Wood Burner recomendations
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So many good stoves available where to start????? Iron or stainless with or without cat. convertor, price point, american made? Have you searched the net yet? Are you going to install youself some stoves are 400 plus pounds need floor support for weight? 700 square feet easy to heat with new stoves hope BTUs do not drive your out. New stoves burn clean & hot probably use 50% less wood than 30 year old stove. Lots to consider.
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lenny
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I have wood stoves and pellets, different applications but both are very good, Maybe a pellet stove would suffice. Menards has a decent stove make in da US, I believe it is England stove under $1000 and you burn about a bag a day, under 5 bucks
http://www.hearthstonestoves.com/stove-guide/select
a bit $$$$ but will last forever and work so good.
I got one last year well we got money for going efficient.
Oh ya the chimney stays so clean it unbelievable.
a bit $$$$ but will last forever and work so good.
I got one last year well we got money for going efficient.
Oh ya the chimney stays so clean it unbelievable.
anonomoose
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I know I will get some laughs on this one but......
I have the heathstone, and it is very pretty and does a great job once it gets warmed up...but if the place is stone cold...zero, it take a few hours to get the place hot enough to dry out and slow it down to a crawl using wood.
I think that puppy cost me a bunch of money too. Still pretty and you get to see the wood burning.
On the other hand, I have a barrel stove kit that is on barrel number 2 which will heat you out of anything confined in 45 minutes or less...no matter what the temp is outside and was inside.
Kit costs 50 bucks and the barrel comes free from a friend. It takes a huge load, too much really and contrary to what everyone told me, has never gotten hot on the bottom, can get glowing red if I leave the door open for a few too long and will eat wood until the fire goes out and won't hold a fire for more than a few hours past midnight, using maple.
For function....give me the barrel stove...for beauty and a bit longer burn time, the hearthstone is hard to beat.....if you don' mind spending the equivalent to few ounces of gold for them.
I have the heathstone, and it is very pretty and does a great job once it gets warmed up...but if the place is stone cold...zero, it take a few hours to get the place hot enough to dry out and slow it down to a crawl using wood.
I think that puppy cost me a bunch of money too. Still pretty and you get to see the wood burning.
On the other hand, I have a barrel stove kit that is on barrel number 2 which will heat you out of anything confined in 45 minutes or less...no matter what the temp is outside and was inside.
Kit costs 50 bucks and the barrel comes free from a friend. It takes a huge load, too much really and contrary to what everyone told me, has never gotten hot on the bottom, can get glowing red if I leave the door open for a few too long and will eat wood until the fire goes out and won't hold a fire for more than a few hours past midnight, using maple.
For function....give me the barrel stove...for beauty and a bit longer burn time, the hearthstone is hard to beat.....if you don' mind spending the equivalent to few ounces of gold for them.
The first, the original, the best in the land!
Although I don't know how practical this is given the distant location, I would not hesitate to recommend (click) → Nippa Sauna Stoves and Room Heaters — The original,started by Leo Nippa (originally Niippa, Finnish, of course, and prononced "Nee-pa") in Bruce Crossing, MI in 1930 (I knew Leo when I was a kid.), in business for 80+ years. Now in Beulah MI 49617.
Now in the hands of the fourth owner since the Nippa family sold the business in 1983:
Although I don't know how practical this is given the distant location, I would not hesitate to recommend (click) → Nippa Sauna Stoves and Room Heaters — The original,started by Leo Nippa (originally Niippa, Finnish, of course, and prononced "Nee-pa") in Bruce Crossing, MI in 1930 (I knew Leo when I was a kid.), in business for 80+ years. Now in Beulah MI 49617.
Now in the hands of the fourth owner since the Nippa family sold the business in 1983:
Moose :Mike Johnson @ Johnson's Xcountry ski trails in Wakefield MI used to a have a home made barrel stove to heat the equipment room & yep it was toasty in there melted my gloves got too close to the barrel on a 10 below day. Funny that was 30 years ago & forgot all about it until you brought up barrel stoves.
anonomoose
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Hah....better hurry.....bet you can get one here cheapppppp!!!
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Ya I noticed if I am gone from the cabin for a long time and its stone cold it
does take a longer time to get the temp up. I see the low end starts slow but in the end we get to the same upper end in nearly the same time.
Its funny I had the barrel stove and it did a fine job for 25 years. I had to clean the chimney 4 time or more a year. It depnded on if I was burning fast or slow. This new stove I have been using it for over a year and the chimney
looks like I cleaned it last week.
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lenny
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a barrel stove is hot hot hot and eats wood like a 3 ton hog, kinda dangerous if your not careful. I was in a friends house the other day and saw his stove pipe and said he needed to use class A pipe as he was going through the ceiling. He said it had been that way all last winter and should be fine. I said your crazy and told his wife to make sure the smoke alarms are working. Some people just do not get it. Another friend in Illinois has a wood stove in his living and dumped the flue into a brick chimney with no clay liner, just right into the brick chimney and didn't even bother to inspect the chimney, he's got 5 kids also. When these guys just don't listen I tell their wives and that usually gets their attention. Enough people did each year because they do not know better, so unnecessary.
No electric so no blowers going to help circulate. Any indoor plumbing or toilets? Take at look at Blaze King may be a bit pricey for sparten cabin. Moose might have it nailed down with barrel stove cheap & really hot.
What do you do for cooking & lights?
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lenny
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you can get a small safe air tight stove for a little cash that will do good and fairly efficient, just look around, there out there
No indoor plumbing or bathroom. Well Head out doors and a shovel to dig a hole.....
I think im going to go with a Timberwolf 2100 or 2200, seems like a good quality for the price. Went to Tractor Supply and while they were the cheapest you get what you pay for. Now we need to get it in before the snow flies!
I think im going to go with a Timberwolf 2100 or 2200, seems like a good quality for the price. Went to Tractor Supply and while they were the cheapest you get what you pay for. Now we need to get it in before the snow flies!
anonomoose
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Lenny, we ran the barrel stove for years and it did not let us down, and copious amounts of heat is what you want when you get to the cabin at midnight and it is 5 below outside. A good roaring fire get the cold out fast and you have to back away. Yes it will eat wood, but you can control that by voting for a good fireman who is stingy with the wood. Putting wood in for no good reason is the culprit, so it is an education for those wannabee fireman to watch...load, and then shut it down once the place is warm enough.
While everyones config is different, we always got a good hot fire, usually in the morning, to burn out the stove pipes and thermometer readings of "youch....that is hot".....leaves little creosote in the pipe.
Dry wood, hot fire, and casual use equals a long life for the stove and the cabin.
While you hear about places burning down (and see evidence of it every winter), I suspect that daily use is a bunch different than casual weekend warrior usage.
While everyones config is different, we always got a good hot fire, usually in the morning, to burn out the stove pipes and thermometer readings of "youch....that is hot".....leaves little creosote in the pipe.
Dry wood, hot fire, and casual use equals a long life for the stove and the cabin.
While you hear about places burning down (and see evidence of it every winter), I suspect that daily use is a bunch different than casual weekend warrior usage.