Wood Stoves

[user 7704]

We have a Kuna wood stove for the house. It has a flat surface for cooking. Just be aware that if you buy a new EPA stove that they may have a baffle inside that prevents the fire from reaching directly to the stove top. These baffles are easy to remove and will making cooking on the stove top better. Even your husband can remove them.

You're reaching AD. He helped with a box springs that weighed about 15 lbs and complained after son and had had move crap all day. Antique furniture is heavy. Imagine...... Real wood.

 

[Mountain trapper]

We also have a Boxwood cast iron wood stove for the cabin. I cook on it all winter.

 

[Mountain trapper]

If you have the HEIGHT above the stove you can get stainless water tanks that wrap around the chimney pipe and trap the heat going up the chimney, they have little faucets on them for getting free hot water. like this example below

I had a stove similar to this when I was horse packing in the mountains on my trap line years ago. It was nice for using in a tent.

 

[user 7704]

We also have a Boxwood cast iron wood stove for the cabin. I cook on it all winter.

My son thinks it's so fun to pop corn on a wood stove. We have a fire pit stove thingy and we first tried Jiffy Pop and it was a disaster. Never popped just burned the kernels black.

 

[Mountain trapper]

Please Please Please Please Please Please promise me you WILL have it properly swept one a year to stop chimney fires and creoste build up PLEASE.

I have to brush my chimney every 6-8 weeks during winter. Easy to do. Also most people around here remove their chimney Cap, which cuts down on the need to clean the chimney as often.

 

[user 7704]

The Winter in Tennessee are usually so mild, we dont need fires very often. Before we converted the wood fireplace to gas, we had a max of 4 fires per year.
I promised to do proper maintenance.

 

[Brent S]

I really love the stoves with ovens! I haven’t seen any here but assume they may be around somewhere. I’ve been planning to upgrade my stove one of these days anyways, but it will definitely include an oven now.

 

[TexasFreedom]

Why do you need a wood stove?

To keep the house warm, I just let my wife walk around room-to-room. I get a chill? Just hold my hands near her. Cooking? Put the pot on her lap for a while. And microwave popcorn? Just put it under her arm for 2 minutes. Ding. Done.

Oh am I in trouble if she ever reads this.

 

[Mountain trapper]

The Winter in Tennessee are usually so mild, we dont need fires very often. Before we converted the wood fireplace to gas, we had a max of 4 fires per year.
I promised to do proper maintenance.

We start heating with wood by the last week of September. Usually just in the morning and evening for a couple of weeks, then we run the wood stove 24/7 until around the last week of April. There's nothing better than heating with wood. The only drawback with heating only with wood is that you can't leave for more than a few hours during winter.

 

[Silent Earth]

I really love the stoves with ovens! I haven’t seen any here but assume they may be around somewhere. I’ve been planning to upgrade my stove one of these days anyways, but it will definitely include an oven now.

Hot water coil???

 

[GaRp58]

To keep the house warm, I just let my wife walk around room-to-room. I get a chill? Just hold my hands near her. Cooking? Put the pot on her lap for a while. And microwave popcorn? Just put it under her arm for 2 minutes. Ding. Done.

Oh am I in trouble if she ever reads this.

Sounds like something I would write about mine too, but don't worry, we keep the wood cut and bills paid...won't be in the doghouse too long.

 

[Brent S]

Hot water coil???

That would be fairly easy to make on your own. The oven could also be a metal box with a thermostat I guess set on top of the stove, but I really liked the design of your first picture.

 

[Brent S]

Well, tried to load a picture of my stove in action this morning. It was 32 degrees and the first thing I did was fire up the stove and a pot of coffee. The picture won’t load and I don’t see how to manipulate the photo on this iPad. Oh well, just imagine relaxing beside it, feet propped up, coffee on a stand next to me and the dog curled up underfoot too. Clear enough of an image?

 

[GaRp58]

Hot water coil???

Yes, when you build a rocket stove, the exhaust stack is highly insulated to drive and keep the temps upwards of 900 degrees and finalise the burning of over 180 different oils in wood. There is almost nothing left of the wood but 50 degree steam from the chimney. As the stack is built, it can be wrapped with a copper pipe, similar to the stainless steel tank, water can be heated from the exhaust temps. Ianto Evans, from Wales, has an e-book in pdf for rocket stoves for years now.

 

[GaRp58]

imagine relaxing beside it, feet propped up, coffee on a stand next to me and the dog curled up underfoot too. Clear enough of an image?

Loud and clear, not just trying to make us all a bit jealous or what?
Got my coffee already downed, gotta take the dog for a walk, the rain has stopped and the wife is at the Doc for her yearly cancer checkup. But I ain't got the stove going yet...stay warm. GP

 

[Mountain trapper]

In addition to the wood stove in our new house I had a propane furnace installed. We plan to mostly use the wood stove, but will have the ability to use the furnace if we're going to be gone for more than a few hours. Right now I've got the thermostat set at 50 degs. We should be living in the house before Thanksgiving.
Our cabin is heated by wood only. I let the fire go out last night so it's pretty cold in here right now. This time of year we keep (try) the fire going around the clock. The new wood stove in the house has about a 12 hour burn time.
Later today I need to get on the roof and clean the chimney. At least there's no snow and ice on the roof yet.

