Road Trip Got Pegboards For The Wood Shop & More

On this day Melanie and I took a road trip to get her ice skates and some pegboard for my wood shop among other things.

We found some ice skates online and immediately drove out to get them. On the way back home we stopped at a friends house to see what he had that we could use.

He has been cleaning out an entire business and is selling or giving away everything that he brings home. We got some pegboard for the wood shop on wheels. I plan to put these on the walls to hold my tools and keep them neat and orderly.

I will have to put up some barn wood 2x4s though to hold the pegboard off the walls so I can put in the hooks that came with it.

We also got some other useful items at that time. And Melanie received the gift of a sled so that we can ride down the hills here at the off grid homestead this winter. This will be another first for Melanie this year. Its going to be a fun winter.

Back at the homestead we had a bit of an emergency. Some wood that I had thought was cured was not. And to top it off, we had some freezing rain the other day which covered the wood in ice and also froze up the spark arrester on the wood stove cap.

Every year when we get freezing rain, it condenses on the creosote coming out of the chimney pipe and solidifies on the screen spark arrestor, plugging it solid.

On top of this, I had the uncured wood which was aging for two years but was not split so it was not fully cured. It had some water in it. And the freezing rain had put ice all over the outside of the wood. Now, the combination of the three caused water to condense inside the chimney pipe inside the tiny house on wheels.

There was a lot of water. Enough to fill the clean out cap on the stove pipe inside the tiny house. The cap fell off, releasing black tar and soot filled water all over the place. It was a total mess.

Then smoke was pouring into the tiny house on wheels.

I had to go up on the roof and poke through each and every single screen hole one at a time to pry out the solidified creosote so that we could burn the wood stove hot again.

When I had that cleaned up, then I was able to burn a hot fire in the wood stove and burn out all the water and creosote that had built up.

The pipes are relatively clean though. They were just full of water running through from the extra wet wood and the plugged spark arrestor.

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Troy
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