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hunter63
11-05-2012, 09:40 PM
Been out here at "The Place"....using the wood stove since last Thursday.
Today was a clean out morning, build up of ashes.

It's a Quadra Fire, and does have a ash pan. removable form the bottom when running....but does fill up pretty regular.
http://www.quadrafire.com/Hearth-By-Design.aspx?hbd=http://hbd.hearthnhome.com/ui/?DID=quadrafire.com&BIDs=3&CID=42&CT=Stove&UID=56&PIDs=1352,1742&PTIDs=11,13&RID=3&FID=11&WCID=-1&WC=0xD3B384

Good stove a works very well......

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y139/hunter63/PICT0215.jpg

Burning mostly elm and oak, but still requires a clean out every 3-5 days if burning a lot.

So what are y'all using and how do you handle clean out and how often?

gryffynklm
11-05-2012, 09:49 PM
I'm using a hearthstone stove. We are burning red and white oak, walnut, honey locust. We clean out about the same. http://i490.photobucket.com/albums/rr262/Gryffynklm/Power%20Out%2010-30-12/file.jpg

Echo2
11-05-2012, 10:11 PM
I got a Fire Fox fire place insert.....with blower.

Jimmyq
11-05-2012, 10:53 PM
Looking forward to my first place with a woodstove. Used many over the years in cabins etc but the only one in honest service now is at my inlaws place, its a beauty Fisher with a pellet feeder and blower on it.

ElevenBravo
11-06-2012, 02:06 AM
We rent, so no-go on adding a stove, but Id *love* to have this...

http://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200446396_200446396

8492

Im an old skool kinda guy. :-)

Andrew

wareagle69
11-06-2012, 07:09 AM
we have a drolet woodstove, no glass front, we burn probably about 8 months a year, in spring and fall we usually just burn poplar(aspen) just to take the chill off, that wood produces very little ash, in winter we burn allot of oak and maple
to start out fires we collect kindling of dead branches all year long, store them in empty horse feed bags, also collect alot of birch bark which i keep in 45 gallon drums that i get free from work, then for a quick start with allot of heat we use cedar as it burns hot and fast then add the longer burning wood such as oak.
we stay away from tammarck (larch) as it burns very very hot for too long for my tastes.
i clean out the chimney myslef probably about 3-4 times a year, 7in brush takes about 1/2 hr to do, as a volunteer firefighter i have been to too many calls for chimney fires that why i clean mine so often.

gryffynklm
11-06-2012, 09:03 AM
I My house is old school and I prefer things that way. however I like the efficiency of the soap stone stoves. It may take a bit longer to get the stone heated but the radiant heat will put out 2 hours beyond fire out. Im getting about 6 to 7.5 hours of overnight burn with an additional 1,5 to 2 hours of useable radiant warmth. it all depends on how much and what wood I can get into the box. The locust burns hot, long and low ash. I have an old school stove like the above one that needs to be installed in the shop.

WE I'm with you on the keep it clean attitude. We see a house fire in our area from uncleaned flue almost each year we have been here.

rebel
11-06-2012, 09:06 AM
http://www.quadrafire.com/Products/3100-Millennium-Wood-Stove.aspx

Clean out after a few days. Works great.

letslearntogether47
11-06-2012, 12:00 PM
I have like a 1978 Sears wood stove.Looks very much like a Ashley stove.
My father gave it to me 16 years.He bought it during the Carter years,,,,,

hunter63
11-06-2012, 12:14 PM
I use a box stove like the Northern Tool mentioned in the garage, and I consider that a batch stove.
Light it up, feed it while out the working on stuff, then let it burn down when done.

Haven't run it continuously yet, like I do the cabin stove.......So I clean it out before using, as it doesn't have an ash pan that can be removed on the fly.

1stimestar
11-06-2012, 05:45 PM
Been out here at "The Place"....using the wood stove since last Thursday.
Today was a clean out morning, build up of ashes.

It's a Quadra Fire, and does have a ash pan. removable form the bottom when running....but does fill up pretty regular.
http://www.quadrafire.com/Hearth-By-Design.aspx?hbd=http://hbd.hearthnhome.com/ui/?DID=quadrafire.com&BIDs=3&CID=42&CT=Stove&UID=56&PIDs=1352,1742&PTIDs=11,13&RID=3&FID=11&WCID=-1&WC=0xD3B384

Good stove a works very well......

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y139/hunter63/PICT0215.jpg

Burning mostly elm and oak, but still requires a clean out every 3-5 days if burning a lot.

So what are y'all using and how do you handle clean out and how often?

