They may not be available in your area but we have put Country Stoves wow burners in our homes twice and have been extremely happy with them. Our current one not only gets the house up to 80 degrees without effort but we have used it to cook on (stews and coffee) during power outages.
Look At the Buck Stoves Had one for about 35 years heats great,my house is about 2800 down stairs with 3 bed rooms and two baths upstairs.keeps everything good and warm,Down here our extreme lows will not get below 17 degrees.One time it got down to 7 degrees.That was in 80-91.
Are my kids/grandkids more important than "o"'s kids, to me they are,darn tooting they are!!! They deserve the same armed protection afforded "o"'s kids.
I have been hoodwinked but not by"o"
In God we trust,in "o" never trust
Support those that support the Constitution and the 2nd Amendant
My family has used wood all of our lives. A vermont soapstone is quite the thing if you can swing it
I Am Descended From Men Who Would Not Be Ruled
Fiat Justitia, Ruat Caelum
There is enough fat in the federal government that if you rendered it you could wash the world
Ronald Reagan.
We have the Waterford "Ashling" model. It is very well made and beautiful. But in reality our cheaper but well made Country welded steel stove was more efficient.
I recommend getting a larger stove than what you think you need according to it rating. A smaller firebox needs to be reloaded more often and can't take the larger pieces.
Yes, I wasn't exactly clear in my comments but that picture is of a pot-belly stove rather than a Franklin. The point I wanted to make is that a Franklin isn't always good for cooking so if you want to use it for that, it may not work as well as you want. Hence, the pot belly as an alternative!
--Wag--
"Great genius will always encounter fierce opposition from mediocre minds." --Albert Einstein.
7Acres, Do you have a basement? Also, what part of the country do you live in? CR
We have no basement. But we do have a 2nd story. 800sq ft on 2nd, 1400 on 1st floor. Planning on putting the stove centrally located on 1st floor. There's a perfect spot for one there.
7Acres, PM incoming CR
Wag that is one pretty stove, I can smell the pot of soup on it now!
Napoleon 1450 is the least expensive stove of good quality we could find last year. It has firebrick, holds heat and has no converter if that is legal where you are. We have 1500 sq ft upstairs and I start the stove with 3 1/-1/3 pieces of split pine 16" long from a 15-18" log. After it is warm one stick per hour of split 1/3 or 1/4 round pine log keeps the upstairs warm. You can cook on it but it is not designed for it, just use flat bottomed cookware.
[The Montana Gianni] Front sight and squeeze
Mine is a Nashua but I'm pretty sure they are no longer made. Its a good stove going into its 33 season for us. The house is 1750 sq ft up & down and it heats the whole house. Its a good looking stove with glass door front, takes 24" logs, jacketed steel construction with a 2 speed squirrel cage blower for the jacket. Once you get spoiled with wood heat its hard to be without it. Sounds like we are really going to need it starting Friday morning here.
We've been using a Vermont castings catalytic Defiant for the last 10 years or so. It was pricey, but I'm really happy with it, with one exception; we bought the green enamel version which looked great for 7 or 8 years, then the enamel started going away on the top, so now it looks pretty bad. I'd recommend plain black iron as you can always re-black them and keep them looking good. I see these used locally for $600 - $900 depending on the condition.
The best deal for the $$ right now is probably the cast iron stove at Home Depot, (NC 30?). Some friends of ours just put one in as the only heat source for a 2,000 sq ft house in northern Maine, and they are very pleased with it. I think it was $950 out the door.
BD
Enamal stoves look great but are more for decoration than long term use. We always called them Flatlander Stoves because all of the people from the city and mass, ct, ny etc that just had to move to Vermont bought them cause they looked good.
My dad heated his house with an oil drum stove he made himself. It would get the house so warm you'd have to open the windows in January.
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I Am Descended From Men Who Would Not Be Ruled
Fiat Justitia, Ruat Caelum
There is enough fat in the federal government that if you rendered it you could wash the world
Ronald Reagan.
Whatever you get, make sure it's libtard compliant:
http://www.epa.gov/burnwise/
"Everyone has a plan, until they get punched in the face!" - Mike Tyson
"Don't let my fears become yours." - Me, talking to my children
That look on your face, when you shift into 6th gear, but it's not there.
Look for Harmon stoves. Very well made and efficient. Mine is a coal stove with a magic heat reclaimer on the pipe.
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Paul G.
Once I was young, now I am old and in between went by way to fast.
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller
Has anyone put an older one in lately. I'm wondering what your insurance company said? I have an all fuel chimney and will be installing direct vent furnace and water heater soon. I want to install a stove but there is no way I'm going w/ a catalytic.
We have been using a Woodstock Fireview stove for the last 7 or 8 years.It is a very good burning wood stove with a catalytic combuster. It is a cast iron frame with double walled soapstone sides top and back. Burn time runs around 8 to 12 hours on one load of wood with plenty of coals left to fire up the next load.This stove is our only source of heat in our house which runs about 1500 sq. feet.
Here is a photo of what one looks like and some info...
http://www.woodstove.com/fireview
Can anyone enlighten a neophyte on how effective and efficient one of the old wood burning cook stoves are if used as either a primary or secondary source of space heating.
smokeywolf
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms *shall not be infringed*.
"The greatest danger to American freedom is a government that ignores the Constitution."
- Thomas Jefferson
"While the people have property, arms in their hands, and only a spark of noble spirit, the most corrupt Congress must be mad to form any project of tyranny."
- Rev. Nicholas Collin, Fayetteville Gazette (N.C.), October 12, 1789
They work! In the Army in New Hampshire (1967-68) a group of GIs rented an older farm home. We had a furnace but fuel was expensive and we we gone most of the day. We had a wood burning cook stove in tne kitchen that provided more than enough heat for breakfast and in the evening . Ran the furnace to keep the chill off at night. Also had camp cabin that a drive stove for heat and cooking. Worked very good to dry thing out and warm the cabin. Just have to haul out ashes.
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BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
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