View attachment 3Ya probably never wondered how I smelt my lead but here tis anyway. The stove you see was made By the Great American Stove MFG co. 1905 model 636P . It sold for $42.57 new . Now days that would be like $4257 bucks . I use the thing in the winter cooking out side . I can tell you If you get it hot enough to heat lead it will melt a snow bank for 6ft around . Can you imagine being in a kitchen in the summer with that going . Especially in a day when no air conditioning was available . Ok enough rambling . Here Tis
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Radtexan
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Love it man !!!!!! That has to be the best looking smelter Ive ever seen !!!!!
I think your big wheel is safe in the yard with the guard dog too !!!!
I think your big wheel is safe in the yard with the guard dog too !!!!
SaltyBuckster
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You look like such a hansome man smelting lead in the yard,lol.You have some really cool looking early American stuff there Toad.I think that I'll send the American Pickers down your way.They would have a ball at your house.
Radtexan
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He is a little better looking without the helmet ,huh !!!
By the way that hair cut was an accident . My little gal went to cut it . I heard OPPs! Imeediately I said OOps! what OOPs . She said your gonna kill me . Feel back here . So goes the story I got more hair on my butt than on my head . Now folks have to be careful which end they are talking to . Need a paper sack instead of a helmet now .
The dogs name is Gator . He is named correctly . He bites shakes then barks .
I have 4 or so rocking chairs around I could use a few pickers sitting in them . got guitars banjo's and fiddles around hear just collecting dust . BYS invitation . Thats bring your own shine . Mine dosen't last long enough to age out . Got some pear squeez'ns going in the cellar from the tree in my yard and later this year I'll have some possum grape wine going . That and a chaw of Good Money Twist will make ya walk funny .
The dogs name is Gator . He is named correctly . He bites shakes then barks .
I have 4 or so rocking chairs around I could use a few pickers sitting in them . got guitars banjo's and fiddles around hear just collecting dust . BYS invitation . Thats bring your own shine . Mine dosen't last long enough to age out . Got some pear squeez'ns going in the cellar from the tree in my yard and later this year I'll have some possum grape wine going . That and a chaw of Good Money Twist will make ya walk funny .
Fatman
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My kind of smelter!!!!!!! Course with what you could sell that thing for you'd have lots of new play toys!!!! And now we see why you get in trouble - so much time in the the tackle crafting room someone isn't mowing the lawn!!!!!!
SaltyBuckster
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Now that is the answer that I was looking for.loltoadfrog said:
StumpHunter
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It is so true that a picture is worth a 1000 words. What a great story that pic tells!! Love the stove 
Fatman The goats got full before they got to that part of the lawn . LOL Besides they are somewhat shy of Gator . To top it off, I live where no man really cares to come . There are no toilets on the interstates . Just out houses and a lot of dead shrubbery .
Fatman
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We'll let ya slide then!!!LOL besides tackle is more important!!
JUNGLEJIM1
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Love the stove and the dog.I'm guessing you don't worry about burglaries or anything of that nature there.
Had one burglar in the last three years . Don't guess he ever ran across a dog that does not bark before he bites . He was screaming and bleeding like a sissy when he dived through the open window on his car . He and his partner must have passed the word about the dog and 00 buck shot . Not so much as a car coming to a full stop unless folks know I'm home . His favorite place to hide is in the honey suckle that grows on all my fences. Just two yellow almond shaped eyes in the dark. Getting him a girl friend soon . Hope to have a pack next year . All the parts for the stove are here couple need Brazed or welded . The other is a a cog that goes in the fire box . It allows you to load several sticks of wood in the top and as the main fire burns down the crank handle that fits the holes in the front will drop a piece on the fire . Works with coal too . Had a young lady stop one day and ask if I had any antiques for sale . My replie was , no but every ting here is a little anteaky including me .
Fatman
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You don't know how to weld Toad???!!!! or trade off some homemade tackle to have someone fix er up for ya.
My Uncle a few years before he passed away always drove from California to the Northeast to buy antiques to take back. He bought a little Franklin wood stove for $75 bucks with on leg missing and one broken. Got it all fixed up, and the original paint job and sold the thing for $3500.
Did ya get the dog a tetanus shot after he got the burgler??? LOL
My Uncle a few years before he passed away always drove from California to the Northeast to buy antiques to take back. He bought a little Franklin wood stove for $75 bucks with on leg missing and one broken. Got it all fixed up, and the original paint job and sold the thing for $3500.
Did ya get the dog a tetanus shot after he got the burgler??? LOL
I really haven't looked into fixing the parts yet since I can use it as is outside . Did get gasket material and 1500 degree paint . I can weld some but I'm so shakey it looks like a goose crapped where I weld . Pot metal is a terror to weld anyway . Got a buddy on the next hill over that I may be able to powder paint some small car parts for a labor trade . That is if he ever stayed home long enough to do it . No tetnus shot for the dog but he got a 1/4 pound of deer jerky for the effort . He was so proud of himself he walked around with his hackles up for a hour . He'd bounce on the porch back of Stand looking at me with his chest bowed out wagging that tail like wind shield wipers . Growled boofed at everything that moved . Guess I'm gonna have to go out and catch a burgler so he can have a new chew toy.
Fatman
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Just doing what a dog does!!!!! Protecting his family - I'd of have given him a big steak!!!!!