3-D woodstove puzzle

Today, Jim and his crew poured the cement slab (shiny-looking thing in the back with stuff sticking up out of it) which will be the base for the woodstove. All the blocks you see are (most of) the pieces for the woodstove core. They had been sitting outside on a pallet for several months - we took them off the pallet and brought them inside to make sure they were all there and were in good condition (they were).


The woodstove kit manufacturer (Temp-Cast) recommends doing a "dry assembly" to make sure you know how everything goes together before you start. I assembled the kit out on the patio as much as I could (the rest was too heavy/high). Besides what's shown below, there is a bake oven that goes on top and there are shallow "U"-shaped channels that go on the sides. (Exhaust gases actually travel from the top of the stove down the U-shaped channels, then out the bottom back of the stove to the chimney - the chimney stands alone on top of the slab and does not sit on top of the stove.)