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Couldn't hurt to put some supports in the middle. I have to be careful how hot I burn the wood stove because the damper assembly can easily start sagging because it wasn't designed well enough.

I was wondering about that. Maybe they should have located the pipe in front or back blowing gas back under the wood pile.

Get a windmill for some electric heat.

If fire contacts something too cold, the heat is sucked out of it before the soot can finish burning. Fire is yellow because of the hot carbon. Stick a paperclip in a candle flame, and it gets covered with soot until it gets really hot.

I'm sure there's a cheap way to do it, depending on what you think affordable is. Time spent exploring options and designing it could be a lot.

I don't like to burn cherry except in the smoker. I stopped using white pine for now, and switched to hedge and red oak. Pine can burn hot, but the charcoal doesn't. I do like how little ash pine left. I could go a week or 2 so it seemed without scooping ashes, now it is every 2 days.

I'd set that on the computer desk, on a tile of course.

Have you seen what they make grills out of? 1/8" is really all you need for a tiny stove.

There's a high end brand I forgot what it is. They have one with glass on 3 sides. Anyway, Google 3 window wood stove, and there should be a variety of results. If I was you, I'd build my own after studying a few stove designs in person. You can buy the special stove glass from a wood stove...

Exhaust header paint, chainsaw muffler paint. Wood stove paint can't tolerate the really high temps, it falls right off chainsaw mufflers often times.

It's best to clean the barrels well and give them a good fireproof paint job, or they will rust apart from the heat quite fast.

I have a far room I leave shut, so it stays cold. I can go there to cool off. It also makes a good "root cellar" for squash.

I had a feeling they regulated it somehow if they do the same to solar and well water. We need a tax on their ability to tax. I'm surprised you haven't moved out of that state, but then, who'd want to move in to Cali to buy your house, not to mention the other difficulties and costs of moving...

Good on you choosing to continue heating your house with renewable energy from the green solar powered forests. Nature will thank you, the tax collectors won't.

If only you had a way of drying your wood chips, you'd be burning them too. I would, since chips are cheap. I guess they'd have to be spread on big tarps to sun dry in the summer, then bagged and stored airtight so humidity can't get in to cause rot.

A week ago I tried burning 2 big chunks of eastern white pine that was a little rotten in some places. No kindling needed, just 1 match. It burned for 4 hours before I gave up waiting for it to go out and went to sleep. It may have gone another hour or 2. I saw the last coal go out late in the...

I just burn fires differently now, and have rarely had it get too hot. Also, there's a couple cracks in the stove from age that leak air, but I tend to run the stove in a way that minimizes the possibility of overheating with how I load it, or let it cool before a big overnight load when I won't...

Yes, pipes are great. We got a 8" dia flex liner installed, and the draft is very strong. If the stove gets hot enough it sort of goes into thermal runaway where the draft gets so strong that it can draw too much air through every little crack and leaky gasket with the air vents shut.

I'm often afraid an animal will brush their tail against the glass.

No, just eyeballed. The stove height may need an extra 25%, but the pipe is close enough.