Baffles for burning wood 30/95

Been looking at some pictures of other stoves that people have been burning wood in their coal/wood stoves. Been some posts about baffles. Anyway. Took a long hard look at my 30/95 and figured I made a baffle for it. Made a top plate to protect the top door gasket. And made a baffle so the flames can’t enter the chimney.
Didn’t paint anything- paint would burn off. Yea. The plasma cutter lines are crude freehand their straight enough. Lol.
I figured I’d burn some wood for the shoulder month before going full coal for the winter. Have about 10 cord split and dry that I didn’t want to go to waste.

So, My 6 y/o daughter said to me tonight. ‘Ya know dad. If you light the stove it will be nice and warm and toasty in here and I won’t have to sit and eat my ice cream wrapped in my blanket’. I guess I can’t argue that logic!! So. I put some wood in it.

10 cords of wood is gonna take a lot of ice cream!

Shoulder months ? We're 30 F here in CNY. You must be colder than that. I've been running the coal range since back during the freezing temps of Sept. At this cold is when I usually fire up the parlor stove, too.

Paul

Paul. CNY ? I’m in the Hudson Valley NY area. A few miles from SUNY new paltz. It’s not yet that cold here. If it were consistently under 50 I would get the coal going. I had been cycling the pellet stove on and off for a few hours here and their. Usually go through 15 bags before and 15 bags after. But with all the firewood I figured I’d burn some of that. Probably should just sell some off.

We had five days of below freezing back Sept 18th to the 22nd.

This morning it was 29 when I woke up, but with the sun and not much leaves left on the trees ( we had early Fall colors) it's warming up quickly.

Paul