So as part of our overall plan for somewhat self sustainability, Mrs TVLL62CAL and I had discussed adding another wood burning appliance to the homestead here at MOA Ranch aka Maupin Creek Station, the parameters were somewhat complicating, in our house we have a full masonry flue that begins in the basement and here is where we installed a Quadrafire 4100, this insert basically heats the entire home by radiant means through the floor, its awesome, the furnace will occasionally come on in the early hours of the morning for maybe 10 min at most. We have another fireplace in the great room which separates it from the kitchen.
So with that flue facing the kitchen a cook stove was the obvious choice. We had to consider however the spacial relationships to flow in the kitchen AND safety. it was limiting to the size of stove choices available.
We narrowed it down to two the Vermont Bun Baker was one , compact and had an oven baking capacity, the other choice was the Big Bear Sheepherder from Energy House, we went with it for several reasons, the primary was firebox size, in these types of compact stoves there are not many choices, the Big Bear wins this area hands down, I simply dont want to be cutting and splitting two sizes of wood every year, the next biggest factor was of course cost, as much as liked the Bun Baker we felt it was cost prohibitive. I called the good folks at Energy House and off we went to the races, oh and by the way, this is a business owned and operated by preppers !, So what follows are some pics of the stove installed up and running.

This is the location in the kitchen

Sausage gravy begins

Biscuits going in the oven

breakfast complete from the stove, with Eggs on top

oatmeal raisin cranberry cookies...since the oven is always hot

The other thing this stove is doing is heating the entire upstairs of a 1600 sq foot home up to about 75-80 on a day of 19 degrees outside with 30 mph winds, overall we will give this stove 5 stars, the only modification was two cheap fireplace screens to keep wagging tails away from the firebox and oven.

man that is a awesome stove. very cool stuff.

That is really neat. Is there a reason for the rocks underneath?

Grove

How large is the wood burning area?

Nice looking stove.

[quote]Originally Posted By larledge:
How large is the wood burning area?

Nice looking stove.[/quo

The fire box measures 12" high 12' wide 16' deep

Nice setup OP!

I miss cooking on my wood stove up in PA...

No need for one here in FL.


PAR