Started my own coal stove!!!!

[sullen]

Did a big thing last night...started and ran the coal stove in the basement.
I let it go out on Sunday because I forgot DH wasn't here to fill it. Well he says don't try, it's too hard.
Well my Ma is freezing and her fridge is frozen and I have no heat to thaw the buckets of ice from the animals.
So I go to start it.
I had to hook the locking trailer to the car. Figure that out. DH never let me drive it. (too hard)
Did that, drive to the wood lady. Got 20 bucks worth of wood to start the stove. Why don't we have wood? DH never cut the 50 trees he cut down into pieces.
So I come home, after maneuvering that trailer into a back up twice.......ever backed up a trailer? Hard to a newbie.
So I unload most of the wood, cut more splits out of it, load up the stove with wood and paper. After an hour I have a fire roaring, Ma and I are piling wood on it, then adding coal bits.
we work all evening, after 5 hours, I feel I can leave it to go get the kids from skiing. Then I fill it again 2 more times before going to bed.
This morning I am loading it again twice, leaving the bottom door open to draft.
Who says it's hard? Just takes time.
Plus we have seen all of DH's mistakes.

[e.alleg]

everything is hard until you learn how to do it, then it's easy. I use my 4x8 utility trailer about twice a week and have been for the last 10 years and it still takes me 3 or 4 tries to back it into the barn. Small trailers are harder to maneuver than larger ones. Congrats on the coal fire. Check out this website for all the coal info you care to read about: http://www.nepadigital.com/bb/index.php
really nice people there.

[sullen]

The trailer...I have watched DH try to back it up......."Mr. Professional Man". I have to go in the house, it takes so long.
It took me 2 tries at the wood place and 1 try in my yard. I guess I did watch.
Thanks for the link, I need to find out what to do with the ashes.

[alleyyooper]

Wood ashes put in your garden. The coal ashes put in your drive way.
Control the coal burn rate by closeing that ash door and useing the draft control and damper.

Al

[Wolf mom]

Good woman!

Any person that represses another from learning and growing it insecure and controlling!!

[Westwood]

Small trailers ARE more difficult to back because of the short distance between the hitch and axles. For newbies, put your hand at the bottom of the steering wheel and move the wheel the direction you want the back of the trailer to go. Easier that way than with your hand at the top of the steering wheel and moving the wheel the opposite direction of where you want the back of the trailer to go.

[sullen]

Originally Posted by alleyyooper

Wood ashes put in your garden. The coal ashes put in your drive way.

Why driveway? Everything in my driveway ends up in my backyard.

Originally Posted by alleyyooper

Control the coal burn rate by closeing that ash door and useing the draft control and damper.

Al

But I need a hot burn to raise the hot coals level and thereby making it more efficent in the long run. Thats what DH says.
When we have a deep bed of coals we only have to load it 2 times a day.

[sullen]

Originally Posted by Wolf mom

Any person that represses another from learning and growing it insecure and controlling!!

Oh so you know DH? :1pig:
Not that he was upset....he is just afraid we will break something.

[Jim S.]

Oh sullen, your very description has brought me chuckles this morning!

Thankyou-thankyou-thankyou! THAT WAS HILARIOUS!

[sullen]

What??

[Jim S.]

The whole thing is a hoot!

[js2743]

you might have just gotten yourself a new job lol since your hubby knows you can do it now.