what stove will give me the best bang for the buck?

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No it's piano.lol

I do have a battery back-up which i beleive would give me about 7 minutes run time in case of a power failure.

I also have a small generator ---1,200-- watts but it is a cheapie made in China and doesn't really run the stove all that well.
 
Scoop said:
thanks.No that's my set up. Im basically heating the basement of at 2,300 square foot bungalo. It was a professional install. I made the hearth pad though.

Stan

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Sorry, no the box on the right is just a storge box for my fire starter etc. If you look under the stove at the right rear you will see the corner of an APC full time surge protector that provides a short term battery back-up as well.
 
Since we're showing stoves, here's our standalone Quad CB 1200 set up in a corner of our living room ..... this room used to be too cool to sit in. Nice simple but reliable stove. Has low, med and high settings, fan low and high and also runs off a thermostat. Big hopper. We run ours on low most of the time. No problems yet after using it for just over a year. Searched for problems out there but found very few. Good luck stove hunting! ...... cc :)

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preacherbiggin said:
whatd ya think but this fellers.............http://cgi.ebay.com/Cumberland-Stov...emQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item414cc852d4

shes "awfully purty" but do yall know is these run as well as they look?
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looks very nice. Good price definitely. My only concern is that without a burn pot agitator it is hard to burn corn. They call the stove multi-fuel but make no specific mention of corn. If corn is not on your fuel menu then it would be fine.

This is a U.S. stove 6039, not being advertised as such here.

http://cgi.ebay.ca/HIGH-TEC-SAVER-C...emQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item5190146d1f
 
scoop i called the manufacturer today and asked them bout the stove and they said thats what they are burning to heat the showroom ( corn) they said the clinker wont be a problem. now is that just good salesmanship or truth? i dont know. gonna try to go look at a harman monday. wanted to go today but we are gettin slammed with snow ( over 15 inches today! ) i really like the old time look of the hightec . decent price too. wonder if it comes with a vent kit?
 
preacherbiggin said:
scoop i called the manufacturer today and asked them bout the stove and they said thats what they are burning to heat the showroom ( corn) they said the clinker wont be a problem. now is that just good salesmanship or truth? i dont know. gonna try to go look at a harman monday. wanted to go today but we are gettin slammed with snow ( over 15 inches today! ) i really like the old time look of the hightec . decent price too. wonder if it comes with a vent kit?
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Well, as for what the manufacturer said, do you think their going to say they make a bad product?

Going to look at a Harman?? Not with the $1800 budget you mentioned earlier in the thread.....unless it's an older used one. Their a nice stove too, but don't think they never have problems because they cost so much....pay attention to the forum, and do a search of Harman....they have more than their share of "issues".
 
thanks mac. ill take that into consideration. the high tec and the us stoves and the timberridge all look very similar. any one of these built any better than the others??
 
preacherbiggin said:
thanks mac. ill take that into consideration. the high tec and the us stoves and the timberridge all look very similar. any one of these built any better than the others??
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The Us Stove and Englander brands are well built, from what I can see, and have been around for a long time. I know nothing about the "High Tec" stove. As my father used to say, "don't buy a pig in a poke".
 
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preacherbiggin said:
thanks mac. ill take that into consideration. the high tec and the us stoves and the timberridge all look very similar. any one of these built any better than the others??
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The Us Stove and Englander brands are well built, from what I can see, and have been around for a long time. I know nothing about the "High Tec" stove. As my father used to say, "don't buy a pig in a poke".
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The "High Tec" stove is the U.S. stove hearth focus 6039, sold by a big eBay stove dealer who for some reason, perhaps a discount from the company, doesn't advertise it as such.
 
preacherbiggin said:
scoop i called the manufacturer today and asked them bout the stove and they said thats what they are burning to heat the showroom ( corn) they said the clinker wont be a problem. now is that just good salesmanship or truth? i dont know. gonna try to go look at a harman monday. wanted to go today but we are gettin slammed with snow ( over 15 inches today! ) i really like the old time look of the hightec . decent price too. wonder if it comes with a vent kit?
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People I know who have tried to burn corn without a stirrer say it doesn't work that well. If you mix pellets and corn half and half it works better. There is a whole science to clinkers and how to get rid of them but I wouldn't let it scare you off. Corn is dirtier to burn, harder on your stove and pipes and has about the same heat value as pellets so you can live without it unless you have your own corn silo. No your stove won't come with a venting kit. Depending on your set up you should set aside about $500 for the venting pipes and installation. Depending on the tightness of your house you may also needs a fresh air kit which would be about $200 installed. God I should go into the business lol.
 
Scoop said:
......Depending on the tightness of your house you may also needs a fresh air kit which would be about $200 installed. God I should go into the business lol.
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ALL Englander pellet stoves come with a FREE fresh air kit.
 
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preacherbiggin said:
scoop i called the manufacturer today and asked them bout the stove and they said thats what they are burning to heat the showroom ( corn) they said the clinker wont be a problem. now is that just good salesmanship or truth? i dont know. gonna try to go look at a harman monday. wanted to go today but we are gettin slammed with snow ( over 15 inches today! ) i really like the old time look of the hightec . decent price too. wonder if it comes with a vent kit?
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People I know who have tried to burn corn without a stirrer say it doesn't work that well. If you mix pellets and corn half and half it works better. There is a whole science to clinkers and how to get rid of them but I wouldn't let it scare you off. Corn is dirtier to burn, harder on your stove and pipes and has about the same heat value as pellets so you can live without it unless you have your own corn silo. No your stove won't come with a venting kit. Depending on your set up you should set aside about $500 for the venting pipes and installation. Depending on the tightness of your house you may also needs a fresh air kit which would be about $200 installed. God I should go into the business lol.
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owning a shop is not a lucrative as it sounds.
 
thanks for the venting prices scoop. yall have been a WORLD of help. its bout narrowed down to the englander and the cumberland and monday ill either pick one up or order it. yall wish me luck . what ill be dealing with will be : which one is built like a tank and which one will burn with less user "fiddlin"
 
When I was looking at stoves one thing that turned me away from multi fuel stoves were a couple of dealers themselfs. They told me that corn was really hard on Pellet stove pipes and the pipes wont last long. This was with Excell and Selkirk pipe. I dont know if they have pipe that will stand up to corn yet or not or could be the dealers were not sure of what they were talking about.
Just something to check maybe to make sure of.
 
the dealers ive talked to say that the corn is more corrosive but id the pipe is cleaned "regularly" i wont see a lot of pipe loss like others have stated. the bad part is i dont know if theyre lying or not. i hate to have to replace my pipe every couple winters... how long should i expect to get from a pipe i burn corn? ( should i post this question in the forum for a whole new topic? let me know fellers :)
 
terryjd98 said:
When I was looking at stoves one thing that turned me away from multi fuel stoves were a couple of dealers themselfs. They told me that corn was really hard on Pellet stove pipes and the pipes wont last long. This was with Excell and Selkirk pipe. I dont know if they have pipe that will stand up to corn yet or not or could be the dealers were not sure of what they were talking about.
Just something to check maybe to make sure of.
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All 3 manufacturers of pellet pipe (Selkirk, Excell, and Simpson) make pellet pipe that will stand up to corn burning. If they were talking about burning corn in regular pellet pipe, then they were correct, but otherwise it's not an issue.
 
thanks macman. it helps to talk to somebody who actually knows what they are talkin about! once again yall are TOP NOTCH!
 
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