forgeblast
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We are switching out our wood stove(putting it in the basment to heat down there), for a nice looking LP jotul stove.
We will be putting the stove in our great room(where we need to heat not the mudroom where the wood stove is now).
We were brainstorming what we can do and its a 6' piece of wall (knotty pine) and coming towards you a 3' piece of wall(corner area)(I will post pics as soon as my wife come home with the camera).(came home before I was done typing).
I have been doing fieldstone all summer, so what is a bit more.
We will do 60'' of fieldstone behind the stove (on cement board backer). (i will be picking out 1/4 max thick pieces for it).
We also want a live edge mantle, (i have a granburg chainsaw mill, and Love the Idea of making my own mantle).
It will be 6' long about 6'' thick and most are I think 9'' wide. 60'' from the floor.
I have two cement corbels with rebar and a bar (see pics) to hang them. but they are heavy (the rebar is imbeaded in them, with the bar welded to the rebar.they are 6'' wide at the widest by 9'' tall.
My question is
1. What the heck do I use to hold these to the wall I am really worried about the weight.
Any suggestions on my idea, also live or dead tree? I have an dead elms (tough as nails to saw) on our property, or I can cut any other hardwood, and have hemlock also.
http://www.appalachianwoods.com/furniture/antique_wood_mantel.htm
is similar to what we want to do.
We will be putting the stove in our great room(where we need to heat not the mudroom where the wood stove is now).
We were brainstorming what we can do and its a 6' piece of wall (knotty pine) and coming towards you a 3' piece of wall(corner area)(I will post pics as soon as my wife come home with the camera).(came home before I was done typing).
I have been doing fieldstone all summer, so what is a bit more.
We will do 60'' of fieldstone behind the stove (on cement board backer). (i will be picking out 1/4 max thick pieces for it).
We also want a live edge mantle, (i have a granburg chainsaw mill, and Love the Idea of making my own mantle).
It will be 6' long about 6'' thick and most are I think 9'' wide. 60'' from the floor.
I have two cement corbels with rebar and a bar (see pics) to hang them. but they are heavy (the rebar is imbeaded in them, with the bar welded to the rebar.they are 6'' wide at the widest by 9'' tall.
My question is
1. What the heck do I use to hold these to the wall I am really worried about the weight.
Any suggestions on my idea, also live or dead tree? I have an dead elms (tough as nails to saw) on our property, or I can cut any other hardwood, and have hemlock also.
http://www.appalachianwoods.com/furniture/antique_wood_mantel.htm
is similar to what we want to do.