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Posted: 11/27/2021 2:14:14 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Pacific energy alderlea. Crazy efficiency and the ability to cook on the top. Zombie apocalypse certified Where is a good place to buy one? Every site that has them looks like it's from 1998 |
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Posted: 11/27/2021 2:25:38 PM EDT
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Vt castings defiant master race checking in. Actually it's been replaced by God tier pellet stove.
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Posted: 11/27/2021 2:33:35 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I've been doing some research, Blaze King is my leading candidate so far. if you haven't yet, check out Regency out of Canada. Life time warranty on their steel parts, and they stand behind it. FWIW I sold wood stoves from Jotul to Lopi, VC Heart stone Regency and Quadrafire for 15 years. |
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Posted: 11/27/2021 3:24:42 PM EDT
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My Jotul F55 Carrabassett.
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Posted: 11/27/2021 5:10:07 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: if you haven't yet, check out Regency out of Canada. Life time warranty on their steel parts, and they stand behind it. FWIW I sold wood stoves from Jotul to Lopi, VC Heart stone Regency and Quadrafire for 15 years. @JimmyAR Thanks. The F2500 looks like another good option, I may IM you some time to pick your brain. |
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Posted: 11/27/2021 5:39:48 PM EDT
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Posted: 11/27/2021 5:54:24 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I'm assuming he's talking about uneven heat throughout the house, the mess that hauling in wood makes and the fact you have to always be there feeding it to keep your house warm. It is not the fairy tale version where you make a fire and the lovely bikini clad Swedish swim team member (female) swoons over you and ravages you mercilessly. |
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Posted: 11/27/2021 6:01:37 PM EDT
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Find an old Fisher or Jotul.
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Posted: 11/27/2021 6:13:05 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Burn wood with less than 20% moisture and it wont. By that I mean resplit a piece you've had seasoning and check from the newly exposed surface. I argue with my FIL all the time. He burns red oak he cut last year. Red oak needs a minimum of 3 years cut/split/stacked in my area. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Stay away from catalytic wood stoves. My Blaze king sucks. Burn wood with less than 20% moisture and it wont. By that I mean resplit a piece you've had seasoning and check from the newly exposed surface. I argue with my FIL all the time. He burns red oak he cut last year. Red oak needs a minimum of 3 years cut/split/stacked in my area. Very true. A catalytic stove is crazy efficient and even a little one will run you outta the house *IF* you only feed it properly seasoned DRY wood. If you're burning trash wood you cut up from a brush pile, it will indeed suck donkey balls. Nothing wrong with doing that, you just can't use a catalytic stove to do it. |
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Posted: 11/27/2021 6:19:39 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Where is a good place to buy one? Every site that has them looks like it's from 1998 Yeah, they are mostly sold at small mom & pop shops (at least in Michigan). I ordered mine and had it delivered to a shop that was a distributor but didn’t carry stock. This was 5 years ago, so I’m not sure if anything has changed with distribution. Pacific energy is a smaller company (compared to most of them), but their quality is definitely at the top of the list, up there with all of the best ones. I just fired mine up about an hour ago -  Attached File |
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Posted: 11/27/2021 6:35:47 PM EDT
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Pacific energy master race checking in. Great stoves.
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Posted: 11/27/2021 6:59:59 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Stay away from catalytic wood stoves. My Blaze king sucks. Just switched our wood burning fireplace to a Buck Stove 91 catalytic. I love it. It burns a fraction of the wood of the original fireplace. No smoke outside. |
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Posted: 11/27/2021 7:02:30 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Burn wood with less than 20% moisture and it wont. By that I mean resplit a piece you've had seasoning and check from the newly exposed surface. I argue with my FIL all the time. He burns red oak he cut last year. Red oak needs a minimum of 3 years cut/split/stacked in my area. Agree about the moisture content. But red oak or any wood species doesn’t always need X amount of years to dry/season. Depends on if it’s already dead or it’s green. I cut mostly dead falls. I’ll split it and burn it that same year. |
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Posted: 11/27/2021 7:04:22 PM EDT
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What I love about wood stoves is the wonderful smell. Do some woods smell better than others when they are burned?
