Happy 2023! It’s been awhile since I have posted, mostly because I am busy building stoves! However, nature tends to have a way of injecting her will. We have not had this much snow in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota in a few years. Fortunately the snow blower (and me) are keeping up. I… Continue reading Holy Snow!
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Winter Camping!
I had an opportunity the first weekend of Feb 2022 to join a college friend in Wild River State Park in Minnesota for some hot tent camping! This has been on my list ever since I purchased an old canvas tent at a swap meet a couple years ago. Before we could head out, I… Continue reading Winter Camping!
Stove Extensions
I am always looking for ways to enhance our stoves efficiency and capacity while being mindful of space and waste. Raw metal comes as sheets, and there are ways to cut and use it to ensure as much of the sheet is used as possible. The prices of steel have tripled in the last 18mo… Continue reading Stove Extensions
Testing a Propane Stove
I am a member of a few forums and groups, and people are always interest if a particular stove (wood or propane) will heat their sauna. I would too if I were purchasing one. This stove is v2 of my propane stove. The first version was simply my normal wood stove modified to have a… Continue reading Testing a Propane Stove
DIY Ring Roller
I built this ring roller a couple years ago. I needed a way to take narrow( 3″ or less) flat stock and make a ring for making flue pipe adapters for my wood sauna stoves that I build. I could have gotten chunks of DOM tubing or pipe from the metal store, but I didn’t… Continue reading DIY Ring Roller
Testing a wood stove
I have been developing some new wood stoves and have wanted to be able to test them out. I modified the chimney in the shop with a cleanout T fitting and a cab that I can remove test a stove with my existing chimney.
Hello world!
It’s funny, ‘Hello World’ has been the software developer phrase to display when testing software on platforms from embedded systems to the world wide web. I kept trying to think of something else to change the title to as this is what came out of the box with the wordpress site, but it is apropos… Continue reading Hello world!