Outdoor Wood Furnace Info

All-Purpose OWF Discussions => General Outdoor Furnace Discussion => Topic started by: E Yoder on April 13, 2017, 09:20:49 AM

Title: odd things you see
Post by: E Yoder on April 13, 2017, 09:20:49 AM

In an attic we were in a while back...

Now that took some skill!

Title: Re: odd things you see
Post by: slimjim on April 13, 2017, 09:23:52 AM

Aaaand what is that a chimney?

Title: Re: odd things you see
Post by: E Yoder on April 13, 2017, 09:33:09 AM

Yup, i guess they built it to ft between the ceiling joists and the rafters. Built in the Civil War days I think.

Title: Re: odd things you see
Post by: slimjim on April 13, 2017, 09:36:09 AM

Hmmmm, kind of like putting a square peg in a slightly smaller round hole huh!

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Post by: BIG AL on April 14, 2017, 06:28:36 PM

That's quite the chimney , never seen spiral corbeling before.

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Post by: FrozenMongrel on April 14, 2017, 08:41:49 PM

A lot of chimney's of that era are built so that they will collapse if the house burns down because insurance rules of the time dictated that the house was not a total loss unless the chimney fell. I've seen a bunch of them that angle heavily in the attic, but from the living floors of the house and outside the roof you'd never be able to tell. The twist design is also fairly common, although not as much as the angled ones from my experience.

Title: Re: odd things you see
Post by: slimjim on April 15, 2017, 05:15:05 AM

THAT is great information and history, Thanks for sharing!