Pages

▼

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Happy Hump Day!

Yep, they are pilling up. Pretty soon they'll be
snow covered, not sure I'm ready for that.

Spend part of the day yesterday fixing up the wood stove. I had to replace some parts of the stove pipes that were simply to risky to use one more year. It's always tricky to play with since nothing is properly aligned in this house. Got her all up and running and the house is warm again. 

So here it is, meet my Redneck Stove.
No, it's not made out of a washer ;-)


Notice the brick on top. I may have snatched that from somebody's yard... kidding ;-) And it's not really "holding up" the pipe. It's more an added security when things start moving with heating and cooling happens.

And yes, that is a penguin right there, he'll be moving to my igloo with me pretty soon. And if you've been around for a while, you might have noticed my cannon ball too ;-)

Well back to work for me... laters :-)
at

11 comments:

  1. AnonymousOctober 23, 2013 at 2:29 PM

    Lovely K. and where on earth did you find that bar-shot? Oh and I think your cannon ball might be "case shot" that's a hollow ball filled with gunpowder and shrapnel. That looks like a "fuze hole" facing the camera. You might want to move that away from the fire.-- Is that chain shot next to the bar shot?---Ray

    ReplyDelete
  2. MissKOctober 23, 2013 at 2:47 PM

    Bar-shot? I thought that was a free weight... LMAO. As far as I know, the cannon ball is solid cast iron, no fuze hole. Click on the link I put under "my cannon ball". There's some info about it on a previous post I made, and a better pic of the bar-shot.

    Next to that I got clock weights and ball weights for sheep or other smaller farm animals... I think. Now you got me wondering since I got the free weight thing wrong. It's weird nobody called me out on it when I posted it before... must be a rare thing. I like that ;-)

    ReplyDelete
  3. guttridgeg1October 23, 2013 at 3:36 PM

    Looks great , if it works, that's what counts
    But I have to ask, ball weights for sheep or other, I grew up around alot of animals, raised many, BUT I never put weights on thier balls. Cut many off though.
    :-)

    Oh , Good Morning :-)

    ReplyDelete
  4. MissKOctober 23, 2013 at 4:06 PM

    LMAO! Guess I set myself up for that one :P

    I'll have to get more pictures so you guys can help me figure out what these things are then... ;-)

    ReplyDelete
  5. AnonymousOctober 23, 2013 at 7:11 PM

    I would love to be able to figure out how to turn those Autumn pics into a Windows 7 desktop theme

    ReplyDelete
  6. VolframOctober 23, 2013 at 7:32 PM

    Cannonballs?

    Does that mean this stove is now canon?

    ReplyDelete
  7. AnonymousOctober 23, 2013 at 9:11 PM

    Bar shot was an 18th and early 19th century cannon shot for destroying rigging on ships. It looks just like free weights outside its sabot. I,m glad that is a solid shot.---Chain shot is used for the same thing as bar shot its just two iron balls or bars with a chain between 'em. It was also packed in a wooden sabot.---Now I want to take the cannon out and shoot it----Ray

    ReplyDelete
  8. AnonymousOctober 23, 2013 at 9:27 PM

    K a little somthin' more on cannon The British 24lb cannon had a ball 5.55 inches in dia. the solid shot weighed between 23 and 25 lb. Your shot my come from a metric French gun , but those are RARE in the new world. Do you have a way to take a metric measurement?---Ray

    ReplyDelete
  9. MissKOctober 23, 2013 at 9:42 PM

    Light29ID, made a post for ya, hope it helps ;-)
    I'm glad you like the pictures I choose :-)

    Volfram, coming from you, that could mean anything... ;-)

    Ray, I did a quick image google search and couldn't find one with a chubby bar like mine. I just wonder if that feature would narrow down where it originally came from. I'm sure someone out there knows.

    Metric measurement... of the diameter?

    And you got a cannon? :-)

    ReplyDelete
  10. AnonymousOctober 23, 2013 at 11:17 PM

    Yeh I have been a trained gunner and cannoneer for years and years, and yes I have a small Gun (3 pounder) . In the late 19th and early 20th century Bannerman's sold American civil war era bar shot as training weights. Yes the outside dia. of the cannon ball. French balls were all metric (stop giggling) from somewhere around 1800 forward. But like I said they are REALLY rare this side of the pond.----My brother has a lathe with a 24 inch collet and an 18 foot bed. If we can get the bar stock I want him to make me a REAL field piece--Ray

    ReplyDelete
  11. AnonymousOctober 24, 2013 at 2:07 PM

    Miss K, I just consulted with a friend who has collected cannon balls for the last 40 years or so. He told me what I suspected earlier. That 6inch iron shot Should weigh 32 pounds UNLESS its hollow "case shot" THAT weighs right around 22 pounds.(aprox. 10 kilo) ---Ray

    ReplyDelete

Your Comment Will Be Posted After Approval ;-)