Slim, you need a bigger fire in the firebox as another commenter pointed out. These old stoves used a lot of wood fuel to get going, but were designed to keep that fire, once lit well, going for many, many hours. Like LatteLover PT said below, get it going by opening everything up and then start it cooling down by closing the venting down bit by bit until you have a steady heat. They take BUNCH of wood to get going, but very little thereafter. Do your fire building by layering the kindling and small wood and then counter stack bigger logs on top until the stove is full, then light it. You'll be boiling water in no time!

Hi Slim: I am mid 70's and have burned wood all my life in many different types of wood stoves. Just by looking at your stove I can tell you ,it will not be an issue heating your cabin. Get a good bed of coals and load up the stove. When it gets going good close the damper. Since that stove is not air tight, (like mine) I would completely close the air intake and gradually open slightly until you get the desired air flow with damper closed At night I completely shut the air off and damper closed. I still have heat and fire next morning. It's just a learning process . You will love the stove ! AND you will enjoy cooking on it as well !

Note from Slim: To reduce repeat comments, here's a few responses: 1. I need to use more wood at first fire-up. Thanks, noted 2. I need a hearth (platform) underneath. Yes, in time, but this is only a test. I need to establish the footprint of the final stove before I make a hearth 3. MISTAKE: It was a Carbon Monoxide Alarm (CO) and NOT a Carbon Dioxide (CO2) alarm. I goofed! 4. Fan circulation will happen later when electrical is finished. 5. Yes I know, heat rises, that's why I built the loft! It wasn't that warm up there however. 6. Hardwoods are more efficient. Yes, but I will only be using pine, poplar and birch, as I must insist on harvesting only local deadfall. Remember, this was a FIRST TEST ONLY, many improvements to follow. Thanks for so many great responses. It all helps. Thanks! SP

By adding some stone or tile under the stove it will be added safety and radiate heat. Modern stoves have fire bricks in them and more efficiently radiate the heat and burn the wood. Try adding some fire brick to the bottom and a bit up the side inside the stove.

Slim, once the fire gets going, just fill it with a good deal of firewood. Damper and intake fully open, and as you approach temperature, start closing them half way to maintain the temperature. Dryer wood will give out more heat.

That stove would look very nice with a coat of stove blacking. I also agree that it needs more and larger wood. Load it up and damp it down halfway and I bet it will drive you out of that cabin. Cast iron takes time to heat up, just like your frying pan, but when it gets warm, it's stays warm for a while. Stay warm and keep us in videos and we'll be as happy as you are!

That's a pretty large stove for the size of your cabin, it should be more than enough to turn it into a sauna. To retain heat you'll want to insulate the attic/roof, you're probably losing a lot of heat up there. EDIT: Remember heat rises and escapes at the high points.

I just want to say, there are so many helpful and encouraging comments here! What a treat to read such comments, honestly! Slim, you bring out the best in people, and that is a very fine thing. Thank you, and thank you to all your commenters!

Slim, We had a similar problem with our old stove. We lined the inside of the firebox with fire bricks on the bottom and sides, then add a grate to lift the logs off the bottom to increase airflow. We also got one of the thermal fans on top to blow the heat around the camp.. Grab some stove- black to treat the rust and refinish the cast-iron sides. Love the video's, enjoy the crack-lin fire with a cold one.

I don't know,you took a totally unheated place that's been rained upon,blown in a hurricane upon,seen some cold winters 🥶 alone on the hill so the whole house body,the earth below,the new parts all have to warm up together,dry out together,then they'll be ready for hold heat like no tomorrow! Yours is a most refreshing and unique home I just love it.Take care Please know you are amazing ! When things get cozy you'll see,Home Sweet Home !

To add circulating heat in your cabin: put one of those circulating heat fans, powered only by the heat from one's free standing wood stove top. Also keep your kettle of hot water on your wood stove top so that you can add humidity to the air, if needed since in Nova Scotia there may be enough humidity.

Man I wish I had an uncle like SP! Would be so cool to sit by the stove and listen to the good ol' travel stories during the long winter nights :))

Slim you are a tonic for all that’s going on around the world you give me a bit of escapism thankyou 😊

No advice from me except to keep making cabin videos. Really enjoyed it.

