The firewood thread has me wondering about the stoves, and chimneys you folks use?

At our humble north place, we have a Driolet, with a stainless double wall insulated chimney.

Fisher Mama Bear. Double flue chimney. One side for the stove and the other side for a fireplace.

Fisher made some nice stoves, mama bear is a sweet stove.

I have a old Quadra-Fire fire place insert! Love it!

I have the Jotul Oslo. This is a beautiful wood stove. We have lots, and lots of firewood. We run the Oslo quite a bit.

Bought it from a friend's dad ~25yrs ago for $200. It was only 2yrs old then. Fancy model with the chrome balls on the feet and painted spruce tree pattern on the front. It would take a major catastrophe to wreck it.

I've got an old earth stove with double wall stainless chimney. Love the auto dampener feature on the earth stove.

Had this Fisher in Idaho,



replaced it with this Jotul,



but also use this Monarch when cooking.



Use this Quadrafire here in Texas.

got lazy........just yanked out the coal/wood stove in basement

worked well......just too much mess & fuss to keep it going...sold it

Will be installing a NG stove next week or so.....had to build hearth & cover wall behind with rock

NG is soo cheap here......have gas for..hot water.....furnace...dryer...BBQ...firepit & 1500 sq ft garage

Garage is a radiant tube type heater......steel framed garage & well insulated......

equal payment @ $63 month.....no brainer for me......

Can't blame you there. If I had to buy my wood I'd just use my propane back up full time.

Here is ours.

That Oslo is one bad ass stove!, I ran that stove in my camp in the Adirondacks, old log cabin built in 1880 I never had a cold night :-) in my house in PA I run a F 600, firelight in my basement, And I just put in last year a insert in my fireplace, jotul 550, Should’ve put one in earlier, what is the difference. I also have a F 400 that I run upstairs in my bedroom/bonus room, but way too much stove, taking it out after putting the insert in the fireplace.

https://www.lopistoves.com/product-detail.aspx?model=211

Ours is made by Lopi. American made. It is steel. Heats up fast...and cools down fast too. It has two flat surfaces on top. The upper one is great for keeping things warm. The lower one is good enough to cook on in a pinch.

Got a Sears box stove that came from my grandpa's place in the '70s. Must be way older than that. Currently using it in my barn.
Got a nice little pot belly coal burner that we used to heat the canvas elk hunting tent. We have since replaced it with a more modern flat top barrel stove.

Osburn M2400...

My BIL removed a nearly new Fisher when he remodeled his house and gave it to me. I'll be using it to heat my shop, but not with wood. Fill the firebox with cast iron- - - -old brake rotors, cylinder heads, etc. and run a waste oil drip once I get the burn going with Kerosene-soaked newspaper. I generate lots of waste oil with the vehicles around the farm, and I've got a couple of sources of giveaway motor oil and cooking oil from nearby businesses. Free heat, and I don't have to cut and split the fuel! Once the cast iron gets hot, it radiates heat for hours.
Jerry

Buck stove model 91.

I use a Big Buck insert that I had buck modify for my fireplace . 3 speed fan and triple wall stainless flu that I had built to fit the buck. My house is one level, 5500 sq ft. Ceiling fans help circulate warm air throughout the central part of the house. Bedrooms on both ends remain cool if people keep the doors closed. I burn 4 to 6 cords of oak and hickory per year. Have used this buck stove for 31 years. I like fooling with wood.

That's the stove I'm going to buy. That or another similar Jotul.

I have a soapstone woodstove in the office. Heavy sucker. Took me a while to learn how to run it. No draft control, just the chimney damper. You get that stove heated up and it will run you out of that end of the house if you aren't careful. But my wife doesn't like to mess with building a fire etc. so it doesn't get used much.

We have a quadrafire pellet stove in the family room. Absolutely love it. So much so, the wife has decided she wants the woodstove replaced with another quadrafire. Just bought a used qf pellet stove from a lady and now have to go get it and do the swap.

We've had one of these for 15 years or more. It produces a lot of heat. The furnace will never kick on while the stove is burning. Has a blower but will do OK without it if the power is off. You can cook on the top too if need be.

https://www.regency-fire.com/en/Products/Wood/Wood-Inserts/H2100

Pellet stoves sound good and less messy but doesn't it require electricity for the auger, fan etc?

The reason I got my Fisher was because it was being replaced with a pellet stove. The following spring while hanging out at the local liars club the owner told me that he wished he hadn't sold it to me. He found out after a power outage his pellet stove was a no go. Power is needed for producing draft. Now this was before people around here got into generators so...……….

I can't get close enough to mine to determine what brand it is.

quadrafire in the ranch yurt


double drum shop heater


lopi in the back room of the old house


quardrafire in the front room of the old house (lost in divorce)



quadrafire in current little domicile

wall tent stove



backpack tent stove

a good pipe cap....