 

[GaRp58]

I also have wood and gas Arcticdude, my cousin has replaced his toilette 2 times and washmachine once, the water pipes also once. He has a great wood stove with water coils and a small pump to heat the whole house with water heater/radiators. But if he leaves more than 24 hours and the weather turns, then goodbye anything with water still in it. On top of that, the kids have to sleep in ice cold beds till the heater and house are re-warmed, all the walls cool down, the floors, everything.
Do you have some climbing rope on the rooftop to slide back and forth to cut through the snow pileup and make it slide off? Better that climbing up and maybe slipping or falling. GP

 

[Mountain trapper]

I also have wood and gas Arcticdude, my cousin has replaced his toilette 2 times and washmachine once, the water pipes also once. He has a great wood stove with water coils and a small pump to heat the whole house with water heater/radiators. But if he leaves more than 24 hours and the weather turns, then goodbye anything with water still in it. On top of that, the kids have to sleep in ice cold beds till the heater and house are re-warmed, all the walls cool down, the floors, everything.
Do you have some climbing rope on the rooftop to slide back and forth to cut through the snow pileup and make it slide off? Better that climbing up and maybe slipping or falling. GP

Yeah, I fell off the roof last winter. Fortunately the roof on that part of the cabin wasn't that high, maybe only 8 feet or so, plus there was a lot of snow on the ground to break my fall.
All of my roofs have asphalt shingles so the snow doesn't slide. And all roofs are built to a 200+ pound snow load in order to hold all that snow.

 

[JackDW]

Here in Eastern NC, I don't really have much of a need for a Wood Stove and the work that goes with it. But, I do have an old Fisher Wood stove sitting in my garage. If things go bad, I can move it into the house and use my Fireplace for the chimney. I used it many, many years ago and still have the plate and flue to hook it up, if needed. Also have lots of trees and wood on my place. Biggest problem is most of it would be green so the first winter there may be a shortage of seasoned wood but then again, I live in NC so not really a major issue.

 

[user 7704]

Here in Eastern NC, I don't really have much of a need for a Wood Stove and the work that goes with it. But, I do have an old Fisher Wood stove sitting in my garage. If things go bad, I can move it into the house and use my Fireplace for the chimney. I used it many, many years ago and still have the plate and flue to hook it up, if needed. Also have lots of trees and wood on my place. Biggest problem is most of it would be green so the first winter there may be a shortage of seasoned wood but then again, I live in NC so not really a major issue.

Jack, here in Middle Tennessee, a stove isn't required often either. I just want to prep a place to cook and heat if necessary. Also, the dry clothes. I remember my grandmother having the entire room filled with wet laundry. When they dried, they were stiff.

 

[Brent S]

Here in Eastern NC, I don't really have much of a need for a Wood Stove and the work that goes with it. But, I do have an old Fisher Wood stove sitting in my garage. If things go bad, I can move it into the house and use my Fireplace for the chimney. I used it many, many years ago and still have the plate and flue to hook it up, if needed. Also have lots of trees and wood on my place. Biggest problem is most of it would be green so the first winter there may be a shortage of seasoned wood but then again, I live in NC so not really a major issue.

I’m not far from you climate wise. Agreed that our weather isn’t terrible compared to others here but it’s darn sure cold enough to justify a wood stove early on a lot of mornings over winter. We are going to be in the 20’s overnight in a couple days now, and low 30’s a couple days ago. However, I have a brand new central heat system, very energy efficient and easy. I wanted the wood stove for grid down emergencies. Both to stay warm and to cook on.the problem with using the wood stove in your fireplace is if the grid fails during the summer you can’t build fires in your living room. I set mine up on an exterior porch area. I can close the windows to keep the heat and open it to the house for heat in the winter or I can close the house and vent the heat out the windows in summer. My point is to try consider how to cook without electricity for more than a few days.

 

[user 7704]

True. I have 500 gallon propane for a while and I also have a regular grill that I can always convert to wood. I have found that the best outside grills are old car rims. Not the cool aluminum, but the old real metal ones. They last a long time and have the holes for ventilation built in.

 

[GaRp58]

One of my readings in survival took me to a website which discussed using a compost pile to heat water. They had enough water, but it was too cold to shower. They coiled a long hose on the ground, covered it with cut grass and leaves, coiled further, covered again. After a few days and the compost started, they had water at 40 degrees centigrade for almost 3 months and for 35 persons to shower daily. If the water is for showering or heating a floor or wall in thin tubing...The possibilities are open. GP

FOUND A FILM IN YOU TUBE: It is French but watch...GP
https://www.youtube.com/redirect?re....com.au&v=f9rA10iv1Rc&event=video_description

 

[GaRp58]

For those who have an interest, here is a french film of one way to make compost heating and hot water...GP

https://www.youtube.com/redirect?re....com.au&v=f9rA10iv1Rc&event=video_description

 

[Mountain trapper]

I cleaned the chimney yesterday afternoon. It's much easier to do when there isn't 4 feet of snow on the roof.

 

[user 7704]

The cast iron stove I had picked out has some negative reviews about smoking.

I found a 12 gauge steel unit that has excellent reviews.

In Tennessee, this stove would not be used much basically for emergencies.

Give me your input people. It will be vented through my existing fireplace chimney which was built for wood but I converted to gas logs a few years ago.

I am hoping to get before Christmas. I was thinking cast iron , but this small stove sounds like it would do the job.

 

[Brent S]

The cast iron stove I had picked out has some negative reviews about smoking.

I found a 12 gauge steel unit that has excellent reviews.

In Tennessee, this stove would not be used much basically for emergencies.

Give me your input people. It will be vented through my existing fireplace chimney which was built for wood but I converted to gas logs a few years ago.

I am hoping to get before Christmas. I was thinking cast iron , but this small stove sounds like it would do the job.

Send a picture and model info

 

[user 7704]

Okay I'll try. I have problems with links. Have to get ready for school now. I do it when I return at 10.

 

[user 7704]

 

[user 7704]