Stove to burn Logs and/or Pellets?

BeGreen said:

Not really. There are some aftermarket baskets that hold pellets in a woodstove, but he might be better off getting an electric heater for her. And definitely have the wood already chopped, dried and stacked!

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BG:

There may have been something in the past from your neck of the woods. Recently I have seen two stoves on CraigsList for sale that were wood stoves and had a pellet adapter attached. Both were about three hundred miles away and I didn't feel it worth a road trip.

Then last week the pellet feed system was offerred locally. I missed it by a half hour. Guy from Wyoming bought it for back up parts on the one he has on his, Wood/Pellet Furnace. Said it was made near Tacoma, and he thought the company name started with a T (Traeger/Travis/Tempco/?) The stove was there it went on. Basic large box 80's stove with lots of steel, circulation tubes in the top and two fans. Firebox according to the guy who sold it had a large hole in the side, they had already welded a new plate over it. He described it like a, "salt spreader you hook on the back of a pick up with a screw system on the bottom and a cup at the bottom. He wanted to burn old pallets in it, and the parts got in the way, so they took it off.

Sounded weird, but I have seen the Irish boiler auger replacements available (over there) and a Scandinavian pellet feeder for replacement on boilers. Guess the woodstove thing is not big on the Eastside of the Pond. Pellet burning seems serious. We just didn't see it the same way here. Someone explored the possibility.

I asked if it could have been a coal feeder, say pea coal, but the auger wasn't right according to one guy who heated with coal most of his life (lived 1/2 mile from coal mine growing up). I am on the serious hunt now and have been searching Craigslist all over the Northwest.

I'm also searching for the Traeger Oak cabinet stove. I am a beautiful dreamer :roll: !!

Try looking here http://www.stoveworksusa.com/cornpelletstove.html They have gotten kind of pricey since I looked at them a couple of years ago. These are the ones we looked at as we have property and can grow our own corn.

I'd suggest a wood stove and some sort of a compressed log (Envi Logs, Biobricks or the like) for the wife. They come in forty pound bags wrapped in plastic, like pellets, but burn great in a wood stove or insert.

The pellet baskets referred to in an earlier post are an option, but, in my opinion having had one, not a good option.

dante2 said:

Try looking here http://www.stoveworksusa.com/cornpelletstove.html They have gotten kind of pricey since I looked at them a couple of years ago. These are the ones we looked at as we have property and can grow our own corn.

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Dante:

Welcome. You might want to do a search on this stove, a few years ago they got some space here. Quite enlightening.