Hello Hearth.com Thanks for the great info on this site.
After 20 years of using the Earth Stove that was here when we moved into our house, I pulled the trigger on the $649 NC-30 stove. My old stove was really getting bad this year with not being air-tight, (see pics) and the efficiency fell to nothing. I would fill the thing up, at 7:00pm and it would be 62 in the stove room by the next morning, and just barely enough coals to get a fire started. Wifey and I agreed it is time for a new stove. The new NC-30 came on a pallet, and luckily I had my family over for Easter so I got her in the stove room with the help of a dolly. The new stove looks to be the same size of the old one, except for the firebox. The Old one has a huge firebox. I am able to put 28" splits into the Earth stove. I know the NC-30 stove says it will accept 22" logs, but I measured the NC-30, and it is 18" from the firebrick in the back to the front lip next to the "doghouse", and 19" from both firebricks side to side. I will have to cut the ends of my logs to accomadate. I already put a sharpie mark on my Chainsaw bar to measure 18" cuts.
I have a huge ceiling fan in the stoveroom to push the warm air throughout the house. I am going to get a 6" to 8"
increaser with the small crimped end and attach to the 8" flue. (I was wanting to go 6" all the way up to the ceiling firebox, but cant for the life of me figure out how to detach the small 1 foot pipe from the firebox)
Question: Do you recommend keeping the 18" logs behind the "doghouse, or can I stack wood over the lip towards the front glass, and how high can I stack?
After 20 years of using the Earth Stove that was here when we moved into our house, I pulled the trigger on the $649 NC-30 stove. My old stove was really getting bad this year with not being air-tight, (see pics) and the efficiency fell to nothing. I would fill the thing up, at 7:00pm and it would be 62 in the stove room by the next morning, and just barely enough coals to get a fire started. Wifey and I agreed it is time for a new stove. The new NC-30 came on a pallet, and luckily I had my family over for Easter so I got her in the stove room with the help of a dolly. The new stove looks to be the same size of the old one, except for the firebox. The Old one has a huge firebox. I am able to put 28" splits into the Earth stove. I know the NC-30 stove says it will accept 22" logs, but I measured the NC-30, and it is 18" from the firebrick in the back to the front lip next to the "doghouse", and 19" from both firebricks side to side. I will have to cut the ends of my logs to accomadate. I already put a sharpie mark on my Chainsaw bar to measure 18" cuts.
I have a huge ceiling fan in the stoveroom to push the warm air throughout the house. I am going to get a 6" to 8"
increaser with the small crimped end and attach to the 8" flue. (I was wanting to go 6" all the way up to the ceiling firebox, but cant for the life of me figure out how to detach the small 1 foot pipe from the firebox)
Question: Do you recommend keeping the 18" logs behind the "doghouse, or can I stack wood over the lip towards the front glass, and how high can I stack?
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