Tonight's full load

Pine is a sooty bulk smoke burning full loads down low will dirty glass on my HV more than oak

 

Hmmmmm.... Those are about the same burn times and results I get on the PH, but with less wood. I know you bk guys don't like hearing that, but it's the truth.

 

Think that's great.
I own a bk, not a bk guy.
Love the stove & the performance
Always figured other stoves had good performance too or
No one would own them LOL

For me to say one is better than another ,
I'd need to operate them in the same location, weather & wood

 

Oh boy. Some things never change.

 

Any way you look at it, there is only so much heat in a pound of dry wood. The King's firebox lets you get a lot more in at a time than most stoves and the burn control lets you spread the heat out as long as you want without having to babysit it. Not knocking the PH at all or Woodstock either as I will likely own one in the next 12 months, but the King is in a class by itself as far as utility goes (other BK stoves included). What other 4+ cu ft stove are you going to load full every time shoulder season or January and simply walk away without even thinking twice about it? There are a lot of reasons to buy a stove and the King must have a somewhat narrow market given that all of BK's dressed up stoves are in the smaller format.

 

Fully agreed. That's the one thing I really love about the bk, the ability to do those super long shoulder season burns. I have not herd of any other stove that will do that. The PH certainly won't. I've said before, I wish I could have two stoves that could easily be swapped out. I'd have a bk chinook for the shoulder seasons, and the PH for the peak winter. Best of both worlds,,,,

 

Not really true unfortunately. From what I read, many folks do own poor performing stoves.

I really don't think you can compare that that closely "overall". As mentioned, they are very different, and the bk can do those long shoulder burns with little heat the PH can't. But you could compare them on certAin types of burns and heat output, like full load, full blast heat or something.

I can't believe somebody above said, "I wish they (BK) made a bigger one". The dang this is already HUGE at 4.0. You want to burn a cord of wood per load?

 

Hey, I love stirring up the bk guys! It's like playing with a bee's nest. Fun until they sting you with a post of a 36 hour burn or something!

 

4.3 but who's counting. With the burn control they have achieved, there is no downside to going bigger. 140 lbs of dry wood in a load easily goes a weekend when we are gone in the winter, 210 lbs would get me to long weekends. Another advantage of that big firebox is my wife almost never touches my stove

 

Unfortunately, BK has no plans on making another stove the size of the King.

 

Yeah, I know. I'm pretty sure I am going to put an Apex on the lower level and put in a real simple duct system. It is a fraction of the cost of going hydronic and still relatively simple. At 5.7 cu ft of firebox, I get a lot of flexibility in my burn cycles.

 

The down size is, they burn ALLOT of wood.

 

+ 1
BK owners like cutting , splitting & stacking wood

 

BK owners
Have "ALLOT of wood"

 

I am always amazed when I go to my farm and run the stove there, its like 1.3 or 1.6ish . I'm use to my big steel stove that's 3.5cuft.

 

More wood in effiicent big stove = same heat per pound of wood just more heat per load. Good combustion control means you can decide what period of time you want the larger load burned over.

 

Sure, BK owners burn a lot of wood; They all live in Alaska.
They either learn to enjoy the work or they go off the deep end.

 

I think there is a term for that