About your heat shield on the wall: There needs to be an air space at the bottom above the floor level, so it acts like a chimney and will draw cold air in at the bottom as air is heated inside the space between the shield and the wall. You could put your bare hand on the floor right in front of the shield to verify that there really is no heat to mention down there. Just raise the shield and backing up about 4 inches. During the coldest weather I also stack some concrete blocks from my garden in between the shield and the stove to retain heat rather than let it go up the chimney. I always have a bucket of drinking water on the stove as well. Washing your hands and face or dishes in warmer water is a winter luxury for me. Have fun playing with your stove! Good video.

If you're building the fire on the metal bottom of the stove, assuming there are no grates inside, you should have a couple inches of ashes or preferably sand on the bottom. Better for the stove and less heat out the bottom. A fireproof pad under the stove and extending in front of the stove is also a necessity.

Your on the right track, start with crumpled paper, then a criss cross pattern of kindling and light, as soon as kindling is going well, add three or four small logs, keep bottom air intake open and keep door cracked open and flu open. The air intake with door just a half inch ajar will get those logs going very well! Once a good amount of coals have formed under the logs, close the door then you must close down the flu by around 80 percent and do the same on the air intake. Leaving both mostly open allows the majority of your heat to just go right up and out. By closing down the intake and flu, your fire will drop to a slow smoldering, hot coal fire, the wood last alot longer and the heat value increases. I heat our log cabin almost entirely by an old wood stove. What you have will work very well, you just need to adjust how you do things a bit. Good luck sir...

I remember when I had a cottage. Winter time, it took two days before the cabin was really warm. That stove has a lot of flat surfaces, it can't heat the air that fast or store the heat. You could turn the stove a quarter of a turn and wall it up with natural stone around it. Then you avoid the heat shield. The wall stores the heat while you sleep and you can wall in heat channels around the stove to heat up the house faster. (Better heat convection)

Hey there Slim, I would suggest a chimney pipe thermometer. I have 2 stoves I heat with and they are very helpful to get your burn temperatures where you want. It keeps me from running the fire too hot and also too cool. Great info to have. Keep up the good work!

That flat bar near the stove is used to replace individual shingles, you slide it up behind the shingle hook the nail then remove the nail by banging on the handle with a hammer. Remove the nails slide the shingle out and slide in a replacement. As always great video

I am sitting here in front of my woodstove typing this in my tee shirt and shorts. Outside its 36f, and windy as heck. But my thermometer in here is sitting at a sready 77f. Life is sure good with wood! Many thanks. David in Welsh Wales.

I just knew someone would have the right advice to solve the stove issue and I wasn’t wrong! You have some great, knowledgeable viewers, Slim! I’ve visited Canada many times and absolutely LOVE it. I’d do anything to live there, it’s the most beautiful country on earth. You’re incredibly blessed to live there 🙏 Sending warm wishes from the UK.

The “face” on your stove door is absolutely charming. (I never used that word before.) The expression of misery is unmistakable. 😂

Afternoon Slim! There certainly is a learning curve with those old stoves. But, once you get the hang of them, loading them up, keeping a steady burn and drying the cabin out, you will have no problem with heat. We have had one from the 40's in our hunting cabin for decades. It takes about the better part of a day to get the cabin warm, it's a bit large for a hunting cabin. But once it's fired up and the stove is hot, keeping it hot isn't a problem. We don't have alot of insulation in the walls or roof. Even still... there are times you will want to sleep with the windows open! It's all about finding how the cabin and stove perform best. Once you get that dialed in, you'll be set for winter. Stay warm!

A little grate that raises the logs off the bottom will add circulation under the fire to help with combustion and should raise the achieved temps. Also, if your budget can handle it, a heat exchanger on the exhaust pipe will work wonders for capturing and moving heat around the room.

Hello Slim. ☕️ Coffee? It's a beautiful afternoon now. Thanks for the warm fire....🔥 Thank you for your kindness and dedication to give us these lovely videos. 😊

As others have stated, when starting a wood stove you have to load it all the way up and open the draft and the damper all the way. Get it going like an inferno then start adjusting the draft and damper slowly. Once you have a few hot coals in there you're golden. Also, it takes a while to heat up the area when the walls and everything is cold. The wood, tables, chairs, walls and everything in the cabin will keep giving off cold air until it soaks up that heat. I used to build and sell wood stoves, some with grates in them for grilling in the house. I heated with nothing but wood for many years. Don't be disappointed. Once you learn it you'll love it. The most comfortable heat there is.

