Hello new here just thought I'd share with you my non-epa stove pics. Fisher Mama bear in the shop. Timberline insert in house. Was a slammer but welded on adapter and connect to a s.s liner. Both stoves are in great shape and work very well.
Nice TMACK! I know the Fisher will crank it out! I have one or two... Is/was your Timberline an insert or a stove pushed in the fireplace? It looks like it has the brackets for the shroud.
Yes its an insert i left the heavy shroud off too get a little more out of it. Made a shroud above it from sheet metal and filled with k wool to keep xtra heat from going up chimney cavity. Like i said its hook to a s.s liner so its no longer a slammer. Works well puts out a lot a heat.
I have a friend about 25 miles up the road from me has a Timberline stove. It doesn't seem as big as your insert though. I know there were a couple models as my memory serves me. I haven't had to much interaction with them, at my old hunting lodge, they had a "BIG" Kodiak wood stove and that thing would blow you out! The Timberline is a nice worthy stove.
Yes this thing is good size.I originally wanted a fisher insert but came across this one and it was like new maybe couple fires in it. And it was cheap around 100$. Even though it’s a fisher spin off/Cal Cotton special.
... No argument there!!! I know my Buddies heats nice also! There were "many" stoves that came along after Fisher hit the streets. Quite a few were real nice, "as the Timberline" and the Kodiak's. There were also several that were real pieces of $#!T. They didn't make it long...
I found a pic of the size of my Buddies stove, hope it comes through. I knew it wasn't as big as yours!
It is a nice stove I like it. They did skimp on the top being only 3/16 ,fisher was 5/16 I believe . It’s to bad guys like Cotton took advantage of bob.
Yes, the Fisher is 5/16" I've read and heard stories about Cotton and there was some real bad blood in that mix!!!
TMACK...Welcome to the Circus. You have a Fisher! That makes you top notch in my book! Happy Burning!
My uncle in Winsor county has had his mama bear heating his home for over 40 years! He did send it out to a shop to have it refurbed last summer. I think it cost him $750 but its now 'better than new ' and he commented it was less new. He is happy because he figures at 67 the stove will out last him.
Good for him on getting that stove rebuilt. I like old stoves, and while I do not know who had the stove before me, I am thankful to whoever had the presence of mind to keep it maintained, all the parts and accessories together, and to rebuild it.