A lot of people here burn wood for winter heat. The most popular stove by far is the Pacific Energy.

Mine is a Super 27

http://www.pacificenergy.net/products/wood/super/super-le/




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Blaze king and a hearth stone soap stone. The soapstone is pretty but I’d much rather have a blaze king princess model there instead.

The blaze king we do have is great. Huge fire box and burns very little wood.

If you want to burn AT LEAST 1/3 less wood, the stove you want is a Blaze King.

1/3 less wood burned for the same amount of heat

1/3 less wood hauled

1/3 less wood cut

1/3 less ash and clean up.

How? It's a catalytic stove that basically uses wood like a cigarette burns tobacco. The smoke produced that would usually be lost up the chimney is ignited by the catalyst. This also leads to MUCH LESS chimney buildup. I can go outside when my stove is running and there is no smoke coming out of the chimney.

I've had mine for six years at my cabin and can attest to all my claims above. The ONLY downside is if you have a spouse that just must see the dancing flames, they'll be disappointed. Yes, there's flames at startup, but once the stove gets going there is no flame - just heat and lots of it.

Look over the stove reviews at hearth.com. One stove is mentioned more than any other.

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Blaze King Princess here,it' can run us out of our 1300 Sq ft house..Heck of a stove and easy on the wood.

Yeah I've read Hearth.com quite abit and what you say is true. The Blaze King burn times are pretty amazing.

I have an old Ember Hearth from the 1970's.

It has a blower that I have never hooked up.

Somebody at some point put long legs on it which suit the dog just fine. If the bottom ever falls out of that old relic he's gonna be in a world of hurt though.




Mike

I have a Lopi 1250 in my hunting cabin (14x20 log with a half loft). It can get pretty cold and the stove will keep the place warm through the night on just a few logs.

When I was researching new stoves 5yrs ago, two things prevented me from buying a catalytic stove. The cost to replace the catalytic module and in order to take advantage of the catalytic feature, you have to run the stove at a very high temp.

Not all days require a full out burn.

At least nobody will trip on him
I have a Heatmasster 5000.
It was here when I bought the place.
It heats my house and a 30x50 ft pole barn with the barn having a concrete heated floor. There is a learning curve to heating with wood.
It has programmable thermostats and they are able to hold 5 different programs. Not for people who get confused easily.
whelennut

I went fancy and got a Vermont Castings Encore. My parents had the same one. Love heating the house with it in the winter.

You can burn at a lower temp with a cat stove. Buck I have you get it up to 500 for 30 minutes and the cat kicks in and you shut the air intake about off and the cat starts burning the smoke and the temp raises in the cat-box, not the entire stove. On a very cold night I have watched it go to 1500 degrees. Average day it burns at 1200 and then when it drops to about 400 you reload and bring it back up to operating temp.

My VC has a cat and it works well. The operating temp is only about 500 degrees. It’s great for burning a clean flame (smolder really) and burns wood efficiently. Much less smoke from the chimney but you can always surpass the cat if you want to.

have had an atlanta stoveworks homesteader model, with hinged top. can cook on firebox if power goes out.

takes 24 inch wood, but wood cut at 22 inches is oh so much better.

ashpan, and thermostat. good stuff. cast-iron liners.

they use to build fisher stoves close by. always wanted a papa bear.

also thought lot's of the riteway stoves built up in virginia.

ashley stoves were also good. those were the days.

We burn Harman pellet stoves in the house 1 upstairs is a fireplace insert one in basement rec room is free standing. Up at camp I have an old Vermont Casting Resolute wood stove with coal kit can burn wood during day and pea coal over night that way I do not need to throw wood on at 3:00 AM to keep camp warm. 4 tons of pellets most winters heats my home ($800 Nov. thru April 72 degrees)

Pacific Energy Neo 1.6. About the only thing that would it in our manufactured fireplace.

The house has a wood burning fireplace with a blower unit. Masonry chimney. Ceiling fans distribute heat very well. Not as efficient as a wood stove, but it supplements first floor in-floor radiant heat and individual room electric baseboard heating units. Power has been out a few times during below zero outside temps and the fireplace will heat the whole house to 60-65 degrees.




16'x20' and 1/2 loft log cabin is heated with a cast iron "kitchen heater". Chimney is triple-wall stainless steel chimney



Wall tent stove.


Work shop has a Round Oak stove. Masonry chimney.

My pellet stove will run on a 12 volt battery if power is out. You have to manually light the stove, but it will operate otherwise.

How long will a fully charged battery keep the stove going?

Huntsman you have a Sotz! Great stove. I have had 2 Sotz. This was a company back in 1980, they sold a kit. You got a metal cutting blade for the jigsaw, you cut a big square hole in the end of the drum, and bolted on the door. Then you cut a 6 inch hole at the end of the barrel, and bolted on the pipe fitting. Then you bolted on the legs and you were ready to rip! Get a couple cans of black high temp muffler spray paint, in two hours and for $50 you had a hell of a stove.