Oh my gosh that is so cute! I love it. For many years I had what was called a parlor stove. It was tall, probably 4 ft. cast iron inside of an enamal box basically. The shape kind of reminded me of a juke box. I'm still kicking myself for letting that go! I haven't ever been able to find one like it online.

hunter63
11-06-2012, 06:06 PM
Cute?....Cute?....OMG, guys don't call stoves cute.......Oh yeah, you aren't a guy.....never mind....LOL.

We liked this one, as the black ones just never seem to look good after a while, ...and was a demo model from the store....LOL, can't pass up a deal.....(...Honey, someone thinks aor stove is ....cute......) Shes laughing.....

Thanks, DW thinks it's cute as well.

kyratshooter
11-06-2012, 06:06 PM
I guess I have used about all types at one time or another. At one place I had a King stove in the bedroom, and Ashley Imperial in the kitchen, a Franklin insert in one fireplace and the open hearth with grate in the living room. It was a big farm house built in 1869 with not one bit of insulation anywhere. I was burning a pickup load of wood each week.

I put a little stove like Hunter's in my cabin down in TN and had to swap it out because it would not do the job.

The two best stoves I ever used were a full sized barrel stove I grabed as an emergency stove on the big farm and a cut down barrel with stove kit installed that I used at the TN cabin. If you line the barrel stoves with fire brick they do a fine job for just a little bit of money.

I have a box stove, like the one shown, out on the back porch at my present place.

hunter63
11-07-2012, 11:57 AM
For those looking for a good stove to heat as a primary heat source, ...an air tight stove will give you longer burn time, controlled burns ...good stoves do not require a damper on the pipe, the controls are built in....a good ash pan set up, so as to not have to let it burn completey down and cool off to empty ashes is what you are paying for.....look at spending $700 to $3000 for a good stove.

What you gain is efficiency and saves a lot of wood, (money/work).....and nothing beats getting that glow going and the smell of wood smoke.

oldtrap59
11-07-2012, 12:17 PM
When we were younger and heating with wood back in NE Iowa during the dead of winter we used a double barrel setup. Used to be available in kit form.(think they still are) Always replaced the barrels each year. Cleaning out ash was a pita, but kept us warm. We now heat with a soapstone stove. Easy to clean out and handles our heating needs in the milder winters down here. Only drawback to this stove is the outlay of cash when you first buy it. They ain't cheap, but do last for years.

Oldtrap

hunter63
11-07-2012, 12:34 PM
The soap stone stoves are top of the line.......hold heat for a long time......Maybe some day....

letslearntogether47
11-07-2012, 10:14 PM
Wow.glad I revisted this post.I couldn't see the pictures at work today.
Nice stoves!
I am using mine right now,and I'm very thankful for it.
We are in the middle of a Nor Easter as us folks call it.It's 85 deg. in the basement and 72 upstairs.
The wind is blowing sometimes in excess of 40 mph. and it's 28 deg. right now.I have over 2 cord of maple and a cord of oak stacked and aged for winter.
Thumbs up to my woodstove brothers.Just make sure you don't walk around in your tighty whites too much in that nice warm house.lol

Camp10
11-18-2012, 04:48 PM
I've always been a fan of Jotul stoves. I had a 602 in my camp, I could get 6 hours of good heat out of it but the place was tight enough to keep it comfortable all night +. My experience is that your better getting the smallest stove that covers your footage rather than the largest. They seem way cleaner and even more efficient running a little draft then closed down tight. My clean out time was 2 to 3 days with that little 602 Jotul. Course, now that I'm a "city kid" I just turn the thermostat up a little and let the natural gas warm the place up!

roar-k
11-18-2012, 05:44 PM
This is my wood stove....

http://content.artofmanliness.com/uploads/2012/11/solo-stove.jpg

hunter63
11-18-2012, 09:12 PM
Now that is "cute".....LOL

hunter63
11-18-2012, 09:19 PM
I've always been a fan of Jotul stoves. I had a 602 in my camp, I could get 6 hours of good heat out of it but the place was tight enough to keep it comfortable all night +. My experience is that your better getting the smallest stove that covers your footage rather than the largest. They seem way cleaner and even more efficient running a little draft then closed down tight. My clean out time was 2 to 3 days with that little 602 Jotul. Course, now that I'm a "city kid" I just turn the thermostat up a little and let the natural gas warm the place up!

It was a toss up at the time between the Quadra Fire and the Jotul....the cream color enamel sold DW...so.......

Adventure Wolf
11-22-2012, 02:04 PM
I have a Riverside Aer Heater Model No. 2014. It's a good stove and it does what it needs to do.