Hum....Has your near brush with death converted you to Paganism? A really big Santeria Alter? Its about a moth early before we party with the dead. Perhaps you are offering gifts to the Lord of The Hunt , Cernunnos, Himself Himself, before hitting the forest.... 😉

Probably not

the beginnings of a 10' high rocket stove, or huge cooker, or water heater??
Looks almost like it's in your container??

Foundry?

Villager nailed it...my own fault....... I had started building two electric assist velomobiles and I was using 3mm Baltic birch, I had cut it into 6 inch wide strips, these I was going to use to form the body. These strips had quite the bend to them so before glueing them up I painted up one side with water and stood the strip upright across from the wood stove so that the water would swell up one side and the heat from the stove would shrink the other, I went into the house, had a bite, made a call and not more than 45 minutes and I came back to find flames coming out the opened doors, looking just like a Saturn rocket blasting off. I managed to get the end doors closed but it was to far gone. and with 2 cord of wood stacked inside nothing was stopping it at that point..I baby sat it all night and have pics of the sides glowing bright red. I had time to think about what happened and I believe the 6inch wide birch curled itself away from the opposite wall fell onto the wood stove caught fire and likely slid off the stove to land on one of the wood piles stacked on either side of the stove. So...My new project is can a fire damaged container be rebuilt into a shop?

It was quite the event when some one pound propane tanks started cooking off

Peppercorn, so sorry to hear. That seacan project looked so amazing.

😯 😮 Oh, that's terrible.

Soooo. Tomorrow I was going to do my yearly post about fire safety and cleaning your stove pipes. I was going to call it "I got it wrong. Its the end of the world".

Funny, strange, or funny, haha?
Not that your situation is funny. What a kick in the nuts. 😳

Shoot! Here I was making wise cracks, not seeing the picture too clearly in the daylight. I thought it was candles. My Apologies. Don't I look like an ass.

I'm going to look like an ass one more time. Its redundant for me to make tomorrows Post. You can all see how devastating fire can be. To your plans. To your preps. To your life. People get obsessed about the Blood Moon than wains as I write this, or prophesies or secret conspiracies, FEMA camps and Agenda 21...These are all distractions from real prepping. We have woodstoves BECAUSE we are preppers. We need to know how to use these tools properly. Fires happen fast.

So this is my yearly reminder. If you have a woodstove or fireplace, learn to clean out your chimney and do it often. A creosote buildup in your stovepipe can have the exact same devastating effects. Invest in the tools to keep it clean. Scrubber, ladder, fire extinguisher. I keep baking soda, near the stove front, to be thrown into the fire at the first tell tale rumble sound in the pipes. Never walk out the door if the air intake is open (Ive been guilty of that before...and had a chimney fire) and , Sorry Pepercorn, slap me later, Keep anything flammable that might possibly be knocked over, by a cat, a kid, the wind or, in this case, the unexpected science of chaos theory in action, away from the stove or any other flame source. Pay no attention to whatever the next Jade Helm foolishness shows up next. Pay attention to the SKILLS of prepping. If you haven't cleaned your stove pipe since winter...get it done before you fire it next. If its only a backup option, get it done before you need it to get you through a power failure or similar disaster. I do mine twice a year. One Now. One mid winter

I now return you to your regularly scheduled Peppercorn...

Peppercorn, man i can empathize ...its almost the same gut-jerker as when my trailer/tools were stolen from a chain-locked rural area last year;
and last week, after spending weeks finessing my truck for much-needed sale, a cellphone operator/driver flew out of nowhere in an adjoining parking lot to crush my driver-side front corner to the tune of 3k. while i was making a turn.No-fault insurance here in ontario. Sure, the setting sun was in both our eyes, but it sure prods me to be even more diligent than i remember the best i've been...could have been 2' further. I was likely also preoccupied to a degree...can't afford to do that, and account for anyone else's preoccupation within my scope.
So, gotta ramp up, secure more work before winter to cover the time/material loss. Could be discouraging, if one can be discouraged. So much more to do... one more reason for community capacity.

That really sucks. sorry for your loss (time and sweat especially)

Well no one was hurt or put a eye out so that was good....I had set my two spare inverters inside as I was going to use one of them for powering the container/shop, they burnt up, but I hadn't moved the panels out of my storage container to my shop container so I didn't lose any of them....another few weeks and I would have had them mounted on the roof. That lathe will be hard to replace though.....the things I built on that lathe you just wouldn't believe......some of them even legal..

(safe)

total loss of contents ....right around 100,000.

Wow! gotta ask.....insurance??
I keep thinking of all the small, specialized tools , handcrafted or acquired over years that we want ready for use when those special jobs come up again, and then have to recreate them....with less cash at our disposal.
But seeing your setup, it seems you certainly have great earning skills . Do you now have to re-engage in working in industrial situations to recoup?

I was wondering about the same thing...insurance.
Is this type of structure insurable?
Would there be an issue because of the wood stove?
Inquiring minds want to know!

No insurance, I will just take it on the chin so to speak. I forget exactly what they told me decades back, but once you are more than 20km from a hydrant and heat with wood insurance costs approach 5 figures a year...not worth it...everyone around me (almost) has no insurance but this is a good thing because it stopped them from being able to get a mortgage to build with, and so people built as they could afford to and so most around here are very secure and mortgage free.
Even if I had insurance, and forget the container just assume house and garage should I have a fire and lets say I had 200,000 content insurance...that I had been paying for for years, that does not mean the insurance company will pay that out..oh no...there first questions will be lets see the receipts for your contents (also so they can depreciate the value from the date of purchase), no receipts ok lets see pic of all your contents.....ever read all that small print, values are capped for many things unless you have bought extra riders to cover things like say your family is heavy into sports a couple kids hockey gear, good bikes for everyone skiing equipment etc its easy to have built up 10s of thousands of dollars in sports equipment over the years of raising a couple kids,most policies have a cap for such things usually at a low level for the sake of argument say 4000.00. at the time of making a claim you wont have coverage for extra value unless you have bought a seperate rider to cover the extra value......it goes on and on how they can limit their liability....I hold insurance companies to the same contempt I do banks.
I do have lots of experience in dealing with insurance companies in other areas and they have earned my contempt. I give them little of my money and only deal with them when I have to.
It will be hard but I will rebuild my inventory of tools and stock

I decieded to venture in today....its thick with ash so not wanting to ruin a set of clothes I striped naked and went inside, I had a thought that I hope no one stops by, if someone seen me naked coming out of a burnt up shipping container covered in ash....well they might think I have lost it...or the zombie apocolips had begun. aluminium ingots all over the ground inside. recovered some 1/4 tunsten rods, lots of wrenches, they wont be useable though I will weld them up to make interesting gates for the garden or some such thing. entire welders like dynasty 200, and maxstar 150 completely vaporized not so much as a shadow of them left. Tool cabinets melted shut, I had hoped my carbon block collection survived the heat but nothing left. Complete right off....as I thought it would be