Budget Cat Stove

Huh? I did? If you say so... No offense intended.....once again I'm oblivious...

 

I just meant you had clicked like on my original post while I was deleting and edited it.

 

Ah...roger that

 

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I hope everyone is as happy with their stove as I am.

 

Thank you so much for the welcome not really knowing much about the wood burning stoves, i just thought since the OP had considered the Blaze King brand i would just ask my question here.

I understand it would be better to start a new thread but don't want to just be starting one that has many times before been started.

I want to be careful not to just jam up the forum with needless threads.

 

Jam away!! All these forums are the same ol' anyways.

 

@welcome to the FHC firewoodbuckenman nice to have you! Start a new thread we love helping people spend their $$

Blaze king are a good quality stove. One of their VP comes on this forum and answers questions another plus. Realize that a BK is a cat stove! Which means they have. Catalytic converters to burn smoke, all cat stoves like Dry wood.

 

I found this BK web site great video's gave me some good Info. had no idea they have Cats in stoves, hope they don't have thugs cutting them off and selling them to scrap yards, every night around here their cutting Cats of peoples cars and trucks.
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And thank you for the welcome to your forum.

 

I'm an NC30 owner. It's been sitting in my side porch for like 8 years and have not installed it yet!!! I love the idea of a huge cheap steel stove without the cat to maintain. That said my main heat for the house comes from a catalyst stove that's an insert. I love the long heat and burn times. I can put wood in it after 24 hours and have enough coals to get it going again. When cold I load about 2.5 times a day to heat the house. One day loads when its more mild outside. But I will say, cause I pretty much burn 24/7 from November to March. Now when it warms up it may go days between loads. But at that burn rate the cats last me about 3 years. And they cost I'm thinking $175 for both of them plus the gasket. So they are not cheap to maintain. Heck that is about 30% of the cost of an NC30.

 

Looks like my old man is going to pull the trigger on a Blaze King so I will get to see some real life trials

 

To my knowledge, all Buck is making currently in the CAT department is the model 91 which is too big for my application.

 

Could you please expand up what you mean on a bi-metallic thermostat??

 

Here's and example of a D.S. regulator, that comes on D.S. Stoves, as well as Kitchen Queen stoves, Hitzer has a similar one, as does Keystoker, Alaska, Vermont Castings, etc. These are all variations of the same type of device I am referring to.


This example happens to be on a wood cookstove, of which many have a similar option.

 

In my humble opinion, you can’t go wrong buying a cat stove. I have been running an Earth Stove BV 4000c for over twenty years and love it. I went from an open fireplace to a cat stove and the learning curve was steep. First thing I learned was that there is a big difference between “fireplace seasoned wood” and “cat stove seasoned wood”. To speed up the process, I cut my wood rather short and split it small. By doing this, I can have oak ready in two years rather than three years.
As I understand it, the cat stoves on the market now are even better and more user friendly than those of twenty years ago. I keep looking at the Buck 91 and really want it but can’t justify the expense as my current stove continues to do good. All I have had to do is replace the cat a few times and replace the fan. That being said, if I have to replace it, I think I will go with the Buck 91. Fortunately, I have a rather large masonry fireplace so that is not an issue.

 

I’d like to find an Earth Stove with a glass door that opens side ways. Not sure of the model.

 

who makes the nc 30?

 

Thanks

 

Madison by Englander.
ETA: Oops. Not the Madison.