Hi Slim. The “implement of destruction” you showed briefly in your newest video about your stove, is a tool that is made to reach up under shingles and allows one to pull the nails out that are holding the shingle to the wall. I live not far from you in Maine and a retired carpenter friend just gave me his tool like that so I can replace some damaged shingles on my house. We enjoy your videos! Cheers, AlaskaRog

The other tool you have by the tongs is a Slaters Ripper. It’s a tool to remove the nails holding roof slates in place. Love your video’s Slim!

I once lived in an apartment - in an old brick house - that was built around the time of the 1st world war. So double brick walls, but no insulation. Also bricks had been used to bind the two walls. Metal was not available for "primitive" house building wall-binders, as metal was very much in demand at the war. The apartments had since been updated with efficient and modern central heating, but a day-time and night-time energy-saving-scheme was used. So the rooms never ever got heated properly. At one point I broke in to the boiler room, and removed the energy savings scheme. So the heat was now at full blast, all the time. Even so, it took about 72 hours before the rooms felt warm and nice. It simply took that long to drive the moisture out of the inner walls. And until they were properly dry, no amount of heat would bring the temperature above a certain point. The limiting point was about 16-18*C, as this is where it was warm enough to start driving the moisture out of the walls. --- I wonder if your wood cabin will need a thorough heating, before it too dries up, from the humidity/moisture that is naturally "stored" in the planks and boards. And after such a drying-out event, then the air temperature might be be able to get above 16-18*C?

Since you started out with a clean box, keep the ash from this burn in place and try to keep about an inch of ash in the box floor. It acts as an insulation and actually helps the fire get hotter. I remember many winters growing up where the wood burning stove was the only source of heat we had. Each of us took turns throughout the night to check on the fire and make sure it was always burning.

Thanks for the video | "It is a new thing. A learning experience"... Yes.. for you, for me, and probably a lot of others as well.

Grew up in a wood frame farmhouse with little to no insulation, cheap single paned windows, 6 large rooms. Heated it with a Ben Franklin wood stove from Montgomery Wards purchased in the early 70s. Stove was in the first room with rest behind it, with solid walls, only regimar door openings, no venting, no blowers etc. And there was a small propane heater in last room only used on very cold mornings. Build your fire, damper fully open, load it up w wood once it's going. Then start damping down until you have a temperature you are comfortable with. Ours would turn red it got so hot at times. We had paneling behind it, no protection. Very surprised it never caught fire. Your stove will heat that cabin, and you can cook on top. I'd use stove black and shine that thing up. Love your cabin series 😀

Enjoy all your videos!!! My husband & I live in Virginia, but I'm Canadian. Was born in Toronto once upon a time!! Thank you for sharing your videos with us, with a good mix of humor & information. Looking forward to the next one as always!!!

Two things: First, for anyone who wants a similar backer behind their wood burner, you can use common aluminum foil as a deflector. Second, I notice that Slim, who claims to like saving money and keeping things simple, actually splurges on cereal with TWO scoops of raisins! 😄 Glad it works Slim, that will make for a pleasant evening. I've got an old cast iron pot belly from a caboose set up in my workshop that always works great and makes a mean pot of coffee, or eggs and bacon. Heavy though...

Looks great Slim. I would suggest a tray. Maybe cookie sheet like in front of your lower air intake. I had stone under mine but sparks WILL pop out of those small openings. Cabin is looking great. Thanks for sharing. Peace from Michigan

Hi Slim, I have a stove tip to share for Emergencies! In the event of a chimney fire or the necessity to extinguish the fire in your wood stove, completely soak one or two large rolls of paper towel and place them in the wood stove and close the door! The rising steam will give you the best chance to extinguish the fire! I learned this CIRCA 1985 from my grandfather at the summer cottage, I was 11yrs old. Great decor by the way! Thanks for all your efforts Slim, the videos are relaxing and fun to watch. Chad in Saskatchewan.

had almost same stove at camp up here in fredericton ,loved the look,but never was happy with performance. was not csa approved ,so had insurance issues.changed out to second hand air tight stove. also found we needed floor protection because of sparks out of damper. we used chuncks of copper pipe for spacers. chunk of steel almost looks like lawnmower blade.

Hi Slim! That old stove has a certain charm and definitely looks like it fits well in the cabin. Wonder if perhaps the fact that the humidity level was high from the cabin not being heated at all and that also affects the humidity level of the solid materials in the cabin, that this could have had an impact on the air temperature the stove could achieve the first time. One thing’s for sure - you’ll figure it out; you always do. Thanks for sharing & stay well.