32 inch long firebox, this Bad Ass doesn't need dry wood it will burn anything. Huge massive firebox, probably the biggest firebox on any wood stove ever.
The stove is rated at 150,000 BTU. For comparison, my Oslo cost $2500 and is rated at 55,000 BTU.

Then you get the second Sotz kit, and put the second barrel on top, it is a heat exchanger and the big stove is rated at 250,000 BTU.
Talk about an all night burn!

In fact 3 years ago when I bought the Oslo, I wanted the Sotz! My girlfriend said, if I got another Sotz, she would leave me. She hates the Sotz. Women, go figure.
Don't get me wrong I love the Oslo and the view of the fire behind that big glass is just superb. But I just love the Sotz.

Sadly, the Sotz company went out of business about 1990. You can still find a Sotz kit on craigslist if you dig around a little.

I like the Oslo but these new stoves, including the Vermont Castings, are finicky about dry wood! You have to get a good woodshed or covered wood pile, it might take you two or three years to get down to 17 percent moisture. Got to get a digital moisture meter. They just won't work with wet wood.

The Sotz doesn't give a sh*t, in fact I would deliberately cut up a truckload of Oak about Dec. 1 so I would have some green wood. Load up that green wood in the Sotz at 11 pm you could get good heat for 12 to 15 hours.

Poor Ed, slumming it 😳😂. Nice lookin digs north and south Ed 👍🏻


Using blaze kings here, 1 as insert downstairs

And 1 as free standing upstairs.


I need a 1 level house.


God but buying wood is such sacrilege to me 🤮

Huntsman has another Sotz, with the round door, for smaller barrels. I also had one of these.

Glad they got that figured out. He bought his pellet stove and I don't know which brand it is/was in '94.

We have a fireplace, but hardly ever use it!

I have the Oslo in the addition log cabin, and this fireplace in the original log cabin. I built this fireplace with rocks I got out of Bear Creek.
This is a pretty good heater, it is entirely within the house, so that, the back wall of the fireplace is the inside wall of the bathroom.
If I burn this for 5 hours, then shut it off and close the damper, it will put out good heat for 24 hours.

It is a pretty good heater for a fireplace, but not nearly as efficient as the Oslo.

I'm still using my Earth Stove that I bought back in the early 80's. It takes about 4 cords of wood to get thru the winter. I mostly burn aspen or spruce----it's pretty hard to find hardwood here in Colorado.

Man that's nice work.

Another Blaze King here. We heat the whole 2k sq ft house exclusively with it November thtough about the end of March. The house was designed around that stove, with intake for the central heating system almost directly above it. If the main room gets too warm, we can either spread the heat with the house fan, or open some windows. The house also takes advantage of passive solar. Lots of windows on the south side, so on clear sunny days - even in the teens, we can usually just have the fire going at night. We go through about three cords of mostly lodgepole a year. We've only had to replace the cat once in 20 years, but probably about due for another.

Vogelzang Deluxe Boxwood Stove.

It was cheap. It generates gobs of BTU's and it's been working since 2001 without a hitch. I 've got a double-walled stainless flue going up through the attic. I run a box fan behind the stove to circulate the air.

When we lived in NW Jersey I ran a Vermont Castings Defiant Encore. Damn nice stove, heated the entire 1400 sq ft house from the basement.
Load it at 9pm and it was still warm at 7am. The one winter I didn't use the furnace at all I burned 4 cord. My first intro to chain saws!

Don't need one down here in FL. If it gets cold enough we go out and light the fireplace by the pool.

Quadrafire..... Suspect that our 20'+ chimney pipe is one of the longest here....

We have a Blaze King Princess Ashford in our cabin, got a smoking deal on it as it was used for a demo burn the year prior and he had to clear it out to make room for the new stoves coming into his store. Love the 30 hour burn time too, once it gets to temp maintaining a constant temp is a piece of cake and it's a very effiecient stove. We've got a Jotul 602 in our shop that we slo love though it only has a burn time of 4-5 hours but it's also a very efficient wood stove.

The pipe from the Blaze King through the roof of our cabin is 22 feet.

I'll get around to building the house around this one, just trying to finalize the plans.

Tag

My Heatmaster 10,000e heats my house, my water and my swimming pool. I have Mendota natural gas fireplaces in the home.

(Quote)I like the Oslo but these new stoves, including the Vermont Castings, are finicky about dry wood! You have to get a good woodshed or covered wood pile, it might take you two or three years to get down to 17 percent moisture. Got to get a digital moisture meter. They just won't work with wet wood

This is the biggest drawback to the new EPA stoves.The old days you could just throw anything in them not so anymore.But if you have the right wood, meaning dry, the efficiency is amazing with them.

