We Have a New Wood Burning Stove

[scott_vt]

Good looking stove Scott. Hope it works out great for you.
We got a Country 210 5yrs. ago and love it. Easiest stove I ever started.
I also got the blower for ours and man what a difference it made.:thumbsup:
I even had it going again friday and saturday nights, +6 on Saturday morning:confused2:
Here's to many safe years of use.

They sure do make a beautiful Stove!

good luck with it! but they are calling
for 70's this coming weekend! could be
the end of my coal burning season.

Good Afternoon Jim and Dutch,
Thanks, Ive been eyeing that stove for years ! Im absolutely looking foward to using it, but as you say, only a hand full of days left for that !

At least I can hopefully get it seasoned in with a few small burns.....

 

[MossRoad]

Good Afternoon Moss,
Well I allways wanted a stove like " Highbeams", and I bought one today ! The Hearthstone Heritage soapstone stove. It will be used in the basement of our Ct home for a couple of years and then go up to out Vt home and be put in the addition which isnt quite there yet !

The 2009/2010 tax credit gave me the final nudge, and I will use my old stove out in the workshop section of my barn which hopefully is going up this year !

Here is a link...

http://www.hearthstonestoves.com/assets/images/product_photos/product_main_photo_3.jpg

Nice looking stove!

 

[dmccarty]

We stopped burning the stove a few weeks back. Just not quite cold enough to start it up and we are low on wood. Last average freeze date is 4/15.

Saturday night we started up the stove again because it had been cold for a couple of days.

Friday we are supposed to be up to 88! Ahhh! It is not summer time!



Later,
Dan

 

[MossRoad]

Since there has been a lot of talk about wood stoves lately, I thought I'd update on how my Napolean P1400 pedestal wood burning stove is working half way through my 5th season. I thought it was only 4 years! :laughing:

Stove still works great. Burns nice a complete. I let it run almost down about every two weeks and push the coals to one side and empty the ash. Then move the coals back to the center, add more wood and it takes right off again. I bought a chimney cleaning brush and poles. At the end of each season, usually around April, I go up on the roof and swab out the chimney. I only get about a half a gallon of soot out of the 17' chimney each spring, so I believe it is working very well. I burn pretty much continuously all winter long. My greenhouse thermostat attached to an in-line duct booster fan really works great. Although the duct booster fan died after 4 seasons of continuous use and I replaced it. I'm going to change my duct work from 6" to 8" to get more air upstairs. During last week's -16F cold snap, the woodburner would keep our house at 69-70 but not any warmer, so I had to fire up the furnace. But at anything 0 and above, the furnace never comes on. Goal was to reduce winter gas usage by 50%. It has been more like 80%. Very nice. I think I will have achieved my energy savings payback completely by the end of this season. Everything after that is gravy. :thumbsup:

 

[ultrarunner]

Great in the field update... sounds like you are doing everything right!