It Works!

[CarlS]

It was finally cool enough for me to try out our wood burning this morning. I wanted to be able to heat it up good to burn off the paint and I needed the weather warm enough to be able to open the windows to vent the fumes. It worked well heating the dining room to to 80F/26.7C with the windows and back door open. We set the dragon steamer on the burner and you can see the steam coming fro its nostrils. We fried bacon and eggs for breakfast. It will make good supplemental heat on our rare cold days.

 

[keystiger]

Oh that is AWESOME good on ya Carl....I have had the fireplace going since yesterday.....29 degrees here last night

 

[hemibee]

Good one Carl And there is evidence it is working.

 

[devo]

Great looking cooker Carl.
Is that piece at the top a range hood to catch the cooking odours.?

 

[shanered6]

carl that's awesome ! I love solid fuel cookers , I have a AGA that was fitted in the summer of 1956 and is still as good as the day it was fitted .

EN

 

[devo]

I have a AGA that was fitted in the summer of 1956 and is still as good as the day it was fitted .

EN

They were (and still are)the Rolls Royce of solid fuel cookers.
God knows how many of them ended up in the scrappy's yard before the world went green and retro.

 

[CarlS]

Thanks, guys; we really like it and it fits in with the house.

Harry, that thing at the top of the range is a food warmer - to keep stuff warm. The lid rolls up to open it.

 

[devo]

Harry, that thing at the top of the range is a food warmer - to keep stuff warm. The lid rolls up to open it.

cool (I mean hot ) idea.

 

[CarlS]

 

[hendo]

Really cool mate love it

 

[DaveM]

When I was still at school we had a wood burner in our kitchen and this used to cook all our food as well as the heating of the water. Our kitchen was the place to be during those cold winters days and nights

 

[CarlS]

Thanks, Paul.

Dave, when I was a boy, we had an oil burner where my wood burner is today. It was the center of activity on cold days.

 

[The Seeker]

I'll bet it looks pretty crazy with wood smoke pouring out of the flu in Florida!!

There are parts of the USA where it would be illegal to use a wood burner.

 

[keystiger]

Seeker, not as crazy as watching Carl chop trees down in Jams and flip flops

 

[CarlS]

Seeker, not as crazy as watching Carl chop trees down in Jams and flip flops

:y24: No, I wear boots with my jams, not flip flops.

AJ, when I was kid in the 40's and 50's, most folks heated with wood or kerosene - or both. There was smoke coming from the chimneys in cold weather. Even those rich enough to have central heat bured kerosene or fuel oil. The house we live in was built by my dad and mom in 1947. It has a fireplace and a chimney for an oil heater which they were still using when I left home in 1964. I put the wood burner where the old oil burner used to be. The chimney and flue were already there. The flue had been covered since they put in central heat and and air sometime in the late 60's.

I think Denver, LA and SF prohibit wood burning unless it is a modern wood burning stove with all the anti pollution stuff. I noticed that once I got the fire going in the stove, there was very little smoke. I could see the heat rising from the chimney, but almost no smoke.

 

[harper6t]

I love that dragon, gonna have to see if I can get one of those for our wood burner heater for our next winter.

 

[Rocky]

I love it
That's the type of wood stove I grew up with back in the olden days on the farm and it brings back a lot of memories.
Those "vintage" wood stoves of modern manufacture are quite popular here.

 

[CarlS]

I love that dragon, gonna have to see if I can get one of those for our wood burner heater for our next winter.

Here you go, Harper:

http://www.amazon.com/Dragon-Woodst...88150105&sr=8-5&keywords=cast+iron+dragon+pot

http://www.amazon.com/Minuteman-Int...88150105&sr=8-6&keywords=cast+iron+dragon+pot

I love it
That's the type of wood stove I grew up with back in the olden days on the farm and it brings back a lot of memories.
Those "vintage" wood stoves of modern manufacture are quite popular here.

Thanks Rocky. It certainly makes the dinning room, kitchen, and hallway toasty warm on cool mornings.