Is this irony?

So yesterday was the second day of real issues with the furnace over night.

I dug out 80% of the ashes and found most of that was the consistency of a milkshake. Now even with wet green wood that seemed like a lot. This isn’ the first year dealing with green wood – or wet wood. When��I went back a few hours later and found water on the bottom of the inside compartment I got a bad bad bad feeling.

So I marked the level of the water table inside the boiler —-

Today, roughly 24hrs later, I checked that level – it’s down noticeably… and it sure as hell didn’t boil off.

So now I am busting my ass, breaking my back, and freezing my extremities to get wood for a enclosed fire that has water leaking into it constantly.

I think I’ll let Mr. Kershaw finish off this post

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