PaPa Fisher with water heating tank in back?

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Picked up a PaPa stove that has a partition inside about 6" from the rear of the wall of the stove, there are pipes coming out of the back for circulating and heating water. Is this possible? No way could the partition have been added after the stove was built. It is exactly the same as the PaPa stove that I use to heat my house.
 
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Welcome toolumpy! Surprised no one answered yet but summer is a slow period for folks to chime in. I know next to nothing on the Fisher stoves so not much help... be patient as folks are just not thinking wood stoves just yet!
 
It could of been a prototype. I think I still have tubes we had to put under the top. My plan that I never did was to put a coil of copper on top of the stove and enclose it I would use a circulation pump to the water heater
I have no drawings with a hot water heater built into a stove.
 
Toolumpy, photos would probably be appreciated as you appear to have a unique stove:)
 
Yeah, a photo of the front will show if it's a Papa with something added inside, or a Mama with something added on the back. (they use the same door, but the space around door shows what model you have) Or exact measurements of top width, box width and depth with or without ash fender.
 
I will try to get pictures soon. I currently heat water as well as my house by running pex , which is tied in on cold side of our house water heater, then changing to copper by the stove. The water goes through a 30 gallon used water heater ((pre-heater) stripped down to bare tank) that sits next to our Fisher, then goes through a 40 gallon (stripped down) tank which gets the water hotter than what our house water is set at and then from copper back into pex for the return to our water heater and enters below where it came from. My water heater rarely runs at all.
 
toolumpy said:
I will try to get pictures soon. I currently heat water as well as my house by running pex , which is tied in on cold side of our house water heater, then changing to copper by the stove. The water goes through a 30 gallon used water heater ((pre-heater) stripped down to bare tank) that sits next to our Fisher, then goes through a 40 gallon (stripped down) tank which gets the water hotter than what our house water is set at and then from copper back into pex for the return to our water heater and enters below where it came from. My water heater rarely runs at all.
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Measurements of outside of stove are
29.5 deep
28 wide
33 tall from floor to top of stove
firebox is 20 deep x 24 wide thus space in back for heating the water. Trying to get pictures loaded
 
toolumpy said:
Measurements of outside of stove are
29.5 deep
28 wide
33 tall from floor to top of stove
firebox is 20 deep x 24 wide thus space in back for heating the water. Trying to get pictures loaded
Click to expand...
Still trying on pictures but only loads one quarter of each picture
 
One of the more creative old timers at my FD retro fitted a water jacket in his old smoke dragon, he was actually way ahead of his time with his famer engineering skills, he heats his house approx. 2500sq ft with one stove in the basement, he has his water jacket connected to his baseboard heat, but instead of doing storage its a direct dump into the system, he runs his living spaces off of a typical thermostats and zone valves, and added a reversed zone valve into the basement so if upstairs isn't calling for heat, the lower zone is dumping the hot water heat into the basement thus heating all his hardwood floors from the bottom up. Its an amazing setup for someone who just barely graduated high school,(no knock on anyone that hasn't) The funny thing is when I leave my house one a could winter morning and come up through town, I get to see old Eddy's smoke coming up the his hollow at the base of the mountain.
 
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kennyp2339 said:
One of the more creative old timers at my FD retro fitted a water jacket in his old smoke dragon, he was actually way ahead of his time with his famer engineering skills, he heats his house approx. 2500sq ft with one stove in the basement, he has his water jacket connected to his baseboard heat, but instead of doing storage its a direct dump into the system, he runs his living spaces off of a typical thermostats and zone valves, and added a reversed zone valve into the basement so if upstairs isn't calling for heat, the lower zone is dumping the hot water heat into the basement thus heating all his hardwood floors from the bottom up. Its an amazing setup for someone who just barely graduated high school,(no knock on anyone that hasn't) The funny thing is when I leave my house one a could winter morning and come up through town, I get to see old Eddy's smoke coming up the his hollow at the base of the mountain.
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toolumpy said:
Still trying on pictures but only loads one quarter of each picture
Click to expand...
toolumpy said:
Still trying on pictures but only loads one quarter of each picture
Click to expand...
toolumpy said:
Measurements of outside of stove are
29.5 deep
28 wide
33 tall from floor to top of stove
firebox is 20 deep x 24 wide thus space in back for heating the water. Trying to get pictures loaded
Click to expand...
toolumpy said:
I will try to get pictures soon. I currently heat water as well as my house by running pex , which is tied in on cold side of our house water heater, then changing to copper by the stove. The water goes through a 30 gallon used water heater ((pre-heater) stripped down to bare tank) that sits next to our Fisher, then goes through a 40 gallon (stripped down) tank which gets the water hotter than what our house water is set at and then from copper back into pex for the return to our water heater and enters below where it came from. My water heater rarely runs at all.
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The photos of the Fisher stove in the above post are the pictures of the stove listed in the beginning of this post, I could only get them to load this way. Please note the handle on the left was broken off so it is a repair one that replaced it.
 
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