Wood Stoves

[GaRp58]

It has nothing to do with the thread, but I have an unbelievable pic for you all. In Yosemite Nat'l Park is the cliff you see as you drive down into the park. When the situation is right, then you get pictures like this. But the situation must be RIGHT...
1. It must have snowed enough
2. The snow must have started melting
3. Only on a clear day
4. Just as the sun is coming up
5. At exact the right time of day.
6. From just the right angle
7. Get a picture of the melted snow flowing over the El Capitan cliff,

as a waterfall in the light of the rising sun!!
Patience and Luck gets you a view of a lifetime that only happens every many years...GP

 

[user 7704]

Wow

 

[Brent S]

It has nothing to do with the thread, but I have an unbelievable pic for you all. In Yosemite Nat'l Park is the cliff you see as you drive down into the park. When the situation is right, then you get pictures like this. But the situation must be RIGHT...
1. It must have snowed enough
2. The snow must have started melting
3. Only on a clear day
4. Just as the sun is coming up
5. At exact the right time of day.
6. From just the right angle
7. Get a picture of the melted snow flowing over the El Capitan cliff,View attachment 9740 as a waterfall in the light of the rising sun!!
Patience and Luck gets you a view of a lifetime that only happens every many years...GP

Truly beautiful. I’ve seen that image before. A woman was climbing that rock face just recently and fell 4 stories. She had to be rescued by an expert climber, but I believe she is going to be all right. Funny, I was telling my wife about it just now and her reply was ‘wait, they make you wear a helmet to ride a bike, wear a seatbelt in a car, and even in a plane (which is really about uselessly stupid), and yet they let morons climb mountains like this’.

 

[user 7704]

I like the way your wife thinks.

 

[user 7704]

From the stove to the ceiling I use single wall pipe, with a damper. Thats not the issue. From the ceiling through the roof up to the cap is tripple wall pipe. That's where I'm told by an "expert" the problem is. According to him I need to change it out to double wall so that it'll get hot enough to burn the soot out. It's pretty easy to clean so I'm in no hurry to buy more pipe.
I only burn dead dry Western larch or Doug fir. No paper, trash or anything other than dry wood.
We'll see. The chimney on the house is much longer than the cabin and it's double wall pipe. It goes through two stories.

I have never heard of larch.

 

[Mountain trapper]

I have never heard of larch.

Most people call it tamarack. But the real name is Western larch. There's an Eastern larch too. It's one of the few, if the not the only, conifer that loses it's needles in Fall. They turn bright yellow.

 

[user 7704]

I love learning new stuff.

 

[GaRp58]

They use larch here to make fench posts or other things which are driven into the ground since it can last up to 30 years there before completely rotting...good tough wood and still as a conifer has not as much smoke, spitting of sparks and making soot as the normal pine woods.

 

[user 7704]

It is in the 50s today, so I cut a little wood. Felt really nice outsidw

 

[DrHenley]

The cold weather got here before the leaves fell. While I was in Mississippi for the holidays, they all fell at once. So I've been working in the yard all day. It was really nice out, cool and crisp and sunny.

 

[user 7704]

I just leave mine where they fall

 

[Brent S]

I just leave mine where they fall

Leaves break down and become fertilizer, the way nature intended. I run the mower over them and mulch most of it but never rake any of them up.

 

[Brent S]

I did get a large load of firewood up on the deck today. I didn’t manage to get it inside yet, but at least it’s close for tomorrow. I use the lawnmower and a tilt cart to bring it up to the house, beats the wheel barrow I used to use. Ive had the wood stove going every morning for several days now. It is a somehow satisfying to heat with wood over setting a thermostat.

 

[DrHenley]

Leaves break down and become fertilizer, the way nature intended. I run the mower over them and mulch most of it but never rake any of them up.

I blew them from the carport, driveway, patio and sidewalks into the yard. And out of some drainage ditches. Had to do some weeding too. My mower is always set on mulch, and I'll mulch them when I get time.

