Todays Project - What did you do today?

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Taking a break from the steam engine.
A couple of us are fixing up an old ice fishing shack. Won't be a safe fish in the lake.
Anyway, needed a wood stove, so built one today. Had some pipe, 12 3/4 od with a 1/4 inch wall, shouldn't burn through any time soon. Some REALLY rusty plate made up the rest. So rusty the plasma table had trouble with it, the pitted surface kept deflecting the arc resulting in a rough cut,
Attempted to brush the dust off my rusty stick welding skills, the metal was far to rusty for mig without hours of grinding. Can't remember the last time I had the old Miller stick machine going. Forgot how nice it was to weld with, think its 250 amp DC, the rod just never sticks with that much power behind it.