Any whitfield pellet stove owners here?

I spoke with him this morning (late). He said he ended up lighting it last evening and it was real nice to feel the heat form it.

Thanks again Snowy Rivers !



Hope he takes your repair advice.

 

You are welcome...

 

Thanks,Snowy,I knew you would be a wealth of info. But, versa-grate? To me that is the moveable bottom burn pot on St Croix's. Perhaps you meant Ultra-Grate? As i have seen very few Whits here,i do not know. But, thanks for helping Yooper!!

 

Yes, thanks for answering and helping go out to everyone.

Once again, the stove is not mine. Someone had bought a house this summer and the whitfield was left in it (probably due to it's age/condition) and they had no idea about operation/safety of it. I hope the person takes all the advice given.

I have thought about a pellet stove in the past and have come to the conclusion that I would much rather have the radiant heat output from a traditional wood stove. That and not having to keep all those little pellets stacked up against the wall; just how do you keep them from rolling off of one another???

 

There is the issue of not needing electricity, and the radiant heat.

Having wood close by and available is a good thing.

Cutting, splitting and stacking the stuff...hauling if you don't have it at hand is also an issue.

The bugs that always seem to come in on the wood...Ants under the bark...

There are downsides to everything.

Fossil fuels $$$$$$$
Electricity $$$$$$$$$$$$$
Natural gas $$ better
Propane $$ so so
Biomass fuels Eco friendlier (Pelletized fuels such as leaves, switch grass)
Biomass fuels like nut shells $ total waste product and reasonably priced
Pellets $$ Handy for the folks who do not have the desire to get real hard into the work of scrounging stuff and building things.

I would love to have a small wood stove for power outages.
All depends on the situation...

 

Your wood stove does not have a blower?

 

Yes, every epa stove I own has a blower. One of them I use, the other two blowers, not so much. But the majority of the heat felt is radiant, IMO.