 

[user 7704]

I'm really enjoying my little stove. It is helping with the storm clean up too.

Husband is bitching about the smell, but I ignore him.

The price of the saw and stove is still less than we would have paid for a clean up. Plus, we are getting free heat. Maybe he will realize ....... oh never mind, he won't.

 

[user 7704]

Okay prepper people. I need a stove pipe that is shaped like this dryer pipe. Any ideas where I can find one?

 

[Proud Prepper]

Use one like that one

 

[BillMasen]

I think you will have to use two 45 degree ones to get the 90, And that is NOT reccomended, as I believe a 90 degree turn simply becomes a tar / creasote trap/ hot spot.


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[Brent S]

I remember seeing 90deg fittings in Lowe’s and Home Depot in their plumbing depts with the stove pipe accessories. Not sure if they still do as some areas outlawed 90’s for safety. All I can suggest is if you do use a 90 then make sure to clean it more often. I actually know a guy that the 90 came apart at night sending the hot exhaust up and caught the ceiling on fire, burning down the whole house. Of course it was winter so the hose was frozen and he couldn’t do anything but watch. He hadn’t used the screws to prevent the joints from coming apart.

 

[BillMasen]

Its very common for mild steel 90s to burn through much quicker than the rest of the stove pipes, it becomes like a second combustion chamber that swirls the exhaust gases as the heat tries to rise vertically, plus it traps tar and creosote, and it also makes sweeping the chimny much harder. It also affects the " draw" of the chimney.

 

[user 7704]

I have 90° elbows, but they are the sweeping arch. I need the closed type to cut down on the height.

Sorry I didn't make myself clear.

 

[user 7704]

Use one like that one

This is for a dryer and made from galvanized aluminum. It can't take the heat of a stove. Looks like someone would make one.

 

[user 7704]

Went to the neighbor and got 20 pieces of the oak I had given him 2 years ago. (Before I considered a stove) and it was amazing how it burned compared to the crap I have.

I cut more yesterday and it has seasoned about a year so I'm hoping to have better luck with it than the last tree I cut.

 

[Brent S]

Went to the neighbor and got 20 pieces of the oak I had given him 2 years ago. (Before I considered a stove) and it was amazing how it burned compared to the crap I have.

I cut more yesterday and it has seasoned about a year so I'm hoping to have better luck with it than the last tree I cut.

I burn everything, as in types of wood, not trash. No doubt good hardwoods last longer and produce less ash. Poplar seems to produce more volume of ash than it had in wood..... it all keeps you warm though.

 

[user 7704]

I gave all of my good wood away prior to buying my stove. I have a couple of oaks I need to cut so that they can be seasoning ASAP. I can't drop them, but can take care of them once they are on the ground.

 

[Brent S]

I gave all of my good wood away prior to buying my stove. I have a couple of oaks I need to cut so that they can be seasoning ASAP. I can't drop them, but can take care of them once they are on the ground.

I hired a tree company to drop six trees here with 4 of them needing to be roped down in pieces as they were over buildings. The cost wasn’t too bad without the cleanup. Of course I still have a big pile behind one building. I cleaned up all the stuff in visible sight and that filled my wood bins so as I use some I will continue cutting up the pile back there slowly.

 

[user 7704]

I have 2 neighbors that will drop them. The weather has just been crap here.

 

[DrHenley]

I've had medium sized oak fall, a large oak break in two in a hurricane, and had three large oaks taken down in the yard two of which had to be roped down, and one had to be lifted over the house by crane. I didn't save all of it, but I did save a good bit. The last one, I told the tree guys to leave the last large section of the trunk where it lay. They thanked me profusely because it was in a very awkward spot to remove.

 

[M0del_31]

In your area, how much are 55 gallon metal drums, sealed and suitable for shop wood heater?

 

[Mountain trapper]

In your area, how much are 55 gallon metal drums, sealed and suitable for shop wood heater?

Around here they're about $30 for a good clean closed top 55 gallon barrel.