So it was my dad's Birthday yesterday. He would be maybe 87? Anyway I thought going up north would be nice as he was born on a "kitchen table" a bit north of where I bought land. My grandfather was the minister for two churches on a huge lake in northern Minnesota. Each church on each end of the lake - so a bit of a drive each Sunday?
Pomoly just posted a vid about the hazard of their stove jack not holding up - so luckily I still had that silicone cooking mat from last winter. So I shoved that in between the stove pipe and stove jack - it's good to 450 or 500 Fahrenheit. Didn't see any burn marks on it.
Because I have that bendable 3 inch stove "elbow" that I ordered from a nearby town (and had it mailed down to where I live normally - and now I drove it back up!) - so then the stove pipe goes out at 45 degrees, thereby preventing any potential embers from falling on the tent (hopefully).
I didn't want to use my new collapsible wood stove because I haven't received the special spark arrester yet. I didn't trust the one that came with the stove - it's just a "hood." My DIY wood stove has a better spark arrester.
So I used the stove damper as a tie off for wire to hold the stove pipe. Not sure how much this will help. the 3 inch iron stove damper kept turning the stove pipe into an OVAL and so the stove pipe came undone as it fit into the other stove pipes. So I just took out the stove jack metal iron insert. Just using the handle as a tie up and to plug off the holes.
So this winter Hot Tent gets too much cold air through the bottom air vent. It probably saved me as the stove as "curing" the stove cement put on to cover up holes. Once the stove cement cured then it stopped smoking the off gas fumes.
There's the DIY wood stove. Normally a wood stove costs about $200 minimum. I think the new one I got for $170 on sale? So this one seems to hold up ok - that top burning off seems to be from the paint.
The interior stove elbow. So it doesn't look like much but sure enough I get to move the stove pipe OFF the tent.
So I put stove gasket around the door - to seal off the top from leaking smoke. Then the bottom of the stove opening has holes drilled in to let air in under the grate that holds the wood. It draws very well if I just leave the door slightly ajar. The right side doesn't close all the way but the left side prevents the door from opening.
The problem is that those are pine needles underneath and they were drying off fast and then it's canvas under that. So I will get a refractory blanket - I saw them sold at Harbor Freight. Then I'll be good to go in case I need to do long term camping.
So I used my new early xmas gift - the Estwing "Fireside Friend" - a four pound "camp maul" to hammer in through the frozen ground. It worked perfectly.
Even made in the US - amazing! Yes it also comes with a "sheath" that is made in Taiwan. And so I kept the sheath on when using the hammer side. But I also split some wood - works just like a real maul. I saw that the real mauls are also four pounds. The store worker had no idea where the Estwing was - he said - if it's not on the shelf then the computer must be wrong when it says there is ONE in the store. haha. In fact, I looked in the hammer section in the Hardware and they had a whole "Estwing" display - and sure enough ONE "fireside Friend." So also this was the ONLY store that actually carried the Fireside Friend that I could find - of half a dozen different types of stores.
You have to be careful though because you're closer to the swing as it comes through. So if you miss the log then it comes back towards your legs. It would be very easy to damage a leg with this thing. haha. I had a couple close misses and then realized I had to keep my legs apart.
So there it is - it t urns out the NEW tent was missing the top cone cover part!! So luckily I got that PVC tent for FREE and I had already treated it with silicone - so I used the cone from the older PVC tent. Then I set up the PVC tent without the cone to air out the strong mineral spirits smell. So it will just fill up with snow. haha.
But Abrupt Global Warming is really evident this winter - so far it's been a balmy winter just below freezing. Not much snow.
It's ABOVE freezing down where I normally live.
He’s right. Its already been calculated that at 450ppm CO2 all ice on Earth will be melted. Thats 200+ft in sea level rise. At current rate, we will reach 450ppm between 2035-2045.
Glennski... you need a crash course in physics. Ocean will rise 200 feet you say, in your bizarre little world. The aliens will come and save us all...Dude...wake up. You have the right to be stupid, but maybe not the right to spread stupid lies.
@Voidisyinyang Voidisyinyang : I am aware of the methane. It is good you brought it up. When speaking of this issue I try to focus on carbon dioxide since it is the most publicly digestible concept currently. Luckily we don’t have to fix both methane and carbon dioxide to save us from climate catastrophe. I am not aware of which is the easiest exactly but I come across more research relating to carbon dioxide sequestration.
@GlennPaulWills You mean because methane turns into CO2 after 20 years or so? So you know that the ESAS methane bomb will increase warming by 1 degree Celsius? It's already been triggered. So how you gonna "fix that." ? haha.
@Voidisyinyang Voidisyinyang : if you want to cheer on the end of the world more power to you. We only got 3-5 years to build co2 sequester tech plants and get CO2 below 400ppm. Either we sequester methane or co2. We dont got to sequester both to win by 2030.
@GlennPaulWills The logic here seems faulty. So I have spent my life working for environmental organizations, doing environmental justice work and I even got arrested eight times protesting - and I was actually investigated as an ecoterrorist for practicing my bill of rights - and now I'm cheering on the end of the world because I dare to examine the scientific evidence? Is that really my only option? I am thinking of planting chestnut trees way up north since global warming is already 2 degrees above Celsius for northern Minnesota. I already planted an acre of chestnut trees in central minnesota. As far as your illusionary Techno-Utopia - it's already been well-debunked. There's a great book you'll probably never read, "The Religion of Technology" by former MIT professor David F. Noble (1996). His follow up book was his last, "The Myth of Progress" - or something like that. He was buddies with Chomsky I think. Noble got fired, proven in a lawsuit backed by the AHA, for political reasons. He refused to use email even. Smart guy. So I realized we were DOOMED by 1996 and so I finished my Master's Degree by doing intensive nonwestern meditation to find out what happens after death. Sure enough ghosts are real! Also so is nonwestern healing energy http://springforestqigong.com and then I read one scholarly book a day for ten years to reverse-engineer the experience back into science. Turns out the secret is from "noncommutative phase" logic of relativistic quantum biology! The reason almost all scientists dismiss the "spiritual ecology" as woo woo is because their science isn't advanced enough. So I had to corresponded with math professor Louis Kauffman who worked at SLAC (collaborator with Eddie Oshins) and other scientists... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frPp-0coYGk Dr. Andrew Glikson, Visiting Fellow at Australian National University. Professor Glikson is a renowned geologist who has written widely about previous mass extinction events on Earth. We discussed his forthcoming book, The Event Horizon: Homo Promotheus and the Climate Catastrophe. I thin he goes into "Carbon Capture" pretty well. He's got a new interview that's not uploaded yet to youtube. https://naturebatslast.podbean.com/e/nature-bats-last-120120/
So if you read the book "Life on the Edge" on quantum biology - it proves that Mother Nature is in control. Nonwestern meditation proves this as well. So we resonate with Mother Nature and she "bats last." We all discover this at death also. The Western source on this is Peter Kingsley who did his Ph.D. on Pythagorean philosophy http://peterkingsley.com
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