Production Woodstock IS

I'm sure some good posts are on the way. I have only had 2 days of burning in a row, the rest has been shoulder fires.

 

This is my IS build week! Just fired the old smoke dragon this week too...... Going through the stripdown and moving plan. Hey, can you guys tell me how warm the hearth pad gets? Is the radiant heat that much under the stove? Not sure about the construction of the one I have.

 

whalen,
mine is sitting on 12in of concrete and your feet stay toasty warm. just like my radiant floor heat in the family room. will take some temp readings with my laser thermometer next firing if you want.

 

Thanks! My old Garrison one stove has a great heat shield under it. I am considering adjusting the legs to gain a bit of comfort zone underneath. My pad is 4'x4'.....but has a thin sheet of durock under the tile over the plywood.

 

this is from the owners manual. look like you should be fine. with legs set at max height 9 in from floor to bottom of stove and 5 3/4 to the bottom of the ash pan of you ordeed one.

 

Our IS is here! Truck is way overloaded. Drove the 1.5 miles home at 15 mph. Tomorrow I hope to remove all excess weight including the firebrick\soapstone and get it lifted into place.

 

I also think you'll be ok with the stove on that hearth. The IS does give off a bit of heat that gets into the floor but not enough to be concerned about. The ash pan shields any significant heat but no, shouldn't be a problem.

And congratulations, time to join the club. Before you get too far on the install you might want to check to make sure they included a new flapper valve for the secondary air.

 

Great pic IS! Your son seems very happy to be standing next to the big wooden crate. Cool picture.
I know you guys have been keeping up with the new production issues, please keep them in mind on your install to make sure they were addressed on your new stove.
Looking forward to your install pics.
Enjoy!

 

I've run with and without an ash pan and it does get pretty hot under without the pan as a shield. That said, it really depends what Durock you have. The old stuff had a lower R value than the Next gen Durock. The 1/2 old version may not be sufficient.

 

I didn't know if I would like the andirons or not. I have come to the conclusion that I do like them
I have found that loading E/W and filling the firebox to the brim the splits close to the front
need to be held back sometimes. When a round is placed onto another round towards the front
it has the tendency to want to roll forward. I thought it would get in the way, but think differently
now. I'm glad they are there.

 

For anyone who has fair- to- lousy draft like me, especially when it is 60F outside, I found a way to fully open the door and stir up as much ash as I want (to drop it into the ashpan) without having anything blow back into the house..... The ashpan cover is a perfect fit over the front of the door hole, leaves a small enough opening (Easy Boys!) to keep all the dust / ash / smoke in the stove but leaves enough room to easily reach in and work a scraper around in the stove. It can be used when the stove is hot too; just crack the door open a bit, slide the cover in behind the door until it clears the door latch and the place it nearly vertical against the stove front. I would not do this when the stove is roaring of course, and the sheet metal will heat up pretty quickly making a glove a requirement to remove it but still, it is a pretty handy thing when really moving a lot of ash and coals around as that tends to kick up quite a mess.

Brian

 

Me too- I did not know if I would like them or not. So far, I prefer the stove without them but I have not loaded it to the brim yet either- far too warm to load this thing full yet. In fact, I am surprised you can load yours without overheating the house. Every couple of days here (I am something like an hour south of you) the temps. keep bouncing up to mid 50's F or higher and I cannot even have this stove idling.... and it idles extremely well and quite low.

Like you though I will probably pop the andirons in when it gets colder or colder for longer periods.

Brian

 

We had a couple nights where it was in the low 30's, thats when I did some experimenting with a full load for the overnight. When the stove comes to temp and you engage the cat and cut the air the indoor temps moderate, not overpowering at all. We had a low of 29 last week, I loaded the stove as I mentioned above, the stove room was 74 deg. When I woke up at 7 am the house was 71. The real tests will come on 24/7 burning and lower night time temps.

 

Ash beds do me no good: I need a coal bed to be able to re-load on the fly...

 

Nothing reveals a newbie's status better than the inability to use the correct terminology. If you think this is bad, it's even worse when I try to talk about my entirely new to me (used) chainsaw.

 

Going to place 1" pavers under stove and plan a hearth pad rebuild in the spring. Just to be safe.

 

Yeah, I'm a big fan of andirons. It helps keep everything in place. Kind of wish the 30 had them. I really wished the Heritage had them. I like the fold down andiron option that the IS has, but I can see how they could get stuck if you aren't paying attention.

 

That should be a great temporary fix, lets see when your done

 

Just caged mine in to protect the kid.

 

Looking good Hollywood