Stoke the oven variation

Take a sledgehammer and wrap an old sweater around it. This is your "shovelglove." Every week day morning, set a timer for 14 minutes. Use the shovelglove to perform shoveling, butter churning, and wood chopping motions until the timer goes off. Stop. Rest on weekends and holidays. Baffled? Intrigued? Charmed? Discuss here.
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Stoke the oven variation

Post by gj » Wed Aug 10, 2005 9:15 am

I like to pretend I am shoveling coal into a train's steam engine. This is quite similiar to "stoke the oven", but I "fill the shovel" very low on the floor - the key here is to keep the shovelglove low. Then I shovel the coal into the furnace opening around hip height.

I find this hits the abs like, well, a steam train ;-)

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Post by reinhard » Wed Aug 10, 2005 2:41 pm

Fits perfectly with my original inspiration for "stoke the oven" (and for "shoveling," come to think of it). Looks like you've got a nice little scenario going.

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Post by gj » Wed Aug 10, 2005 10:53 pm

Oh ... I was not sure how "stoke the oven" translates, but I figured it meant poking around in the ashes with a stick or something.

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Post by gratefuldeb67 » Thu Aug 11, 2005 3:01 am

Yes Juergen, I think it does mean poking around in the coals with a poker...

We are all so 21st century!
Soon we will probably live in an age when a computerized fireplace is available!
Peace,
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Post by reinhard » Thu Aug 11, 2005 3:07 pm

My fault for the confusion, Jürgen. The image I had in mind was the furnace of a steam engine, but because I've never done anything of the kind, I think the phrase I chose was slightly off.

I'm going to add mention of your combined move to the stoke oven movement page:

http://www.shovelglove.com/stoke_oven.html

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Post by gj » Thu Aug 11, 2005 4:14 pm

wow ... i feel like i've been awarded a medal or something.

you might want to change the john enzinas link, though. i assume it points to the old yahoo-forum, but the link does not work.

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Post by reinhard » Thu Aug 11, 2005 5:15 pm

Thank you. Deserving a medal is more praiseworthy than merely awarding one. :wink:

Thanks for pointing out the broken link... fixed it.

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