Bought my 1st wood stove today

I'm building a home in New Hampshire and ordered a Woodstock Ideal Steel for it today. They are having their 40 year anniversary sale, so I took advantage and got all the bells & whistles with it.

However, the install will be a couple of months from now, but I promise to post pictures.

The stove will be delivered to my builder's warehouse. A local wood stove shop will install the chimney, as my builder gets to that point, and then the stove.

The land is heavily forested. The trees that had to be cut for the house, driveway & leach field have been cut to about 12' lengths and stacked in piles. Bucking, splitting & stacking all that will keep me out of trouble for good while.

Eco-bricks will have to provide my entertainment for the first year as my wood seasons. In the future, I'll post install sequence pictures here, and eventually, the final setup with a fire in its belly.

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Very cool, or soon to be.....warm.

 

Congrats MAD777! Looking forward to install pics!

P.S.: I think everyone here would agree we like all kinds of pics not just your wood stove pics. Feel free to post some of the build and what you have done so far. Pics of the log piles would be cool too.

 

Congratulations on the new Home and a new stove. Great choice! Can’t wait for the pictures.

 

You might still be able to get some standing dead wood or wood that is on the ground that you can burn this winter to supplement the bio bricks. One of my favorite woods to burn is a piece of red oak from a lower branch that died, dried and dropped. By the time they go through this process, the bark is gone, the sap wood has rotted off, and the remaining heartwood is ready to burn.

 

Well MAD777 New Hampshire is a great state to be in, we might have a few members in that state

What style of of house you having built?

Congrats on new stove, I like mine!

 

Congrats MAD777 very exciting times and brand new home being built and a new Woodstock Ideal Steel stove, wow some warm fun times ahead!!! Can't wait to see pictures, those stoves are a work of Art!

 

Welcome to the hoarders club. While you're waiting for your stash to season, you'll find that there are always opportunities to scrounge a little dry wood here and there if you keep your eyes open and if you're not afraid to work when an opportunity arises. Sometime it'll just be a single stick and other times itll be an entire truckload of standing dead wood. Keep your eyes open and a saw in your vehicle at all times. A change of clothes isnt a bad idea either.

 

Definitely a good stove choice.
How big is the house? Ranch?

 

One other thing. If you are building a house, have the builder save the cutoffs for future use kindling. No sense in throwing that stuff away!!

 

That’s a heck of a teaser. I’ll have something to look forward to in the coming months.

 

Duh! Why didn't I think of that.
Perfect timing, framing starts next week!
Sending an email to my builder right now!!!

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One of 4 similar log piles from the clearing process... Note the ball cap for scale. Mostly beech with birch, hemlock & maple mixed in


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What part of NH? Lots of FHC'ers in the area.

 

Albany, just south of Conway

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Cost of stove + installation + tractor with grapple + chainsaw + splitter =
TOTAL SAVINGS = $0
TOTAL FUN = $PRICELESS



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About an hour away

 

If the maple is red maple that seasons pretty quick.
If you have the time get some of that weeded out and C/S/S and it might be ready for next year.
Same with the hemlock, but the maple would be more valuable to get done first.