We boys always said Mother could go through more buckets of water in a day than anyone on earth. When I was around 13 or 14 we finally got running water inside the very house! No more lugging buckets of water up the little hill from the spring. Still, it was damned cold in that little house with no insulation and poorly fitted windows. But, the Ashley gave far more warmth than the coal stove with a much smaller appetite. Now, you can believe me when I tell you that cutting, loading, hauling, offloading, splitting, and toting wood is not exactly my idea of a picnic. It employed some sort of new-fangled technology that allowed it to burn less wood while providing maximum heat. Later, we got an Ashley wood burning stove. I’m glad I’d been burnt enough times loading coal into its throat to know what a burn feels like, and how long it takes to heal. There was a perverse part of my brain that wanted to reach out and touch it. From time to time, even the stovepipe that led through the attic to the chimney would glow. Oh my goodness, how those hands and fingers ached as they were held over the roaring heater.ĭad knew just how much coal to load inside to get the heater’s belly to glow a soft red that made me think it would begin to melt at any moment.
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Gathering it to feed the eternally hungry maw of the heater was cold, dirty work that left fingers cracked and bereft of feeling. The coal lay in an oily, gradually diminishing pile at the edge of the front yard. It sat squat and proud in the living room and had a voracious appetite for coal. Early in the morning Mother would light the gas oven and a couple of the top burners to warm the kitchen whilst we got the fire going in the living room. We had one heater for our house, so the only rooms with any heat at all were the living room and kitchen. It rarely snows, but lord that cold gets down into the bones so deeply you could be forgiven for thinking it had taken up residence for good. “It’s as cold as a dead Dutchman!” Thanks to lots of rain and high humidity, Alabama winters are as mean as snake meat. Because I’m a little chilly this morning, I’m remembering wintertime in our house back in Piedmont, Alabama.įrom about the end of November until well into April or May my little Mawmaw would say it a hundred thousand times. I’m sure glad wishes don’t come true so easily I would’ve missed some truly wonderful times and people. I, for one, sometimes wished for different circumstances. There were times when it seemed just awful and we wondered if we’d ever get through it. If you didn’t get a chance to read her gorgeous post, just click here and read it. From the pictures I found of it online, I wouldnt mind having it.I’m still strolling, are you still with me? It’s always nice to look back over the years and remember, isn’t it? If you’ve read my last post, you’ll know that my good friend, Caz Greenham inspired me to look back into the mists of time.
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As for getting rid of the stove, unless its burnt out, something else wrong with it, or yu just want to upgrade to a more efficient stove, its a decision you have to make yourself. Doesnt sound right but it takes a lot of heat to dry that green wood before it will burn, and most of your heat escapes up the flue in the form of steam. The wood will burn faster doing things this way and you will get less heat. If your wood is green, you might have to keep the air more open to get the green wood to burn. I have gotten 12 hr burns in my current smoke dragon.
#Ashley c60d years crack
To keep a all niter burning, I like to put the biggest logs I can on top of a good bed of hot coals and cut the air off to just a crack and shut the damper about halfway off. I use the damper to slow the burn rate and hold a all nite fire. If your wood is good and dry, I would guess that you would open the air intake all the way as you are getting a fire started and once started, you would reduce the air intake to control burn. As with any stove, it might take you a little experimenting to find the sweet spot. I will guess that there is some where to control air into the fire and probably someway to control (damper the smoke going out of the stove. I can only guess how your stove operates. I used to own a different Ashley than the one you had. I did do a online search for that Ashley model, but couldnt find a users manual. Click to expand.You have officially been Snarked.
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