Where's all the Fisher, Kodiak and other Smoke dragon People?

I am still running my Earth Stove, though it has some more modern clean burning features.

 

Alaska Kodiak burner here, just got it hooked up today after a small refurbish job.
Before and after:

 

I may have burnt mine a few more years but I had welded it a few times this time it had a crack in the flue passage that I could see looking back through the blower passage. Never smoked into the room but I just decided enough was enough plus I wanted to give a cat stove a run.

 

Gave it to a guy that was going to cut the front off to use the doors on a outdoor burner he was building to heat his pool.

 

1985 Ashley StepTop.
Depending how I measure the firebox, it can be 2.3 cu.ft., or somewhere around 2.9.
Usable is the 2.3.
It's got a baffle plate, and burns pretty clean with dry wood.
Short burn times and getting it to run at the temp I want are killin' me though. I can finally burn overnight (sort of), get up in the morning and restart with just coals.

 

Where is the air intake at on that stove PD ? Is that what that handle is I can see on the bottom ? Still a good lookin stove.

 

Yep, on the underside just about where the plug is on a 30.
It's less than 2" square, and the handle has a larger plate to cover it. I put some flat gasket on the plate to help control the air. It helped quite a bit, since there was about a 1/16" gap all the way around, which equaled a pretty good "air leak".
Added a bracket in the back for more firebrick too. I've considered doing a 2ndary intake thing, but since this is the only heat we use, and I can't really get a new stove right now, I can't experiment.
The door was originally a bronze/gold looking color, so when I had it pulled back in '10, I painted over all that, then sanded off the raised edge and name. I like it better.
The old look was a bit garish.

 

That's because the others have common sense blurred by whatever the trendy talking point is...They see smoke dragons as anti-green and they won't tolerate 'em.

 

heating with an old kodiak insert. it loves wood but puts out the radiant heat. love loading it, opening the doors, and watching it even though i know most of the generated heat goes up not out.
don't need no stinking epa stove. not until/unless this one gives up anyway. can't get pix right now.

 

Burned a Kodiak insert til this year. My dad bought it new in 1978 I want to say. It had paid for itself many times over. But it had to be fed and fed a lot. Also it was a slammer install and an 8" pipe wasn't going down the cranky 200 year old chimney.

 

Little blue and the appliance dolly took care of it.

 

The Kodiak did its job for many years. But it struggled in cold weather. We just had a cold snap with lows in the lower 20s for a couple days, with the Kodiak I would have had to have gotten up at 2:30 in the morning and fed the stove a full load to maintain temps in the house. With the new insert I loaded it full at 10:30 and woke at 6 and the insert top was at 275 and the house was about 4 degrees warmer than it would have been with the Kodiak. On less than half the wood.