Nice artillery piece you've got there, Bones! Kinda makes me miss the old Buck Stove from days of yore ...
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Mr. Bones, there have been many a time where I haven’t been the brightest bulb in the batch, that old stove looks neat & it burns wood, but I’m tryin to figger out, what in blazes ya’ll are goin to do with that thing.Comment
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Here's what I had in mind, so far, brother...- Burn Sticks
- Heat my patio area
- Cook on top of it, jus' like I learned, growin' up
Went out, measured tonight...
On th' top, there is room fer a 10" CI skillet/pot/DO on each front corner
Room fer an 8" samesame, rear corners
Room fer a 6" samesame, middle front.
So, I could easy do me some breakfast, pot o' Cowboy Coffee, an' some dessert, while sittin', watchin' the sun rise, th' birdies, bunnies an' other breakfast companions I usually encounter. Smokey will be there to protect me, so I ain't askeert!
Last edited by Mr. Bones; November 20, 2017, 07:45 PM.Comment
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texastweeter I use th' 'Sam Arnold' receipt fer th' Cowboy Coffee;
1 gal water, 1 lb. coffee...bring to a boil, then drop in a horseshoe.
If it sinks, add more coffee!
Always have a cup ready fer a brother, 'specially if he done rode clean up from Texas way!
Last edited by Mr. Bones; November 20, 2017, 10:38 PM.
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Reminds me of the soups and stews my mom had cooking on our wood stove in Western NY. We'd come in from the cold and the aroma of that pot was a big blanket of warm lovin'! I'll bet there'll will be chili brewing on that thing some time soon!Comment
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Bet that is a corn pone, bacon frying beast.... Nothing cooks like black iron. Get a wall insert and make her an inside fixture. Dad has one and I'll never admit it, but it is the cornbread makingest sob on the planet... Don't forget yer cracklins!Comment
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I rent, an' my landlord is th' Coolest, but I hate to go carvin' holes in th' walls, etc.
He literally tol' me when I moved in, that he wanted me to 'burn this place to th' ground, save him some trouble'...
But!
I'd kinda like to not be included in that fire.
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Cracklin's is a vital part of yer nutritional day, where I came up, at least...
11 kids in my family, so we'd 'fight' over 'em! texastweeter
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One of five brothers, have 2 boys and 2 girls of my own now. All live skins/cracklins
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Yo Mr. Bones you should cut the chimney short, put a tiny grate on it, burn hardwood really hot and smoke AND sear at the same time. That thing would look like the thruster end of a F18.Comment
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Initially thought to be a weather balloon, texastweeter , later confirmed to be only swamp gas.
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I think back to a summer night a couple of years ago when a couple of buddies and yours truly may or may not not have had a few too many Kentucky beverages at the Bourbon Appreciation Station. I allegedly tripped on a log and the melted spots on my synthetic shorts suggest that I may have sat down in the fully involved firepit and stood back up in ~ 1 millisecond. This is all heresay, of course. Just be careful is all I'm sayin'
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Stoopid Gravity!!!!!! DOH!!!!
I hate it, but it's th' Law!
(I've pulled a many a folk outta th' bonfire coals)...I'm th' Keeper of th' Fire, at my brother's bonfires, so that he/wife may go home, while I curl up on th' ground, next to said fire, an monitor it all night.
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Got a set of riding boots with melted soles on them that ain't from exhaust. Happened very similar.
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Yup, that'd be, (or not) th' BRAVO WUN ROMEO DELTA I seen (didn't seen) Technicalities involved, here...Full story may follow, pending approval, in 2036+ (mebbe)
Gotta say, dang dang pretty, them diamonds, though. Makes a slack-jawed yokel un-slack their jaw, fer a moment, or thuh-ree...
Don't even get me started, ' bout th' sounds I (didn't) hear(d)
I still cain('t) hear 'em, today.Last edited by Mr. Bones; November 22, 2017, 12:14 PM.
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Were I to have ever happened upon such a thing, which, of course, never happened, I envision (fancy word fer reckon) it would (have) looked such, like:
Prob'ly was alla a dream, I reckon...Comment
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every black iron stove I have ever been around had a name...what's hers?Comment
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This here's kinda what I envisioned, an' dry-tested today, to verify:
(19°F out, btw...)
"People say I'm no good, and crazy as a loon..."
Last edited by Mr. Bones; November 22, 2017, 07:41 PM.Comment
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Didn't bring 'em out, jus' yet; dry run, like I was sayin'...
Jus' a plain ol' Lodge #8, Griswold #5, Favorite Piqua Ware #3, Lodge Sauce Pot, an' my beloved Granny's Favorite Piqua Ware #8, which I have cooked in since I was pre-Kindergarten.
Last edited by Mr. Bones; November 22, 2017, 07:44 PM.
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I heated my 11 room house with that Schrader brick line strove for 20 years. electric was out for a week in the winter and the wife cooked all the meals on it. soups, stews, eggs, bacon, toasted cheese, even made toast. these stoves wear made around johnsonstown pa. I am about 50 miles west of there. I sold it to a guy for his deer hunting camp. took 4 guys to get it out of my house. and they took the bricks out first. miss that stove. I paid $500 in 1978. first full gas bill after I bought the stove the gas company sent a guy to the house to see why I only had a bill of 10 dollars. he saw the new chimney and put it together. have fun with it I sure did. that stove will heat you 3 times! cutting, splitting, burning.Comment
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