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Posted: 11/27/2021 7:09:51 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: What I love about wood stoves is the wonderful smell. Do some woods smell better than others when they are burned? Of course they smell different. "Better" is opinion. |
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Posted: 11/27/2021 7:10:21 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: if you haven't yet, check out Regency out of Canada. Life time warranty on their steel parts, and they stand behind it. FWIW I sold wood stoves from Jotul to Lopi, VC Heart stone Regency and Quadrafire for 15 years. Sitting in front of my Regency propane stove as I type…love it! Just sit down and pick up the remote…bingo l! Instant fire and great heat in about 15 min. I can control the flame the fan and the interior light…it also has lots of other programming l too. I keep it simple. Before this we heated with a Woodstock Soapstone wood stove which was pretty but, well you know how many times you “warm up” when burning wood…. |
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Posted: 11/27/2021 7:14:30 PM EDT
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Posted: 11/27/2021 7:24:02 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Agree about the moisture content. But red oak or any wood species doesn’t always need X amount of years to dry/season. Depends on if it’s already dead or it’s green. I cut mostly dead falls. I’ll split it and burn it that same year. Do you check it with a meter? Also anyone who smells smoke in the house with a wooden burning stove should get a different one. |
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Posted: 11/27/2021 7:26:08 PM EDT
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Mine is a Tula. Different than most because you can't lay the wood flat but works great. It is my main source of heating.
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Posted: 11/27/2021 7:27:07 PM EDT
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I have a Sears brand stove. It does great
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Posted: 11/27/2021 8:44:36 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Do you check it with a meter? Also anyone who smells smoke in the house with a wooden burning stove should get a different one. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Agree about the moisture content. But red oak or any wood species doesn’t always need X amount of years to dry/season. Depends on if it’s already dead or it’s green. I cut mostly dead falls. I’ll split it and burn it that same year. Do you check it with a meter? Also anyone who smells smoke in the house with a wooden burning stove should get a different one. Or check door gaskets. Amazing how many people complain about a wood stove smelling like smoke / fire and it’s because their door gaskets are shot and leaking. |
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Posted: 11/27/2021 8:48:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: @JimmyAR Thanks. The F2500 looks like another good option, I may IM you some time to pick your brain. No worries feel free if you have questions! |
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Posted: 11/27/2021 8:54:29 PM EDT
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Posted: 11/27/2021 9:11:32 PM EDT
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I've been heating with a hutch rebel and it puts out great heat but is a wood hungry bitch.
Been seriously considering replacing it with a pellet stove. Most run about 40lbs a day at full burn but with our needs I am betting 2 to 3 days a bag. Anybody done similar? |
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Posted: 11/27/2021 9:15:07 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/133165/20201224_222857_jpg-2183405.JPG Drolet freestanding stove, will heat you out of the house Worst spot for your taxidermy is near the wood stove. |
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Posted: 11/27/2021 9:18:22 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Mine is a Tula. Different than most because you can't lay the wood flat but works great. It is my main source of heating. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/473640/Resized_20211016_190259_jpeg-2183424.JPG |
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Posted: 11/27/2021 9:21:37 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: It burns wood like no tomorrow and I cannot get a long burn out of it. Even with seasoned spruce and big pieces. Even brand new it would not. Chimney is correct height. We burn cottonwood,spruce and birch. All seasoned and kept in a woodshed. This is the problem. Need hardwoods like oak , maple or ash. |
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Posted: 11/27/2021 10:46:23 PM EDT
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Mine came with the house. I think it was installed back in the 80's. No idea what the brand is, but it's pre-ban and in California. Have no idea if I needed to register it by a certain time. Perhaps the jack-booted thugs of the CA-DOJ will knock on my door.
The ceramic glass was cracked. I found a small shop back east and sent them the dimensions I needed, and they shipped out a new one with the gasket for it. Great price. I need to replace the door gasket. |
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Posted: 11/27/2021 11:05:13 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: if you haven't yet, check out Regency out of Canada. Life time warranty on their steel parts, and they stand behind it. FWIW I sold wood stoves from Jotul to Lopi, VC Heart stone Regency and Quadrafire for 15 years. +1 Regency i2500 (catalytic model) wood burning insert. Love it so far. Keeps the house over 70F on all 3 floors with the furnace fan running 24/7 to circulate the warm air throughout the home. |
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Posted: 11/27/2021 11:11:15 PM EDT
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Love my Soapstone Heritage so much I bought a second one!
