Almost done replacing this winters fuel burned. Its 80% hickory with a little red maple and oak. Have to start scrounging pallets for stacking. The old ones did their job and rotted into the ground.
I hope there is at least 3 there. Have piled it there in a similar manner before stacking and it has been at least 3. I think I used around 4 this winter, more than I intended going in to it and pulled some from my extra or emergency stacks. That is mostly split extra large. The maximum I can fit through the door on my Yukon furnace. Get a longer burn that way. If it's not close to 3 it soon will be and it will get at least three summers of drying before use. It is nice to be ahead of the game and I think we all know the deep satisfaction that comes from having it ready.
Eagle/husky. I'm happy with it and will upgrade to a Kumma when this ever dies. We stopped and toured the factory up north on vacation last summer.
I wish I had gone with the VF right from the get-go, love it! Depending on the age of yours, there are plenty of people out there still looking for them, mainly for parts I think...especially if yours is new enough to have the SS heat exchanger. The cheap ones go really quick, the pricey ones take longer of course, but I seen a NOS one a year or so back sell for a pretty high price (don't recall the exact number, but it was a plenty IMO)
Yes mine has the S.S. heat exchanger. It has about 17 seasons on it. I have read of them going for 30 years or more. The Kumma wasn't available yet when I bought it. I dread a component going out on it. Losing the control board is a fear of mine. I will need grates for it at some point. It's been a good furnace and no complaints with it. I bet the propane burner has less than a 100 hours on it.
The board is pretty simple on those, I'd think a decent electronics guy could fix it, but yeah, I hear ya. Just FYI, Lamppa has been making furnaces since the 70's, the Vaporfire since the early 80's...but it's probably just been the last 20 years or so where they've really become well known nationwide, doubly so since the 2017 EPA crackdown on wood furnaces...which was also the death nail for Yukon. (and a few others)
I have wondered if " Chevron vs. EPA" ruling existed in 17' if those manufacturers would have gone out of business. It is a shame they did in my opinion and a example of a government agency run amok. The more competition in the industry the better the products will be. Much like the ATF agency's should not be able to make and institute law.
You won't catch me defending the EPA, (they outta control IMO) and it is too bad that so many were drove out of business, but in the end it was their own fault. Even a blind man could see that the day was coming where the same old same old wasn't gonna cut it anymore. The ones that are still around got to work on building something better while they still had plenty of time to experiment and perfect their design. The ones that are gone instead spent their time and money going to DC to fight the new regs, and we can all see how that worked out.
