Earth Stove

They are huge. On the larger ones, the firebox measures about 24"W x 24"H x 16"D which is about 5 cubic feet.

 

Dag nab it! Well, I suppose it would have cost a fortune to ship it out here. But still, I missed that one 'over there'.

 

We had the earth stove with the scallops on it, and if memory serves me correctly, there was also a model without the scallop design, where it just went straight across. That's what my parents said they ordered. We got the wrong one but kept it anyway. I think they paid $800 and I remember driving out to east County area, maybe El Cajon to the stove store. This was in San Diego in the 1980's. I remember loving to watch how the red triangle on the metal temperature gauge climbed and climbed as the stove got hotter. Years later I'm poking around on eBay and lo and behold, there it is! The people who bought our house apparently donated it to Goodwill and they posted it for sale. The winning bidder was in Colorado and I remember emailing them with the backstory on "our" stove.

 

Yeah...I like those stories too. I have a friend who tells me all about his earth stove from the 70s and the family's ritual of cutting dead standing red oak and burning them in the stove within 2 weeks of cutting. That doesn't sound like a great idea but they never had a chimney fire. They had 2 Earth Stoves. Sold for $400 in the 80's. His dad was a distributor for them I guess.

 

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Just found and read this thread. Thanks for sharing this info it's very interesting.

 

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Our house was build in the late 1800's and remodeled sometime (we don't know when). We bought the place (West Texas area) in 2006. This is a picture of the stove. What can you tell us about it?

 

I have never seen one like that, at least with the glass door like that. MasterMech had one that was similar in his house that he bought in NY, and was a 1000C I believe. I see that it has a damper on the exhaust, which is not typical for ES installs of that size. Most of the non-cat models have a 3/4 inch galvanized stand pipe that goes up about 5 feet to add air into the exhaust flow in the flue (early attempt at non-cat stove air injection).

Does it have a metal plate in it with the model number in it? It should be riveted on the back or one of the back side corners. It has the same size and scallop count as the 704 and the 1000C models. Some like my 704 have an electric fan attached to the back, and some (again like mine) have side shields (right/left) with passive vent holes at the top and bottom.

 

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i love my earth stove bought it last winter on CL for $500 guy would not down was annoyed now i am glad its great stove for its age
burned clean, huge fire box i added burn tubes and fabricated a glass air tight door , seems to burn ash down to a fine
powder i think proves its efficiency even before i installed the burn tubes , did the air wash thing too but it still gets a film after one night
so i most of the time use the steel door with the original tile on it . If i use good seasoned wood there is no smoke from the chimney , View attachment 31921 View attachment 31921 machinist with a home shop and have tig welding experience
so this was last winters project

 

i tried to post this info this is my first time at this not sure if it with the photo? anyway it uses the clay flue the damper on top is rectangle no labels on it at all i think it mid 70s but i don't know i like the roll without the scollops

 

here it a pic if you look you see the brass inlet on the lower part of the stove those i turned out of brass stock for the air inlet
there is one on each side , this burn tube mod did help on wood consumption but not the 30% like many of the claims made
i had the advantage of using the stove without burn tubes and with what i did fined is the ash burned to a fine powder

 

Beautiful stove and hearth!

 

Thanks tfchief for and i always sweep the chimney twice a year , Buck Stove was on my short list along with lopi Avalon and a few others would have to travel
a distance and this earth stove less then a mile away so im warm and happy
Rich

 

wow never knew of these models with the brass trimmings , what are the flaws ? i find the blower exhaust at the low setting to be quiet
any not annoying at all and use the mid and higher speeds when i am not in the room and it no problem overnight burns in the morning
still going fine puts out a lot of heat