 Never wanna do without! |
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Posted: 11/27/2021 11:32:56 PM EDT
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Jotul F600 checking in. Will heat my 3000 sq ft house to 80
On the coldest of nights. The largest cast iron stove money could buy at the time. Looks like it’s discontinued sadly. |
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Posted: 11/27/2021 11:34:34 PM EDT
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The misery of a wood stove is that you wake up freezing, stoke the fire, it gets to be 70° or 80° in the main part of the house, and 100° upstairs. Then you leave for the day and when you come home the house is freezing again, so you stoke the fire again, and it gets too hot again, and then you carry wood, and then you go to bed and repeat, for YEARS.
Never used a wood stove in a place with any other form of heat to back it up or move the heat around. My mom does that, it's better but not great. |
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Posted: 11/27/2021 11:39:46 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Agree about the moisture content. But red oak or any wood species doesn’t always need X amount of years to dry/season. Depends on if it’s already dead or it’s green. I cut mostly dead falls. I’ll split it and burn it that same year. Standing dead and dead fall are different. I'm talking a standing red oak that is green. Minimum 3 years in my AREA, for an internal moisture content below 20%. |
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Posted: 11/27/2021 11:40:36 PM EDT
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This is a picture right before I finished installing mine around last July. It's a beast, it warms my 3800sf house about 7-8F with just 12lbs of wood. It has a fan that blows air through a space all around the body as well as through tubes that go through the flue. It extracts heat really well.
The house is still under construction, I started building it from scratch ten years ago, and I only moved in early this year. 
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Posted: 11/27/2021 11:41:25 PM EDT
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 Edit. That’s a cool pic my little bro sent me. This is my actual stove.  Jotul |
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Posted: 11/27/2021 11:42:34 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: This is the problem. Need hardwoods like oak , maple or ash. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: It burns wood like no tomorrow and I cannot get a long burn out of it. Even with seasoned spruce and big pieces. Even brand new it would not. Chimney is correct height. We burn cottonwood,spruce and birch. All seasoned and kept in a woodshed. This is the problem. Need hardwoods like oak , maple or ash. He is in Alaska that softwood is all is all he can get. |
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Posted: 11/27/2021 11:48:20 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The misery of a wood stove is that you wake up freezing, stoke the fire, it gets to be 70 or 80 in the main part of the house, and 100 upstairs. Then you leave for the day and when you come home the house is freezing again, so you stoke the fire again, and it gets too hot again, and then you carry wood, and then you go to bed and repeat, for YEARS. Never used a wood stove in a place with any other form of heat to back it up or move the heat around. My mom does that, it's better but not great. Thats an air circulation problem not a wood stove problem 
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Posted: 11/27/2021 11:49:39 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: This is a picture right before I finished installing mine around last July. It's a beast, it warms my 3800sf house about 7-8F with just 12lbs of wood. It has a fan that blows air through a space all around the body as well as through tubes that go through the flue. It extracts heat really well. The house is still under construction, I started building it from scratch ten years ago, and I only moved in early this year. https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/225682655_4154999411283560_2297493692573776102_n.jpg?_nc_cat=106&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=0debeb&_nc_ohc=IpiZfcFU-2QAX_3ZgOl&_nc_oc=AQmNnxUWfziur5qLy46lXY71zikAn6y5uIkL_duT0nSpiwzJoRoL3TeJB_ZsjZQgzqmem5EZ6mSypdFW5nIA1gzU&_nc_ht=scontent-lax3-2.xx&oh=9d06112cbbf4c05a38a98d900901b51b&oe=61A8B99E Hell yeah. That looks awesome. Might want to connect that pipe before you fire her up. J/k. |
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Posted: 11/27/2021 11:54:16 PM EDT
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Not today EPA man!
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Posted: 11/27/2021 11:54:38 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: if you haven't yet, check out Regency out of Canada. Life time warranty on their steel parts, and they stand behind it. FWIW I sold wood stoves from Jotul to Lopi, VC Heart stone Regency and Quadrafire for 15 years. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I've been doing some research, Blaze King is my leading candidate so far. if you haven't yet, check out Regency out of Canada. Life time warranty on their steel parts, and they stand behind it. FWIW I sold wood stoves from Jotul to Lopi, VC Heart stone Regency and Quadrafire for 15 years. I like my regency insert, and they definitely stand behind it. Mine got a little roughed up in shipping and they quickly shipped out to replacement parts no questions asked. |
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Posted: 11/27/2021 11:56:01 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Thats an air circulation problem not a wood stove problem If you've got ducts why bother burning wood? |
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Posted: 11/28/2021 12:00:45 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Love my Soapstone Heritage so much I bought a second one! https://www.startpage.com/av/proxy-image?piurl=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn3.volusion.com%2Fnvzdo.wbevu%2Fv%2Fvspfiles%2Fphotos%2F8023-4110L-2.jpg%3Fv-cache%3D1624368873&sp=1638068990Tde32e68b9d5b38ce47cc123e7d09f49fc0e4ae706bbbdeec1f5b8e9a340b1be0 Never wanna do without! Fine choice. I run a Hearthstone Castleton in my home. It’s fantastic. |
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Posted: 11/28/2021 12:22:49 AM EDT
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First winter in my new to me house a few years ago. I threw a cheap china secondary air burner stove in to supplement heat because the furnace was original to the 1978 house and I was trying to take strain off of it. Did surprisingly well for how small the stove was.
