Had to leave last Monday for a week in SC for training. Its crazy they still think I can be trained. SWMBO gave that up long ago.
The plan was to have the stoker kept running while I was away with minimal effort by simply using the coal vac for filling and swapping in the four empty ash pans until I got back.
But the wind took down a tree which took out power Monday afternoon which took out the flat bed stoker.
Got back late last night and listened to the furnace heat , went through the re-light this morning. After about an hour of head scratching trying to figure out the real low (like 0.005) draft (even when using my heat gun draft inducer) I checked things outside and found the clean out cap off the bottom T of the chimney. Popped the cap back on and the draft immediately jumped to its normal .04 without the heat gun.
The basement is gradually getting back to its heat soaked state now.