We bought a wood-fired, cedar hot tub from Snorkel Stove Company in Seattle, WA. It got delivered in about a week during which Rick set up a stone and 6x6 beam foundation. The two semicircular bottom pieces were banged together and the staves were put around them. The three hoops were screwed together and placed around the staves and the real fun began: banging in the staves around the tub. Martha got to do the banging with the official Snorkel Stove rubber mallet because what was left of Rick's right index finger did not like the jarring that this produced.
Rick worked on the other side and tightened the turnbuckles as Martha banged on the staves.
Rick takes an early dip (pre-water), but at least has a glass of wine!
There are three levels of seats to accomodate different sized people and different levels of heating. Note the official Snorkel Stove rubber ducky.
The aluminum stove keeps cool by being installed partially submerged. The stack snorkels out of the circular opening to the left and wood is fed via the square opening on the right (currently, the cover plate is on top of the opening). Combustion air also is sucked down on the right, flows across the burning logs, and up the stack. The cover plate can be used to adjust the air flow and therefore the water temperature. The water level is kept just below the wood feed area and water can circulate through the tubes on the left just under the stack.
Rick built a ladder out of some spare seat supports and some leftover roughcut 1x4's that were used for exterior siding.
The stack is merely three 3' sections of stovepipe.
A fence is installed next to the stove to keep people from actually touching the metal of the stove and the stack. Unfortunately, it obscures the view to that side.
A shelf was installed next to the tub to hold the cognac, singlemalt, etc.
The rough edges were sanded off. Don't want to catch any important bits getting in or out of the tub. Rick uses his new Mouse sander as the rubber ducky supervises.
The carpenter finishes.
The tub with more landscaping, looking south.
The tub looking across the ponds to the north.