Old built a new house and ended up getting a new insert so he gave me his old one. Its an old earthstove that I ran growing up so its got some sentimental attachment to me. China stove  The day I brought the earthstove home. Still need to build an enclosure around it but the rest of the house needs work first  |
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Posted: 11/28/2021 1:23:37 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: This is the problem. Need hardwoods like oak , maple or ash. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: It burns wood like no tomorrow and I cannot get a long burn out of it. Even with seasoned spruce and big pieces. Even brand new it would not. Chimney is correct height. We burn cottonwood,spruce and birch. All seasoned and kept in a woodshed. This is the problem. Need hardwoods like oak , maple or ash.  Burns nice and hot. About all that grows big up here is what I listed. Others that have the same size of woodstove and pipe without the catalytic burn way less. |
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Posted: 11/28/2021 1:28:41 AM EDT
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You wood burning master race bros that haven’t had your chimney swept yet, or swept it yourself because it can wait another year or some such…whatever, get it done.
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Posted: 11/28/2021 1:30:38 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You wood burning master race bros that haven't had your chimney swept yet, or swept it yourself because it can wait another year or some suchwhatever, get it done. I live dangerously as we have a metal roof.
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Posted: 11/28/2021 1:31:16 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: First winter in my new to me house a few years ago. I threw a cheap china secondary air burner stove in to supplement heat because the furnace was original to the 1978 house and I was trying to take strain off of it. Did surprisingly well for how small the stove was. Old built a new house and ended up getting a new insert so he gave me his old one. Its an old earthstove that I ran growing up so its got some sentimental attachment to me. China stove https://i.ibb.co/2jKtm3x/Screenshot-20211127-222740.png The day I brought the earthstove home. Still need to build an enclosure around it but the rest of the house needs work first https://i.ibb.co/6ytn8xd/20200207-153541-3.jpg The old stuff is much more solidly built, but secondary burn and smaller efficient fire boxes are where it is at. |
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Posted: 11/28/2021 1:35:52 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You'll likely find that cheap chinese stove will run circles around that classic beast. The old stuff is much more solidly built, but secondary burn and smaller efficient fire boxes are where it is at. Ya it definitely put out more heat but I didn't trust it since it was chinese and the firebox was to small to walk away from it for more then 3-4 hours. The old girl I can load up and walk away from for almost 8 hours and still have a fire. Eta: I didn't like the fact the china stove couldn't be choked down and keep a low flame without dying no matter how much fussing around with it I did Eta again: the earthstove does have a cat so its somewhat more efficient then it appears |
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Posted: 11/28/2021 1:42:08 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Ya it definitely put out more heat but I didn't trust it since it was chinese and the firebox was to small to walk away from it for more then 3-4 hours. The old girl I can load up and walk away from for almost 8 hours and still have a fire. Eta: I didn't like the fact the china stove couldn't be choked down and keep a low flame without dying no matter how much fussing around with it I did Eta again: the earthstove does have a cat so its somewhat more efficient then it appears All the newer stoves are going to be EPA rated, and part of that is they lack the ability to choke them down well. That is done because an oxygen starved fire is a dirty fire that produces lots of incomplete combustion byproducts, most of which aren't that great. |
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Posted: 11/28/2021 1:48:46 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Unfortunately that is working as intended. All the newer stoves are going to be EPA rated, and part of that is they lack the ability to choke them down well. That is done because an oxygen starved fire is a dirty fire that produces lots of incomplete combustion byproducts, most of which aren't that great. Oh I knew it was working correctly just didn't like how it burned so fast. I couldn't keep it going while at work. I guess im old school |
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