Here it is as I am spreading it. I just dip in with my finger and squeeze it into the crack. It doesn't really take much. Like I mentioned, it might be a good idea to sort of mix in a little wad of pink fiberglass insulation. I haven't tried it yet but might the next time I have to patch this burn pot. Doing so might provide some gap filler and make the cementing job last a little longer. As it is, two burning is the best you can hope for from a cemented pot. What I do, after I get the cement spread out over the crack is to throw the burn pot up on top of the smoke box on the burner. This keeps the burn pot nice and warm and helps the cement cure. The instructions on the container say to keep the heat low the first few fires. Since that isn't really an option on a burn pot, I am hoping this warming over a few days will do the same thing.
The Current Corn Status
The question now is, "Are we going to make it or not?" I would say we have about one pickup load of corn still in the corn room. It is tough to get an idea of scale from this photo. I should have stuck the dog in the picture. I took some measurements though and have inch markings on the wall in the back. So, the pile is 33 inches high. It comes out from the wall 76 inches. It is 92 inches wide. 33x76=2508 divide by two gives us 1254 square inches in this triange. Then, times 92 gives me 115,368 cubic inches. Divide this by 1728 to give me 66.76 cubic feet. Then, using the information on my corn storage page I divide this by 1.25 to tell me that I currently have 53.41 bushels of corn left. This is 2,884 lbs (assuming I have less than perfect 54 lb/bu corn) or, enough for 17 average winter days.
Winter can turn into spring litereally overnight here. No mind that we have gotten a foot of snow in the last seven days, two weeks from now I could be mowing the grass. ...of course, the reverse is true as well, winter can sometimes drag on. We could still be needing heat on the 15th of May. We will just have to see how it goes.
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