Juneuary in Oregon

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Snowy Rivers

Minister of Fire
Feb 7, 2010
1,810
NW Oregon
I have been off the board for a while so probably missed a few things.

Just a little humor here with our "JUNE U ARY" weather out here in NW Oregon

We had some HOT weather back in may and then we drifted back into what feels like early March
Last afternoon we got home and the house was only 65F and the stoves had been off for a few days except a little burn early on a couple mornings to take the chill off.

Last night we fired off the large Whitfield to get the house cozy and left it running all night, and its still burning now at 7:30 am

I will shut it off here in a while, before we head off to open our store for the day.

Just rather strange to need an all,night fire in JUNE

Rather enjoyed it though.

Snowy
 
Agreed Snowy . I too have run the stove a few times in the morning to take the chill off. 36 this 3 am in the s sound area.
 
62 degrees this morning and the stove is on, any news on early buy pricing on pellets in the northwest?
 
Same here in NE PA.

Everytime I stick the summer grate in the kitchen stove, we end up cooking once or twice on the top, and need to remove it to use the firebox overnight. We've had 40's overnight, and a 90* weekend a few weeks ago. This is the third time this spring I've gone from winter to summer mode.

This is our only heat source, and we keep a bunch of chicks a few weeks old between 80 and 85 near it in the kitchen. So we juggle cooking, baking , and heating to keep it just right. I've been spending days in the garden, so my wife has it fine tuned.

When the summer grate is out, she bakes late evening. Baking here ends soon when it's too hot to fire in the winter mode to bring the oven up to temp. So it's a good time to make breads for the freezer. There is enough fire left in the morning to pile it under the eye over the firebox, remove the lid and cover with a large pan. It cooks breakfast fine without adding heat to the house for the day. It has a shutter on the back that opens to allow heat straight up chimney without even going across the stove top, so it's easy to dump extra heat when done cooking. I drained the 24 gallon water reservoir to keep the heated water mass to a minumum for this quick heat and cool down operation. We refire it for supper, and close it down for the night.

It's the perfect solution for us, but a family that works away from home couldn't do it.
 
Slash
I rarely look at pellet prices, as we burn hazelnut shells in our two main stoves.

I will keep a small number of bags of pellets for the quad (just in case) but have not bought any large amounts in 3 years.

We have in the past years, purchased by the ton from the Farm store in St Paul (Oregon)
Every once in a while the big box shops like Home Depot will have a sale, but as I said, I dont pay much attention any more.

I wait till fall and the nut crop is in, then go after my truckload of shells.
Then again in late winter, maybe Feb or early March I will get a small load in to top off things, just before the processing is done.
 
No heat needed here. Upper 80's and lower 90's this weekend. forecast.png
 
Slash
I rarely look at pellet prices, as we burn hazelnut shells in our two main stoves.

I will keep a small number of bags of pellets for the quad (just in case) but have not bought any large amounts in 3 years.

We have in the past years, purchased by the ton from the Farm store in St Paul (Oregon)
Every once in a while the big box shops like Home Depot will have a sale, but as I said, I dont pay much attention any more.

I wait till fall and the nut crop is in, then go after my truckload of shells.
Then again in late winter, maybe Feb or early March I will get a small load in to top off things, just before the processing is done.

Hello

The temps are sill low here in the NE but it makes a difference in setup of the living space. Living on the top floor in a split with R53 in the attic as a buffer to hold heat, the house was a comfy 70 Deg F last night with NO head ON. Now the shed which is quite heavily insulated now got down to low 60s last night. I also have a friend who lives in a thin metal wall trailer home with an open space underneath like the shed also needed some heat last night. He did NOT use the Hi octane Oil baseboard heat, just some 220 vac fan forced space heaters.
 
Slash
I rarely look at pellet prices, as we burn hazelnut shells in our two main stoves.

I will keep a small number of bags of pellets for the quad (just in case) but have not bought any large amounts in 3 years.

We have in the past years, purchased by the ton from the Farm store in St Paul (Oregon)
Every once in a while the big box shops like Home Depot will have a sale, but as I said, I dont pay much attention any more.

