Home-Built Wooden Locomotive

Home-Built Wooden Locomotive FARM HOME recreation 29-5-42 I built this wooden locomotive around my outside wood burning stove. When the wind blows from the north, the smoke blows over the top to the rear and makes it look like it's actually moving. The headlight in front comes on as a yard light so we can see to fill the furnace. When loading, the roof and walls shelter me. Hot water circulates for heat in our house, workshop and outside greenhouse in the spring. There's a permanent ladder on the right side of the unit so I can clean the chimney and ashes. We burn 9 to 10 cords a winter and can get rid of a lot of windfall and scrap lumber around the yard. This furnace gives the yard a bit of decoration instead of being just another building. (Reg Crigger, R.R. 2, Box 40 Johnston Rd., Dryden, Ontario, Canada P8N 2Y5 ph 807 937-6616)

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