Well in the garden with the Firebox stove

[QDanT]

Thought I'd learn some more about the Firebox stove and have a play in the garden using Kiln dried Birch.

We buy these at Home Bargains for £3:99 a sack to use in the garden Chimineas I welded up

I normaly burn them as they come but cut a couple into x3 and split them to fit the Firebox

This is my every day home stove Axe. I spotted it in a builders merchants for £7 a few years ago but the head was painted blue and it had a fiberglass shaft epoxied on, soon sorted that out

The Bear set up the Bistro

I keep a few Sulphur matches Flint and steel and some odd bits of Jute twine in a tinter tin but the Char cloth and Amadou lives in a tin kept on the house stove so that it's always dry (just have to remember to put some in the tinder tin when I go out)

This is good for making a 'nest' as it's fine and oily

some strips of Birch bark

and rolled into a 'nest'

the camera thought I wanted to focus on the Flags but the Amadou caught 2nd flick

into the nest and blow

mind the beard

a few thin strips of Birch bark and some thin sticks

fit the boil plate then on with the Stanley

feed a few more sticks

and 3 minutes 50 seconds later

made x2 cups Russian Caravan and took 1 in for Mrs QDanT

swapped the boil plate for the grill plate ond on with a Sausage

did one for Mrs QDanT and came back with an Avocado + Lemon juice

took the grill plate off and stoked it up

Avacado skins look like a Toad cooking

Cheers All

I then played about with bigger pieces of Birch

and had a few more beers. It's a hard life but someone has to do it

 

[richardhomer]

Some great photos mate. I enjoyed looking at them. You seem to be getting on well with your fire box. Keep the reports coming

 

[Dogoak]

Looks like you had a fun time, those chimneas are great, nice work.

 

[Vushtrri]

Alright, I realise I shall proably get a slagging off for asking in such a manner.....but what on earth is happening when birch is being shipped over from Latvia to be burnt in chimneas in the UK. It's as bad as buying Asparagus from bloody Chile.. There is plenty of wood lying around all over the place for nowt..

 

[QDanT]

Latvia not only has vast Birch forests but it has a very hard winter so the wood is mutch denser, and has thicker bark, and burns better than UK Birch.
I've been 'burnt' (pun intended) buying UK logs a few times to find them not seasoned never mind kiln dried and use most of their heat boiling the sap out, and useless for lighting the home (hot water/central heating) stove when split into kindling. At £3:99 a sack it's so much more convenient to pick one up with the weekly shop and use it in the Chimeneas and lighting the house stove rather than all the effort required in 'progging' wood as coming up 70 I ask myself how long will it take me and how much is my time worth ?