Hello Slim. Thanks for your video. Like some people said... you need to crank your stove with good quality wood. First only use dry wood. Damp wood do not give heat at all. It burn but do not give heat. If you want to go throught the night use hard dry wood. The fire will last longer wil you sleep. During the day you can burn soft wood but you will have to reload more often. Used hard or soft wood will give you heat as long as it is dry. Wish you to anjoye these moments wil sitting close to your stove. This source of heat is so fondamental during the cold winters night. The comming days i will put wood in my stove thinking about you and wishing that you are warm and in peace. I wish to all of us to find peace sitting by our stove during the comming winters day/night. A warm stove is a warm sole.

I have a big old wood stove. To get mine going quickly I leave the door ajar until the fire gets going fairly hot then fill it up with bigger pieces. You should have something under the stove similar to what you put behind it. If your wood is even a little green it won't get hot enough to burn right away. You have a beautiful stove - it will burn for hours at night to keep you warm - just have to get to know it better.

Wonderful to have free heat. I Love my wood stove and forage for all free wood. Stay warm!

Best advice I could give is to use your excess metal roofing to build a slope roofed wood shed. I make mine using pallets as the base and metal roofing to keep off the moisture. Standup a pallet on either end to brace your stacks, you can make it as long as you want or need, and open air on all sides for best circulation. That allows two parallel stacks with an air gap in between. Stack your wood under cover as soon as it is split and wait for the checking on the ends (you can also feel the lightness or hear a sharp sound when hit together) or get a moisture meter to let you know when it is ready to be stove fuel. Burning improperly seasoned wood is a big waste of your time and energy, resulting in smoky fires generating little heat.

Great video Slim. I like your safety measure,. A fire extinguisher and running shoes. LOL. Nice idea using the sockets as spacers. Thanks for sharing.

My stepdad bought a house that was almost completed at the Oregon Coast; had an additional space added with a wood stove. It was a two story house, and the contractor put in a duct pipe, about 18 inches, with a thermostat up top that would turn on when it hit 68 degrees near the peak of the room, a fan that pulled the warm air down to about a foot off the floor. It was a great system for heating the house. Some brick around the stove will help because it becomes a thermal mass that absorbs heat and then stays warm for a couple of days; it will help to even out the heating by absorbing when it's cold and releasing the heat once it's warmed up. I've watched the homebuilders in western Oregon; they build the house, and once it's sealed up, they crank up the furnace for a few days and dry it all out. Likely you were in that kind of process, only you didn't have rain coming in while framing and putting on the roof; but the concept is the same, once you dry it out, it will be easier to keep comfortable. As a number of commenters said, installing an outside air intake will help make things more efficient, as you won't be drawing cold air into the house itself, but only into the stove.

My uncle always had 2 years of firewood ready for Grandma’s cook stove. There is a learning curve for heating with a wood stove and your cabin is larger than your trailer. Some excellent suggestions from your viewers. I enjoy your videos.

So awesome me n grandma get together watch your videos n have on speaker have snacks, I live with my grandma til I get into college, times are tough today, we can't wait til you're cabin is finished.

What a beautiful place you made!

Slim this is so much better than the hurricane experience .

My suggestion is - oh, wait - you already have 200+ "suggestions"!!!!! I'll just sit here and enjoy the video - and stay warm.

You need to put more wood in and open up the air inlet also open up the damper in the stack. You should be able to turn the the stack red hot. Try cracking the door open , if that works you need to open up the air inlet. Good lock and have fun!!

That's a very nice looking woodstove, Slim! We love having a woodstove. We frequently lose power in the winter so it comes in handy for keeping the house warm and we've even cooked on it. There's nothing like the dry heat of a woodstove. If you ever get chilled, sit in front of the stove and you will be toasty warm in no time! Thanks for sharing.

I can't wait to see this thing roaring in wintertime when you really get used to it and load it up! It'll heat that cabin nicely!

You got me through lockdown with my mental health thank you

Brings back memories of our old cottage that used an old wood stove and convection heat to warm up the place. My Dad sold it back in the late '70s. I'm down by Ajo at the moment.

I could feel the warmth through the screen. Thank you for sharing, Slim.

Thanks for sharing your personal life adventures with us all...

