Hearthstone Mansfield: I just got one!

This stove is Awesome.

I'm a Newbie to woodburning more or less. Started a bunch of camp fires as a kid, but this is my second season burning wood to heat my home. I just replaced my 50,000 btu Cast stove with the Mansfield.. A world of difference.

I don't know where to start with this stove.

Let me start with one question: There is a metal braket/brace of some kind above the secondary burn tubes. It looks like it's suppose to support the ceramic tile/rosin that is up top, but I'm not sure where it is suppose to go? Right now I have it just laying towards the back of the stove, under the ceramic tile. Everything seems fine, but is it?

I drove 370 miles from a suburb of Philadelphia PA to New Hampseire with a couple friends of mine. Left at 4am, got there at noon. 4 of us (seller included) dollied it out of his basement, through the snow, and into the back of my jeep. Got home at 1:30 the next morning. 22 hours I was up, and did all the driving.
The next day, my dad came over and helped me unload/install it in place of my cast stove. This was the easy part as it only took about 1 1/2 hours. Completed my break in burn, and couldn't wait till the following day to fire it up!
Of course the following day we happened to set record highs in the area, but that didn't stop me from firing it up late after noon! I've been burning ever since..
I had a solid overnight burn, for the first time in my wood burning career. Packed the stove with 4 larger pieces of wood, and went to bed. The next morning (7 hours later) there was a magnificent bed of coals, just yearning to start up another set of logs.
The stove was used for a season before me, but looks/operates like new. (previous owner stepped up to the Equinox.. now that is a stove)
I have nothing but wonderful things to say about this stove so far. It is beautiful to look at, puts out a ton of heat, and makes wood burning almost too easy.
I have an old house that was just fully remodeled/insulated and retains it's heat well. The living room is 80 degrees, with every other room in the 70's. Yes, it's warm, but it's also not really cold out right now (high 30's or better since I started burning in it) My 50,000 btu cast iron stove could not heat the rest of the house like this one can, and then just puts out more and More heat, even after the coals are covered in grey.
I don't mean to boast here folks, but if anyone is wondering if they'd be happy with a Mansfield in a 2000+ sqft house, I think the answer would be yes.

Thank you Highbeam. So you're saying it goes under the baffle to prop it up some. That makes sense. I'll have to stop feeding the stove wood, and arrange the bracket as you've stated!
I have no experience with soapstone stoves before this one, but I can not say enough about this stove. It will easily do a seven hour burn; leaving well enough red coals to start up another full firebox of wood. I haven't had to test it to 8 hours yet, but I'm confident it will.

Thanks Mike from Athens. I haven't had it appart since I started burning. From the sounds of it, we're all talking about the same thing. It's a long bar that runs the width of the stove, with ends that angle down (as to give lift of some kind). I seem to have decent control of the stove, but perhaps I don't have what I should? If you want to snap a picture, that would be great. If not, no worries, I think I understand correctly. I'll inspect and rearange the parts in a few days when temps are not so cold outside.
Since installing this stove, the gas heat in my house has not kicked on once.

Frank, it was windy all day yesterday, big time. Gusts to 50mph and steady 20mph. Might have made the fires burn faster. Last night was a little windy, but with a low of 15 degrees.
My house was “cool” for the first time since starting the fire last week. The living room that houses the Mansfield was 73, up the stairs was 68, and opposite end of the house, above the garage was a chilly 60. I’m not complaining, but it was a shock to wake up to a house that wasn’t high 70’s! Oh, how fast we get use to this warm heat..

Just thought I'd update my story with the Mansfield.
As everyone in the northeast is aware, we've been having some very cold temps of late. Here in SE PA is no exception. The past two night's we've seen single digits. My "cold" room in the house, opposite end of the house, above the garage is 55 F. The living room that is home to the Mansfield sees 68 when I awake in the morning after 8 hours. My girlfriend and I decided to stay on the couch last night because our room at the top of the stairs dips to the mid 60's (comfy by my standards, but not hers). It was at times warm for me on the couch, but a nice 71 when I awoke, 6 hours after filling the stove. Threw a couple more on, and back to the couch for a couple more hours. It's 79 as I type this. Still in love with the Mansfield. It's been weeks now and my heater has not kicked on since the day of breaking the stove in.
Burning 24/7 and waiting to see how low my PECO bill will be this month!
I can't wait till spring to start splitting more wood! (I was out a two weeks ago splitting some, but a little cold for my liking)
Love it all.