Booted the Morso to the porch.

After 3 years its time to upgrade. I'm tired of loading the stove every 4 hours and struggling to keep warm when the temps drop below 20.

I picked up the new stove on Friday.

The terminal I picked it up at had a really cool 2 section dial scale. It didn't work but I had to take some pics. I've never seen one of these in person.



I thought I would be able to move the stove with a moving dolly. Not happening... Saturday i called my friend and we move it off the trailer with 4x4s onto a cart.


Working smarter not harder...

I still need to build a hearth but the stove looks amazing.


I am still figuring out the details. The bottom heat shield, does not want to fit, I called woodstock and they told me to bend it if it doesn't fit on all 4 bolts.
Some pics of the inside.



I bought a 90 elbow and I might need new pipe. My current pipe has a shoulder and does not allow the elbow to seat far enough for the screws to thread.


I can't wait for it to get cold enough to break it in.
If anybody is interested in a morso in SE Ohio I'm selling it cheap.

 

Congrats, the Fireview is a great stove!

 

I wish everyone thought to take pictures of their new stove like that. Would you care to post some pictures inside and out from different angles? Thanks so much for those you've already provided. First time seeing the inside of a new Woodstock Fire View. Really nice stove!!!

 

Bypass open...



Bypass closed...




Door.

Inside of door.

Fall away handle for the door.


Leg..


Cast Woodstock above loading door.

Air wash

 

Actual numbers and tick marks on the intake air setting. Nice!

 

The lever is only for the by-pass, right? Not the numbers? I don’t see any lever for the air intake. Maybe I do and maybe I’m just not seeing it right.

 

In this picture I am holding the air intake lever.

Here you can see the rod that attaches to the air control handle.

 

It helps to paint those air intake numbers with some white high temp paint for better visibility.

 

Ok...I gues I was seeing it, but wasn’t sure. Certainly more clear now. Thanks!!!

 

You're welcome, its really dark in the corner where the stove is and the pictures aren't that great with the camera phone.

 

What is the minimum rear clearance for that stove?

 

They’re huge! This is the reason I have a BK on my hearth. The fire view was the biggest Woodstock for a long time and had/has pretty great performance specs. That dang rear clearance spec puts the thing way out in the room. Good thing it’s a side loader only so you don’t need much hearth in front.

Im thinking they didn’t care much about the rear spec because Woodstock expected most users to be putting this in front of a fireplace.

 

Precisely why I was asking.

I need close clearance in the back because I don’t have much to the front. I have 42”...that’s it. One reason I bought a used Lopi Liberty to try before buying new. It has 4” rear clearance. With the WoodStock being a shallow stove, and if it had close clearance, the stove could set close to the wall or on the middle of the hearth giving more rear clearance. The side door being on the right is perfect for me because my kitchen door is on that side and there is at least 3ft of hearth to the right of the stove, hearth being 7ft wide and thimble slightly off-set left. Plus, it’s my favorite as far as looks. Large rear clearance kills it for me.

 

18" rear clearance with heat shield, 30" without. 8" front and 16" on loading door side. You can reduce the back clearances to 7" with wall protection.

 

So here’s the problem, unless you’re going straight out the back wall you need to 90 or a tee to go vertical off of the back of the stove. Then, even double wall requires 6 more inches of clearance to that back wall.

 

I have 4” of rock and concrete on the floor and on the wall behind the stove. However, I am not sure what is behind the wall for clearance. One reason I’ve been burning coal....I can touch the wall behind stove and pipe and keep my hand there if I want to even running the stove at 345 during 0*F temps. Pipe temps idling cool enough to put my hand on the pipe and leave it there. That said, I’d still like to be able to burn some wood in a stove like the Fire-View.

 

Since this wall was put up in the late 70’s I doubt it meets code today. Even now the floor of the hearth doesn’t meet code. Not enough clearance in front, not too worried about it as cool as the Hitzer runs. Even to Hitzer clearance it doesn’t meet spec, but it runs way cooler than a wood stove.

 

Let us know how much you like the Fireview later on. I added rear and pipe heat shields and double wall pipe up to the box. I'm sure that you know break-in fires are recommended. The Fireview heats our 1200 sf ranch just fine. Enjoy!