A Majestic in the main house and two Fischer's a Papa Bear and a Baby bear.....

I run a quadra fire woodstove in the house and an old vestal stove in the shop. Paid 200 bucks for the quadra fire, got the vestal for free when I installed a new stove for a customer and they told me if I could haul off the old one, I could have it. Heated with it for years until I built us a house too efficient for it. Even in the last house we had the windows open a lot of the time. Then we got the little quadra fire. Last year, we never ran it. Heated and cooked for a year on 200 gallons of propane with an 1800sf house with high ceilings thoughout. Used a radiant ventless wall heater on the lowest setting all winter. Turn it up any, house gets too hot. May have gone a little overboard with the air sealing and insulation...

Fisher mama bear bought it for $75 best money I ever spent

Old Yukon Bronco, add on furnace.
Burns wood and coal, but the grates are shot and unavailable,
so no coal.

Anyone have a lead on replacement grates for this thing?
I think it was made in Mn.

Quadra fire.

And like Charlie, there's usually one or the other of the dogs in front of it. Sometimes both get in the way of feeding it.





I'm a fan of a stove I can cook on if need be, and doesn't need power to operate. After all, whatcha gonna do when the SHTF? Just like in the olden days, when/if I run out of wood and trees before winter ends, I can always burn the furniture for heat. Try that in you natural gas insert.

Geno

i like the concept of being able to convert furniture into heat if push comes to shove.

down here today it's a record 98 or more.

but, the winter is coming.

the heater is already loaded with wood & kindling.

just in case. don't want an early unexpected cold spell to catch us unprepared. just sayin'

I have a Fisher that I took out of my up north house. I'd like to sell it. My plan is to replace it with a Blaze King just before I retire and move up permanently.

I bought one of these some years ago. Decided to stick with gas. Its just sitting in the garage.

https://www.woodheat.com/products/stoves/wood-stoves/hearthstone-heritage.html

Got it for a good price, figure I'll hang on to it and use it in the cabin/camp I need to build.

That one is worth building a room around. A beauty.

We had a Regency at our last place. Not an insert though a stand alone stove, 8 inch steel chimney and an insulated stainless outlet piece. Hell of a good unit they're popular around here. Like you say the blower is nice but with no power no blower you could still about cook yourself out of our house if you ran it near full.

The pellet stove in our 1896 farm house was removed by previous owners before we moved in. This heritage home has no insulation to speak of, but is only @ 1700 sq. feet, including upper level. We replaced the pellet stove with an insert, a Montlake 230 by Ironstrike. We are in the 7,000 foot level of the mountains, with easy access to the standing-dead timber of the Forest. If the blower is usable, it does a fine job. If the power goes out, it struggles a bit to heat the whole house. Our backup is electric wall heaters, but they rarely are needed. We go through about 3 cords of Fir, Spruce or Pinon each winter and enjoy the warmth that only a fireplace or wood stove could provide.

The purchase and installation of a vented chimney cap has been worthwhile, since we get a bit of creosote buildup otherwise. The old masonry chimney still works fine with its' steel liner. Junk mail serves as kindling and we routinely clean the chimney/pipe every year.

Beautiful work. When I build the new house in a couple of years, I'll be putting in a masonry wood heater. They are amazingly efficient and seem like a easier to operate version of the wood stove.

http://www.heavenlyheat.com.au/home-2/how-masonry-heaters-work/

This stove is similar to the one that heated the farm house of my childhood. (1940s) Ours was the ROUND OAK DUPLEX. The differences I remember are primarily cosmetic. The crown,front foot rest, and bottom ring were nickle plated. That corrugated cast iron base would turn red during those below zero days. Our stove also had 2x2 inch Isinglass (mica) windows in the lower door.

I remember sitting there with my dad. We would pull off those winter boots and rest our feet in the foot rest and watch the steam rise off our wool sox while we dried them and warmed our feet. That stove plus the kitchen wood cook stove kept that old 12 room farm house warm during the Adirondack winters. It was not uncommon to see -30, -40 degree weather.

John, we're also right at 22'.....as you know just the heat from that vert pipe = some serious btus!

I looked long and hard at putting a Tulikivi masonry heater into my house. I love 'em!
I finally figured that the thing, day in and day out, would put out too much heat for the NC mountains. Plus the girlfriend doesn't like them.
I wound up going with the fireplace and a wood stove.

Quadrafire Isle Royale in the dining room. I use a fan to move air towards the front if the house and up the stairs, I get a good circulation which heats the whole house, except the back upstairs bedroom on the coldest, windiest nights. 100 year old house, 2400 square feet. It likes dry wood, but I haven't found it to be as picky as some I have read about.

Thanks. I really should just sell it, buy a simple old cast stove when I’m ready.