Stove Hunting

[mlw67]

So I went back to this site where I had found stove parts and dug out most of the rest. There are still some pieces in there but getting out all these big ones was a real PITA, and it was hot and dusty too. I was done for the day. I'm still missing a foot, but I'm sure its there. There were plenty more signals to dig.

What happened was this old circa 1850s to 1870s stove was sitting outside for some reason when WHAMMO a gigantic 2-foot-thick branch fell down and smashed the poor thing to pieces. Although sad, it must have looked pretty cool, really. LOL

Now seeing all the cool designs on it I'm wanting to restore the dumb thing a bit. I'll be looking into methodology regarding electrolosis for way-too-big items very soon. I've done small items before, but these pieces are WAY bigger than what I've zapped before. If anyone has any quick tips let me know.

Although I haven't found an *exact* match, I did find a couple of pictures of extremely similar stoves to what this stove would have looked like originally. I'll put those on here, too.

 

[mlw67]

Thanks 59er and DMCguy!

 

[Rusted_Iron]

My kind of finds... I love old woodstoves. Relics are good, whether they're military, logging, farm, or whatever.

Keep us posted on how your project turns out.

 

[Cannonman17]

Now all you need is to find another one and you can start a collection!!

 

[Bavaria Mike]

You are very persistent, LOL! Don't think I could have dug up the whole thing. HH and interesting find, Mike

 

[gldhntr]

If I clean it up and it says CSA on the side of it, will that be better?? LOL you already have my vote, but that will get you a gold star and a ..............gldhntr

 

[Mirage]

Cool. My Metal Detector would give me an overload if I scanned that. What kinda of metal detector are you using? Aren't you missing one side plate?

Good luck on putting it together. Bondo works good.

Mirage

 

[Blackjack77]

ML you crack Me up- LOL You have more persistance than I'll ever have. Gotta love those old stoves, but to dig up a buried one- ??
One persons treasure ....
HH

 

[mlw67]

Thanks for all the great comments everyone!

LOL @ the idea of starting a stove collection!

Mirage: I'm using a White's Classic IDX. I used all-metal mode to figure out where to dig for the pieces. Since they were mostly all right in one spot, it wasn't too hard to do.

I have the other side plate. I dug that the first time I was there, but that time I was hiking in (and out) almost a mile to the site. This time I used a satellite photo to find an old dirt and weeds (yet very convenient) access road that allowed me to actually get right to the site. Yay for technology! 8)

Bondo, eh? Isn't that the lead singer for Pearl Jam? I'll have to look into it.

 

[dfx willy]

way cool !!!! but if you had a welder it wouldnt work. cast iron. willy.

 

[crazyjarhead]

Those things must have been heavy. Good luck at your stove overhaul. Too bad about it's misfortune

 

[spartacus53]

WTG on that recovery, all you need now is an industrial tube of glue to put it back together

 

[allen]

that looks like a fun project !

 

[mlw67]

Well three years later, here is an update:

We found the rest of the stove parts and were able to somewhat assemble it back together loosely just to see what it looked like.

Further investigation and research and other items found indicated that this was the site of an 1850s era schoolhouse.

The bad news is, we had a permit to metal detect this state land site but when we went back in 2007 to renew our permit they told us that our original permit had been issued in error and that no one was ever supposed to be allowed to detect !?

We say: Hmmmph.