As the book of Tim's best moments in life continues to be written... Tonight's chapter is a stretch even for me.
I bought a Harman Super Magnum coal stove off my buddy. He told me that the easiest way to light it is to light some lump charcoal with the MAPP gas torch then when it's burning good sprinkle on the coal. Easy enough... And I just so happen to have a MAPP torch and about 400# of lump charcoal!
So off we go. I get the coal (real coal, not charcoal) bed built on the grates and put a few chunks of lump on top.
Fire up the torch and give it hell for a few seconds. As lump is known to do, it starts sparking pretty good in the fire box, so I close the door as much as possible so as to not burn the house down. Note: The stove is on tile and there's nothing combustible around it, but I still worry.
Well, somehow with the door mostly closed except where I had my arm through holding the torch, a spark flew out and flew right in my eye. I don't recall how hot charcoal burns, but I can assure you anything over room temperature feels like the surface of the sun when it's stuck in your eye.
After cursing (profusely), jumping around, and doing everything possible not to rub my eye, I made it to the shower and tried to flush my eye. That didn't work, it was still in there.
Thankfully my better half is a nurse. She didn't hear my expletive filled tirade because she was running the vacuum. Once I got her attention, she came in and was able to remove the piece of coal from my eye and flush it.
It's just swollen now but I can see fine. Hopefully no other issues.
Lesson learned though, wear PPE anytime there's even a million-to-one chance you'll actually need it!
I bought a Harman Super Magnum coal stove off my buddy. He told me that the easiest way to light it is to light some lump charcoal with the MAPP gas torch then when it's burning good sprinkle on the coal. Easy enough... And I just so happen to have a MAPP torch and about 400# of lump charcoal!
So off we go. I get the coal (real coal, not charcoal) bed built on the grates and put a few chunks of lump on top.
Fire up the torch and give it hell for a few seconds. As lump is known to do, it starts sparking pretty good in the fire box, so I close the door as much as possible so as to not burn the house down. Note: The stove is on tile and there's nothing combustible around it, but I still worry.
Well, somehow with the door mostly closed except where I had my arm through holding the torch, a spark flew out and flew right in my eye. I don't recall how hot charcoal burns, but I can assure you anything over room temperature feels like the surface of the sun when it's stuck in your eye.
After cursing (profusely), jumping around, and doing everything possible not to rub my eye, I made it to the shower and tried to flush my eye. That didn't work, it was still in there.
Thankfully my better half is a nurse. She didn't hear my expletive filled tirade because she was running the vacuum. Once I got her attention, she came in and was able to remove the piece of coal from my eye and flush it.
It's just swollen now but I can see fine. Hopefully no other issues.
Lesson learned though, wear PPE anytime there's even a million-to-one chance you'll actually need it!