" CABIN FIRE" THE SMELL OF AN OLD STOVE WOOD BURNING BRIGHT COMFORT AND HEAT MORNING, NOON AND NIGHT BRINGS MEMORIES BACK CHOPPING WOOD AND MORE PUTTING IN ANOTHER LOG CAREFULLY CLOSING THE DOOR YES, IN THE DAYS OLD CHIMNEY SMOKE TWISTING IN THE SKY A RIBBON REACHING UPWARD AND A WARM HOME INSIDE (STAY WARM...MY FRIEND).

Looks like a BIG stove, Fill'er UP an let'er Rip!

I think that you will be fine with that stove Slim. You are still getting used to it. Once you got a good bed of hot coals in there you would notice a huge difference in heat output. That and the wood you use makes a huge difference as well as properly seasoned firewood. Also on the stove door , just under the left side window there is a round hole in the door. It looks like that may have had some type of handle in that location that would make it easier to open and close. Give it a chance Slim , thumbs UP! 👍

Cabin is looking great. I appreciate the videos!

I thoroughly enjoy all of your videos, Slim!! Keep them coming, and best of luck to you, my friend.

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE YOUR VIDEOS I especially enjoyed this one - I love winter's approach and I love the smell of a log burner. My best wishes to you for the coming winter. May your wood stove serve you well

Great content as always.Thanks for sharing and taking us along

I like how the sheet metal turned out. Many buildings are now using rusty "shabby sheek" panels to panel the walls and side of counter...you do it so it's comforting to look at and functional. I'm in a similar scenario between budget, looks and what's acceptable.

What a fun video! Slim, I am a fan for life

The creativity that is so obvious when you’re videotaping nature is showing up as you create ingenious ways of building your cabin! Awesome!

Thanks Slim--it looks like you need to close the flue. Once the fire is going good and hot, shut that flue down (nearly closed) and that will trap more heat inside the cabin and stove.

Slim, you are the best!

It's a beautiful stove and worth trying to make it work. You might want to add a damper to the chimney which will hold the heat in the stove rather than it going up the chimney. We heat with wood at our 'home base' house as well as at our Yukon cabin where we spend part of the winter. At the cabin we don't have a CSA approved stove like we need to have at the house. The one at the cabin is a home built barrel stove and we love it! We get the stove kits from the US and use an old oil type barrel for the stove. The kit has the door, legs and the chimney hole included. Because the barrel is long, we cut longer pieces of firewood than most stoves will take. The fire lasts all night and keeps us toasty in the log cabin, even at -40C! We hammer out the top to flatten the barrel a bit so we can put pots on top. Works great to keep the kettle ready for tea!

Good evening Slim from a very rainy England. Love what you’re doing to the cabin.

Very Canadian of you to use Robertson screws! I once watch a whole documentary on its history. Super neat.

Slim, i have not watched your videos for a few months and I did not realize how much I missed! great progress and it is great to see you again.

The cabin looks great Slim! And now you won't freeze in winter. 🔥

HEY ! Hello Slim! You will be toasty warm! I love your adventures!

Awesome first fire up of the stove Slim, can’t wait to see it ripping in another video.

Great content! Can’t wait for the next. Good luck and Happy Holidays Slim!

Mica sheets! In 1955 our family camped from New York to California and back. Some miners gave me a piece of mica about 5" in diameter. Dad later used that piece to do exactly what you did. He replaced the tiny window in our furnace with it. Your mention of its use is the first I have heard of using natural mica for a heat window since then. Wow.

Wonderful job on your cabin! It looks great. 🎉have tons of peaceful fun my friend.

Looking good Slim. Stuff that box, sit back and relax. It has to be a warm thought that you have come this far. Lots wouldn't even give it a go. Cheers brother!

Best of luck with that old wood stove... I read a lot of the other comments so I don't need to repeat them. I have a soapstone wood stove and it heats my house amazingly well. To get it warm quickly I pack it with a lot of wood and set that thing blazing. My only concern about your wood stove is that I am surprised it is not on a hearth to protect the floor. In the town where I live, wood stoves have to be installed by a professional with a fire marshal watching to make sure it is installed correctly before you can use it. We have a hearth underneath the wood stove and a heat shield attached to the back of it. We've had this wood stove for 20 years and I love it. I use it quite a bit. We only burn hard wood because soft woods create creosote in the chimney pipe and could cause a chimney fire. Only our kindling is pine. The hotter you burn, the less your chances of creosote build up.

