My wife and I will be closing in a few weeks on a small cabin and it has a Jotul F100. Anyone on here have any experience with that stove? Thoughts? Pros/cons? Normal STT?I've run a few different stoves and inserts over the years and currently have a Woodstock Fireview. I can't imagine that it will be too different than any other basic stove but I'm wondering if it has any quirks or tendencies that I should be aware of. It's on 5 wooded acres with a lot of mature oak/maple/cherry so I won't have to scrounge firewood anymore. I only burn a couple of cords a year so I can keep up with that just by culling and cutting up downed trees. I have to admit that I'm as excited about that as I am about the cabin!
Nice stove. How big is the cabin? Check the flue, gaskets, and stove, then put some dry wood in and get it going (I did none of that when we first moved here). We're waiting patiently on pics of fire in da hole!
It's a very, very small stove. IIRC, it'll only take 16" splits, and not very many of them. I think it's only around a 1cu.ft. firebox so you'll be doing good to get 3 hours from a load of wood.
The cabin is only 440sqft plus a loft area. It is a small stove but I think a larger one would run us out of such a small area. I don't foresee us spending a huge amount of time there in the dead of winter (except when we first get it, I'll have try it out, right!). It'll mainly be used late spring, summer and fall. On the first trip there, I'll take some nice 3yr old oak with me to see how it does.
I had one, and it is a nice small stove. The door has a lot of glass to throw heat out. It has limitations because of its' size, but runs easily.
I used that stove several years ago and have up sized to the F3 and now the F400 Castine since then. Whatever Jotul specs list will be pretty close. Your oak sounds decent, a lower moisture content would be even better. I burned a lot of maple and ash and saved the oak for the coldest days.
