Dan O
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I have for 13 years and am very pleased with it. I can bank it up and come back the next day and still have heat. I just fill it up and in a short time it's burning again.
Let’s talk about firewood
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Laszlo Cravensworth
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If I have a good bed of coals and fill the woodbox with madrone it will burn for 18 hours before I need to stoke it. And it's unnerving how little ash is produced.
Growing up in a 2000 sq ft house with terrible insulation and a junky insert we would burn about 8 cords in a winter.
My house is considerably bigger and I get by with 2- 3 now.
Dan O
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I agree they are a great stove. It's paid for itself by cutting our propane costs and it's a much warmer heat.
Hem
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Let it begin.
Nick87
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Nice pad.
Hem
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Not like its cold, we just were excited to make the first fire of the Fall.
Love our stove!
Love our stove!
antlerradar
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If that is the first fire of the fall, your wife has hotter blood than mine. Temperature dips into the forty's and she is insisting that I start a fire. Doesn't matter if it is going to be pushing 90 later in the day.
Roscoe P Coal
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Typical, dog doesn’t lay on dog bed, but the furniture.. ha
Hem
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Well, my wife in the heat of the summer will take a sweatshirt to do the food shopping.
We both agreed, raining/ blowing, snow tomorrow....let's get things rolling.
Hem
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Dog has the run of the house. Three dog beds, two padded chairs, couch, two people beds. It doesn't bother us.
Dog uses all of them.
P.S.- 3 fenced acres, doggy door to the kennel in heated garage.
Caseknife
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We have a Blaze King, King Ultra, 2400sq ft home, built in 2017, single level, that stove is very efficient. I fill it each morning and it will keep the house 75 degrees+, still wood in it when I fill it the next morning. Never have to clean the ash during the burning season. The bottom of the fire box is about 6" below the door so no ash to speak of comes out when it is filled. We only burn wood from after Christmas, when the decorations and tree come down by the stove, to about mid-April. Only go through about 1-2 cords. Have a heat pump that is for the shoulder seasons. When we start burning propane is when I start burning wood.
Roscoe P Coal
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I get it. My labs have had run of the house. Had an acre fenced off with dog door to shop. I’d build a fire for them in shop before work and leave their heated blankets on in the winter. Like my grandpa said, lock your wife and dogs in the trunk for an hour, open it and see who is happy to se you…
Carl 9.3x62
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Does it have a catalytic burner in it?
Caseknife
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Yes, it does.
Carl 9.3x62
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Do you think its worth it? We bought a stove a couple years ago with capacity for a catalytic burner, but it didn't actually come with one. Wondering if I should get one.
Caseknife
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They burn a lot cleaner, as in, very little ash left to clean out and less smoke out the chimney. Other than that, don't know if you get more heat from the wood, but stands to reason when there is less ash.
Never used one but our wood stove works great and is a non-catalytic. We have a Millennium 4300. I really like how it runs with its baffle and multiple burn zones. Burns so hot that my ash pile is minimal and chimney stays very clean. Only smokes on start up and thats expected. Empty the stove box of ash once a month and we use the stove 24/7 during winter.
We go through about 3-4 cords a year, stored in a 10x10x5' wood shed I built. I have 3 cords of oak that is split into nice pieces for long burn times, and 1 cord of cedar that is split fairly small for starting fires. Cedar gets it going, oak keeps us warm. Our house is small, 1500sqft, for the stove size, which handles 3000sqft. It's an older drafty house with poor insulation built in the 70's. Stove heats us out of the house and the fires stay small, a morning/evening fire, usually letting it go out, unless we dip into the 20's. If I fill it full of oak with a nice bed of coals and turn it down, I can run for 12 hours straight, ending with hot coals which just need a fresh load of oak for the next 12 hours.
I use an old tire I found on the roadside thats attached to a round of cedar as my splitting log for kindling. You can fill a trash can full of cedar kindling pieces in around 10 min.
We use a heat powered fan and humidifier now too. This was our first burn.
The tire kindling splitter.
Before I put the roof on. Wood shed is sealed with a 50/50 mix of diesel fuel and used motor oil. The new coat this year stained it pretty dark and it looks amazing. I put the splitting end of the splitter right next to the entrance of the shed so my splits pile up next to where I stack it. Pretty efficient operation. Took 8 hours to split and stack all my wood. Probably another 8-12 hours of cutting and moving rounds to the pile. Oak was seasoned for 2 years, cedar was only seasoned for the summer. Cedar dries super fast out here in the summer with 80-90* weather, full sun exposure, and low humidity. Both sit around 20% moisture which is supposedly perfect.
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