cygnusx1 Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
datsun723 Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 Hahahaa, well done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josh817 Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 What am I looking at. Some seats and a... stove? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlatBlack Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 What am I looking at. Some seats and a... stove? It's cold up North, Josh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cygnusx1 Posted December 7, 2009 Author Share Posted December 7, 2009 Yes, Josh...when I sit on the seats in front of my wood stove, I pretend I'm driving my Z up the PCH with a blazing sun. It's not a bad alternative to driving the Z on the salty roads covered with ice patches. I can even carry an open container, legally! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Titus_RacerX Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 I just looked at your smugmug album. Your 240 is really shaping up! I am SO JEALOUS! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josh817 Posted December 8, 2009 Share Posted December 8, 2009 Man I LOVE that old antiquey Victorian look! Why do you have the fireplace blocked off or whatever? I'm coming up to Boston/Rhode Island in January! My grandma lives in the historical section of Bristol, Rhode Island. Only heater is the heat from the stove. Did I mention I LOVE that ♥♥♥♥? haha I'm the type of dude that likes Frontier House on PBS where they live in Montana for like 5 months and have to their own log cabins and all that stuff. I'm like a jungle man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bschiltz Posted December 8, 2009 Share Posted December 8, 2009 Why do you have the fireplace blocked off or whatever? Keeps embers from flying all over the place when the wood pops when it burns. I've melted a couple spots on my girlfriend's carpet from forgetting to close the curtains on the fireplace Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cygnusx1 Posted December 8, 2009 Author Share Posted December 8, 2009 That fireplace was built in 1926 when the landscape was just beginning it's death as farmlands. The forests were re-growing in the area. Many of the stone walls that run for miles in the woods were built by the rock-clearing of farm land. These walls were robbed to build the chimneys and homes of the area. This chimney originally formed the gable end of a single room cabin along the dirt farm road. The only parts of the original cabin, are this room's floor substructure and the chimney. My main beam in the crawlspace is still a tree on it's side. The chimney was built with local stones, and mortared with mud and hay(Farmer's Fiberglass). Just recently, I poured a 24" high, concrete girdle around the base of the loose chimney. Then my dad and I scraped out about 2" of mud from the entire exterior face, all the way around, to re-point it with cement. I sealed off the fireplace with an iron frame, sheet metal, and some aluminum trim work, to install the catalytic wood stove. The fan on top of the stove is thermo-electric. It converts heat-flow into electric current to run the fan. The water trough is stainless steel, and the log holder is wrought iron, the stoves foot pads are nylon spun in a lathe, all fabbed up by my dad back in his machinist days. The foot pads keep the stove from crawling across the hearth. They do that you know! Yes, they do. I thought people would get the joke, but apparently it was too vague. (the story behind the Z seats in front of the stove has to do with softening the vinyl for reupholstering them) It was 24 degrees and icy outside when I took the photo. Not Z weather at all! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big-phil Posted December 8, 2009 Share Posted December 8, 2009 don't put your fingers near the fan! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rturbo 930 Posted December 8, 2009 Share Posted December 8, 2009 Keeps embers from flying all over the place when the wood pops when it burns. I've melted a couple spots on my girlfriend's carpet from forgetting to close the curtains on the fireplace We put a spot in the floor the other day from that. It popped when I was sitting in front of it as well and scared the crap outta me... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josh817 Posted December 8, 2009 Share Posted December 8, 2009 Lol theres a reason why Dad tells his customers to fit their tops before it gets cold, otherwise you will never drive your car until its warm again. Sounds like you live in a nice place, I'm jealous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cygnusx1 Posted December 8, 2009 Author Share Posted December 8, 2009 It's a nice home...on the smaller side of the average American home. I just wish it had more than a one car garage. I was thinking the other day that my sons bedroom is right behind the living room on ground level. When he moves out, I can replace the dividing wall with a glass wall, put in a garage door and park the Z right next to the living room where I can see it through the glass wall! My son is almost three! LOL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
datsun723 Posted December 8, 2009 Share Posted December 8, 2009 Its so weird about the random stone walls in the woods. I'm originally from MA and we'd just discover "ruins" as we called them haha. Cool stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.