Sad day in Williams Folks

It got so slow up here, I started cleaning my stove, but...I'm not going to complete it in one day, nope, I'm gonna savor it, lol

It may be a shock to your system to eat off such a sanitary cooking top. Use caution lol

make "scrapins stew"

Please post a photo of the finished project Les.
I'm gonna go fetch my sunglasses.

Zim

WHEW I was worried you got married and broke the hearts of gals all over

The last time I saw a picture of your stove, I don't think you have the option of cleaning it in one day.lol

did you get extra diesel fuel for the pressure washer??

It is true that I've marveled at the state of your stove over the years but I've seen worse and I have faith in you. Good luck tomorrow.

Pete

Are you starting with a 6" side grinder or a small chain saw to rough it out?

It might be quicker if you just hook up a rosebud and burn it off!

Back in the day, my Gram had those old cast iron skillets, and when they got all that debris on them, the old women used to throw them into the trash barrel and burn it off. Wouldn't it be easier to haul the stove outside and pile debris around it, and burn it all off?
I would think the smoke from that might convert the heathens to thinking the gates of h*ll had opened or you might have just found the cure for Coronavirus in that toxic smoke.

Hard times I tell ya, hard times.

This

Hate to say but I wouldn't clean it. Run the risk to your immune system eating near something that clean. Just saying.

Just to be clear, REPLACING the stove does NOT constitute cleaning it!

Les, oh les don't you know that seasoned stove's make better food. Now you gotta start all over

Will you give us weekly updates on how that project is coming along?

Osky

Les, I don’t want to sound like OSHA here, but with the shortage on PPE’s during this epidemic; do you really think it’s fair to take on a task like that, when the necessary protective gear required for such a task, might be better used elsewhere to treat infected persons?

Trapper Les,

If your stove is not an antique, you should be able to remove the door. This makes cleaning the stove much easier. To remove my stove door I have to open it part way, to the mid point, and on each hinge is a lever you pry up. You then just grasp the door on each side and pull straight up the door angle.

If you check on YouTube there may be a video on it.

Just make sure that the hinges don't snap back to the closed position. The spring is extremely strong, but can be pried back out with a long screwdriver.

Good luck!

sounds like your setting a 4 coiled 330 Muskrat love besides trying to open Pandora's Box

Maybe, once you are done, you should coat it with FMJ .

Sounds like Les is going to be entertaining someone and wants to make a good impression. Come on Les , give it up, Blonde, brunette, or red head?

Or all 3 ????? Brindles don't count as a color.
Tom

Jeff,

Yes, close to it, but it's what in the owners manual for oven cleaning tell you. Besides, who usually cleans the oven...... A woman! They've got appendages on the front of them that will drag across the inside of the door. This takes the door out of the equation.

That 4 coil 330 (?) is dangerous, but can be set if you use a setter (long screwdriver) and follow the instructions.

P.S. Keep you fingers out of there! LOL

Thank You for your concern But I doubt Les will have a problem with the door

I 'd just buy a new stove.

30 post and you guys don't get it. Les stove is a wood stove, and he better hurry up cause it's going to 0*F with a 30 mph north wind. So those pipes better be cleaned PDQ.

Thanks for all the good thoughts, well wishes and advise. I did start by wiping down the "table lands" when I was doing dishes and had a sink full of hot soapy water. I am pondering the soaking of the burner grates next, and the associated clean up of the oil catch basins, if that is the correct stove nomenclature.

I will pace myself, and ease into this slowly , with caution, and optimism .

Stay tuned.

Rally, no woman has set foot here for a while, but there is always that rare chance. As soon as the stove is clean, I am looking for the fox foot the kitten drug out of my trapping bag, I can smell it somewhere but cannot place it.

I bet the value of your house just went up lol.

I wouldn't lurch right into it without giving it some considerable thought. Take your time, go slow, do it right.

Les,
Those grease catchers under the burners can be replaced on some models, for like $8 each, or in todays fur market, about 4 XXXL fleshed and dried winter beaver, but on second thought just chisel out what you can and call it good.
The kitten. Do you have a mouse problem, or are you waiting until it gets bigger to use for a mitten liner?
That fox foot you think you smell is probably just coyote lure you got on your hands and then the end of your nose last month. Takes about 60 days sometimes to get used to the smell.

Les,throw all those stove parts in your trap boiler and boil them up with the lye and traps.

I need a beer and some popcorn for this thread.....

Why bother, only gonna get dirty again anyway! lol

Hey it's just like Jurrassic's heroic efforts of mouse trapping.....no picture...no proof of anything being done by Les.

Just like fur buyers and their market reports

Better get a case of beer , like say a 30 pac of tall boys

Wait! If Les is "Culling one from the herd" that needs to be a whole new thread!

The "taming of the Shrewd

So your saying she's got you whipped already and making you clean the stove?

The whole top is one piece. This was back when they made real stoves.

I love the back splash!

Love the board holding the door! We just replaced one that had a randomized auto door opener...wife couldn’t walk past it without getting nailed!
They sure don’t make things the way they used to...the one we replaced was newer than the replacement by at least 10 yrs.
A few years back we sold the old farm on the hill. The house was from the late 30s and had been remodeled and updated in the 50s and again in early 2000. It still had a working gas clothes dryer in it from the 50s remodel.

The top looks pretty good. I would like to see a picture of the oven.

Cool thread, trapper Les.

Thought he was talking of cleaning the wood stove.
I'm getting slow--er.

Pressure washer? lol

Les's stove is something of a legend on trapperman.

That coffee pot is a classic! Good job on the stove, Les. The board looks like something that I would do.

More like partially blind and most importantly, hard of hearing

LOL, Steven 49 er.

Good god, that stove is as old as am lol.

"But it worked good last,,, decade."

So now inanimate objects are becoming tman legends too?
I AM getting old lol.

LES, wake up, they're pickin on your stove.

Holy scat Les I had a stove like that when I moved into this house in 1977 and it was Old then

That coffee pot has brewed many a fine cup of coffee in it's day....I can attest to that ;as well as when Bogmaster almost empty coffee cup is refilled.


but I survived a cup or two.

Attest.

Hey bud, I'm workin' on it, lol

I keep the oven clean, I don't like smoke in the house, unless ifs from the barrel stove, lol

Much older, it was old when I bought the first house that stove was in back in 84. That stove top weighs a ton too.

Spelling police, Nice catch Boco, don't let John get by with anything, lol

High temperature gloss black spray paint and that baby is pearl for another decade!

That stove is an old Coronado and I still have the book for it too, came with the old house next door. The stove seems to weigh about 400 lbs and took two of us to move it. Works good though. I have used the broiler on the bottom a bit too. Most folks don't appreciate that feature.

Yep, Mom did it too on hers, out in Dad's house, that stove is still there too.

I doubt I could shoot through that thing with my deer rifle! Does it still have the original shipping label on the back from when it came over on the Mayflower?

Maybe , but the back of that stove has only been looked at twice in it's history.

Coranado is an apt name, he probably used it during his conquest

I feel like we should start a go fund me page for a new stove for Les.

LOL. I think Les has money. He's bluffing.

Oh he's got money just not for spending

I think he’d be offended lol.

I haven't got the stove wore out yet. But thanks for the thought.

whats in the container of the left side?

That is an empty yogurt container with a few eggshells in it. I throw that sort of stuff in a humus pile near the edge of the garden.

Cool, that sounds like me.