I wait till fall and the nut crop is in, then go after my truckload of shells.
Then again in late winter, maybe Feb or early March I will get a small load in to top off things, just before the processing is done.


I know Nut Thing! :)

FYI, we are chilly here in Juneuary too and have been for the last darn 3 years. Hit 47 a couple nights ago.
 
I had a fire the 1st few days of June-u-ary. Got down in the 40's 4 or 5 nights in a row.

Thinking I will be doing the Final clean, for the final time, on the Quadrafire, this weekend.....
 
I had a fire the 1st few days of June-u-ary. Got down in the 40's 4 or 5 nights in a row.

Thinking I will be doing the Final clean, for the final time, on the Quadrafire, this weekend.....

Hi Dexter

Will you paint the fire pot for the summer? That 2001 Quad with the gold trim package for 2 bills sold so fast I could not get it in time! Those quads never stop working! They are built! With the biggest fire pot I have ever seen, they are like a roman torch that light up the night!
 
Hi Dexter

Will you paint the fire pot for the summer? That 2001 Quad with the gold trim package for 2 bills sold so fast I could not get it in time! Those quads never stop working! They are built! With the biggest fire pot I have ever seen, they are like a roman torch that light up the night!

Yes. Because I am selling it (to my Father for a Great Deal) I will be cleaning amd painting ot. That way it is in as new of condition as possible. It will not only appear and run as new, but comes with lots of extra parts.. Lots. For $1,200 he is getting his money worth.
The 2001 25-PDV I gave him last yr (I traded an old Timberline woodstove for it) is gonna be sold. Because he got it for free, he will only have $700 in the Quad, if he can fetch $500 for his current stove. I hooked him up last year and again this year. I have about $400 in extra parts for it. Its been a great stove. It throws heat like no other freestanding stove I have seen (outside of showrooms).

Its gonna be missed.....
 
Yes. Because I am selling it (to my Father for a Great Deal) I will be cleaning amd painting ot. That way it is in as new of condition as possible. It will not only appear and run as new, but comes with lots of extra parts.. Lots. For $1,200 he is getting his money worth.
The 2001 25-PDV I gave him last yr (I traded an old Timberline woodstove for it) is gonna be sold. Because he got it for free, he will only have $700 in the Quad, if he can fetch $500 for his current stove. I hooked him up last year and again this year. I have about $400 in extra parts for it. Its been a great stove. It throws heat like no other freestanding stove I have seen (outside of showrooms).

Its gonna be missed.....

I am sure your father will like how it works on the T-stat! Just set it and forget it!
 
I've got my M55 going as I type. So much for the yearly cleaning:mad:

I noticed my HD still had pellets (Blazers). When I asked, they said they are now stocking them year round. I guess the last two extremely cool summers must have influenced that decision:( . I'm still hoping the weather makes a turn for the better though this year. BTW price was $209/ton.
 
I've got my M55 going as I type. So much for the yearly cleaning:mad:

I noticed my HD still had pellets (Blazers). When I asked, they said they are now stocking them year round. I guess the last two extremely cool summers must have influenced that decision:( . I'm still hoping the weather makes a turn for the better though this year. BTW price was $209/ton.

Good Price! you may want to stock up!
 
We also have two Quad 1000 stoves here too.
These were purchased in 1993 right after we built the place

The house has force air electric heat (OMG the cost $$$$$$$$$)
There is one Quad downstairs in the apartment and we have one in the far corner of the living room.
The Quad upstairs rarely gets used, now that we have the two Whitfields.

Originally we had a WP-50 Earth stove Pellet unit in the Family room, but it was too big to run during anything but very cold weather.

We ran it on the shells, but unless the weather was in the 30's or below it would run you out.
To get a fire going in the WP-50 was a 30 minute task at the least.

The Whits can be lit in less than a minute and then walk away.

The Quad 1000 stoves originally came with a ceramic firepot and a ceramic igniter too.

The igniters were very fragile and would break on their own.
The firepots were prone to cracking and the bottom falling out. (not good)

The company replaced the fire pots with a fabricated steel unit that used a "U" shaped metal coil type igniter.

