RanchMan, Scorn thee not, with our past and ongoing investment flow into HF I'm sure they would give us consideration.
Looked at the stove, got a question.
In the typical near mindless advertisinig drivel they say:
"Air flow: radiant"
What do you suppose that means? Looks like someone had seen advertisement copy for stoves and heaters and sort of picked some words from them at random. Sort of a blurry copy of a copy of a copy like a multi-generation FAX.
Some of their engineering (goes to fit and finish as well) is a bit like a Xerox of a Xerox of a Xerox. It looks principally like what they are selling it to be but sometimes function can get a little blurry as well.
Safety concerns: If the doors, lids, flue fitings, etc. don't fit tightly and you fill 'er up and throtle back to keep a small fire going as long into the night as possible (very desireable practice) you risk CO (Carbon Monoxide) generation and leakage into the room. Probably would be safe and useful with a fair sized fire going with a decent stack on it when it would be drawing well and all leaks would be into the stove and none out of the stove.
About 15 years ago a friend of mine leased a 2500 acre river valley along the Mexican border between San Diego and Tecate (where they make the beer by that name). There was a small cabin on the property. No bathroom, no running water, no electricity, just a small wood stove in the kitchen for cooking and heat and oil lamps for light. In warmer weather he cooked on a Coleman propane stove on the screened in porch. My wife and I used to spend weekends there with him. Our only experience with little cast iron stoves. It was a good one. Everything fit tightly. Boy howdy, when you stoked it up a bit and gave it air it would glow a dull red on the sides. When my wife, the archeologist, was cleaning the kitchen pantry shelves she noted the newspaper used for shelf paper was from the 1920's, don't recall exactly when. That stove was the real thing. The real thing is available today in American manufacture as some of the original molds are still being used to make the cast iron beuties.
If you go with HF stove, be fastidious with your flue pipe installation, plenty of height for a good draw.
Patrick
