EDC XIII Which knife or knives are you carrying today?

ChazzyP said:
This'll be even more picture heavy than my usual. As I thought I'd mention cleaning out the Russian fireplace and checking the chimney this morning before settling down to a relaxing Sunday of NFL football, I'm reminded of last season's back and forth with @maxjeg about the difference between the traditional style of his homeland's fireplace and my masonry mass heater with an extended flue above the firebox for more complete combustion and heat extraction. I had promised him some pics too which I didn't deliver at the time. The styles are different, but the principle's the same and I've always referred to mine by the sobriquet of its forebears.

Our house is an open plan salt box with split levels alternating from low side to high, front to back. The main heating shell sits at the first of the four wood deck levels (plus attic) in the kitchen, extends under the chimney, and is surrounded on two sides by masonry stairs with a half-story-deep hearth along the front.



The firebox is a half-story down, accessed and loaded from the basement level with firewood usually coming in through the bulkhead. The firebox is welded steel plate with a 1`/2" top and lined bottom and sides with dry-laid firebrick.



Inside the unit, back at the kitchen level, the smoke exits into a steel upper chimney then enters the top of the steel baffle box where it travels down, up, and halfway down again, before exiting into about 30 feet of 8x12 clay tile flue, right behind the cleanup door in the pic above.



Anyway, I burned up a bunch of cardboard when I was done. That gets re-cycled in the warmer months and sent skyward during heating season. My Ritter Griptilkins did yeoman work putting those boxes out of their misery before incineration.

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Pretty neat set up..👍👍👍...Always nice to get more heat in that big mass!!!
 
Mr.sig239 said:
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Every time you post your 110 I stop dead in my tracks and a little spittle starts dripping from the corner of my mouth. I love this knife right down to the amber/bronze accents, and if I’m ever fortunate enough to get one this is the version I want. The word that always seems to come to mind is “elegant”…which is an attribute I wouldn’t typically ascribe to many knives of this style and size.

Anyway, just had to show a little love for one of my favorite knives. Enjoy!
 
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