the heat is on

Just built and installed a  piggy back wood burner in the workshop as it can get pretty cold in there. very happy with the result and i had fun building it.
excellent way of practicing my arc welding skills before i start building the  new trike. Bit of a blow this week though. everything was coming together quite nicely on the gathering of parts , planning and designing of the new trike, but not having a lathe yet i asked jeff , the engineer who helped build the first trike , if he could turn some pieces for me for my stub axles for the front wheels. he recieved my package the other day , but somewhere in transit between france and england the package had been opened or come open somehow and one of the axles and a tube and all the bearings were missing. they delivered the broken box in a plastic bag. i am now left with two obsolete wheels which without their splined axles arent much good to me. doubly gutted also as the hubs on the wheels had disc mounts. so swiftly moving on I am now going to use bmx wheels with a 14mm axle, [once ive found some work , saved up and bought them] and i will have to rethink the braking system. If only i had insisted on using my own box in the postoffice that i had carefully prepared the night before. Apparently it was too small to stick their label on it. and so they made me buy one of their boxes which turned out to be about as much use as a handbrake on a canoe, or an ashtray on a motorbike, chocolate fireguard.....teapot etc
still, i've got the front end of a quad that i found on ebay being sent over from england  , so i can start building the new frame soon. so on the whole i am quite excited.
anyway see what you think of the burner