Gonna buy a Ideal Steel (I think) LOL

I hear you with the shipping. I live in Western Nevada and it was $700 plus but a buddy also ordered one at the same time so they split the shipping and it was $400 or so each... Still expensive but manageable. I helped him move it into his house and within a year he sold his house and left the stove behind...‍♂️

That was 6 years ago. My Ideal Steel is still good to go minus the defect that Woodstock fixed for free.

 

I’ve moved several stoves by myself into and out of pickups and onto raised hearths. You almost never have to actually lift the stove. Besides they’re all heavy, 500-700, nobody is going to have an easy time moving it unless they work smart.

 

That’s what I told my wife when she was upset I moved a stove by myself. It’s all about leverage and engineering. I can’t pick up that beast.

 

I'm really hoping for a more even heat through the house, the Drolet did an admirable job but did not have a "low and slow" mode that i hope to have with the IS.

 

What model Drolet did you have?

 

The key to even heat is air sealing and insulation, not the heat source itself.

 

I think what this post was referring to was the stoves ability to burn at a low rate with the air intake turned down to extend the burn length vs a hot high quick output of heat which then falls quickly....

 

The house has plenty of insulation, could be tighter as i plan on doing some sealing this fall, but too small is too small.

 

Austral (sp?) It kicked the Summit's butt for heating.

 

Exactly, trying to keep the temp fluctuations to a minimum.

 

I used to think that but then I got a stove that could put out a steady heat to match the houses loss for 24 hours straight. Once that happens, temperatures stay even. The IS is a very controllable stove.

Improving air sealing and insulation just make the heat loss lower which is often necessary to match your stove’s long burn setting output. If you’re blowing through 3 loads per day in any stove then you’re going to feel the temperature swings.

 

Not my thread but I’ll ask since I am moving my IS tomorrow. How do you get the stove safely off the pallet without damage stove or floor? We plan on moving the crate with the front end loader of the tractor to the house front door. From there we will set it on a floor dolly. After that I am a bit clueless…. Hopefully some responses here will help others.

 

How are you getting it off of the pallet and onto the dolly? Maybe picking it with the tractor?

Get it slid off of the dolly over onto two stacks of lumber runners that are the same height as the dolly. I usually use 2x6 lumber about 2 feet long. It's easy to slide a stove across smooth surfaces. Then rock the stove onto two legs, pull a board, rock it the other way, pull two boards, all the way to the ground.

 

Yup, you can do a lot with a stack of blocks and a long bar! (I have a 72" spud bar that I like to use)
Some 1" pipes make great rollers if you need to move the stove from point A to point B in the house too (I use sch 80 PVC on tile)
I moved a 900 lb wood furnace in, and then later on back out, totally by myself using just these tools. (and maybe a 4 wheel cart too)
The stack of blocks and a long bar method is exactly how I got it from cart height, down onto the floor.

 

These are the tools I used to get it off the pallet and then moved it into the house and in to its final resting place...

A 1000 pound (set at 700lbs) hitch lift and a 20.5" pallet jack with 4x4s under the stove. Worked great and was pretty easy to do and maneuver.

 

I have to figure out something also, 3 point lift on tractor would work for me, would like to borrow one vs buy, rentall did not have one.
As far as moving accross floor,the coaster things allowed me to easily move my stove accross cement floor by myself.

 

How we did it twice


Put on deck no stairs strap to dolly roll it to hearth.
Put cardboard on hearth. For adjusting to pipes..
Granted guys who did dolly averaged 280#

 

Been thinking about making a arm for the loader so i could put it in door but did not want to spend a lot time on something.

 

We got mine in today. Put it on the front loader to take down to house. I have 8+” walls so the stove just stuck inside the doorway (door removed). We then tipped it up and pulled it in on the wool blanket. Slid it in the rest of the way. Taking it off the wood was a challenge. Thank you for the suggestion of using stacked wood and taking one out at a time! Lots of work. Now I just need to put it together and figure out the pipe…

 

Holy switch box!