You've come a long way. Good on you.

You know your Canadian when you take off your Plaid jacket only to reveal ANOTHER Plaid jacket 😊 Love ya Slim

A lot of people don't think a Damper is a good idea, but in an Old Wood Stove, they help a lot.

Thanks for sharing the adventure SP. I'm learning how to use an old Majestic cookstove in my cabin, and it has been a real challenge. The old stoves just don't start, burn, or warm like the modern stoves. I like Kit's idea of lining the firebox with firebricks to see if that helps with burn efficiency. Thanks for the idea Kit.

Great video, can’t wait for an update on the stove situation

Hello Slim I certainly enjoyed this video,, thank you for sharing.

Always love when you post a new video! Big space= more fuel! Will warm up with time. Big fire at first, after stove is heated a small fire will keep temp. Good luck slim and thanks fer yer videos, I like and share because I enjoy them.

Fun video, Slim. Thanks. … I grew up with wood stoves like that. You will need good insulation in the roof. As others say, once you get the fire going and good air flow, you can close the damper down bit more. So many good memories.

Very nice old woodstove. Yes, a lot more wood in there will raise your room temp. I had a woodstove for 12 years. If you put a small fan on top of the stove, it will project heat into the cabin and warm it up. I also had a protective fireproof mat under my stove to protect the floor from too much heat. It's best to burn only wood in your stove. No paper or cardboard, as this will cause creosote buildup. Start your fires with kindling. I also added a small piece of burn brick to keep it going just at the beginning. If you haven't already, check the under side of the stove to see if there are any signs of damage or that it could be ready to burn a hole thru. Periodically check your chimney piping for creosote buildup. You can also buy special burn logs that will clean creosote out of the chimney pipe. Enjoy your stove. Wood burners are so nice to have.

Good morning Slim, from Australia, where I live here can get extremely cold and we use a wood heater in our main house, that is of a modern version (20 yrs old) and works extremely well at heating a large house, we have another house that I inherited up in an alpine region and is very old and we have been restoring it for a couple of years now,one of the things it came with was a wood heater out of the 1930’s, long story short,poor heat,loved wood, changed it out for a newer slow combustion heater with triple burn technology with the result been more dry heat,less wood required and we can put a cast iron casserole on top of it to make casseroles throughout the day( absolutely delicious), I purchased it at one of the big hardware chains at reasonable cost.

Looks great Slim!

Greetings. We live in a coast environment in SW WA and heat primarily with our woodstove and wood from our property. Primarily alder, spruce, and hemlock. You need to let the stove do its work. Once you have a good roaring base, load the stove up, close the door, adjust the dampner for a good sustainable blaze, and sit back. Don't keep opening and closing the door and feeding it a stick at a time. Just a suggestion. Good luck. Winter well. Happy trails!

Looks like everyone has good advice regarding the stove operation, and your heat shield. Just one additional, start the fire in the rear, at the flue, use fast burning material, damper full open, air intake full open. The hot flue will immediately start the air draw, avoiding interior smoke. That door sounds like it has no seal. Suggest you consider adding a seal. Did you measure attic ceiling temperature? Not insulated ceiling, the roof snow may slough off sooner. Snow can be excellent insulation. Suggest interior ceiling insulation. FILL THAT FIRE BOX and go to bed. It should keep you toasty all night, with the best/proper damper and intake settings.

nice vid, thanks sir - my folks home growing up had a 70's Woodland wood stove we used for heat for a number of years. We put in a poured aggregate concrete floor and wall barrier that worked well. The neighbor up the road had a stack fire with their much less well installed unit - make sure you have a couple fire extinguishers. But woodstoves are cool - my mother cooked Thanksgiving turkeys on it a couple times when the power went completely out.

Slim, I have just recently discovered your channel. I wish I had found it sooner. You are putting out some great content. I literally laughed out loud at your comment, "I have my running shoes on." Keep up the good work.

you will get it to work perfect do not worry, great stuff thanks

I have a vintage large Kodiak & love it ... a properly positioned fan will help direct heat where you need it. An air tight stove is a ➕️ must if you want to keep a 🔥 for many hours

👍👍👍👍👍, There is always a learning curve, like you said. You never know till you give it a go.

Glad you’re doing well I was not sure following your Hurricane experience I know you get the stove working better looking forward to seeing more of your adventures 😊