Sorry to hear your little buddy passed away. We lost ours in the spring, and you’re right, a replacement is a good idea.
Doug
Cute pic of new dog … Sorry about old one … Very rarely on the ground. Always being held … Oh well,
I have a few cats I take care of OUTSIDE. No pets in the house. The only one I claim is now 13 or so … She lost 2 inches of tail this summer in a fight or accident but refused to let me yank or cut it off. I hated seeing here vertbrae exposed. Finally she lost it somewhere and it healed very well and she can really wiggle that “new” shorter tail …
Good luck with the new little one. Hope it isn’t too barky … Your last dog was fine with a drunk sleeping next door …
Mike
Looks like a lot of surface area to radiate heat from Doug. Sorry to hear about your little buddy. I lost my buddy Twitch I had with me in Argos on July 6th as well. My daughter got me this little guy a few weeks back. He can never replace Twitch but he will do fine at doing his job.
Doug; What is the purpose of the two pipes on the air inlet, rather than just an opening? Secondary air burns has always confused me. If we have enough primary air we should get complete combustion so nothing left for secondary burn. What are your thoughts on maybe some air jets in that upper half round portion of the bottom drum. I did get a drawing for a secondary burner by cutting the top arc of the bottom barrel and placing another half barrel above with the sides coming down past the original and air allowed to flow up to the top for a secondary burn. But then the owner of the idea told me he had never tried it. TomC
Thanks all for the dog sympathy. That dog did go everywhere with us, and was the ONLY one to ever sound my car horn down the road. Tom, this is a classic bare bones double barrel stove with just an inducement for smoke not to stagnate. The heating cycle is always outside ambient temperature matching the stove’s temp at the start, which is always a disadvantage and a fight. I’ve even tried a chimney draft fan in the past but they leak in a few years. The two 1 1/4 pipe elbows with 6 inch long nipples pointing down are simply air intake below the dreaded smoke level escaping. It all works. I’m not concerned about secondary burn now as the Dakota gets my attention with all that yard work frozen in place.
Here at this time yesterday. Today 18F wind chill 3F
Geez how is a guy supposed to get acclimated to winter when it does this stuff??
Hey Doug is there any lining inside the barrels? Thinking about building one
Thanks
Tomw
Hey Tom, I built 1 inch rebar grates in 3 sections (12 inch wide by 4 inch high legs) so that the bottom 1/4 of the barrel has no intense heat during the fire. I’ve checked the inside of even an 8 year old stove with no corrosion. I shouldn’t have to build or mess with this one until another decade. Build the center grate with (4) four inch legs and the (2) outer grates with 4 inch legs on one side and 2 inch high legs on the outermost sides. It’s a fast 200,000 btu’s.
New browser feature lets you share a folder full of bookmarks. Here’s my woodgas bookmarks!
https://www.google.com/stars/r5h4w3foli6dm/profile/folio/ssf_5dc6ba7586a981d5
Wow Chris, that makes it easy!
Where did you make those folders? Google Plus?
Google Chrome bookmarks are now shareable. Depending on which version of Chrome you have, you should see colored tiles at this URL: chrome://bookmarks I have Chrome 40 (beta channel), this feature may not have made it to the stable channel yet.
Hey Steve U and other PNW’ers. Just curious how you are enduring the all the rain and wind? I’m not sure if what they are showing us on the news is typical for the whole Northern West Coast?
Hi Back BillS.
Yes actually pretty typical. Really cannot understand all of the national hull-a-boo about this. Late October through early March some 50 to 150 mile wide strip out here on the west Pacific coast getting the blow-you down like standing-in-a-firehose effect. The rest of the ~2200 miles from just north of San Francisco up though the Alaska Aleutians stuck in the constant cloud drizzle
The “Pineapple Express’s” just the warmer Central Pacific versions versus the North Pacific versions. And the North Pacific storms build up needed mountains snow packs for summer hydro power and irrigation. Makes the the November through June ski/snowboarders happy. Out here you go UP in the mountains for that.
Pineapple Express storms bad for rapid melts, washes off most all needed mountain snow pac accumulations. The set up for future varied layered avalanch conditions.
Must be a slow national weather day.
Regards
Wetside webfooer Steve Unruh
Ok Steve; You got a post in. How do you do it?? I posted to Bill here and got that no permission thingy again Is it how you hold you mouth or something?TomC
I tried to add to this post and got some dumb message about I’m not allowed or something
What the hey. Now it took that addition but not the one I have been trying to post. I’m going to bed
I think Chris is continually working on the site and improvements are coming through one at a time. I too am noticing that I am able to post things now that I wasn’t able to before.
I am curious as to what you had for me Tom C
Hey TomC I’m getting a bunch of 403 Forbidden to coments now this morning too.
BillS wind picked up and we lost power just as I sent the above. Out for 8 hours. Wev were out over 24 hours just his last Oct due to winds damage already.
Wife and I have a 24 hour plan. A 24-72 hour plan. Past 72 hours out to 60 days plan. Then an indefinite power out plan.
Described these in a 403 No permission to post.
Only thing unusual this time was setting up the propane stove early to perk some fresh coffee. I was out needing. Damn Pinnaple Express had us up to 55F and I did not want to woodstove drive us out of the house.
Later gator
Steve unruh
Bill I snuck in a comment on “Bug reports and something” It is very short but mostly said " DON’T WELD OVER PIN HOLES" with out digging out the slag that caused the pin hole.TomC
Thanks Tom. I will give it the proper attention next week.
Steve, I am interested in your plans. I will try and get an email off to you this weekend.
When the going gets tough…
Now, only if this was powered by wood
I’ve heard of that log on the tire trick, but I don’t think I’ve ever actually seen it done.
Bill,
This is something to remember for sure. Thanks for the post. I just sent it to my EO brother.
Pepe