Took this load of oak off a service member at JBLM a bit ago. I was surprised that it fit wonderfully in the back of my truck. All split too!!
That load of wood looks even better with the FHC decal on the window. Which size is that? Great score FatBoy85
I think it’s the largest one 18 by 7? in the swag shoppe but I need to order a new one. Soon that’ll be peeling apart, I botched it a little putting wood on the back window. Oops.
That'll burn nicely once you choose another heating appliance! sorry that you couldn't bring the other one with you, FatBoy85.
Well the Woodstock stoves are indeed looking pretty to me since the long burns and some other appeals. What may set me back is the shipping. Unless I find some by luck and god and 69,000 lucky rolls near me.... not sure which one though. But knowing you and all these guys here would be wondering, i’ll Be telling you when it would happen. Timing is everything. But I’m still doing that research on and off now. The betterment of my experience is to pick a stove that isn’t more than 2000 square feet of a heater. That’s a lot of house! But I’m confident that a heater I get is going to heat better than the former house because of it’s lousy insulation. The heat didn’t hold well after burning down. I don’t know if this is common or not, but working on it.
Good deal! I'm obviously partial to WS, but there are many good heaters on the market. Honestly I'd give a hard look to Blaze King in your climate. Their reputation for "low and slow" is hard to beat. We tossed around the idea of a Princess, but wanted the "nuclear option" of hybrid on the table so we chose the IS with no regrets.
Have to agree with Bigpapi on that assessment. I might’ve had a Blaze King myself but bought a Fireview on eBay auction for dirt cheap. Not big enough for my application but I stuck with WS. One of my biggest joys in wood burning is efficiency. Knowing I’m getting more heat for less wood/work. Strange that mindset doesn’t overlap into my other interests but in stoves it does.
Yes and another option here may be Hearthstone. I’m very new to those, all I know is they make soapstone stoves but nothing known much about their lineup. Couple of some here are very appreciative of their stove in the Blaze King line up and glad they posted about theirs. The wood will not be an issue. But I’m more keen on having a smaller stove so my butter can stay somewhat solid.....
Can’t disagree with you there, my first stove was a Timberwolf, great heater but it blasted heat and I’m fond of the ambient heat that doesn’t make me sweat when walking around the house. The colder it was the better though. Just have to remind myself that opening a cat stove would make the equilibrium offset. Too used to just loading wood for the enjoyment of it. But long term burns when it’s steadily 40-30° at night in the winter, that sounds better than waking up to a cold stove in the morning. If need be, I’m fine with using the stove as a main and using space heaters for the extra if need be. Not being that the stove is too much or too little but being able to be conservative about what to use when because I have lit the stove only to find out the temperature Didn’t drop enough at night and a little bit of space heater heat was better in one room than the whole house.
True Wood Hoarder Delivery! I know that they have a delivery discount right now, deciding on it (The stove) would be the tough part. The Absolute Steel High Style looks pretty good and loads easy with high stilts. I think the price would be right on a hybrid instead of a full cat, couple things: I tend to burn pallet wood. Heat treated stuff but says nails shouldn’t be used in cat stoves. Any other advice on this would be cool but It’s not the majority of what I’d burn yet I’d want to have less worry wrecking a cat on that. Again, time to read up on some of these a bit more...
Drolet has a nice line up of stoves, reasonable price, good burn times, good efficiency. We have the Blackcomb
Seen a couple drolets here, they sound like decent stoves. My previous stove probably had quality burn time of about 5-6 hours. I’d love to just make smaller fires last as long as full loads previously.
We burn mostly oak, so we do have a big bed of coals in the mornings. I loaded it with 2yr oak shorts, burned 8hrs, had the double wide about 76-78° inside with 20° outside. I loaded at 10:30 PM with 10-11" pieces Next morning at 7:30 when I got home... View of the complete setup.
Just to clarify. The WS hybrids are cat stoves. Personally I go out of my way to ensure I use nothing but natural wood in mine. Same reason, don’t want to mess up the cat. Steel nails are probably no problem. There’s cast, stainless and steel bolts inside the stove already. Galvanized are probably a problem. Give off nasty chemicals when heated. No plywood, particle board, pressure treated or colored ink paper. Same thing, its about the chemicals. I used my wood furnace as a trash disposal. I didn’t find it hard to change my habits. I’ve cut a few pallets up that were clean but not suitable for stacking. Junctions with nails went in the fire pit. I’m not gonna make a habit of burning pallets tho. Too easy for a habit to become a bad habit. Oil, grease, paint. Probably not good.
Most of the nails I found were rusty or the nails were new but had shine to them like they were raw steel. None of the crap is burned. Usually have been aware of that since I was young and burning ANY kind of painted or tainted or any kind of “fake or glued” wood like you said above was either accident or extremely minimal, outside was a must. I’m not interested in making it a habit but hard to turn down wood that burns so well for having metal in it. If a cat stove is best for natural splits, I have zero issues in that. I just love the variety of having said splits. No wonder I’m still hoarding. No point in stopping because eventually it will be burned and if I were to stop, then getting ahead isn’t achieved. I am still nowhere near what the supply used to be but it is indeed more sorted and I’m picky because of what’s being burned needs to accommodate the input so that once I’m done burning a pile of stuff, I intend to rotate the new stuff in. Some of the stuff I split and stacked this summer sat for awhile in the wet. Go figure, I knew I had an issue but did the best I could and stacked everything else up, got it drying and split a bunch of limbs of black locust and oak. Summer was wetter than it usually gets to be...next job is to get what needs to be split split as it’s beginning to cool down much better, much easier to work on it as most days get muggy in the afternoon with cloud cover.
