So Stoked
I have a fondness for old wood stoves.
You know that.
I've written about it before.
But this story is about a "new-to-me" wood stove.
This is hunting season around here and usually hunters bring us gifts.
We've received 20# of gummy bears and Denver Bronco memorabilia and rifles and apples and cheesecheesecheese and 50# of potatoes and 50# of onions. I am SO bummed the guy didn't bring me the onions this year... but he brought me something else even cooler.
Neato...
Spiffy...
I should say, because "cool" is not quite right.
One of our hunters brought me this stove.
Now he says they're fairly common in Wisconsin... but I've never seen the like before here in Wyoming. He used a wire wheel on all its parts... and then coated it in new black stuff. I can buff it if I want to and put a shine on it. If you swing the finial out of the way, you can put your teapot on the top.
I just giggled when it was all set up!
This is no tiny stove, this is five feet of cast iron beauty!
I think it's a 1917 model.
He put new mica in the door and urged me to build *little* fires in this thing... it evidently works quite well!
I'm so stoked!!!
<there I go again, cracking myself up!>
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24 hours left on the bidding for the watercolors!
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That is a REALLY fabulous woodstove!
But, ummm - you're not putting any kind of barrier/protection between the stove and your floor? No bricks or slate or asbestos fire pad? Aren't you worried about your floor getting over-heated?
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I'm more concerned about the wall... although it is plaster... I may end up with some barrier there. The floor is the original old tile which is probably full of asbestos on top of a concrete slab. I'm not worried about the floor! They had a different wood stove in this exact spot...
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Wow, that's a beauty! I thought it would be hard to beat 20 lb of gummy bears as a gift but that certainly does it.
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Lucky dog. Score!!!!
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Beautiful wood stove!
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i love your website and have never commented before, but i am in lust over that stove, such a beauty
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Pat, please comment more! I love reading the comments!
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That's a beautiful stove! I'm curious, though, do hunters bring you gifts so they can hunt on your land?
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We do charge a slight fee for hunters to be on our land... much cheaper than many of our neighbors! Whether they bring gifts or not is up to them...
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You are soooo lucky to get this.... This appears to possibly be an old Railroad heater (stove) that came out of a rail car - probably the caboose. My husband has seen these before many times....
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Love the stove! That's so nice. Lauging about "build little fires."
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Awesome gift!
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