Far better system.

We have gone through a couple of the steel fire pots over the years and a few igniters too.

The only other issue we have had is the stainless heat shield over the aluminum heat exchanger. This metal pieces has cracked and burned through on one of the units.

I cleaned it up well and welded a piece of new stainless over the bad spot and that took care of that.


The 1000 is a T stat only stove thats like a furnace and runs wide loose until the preset temp is reached and then it shuts off.

The only downside of these units is that they are NOISY.
The fans are loud and during various times in the burn cycle they can make rattling and vibrating noises.

They will heat a large house with ease.
The one we have upstairs will handle the 2400 ft with no sweat.

Snowy
 
Our 1200i did a good job of heating the house too. We burned on average one bag a day until it got into the 20's, then it was 1.5 bags a day. In the teens, well, it needed assistance from a small wood stove to keep up. I liked the design of the Quads. It was reliable with the u-shaped ignitor and great on a digital thermostat. It was also great for cleaning. In our mild winter I could go 2 weeks between cleaning with a good quality pellet. That became once a week in the dead of winter, which still is great. Cleaning was a simple 15 min. weekend task. As you've noted the only downside was the noise which got a little tedious if you were in the same room. well, that and the shallow hopper on the insert meant that you needed to assist the pellets toward the chute once or twice a day, but no big deal. A very nice benefit of the big wood stove that replaced the 1200i + Jotul is steady silent warmth. It easily holds a fire overnight so we still come down to a warm house.

I've got a small Enviro that I hope to rebuild and use as a shop or greenhouse heater when I find the time to get around to it. That should be an interesting project. I think the auger assembly is rusted in place.
 
Our 1200i did a good job of heating the house too. We burned on average one bag a day until it got into the 20's, then it was 1.5 bags a day. In the teens, well, it needed assistance from a small wood stove to keep up. I liked the design of the Quads. It was reliable with the u-shaped ignitor and great on a digital thermostat. It was also great for cleaning. In our mild winter I could go 2 weeks between cleaning with a good quality pellet. That became once a week in the dead of winter, which still is great. Cleaning was a simple 15 min. weekend task. As you've noted the only downside was the noise which got a little tedious if you were in the same room. well, that and the shallow hopper on the insert meant that you needed to assist the pellets toward the chute once or twice a day, but no big deal. A very nice benefit of the big wood stove that replaced the 1200i + Jotul is steady silent warmth. It easily holds a fire overnight so we still come down to a warm house.

I've got a small Enviro that I hope to rebuild and use as a shop or greenhouse heater when I find the time to get around to it. That should be an interesting project. I think the auger assembly is rusted in place.


An Enviro eh? Holdin out on us BG..... What model? EF2, EF3, Windsor, Mini, Etc..

The 1200 is a very forgiving stove (All Quads for that matter) it burns most any pellet with ease. Large amounts of air flow through the pot, with only limited holes in it. With any pellet, the ash and heat are about the only difference. The pot stays clean as a whistle and never builds up or chokes on any ash.
I truly only cleaned mine 3 times this season. With about 1.5 ton through it. Cleanings came about every 20-30 bags. The glass was only cleaned 3 times also. I abused it the most this year, because I wanted to make sure it would fire every time when dirty. I know my Father will clean it. But wanted to give it a worse case scenario.

Its above 90° here now. Outside planting some more shrubs and trees in the landscaping..... May clean the stove this evening. Just as an excuse to stay in the Central Air ;)
 
Meh, we're struggling to reach 30 degrees cooler.

The stove is a Windsor. A little fancy for a shop, but it was free, so I will try to resurrect it.
 
Meh, we're struggling to reach 30 degrees cooler.

The stove is a Windsor. A little fancy for a shop, but it was free, so I will try to resurrect it.


Thats definitely a fancy little heater. Well worth a couple hundred in parts to get her going..


Looking forward to a "resurrection" thread in the Pellet Mill.... ;) (Some Day? ;) )
 
Yes it's fancy and if it appears to be a hassle or too expensive it will go right back on the free list.
 
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