Wood Cook Stoves & Pot Belly Stoves

Asking anyone out there using them? Just how long do they take to warm up a place form a cold start? I have a NC-30 in the garage workshop and am toying with the idea of putting a cookstove or pot belly should one ever fall into my lap.

Thing is, I do not heat the workshop for weeks at a time during the winter, but when I'm there, would like to fire up the stove and enjoy the warmth without waiting forever.

Since the 30 takes a good couple hours before you're down to t-shirt comfort, I'm thinking that both models of these older stoves would take longer.......

 

Cook stoves are deplorable on their firebox size, they are TINY, but that is the point, heat the water or the oven and not the house too much. Heat was not determined so much by the firebox size, but what was used in it. I still call alder "biscuit wood" out of habit because they used alder...yes that tiny shrub here in the northeast that likes wet feet, for making biscuits. It burns HOT and fast. (This is NOT western alder)

A pot belly is better, but it still half the stick size of a regular stove. It takes about 3 days to really heat my house up here, but I have a lot of wood in this house. Once it is warmed up, I can light a fire and in an hour it is warm, but if you lose all the heat in the mass of the building, its going to take a big firebox size to heat the place up.

I am not familiar with a #30 Stove...

Now with all that said...and I am not a world-is-going-to-end kind of guy, but there is something to be said for having a wood kitchen stove as a back up. Yes for that power outages and stuff, but also for summer cooking when you don't want to heat up the house too much. Now all this depends on what a person has for a back up generator, air conditioners, etc. But back in the old days everyone had a summer kitchen and for good reason.

 

Our pot belly is a total butt kicker. Either pumping out jet engine heat,, or left unattended, will die in an hour. We don’t like it and will replace later this summer once the money tree blooms. I think a Pot Belly would be great for your situation : infrequent hot heat.

 

The NC-30 is an EPA stove manufactured by Englander. Very very good stove. No complaints at all! Excellent company, it was my 2nd stove from them. You should really try one out, but you'd have to change your burning habits regarding your views on drying time for firewood....


The pot belly or cook stove would be put into the workshop....excepting its not really a workshop any longer! More of a "Dave cave".

I'll just leave it as is and continue to cook on the top of the "30".

 

There is one for sale about 1 1/2 hour from here.

You may talk me into it yet!

 

Come to MN and I’ll help ya load it !

 

Now that stove has character!

Is that a 7" flue?

 

7” oval collar, I used a 6” and screwed it in. Unfortunately this stove was made in Taiwan. Supposedly original to the home from ‘71

 

Sounds like a good application for a Fisher stove...

 

Oooo...I know... BrianK can build you one of his rocket barrel stove/pizza ovens!

 

Quick response E...but one step aheadja.... ...thanks!

 

My former work shop was 52' x 24' with 10' ceiling. Three 8' x 8' doors and a 9.5' x 8' door 6" insulation in the walls and a foot in thre ceiling. A double barrel stove set up and in a half hour we were in T shirts and giving thought to opening a door.

A pot belly made by Warm Morning replaced ther double barrel stove after I sold the place.

Al

 

My brother worked at a New Holland dealer and they heated the shop for years with a double barrel stove.