For the past few years, I've been trying my darndest to install a basement stove to accompany my 1st floor living room unit. My first setup was an old Fisher Momma Bear that I piped in. Due to clearance issues, I had an excessive horizontal pipe run which causes me much grief. After 2 separate incidents where I lost control of the stove and watched my chimney temp run away - I decided this setup was unsafe and not practical. A few weeks ago, I found the identical stove to my upstairs unit on marketplace for $300. After some tinkering and a new blower setup, I'm in buisness and so far so good! This is a BuckStove model 51 (predecessor to the modern BuckStove model 74). I have to say, now owning both, these are great stoves! BuckStove seems to be a lessor known brand but I must say they have excellent customer service and support. They were very happy to send me literature and information on a 20yr. old discontinued model. Simple to operate and tons of heat! I'm happy
I'm right down the road, if you need help anytime processing. Let me know I'll help if I'm available.
Glad this stove is working out for you. I can't tell if you have a damper in the pic or not, wouldn't hurt.
What is the difference on air control on a Buck vs the Mama Bear? I don't see knobs on the Buck, where is it?
Not sure on that model buck but I would guess it might be the lever coming out the middle bottom. My Buck has two slide levers on the front sides. One for primary air and one for secondary air.
The Buck has one simple inlet air feed control in the middle of the front bottom panel. This may be tricky to see, here's another picture. After firing this unit up and running it for a few days continuously, I'm very pleased with the performance. With this setup, I have atleast 25ft of chimney vertically. The draft is STRONG - almost too strong. If I was to leave the stove in fully open position, I fear it might get away from me. On the positive side of the strong draft, when I close my inlet air control fully, the secondary air channel must really start pulling hard because this older stove lights off the secondaries quickly, easily, and really puts out heat!!! Once it's up to full temp, I have zero visible emissions from the chimney.
That's good to know! Even my wife is loving this new stove setup. She wasn't sold on the fact that we needed ANOTHER woodburner since we already have our 1st floor loving room unit. Now that it's been on and burning for almost week, and she's loaded it herself - she's loving the extra heat and ease of use. Happy wife, happy life
