Hearthstone - Green Mountain 60 Compared to a Soapstone Heritage

Looking at both stoves from Hearthstone's, the dimensions are close to each other. Heritage comes in at a 77% efficiency where the Green Mountain 60 is 79% efficient. Heritage has a heat life of 25 hours where the Mountain 60 is 24 hours. EPA certified at 0.56 g/hr for the Heritage and 0.6 g/hr on the Mountain 60. Both of them are Hearthstone's TruHybrid stoves.

There are 2 differences between these stoves.

1. Look:
   1. Heritage has the outward beauty of soapstone.
   2. Where the Mountain 60 is a cast iron stove with soapstone internally.
      1. One factor I'd like to know is how the soapstone of the Green Mountain 60 performs radiating from internal compared to the Heritage where the soapstone is on the outside.
2. Price:
   1. The Heritage rings in at $3899.
   2. The Green Mountain 60 comes in at $3199.

If anyone has any information they can share, please let me know.


Jason from RI

 

Google/research extensively on both new models. There are some very interesting ongoing reviews to be considered. Grab some coffee and read on!

 

I’m very interested in this as well… are the the Cast Iron Jacketed stoves an even slower heat? I am one of the few that don’t like the look of the Soapstone exterior whatsoever! To me, just a bad look. But I like the properties soapstone bring to the fold…

 

After owning a solid stone heritage for 30 cords, I liked the look but did not like the properties the stone brought to the experience. It was a noncat so 8-10 hour burntime max which meant I was always trying to heat that dang thing back up! A stone stove with at least an easy 12 hour burntime would have allowed me to keep it hot and the stone wouldn't have been so much of a problem.

 

I need to look into them a little more. I thought the Hearthstone stoves were all cats or hybrids. My thinking is if I can get a consistent steady heat instead of large spikes it might be more comfortable in the long run.

 

With the 2020 emissions regs a lot of them did get cats (maybe all?) but that doesn’t mean that it was executed well like on a Woodstock or BK to allow long burn times. When you do have a well designed cat stove, the catalyst provides that “steady heat” you describe, not the stone. The stone is mostly for aesthetics, and in my experience is otherwise a negative.

 

I hate the stone look on the outside. Takes away from the hearth, the stove should be different than your hearth… aesthetically it just looks better to me to have a stone or brick hearth and a stove that is some form of metal. Why I like the Green Mountain and Manchester.

 

Man go with the new Mansfield if you can afford it.It'll out heat those other models by a mile !

 

I’m getting my stoves mixed up… who makes the Mansfield? Hearthstone right?

 

Yes Hearthstone is coming out with the new Mansfield.My older model Mansfield heats my semi insulated home very well.I told a friend to get the Mansfield over the Heritage.He got the Heritage and was never warm enough in his home.