owner could do any more damage.
sawdustburners said:
Yeah, my mistake, that hole in the stove is probably an improvement over the original design. :-/
Beanscoot said:
Since the old rig is setting back inside a huge fireplace; which looks like a handsome/rustic old fireplace by-the-way, it is not as dangerous as it would be otherwise.
If we look at the old rig rather close it appears to either be a home built or a weld shop built stove. Perhaps it was a kit stove that somebody wielded for themselves. That door design was popular in my area in local welding shops back in the late 70's and on.
I agree the stove should be replaced as soon as possible. On the other hand I have to admire how much abuse this old box as withstood. There is no telling how drunk these people were when it was over fired to the point of busting welds and warping plates. I see it as a living testament to how tough welded stoves are.
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