No longer a wood stove virgin

eujamfh said:

Forget the wife,lets see the wood pile.

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pegasus said:

Fired my stove up for the first time last night and it went great. I have to thank hearth.com for all of the tremendous information, advice, and links that made it all possible. My wife and I did the entire project of installing the stove, pipe, and chimney liner by ourselves. Including the cost of the used wood stove, the price of installation was around $800. There was a little smoke associated with some oil that had soaked into the cast iron causing us to open the windows for an hour, but the stove put off enough heat to warm things back up. The stove maintained over 500 degrees fahrenheit for more than 2 hours on no more than an arm load of oak and black walnut. The wood stove is not my primary heat source but I will use it when we lose power,holidays and when the temps get down around 0 degrees fahrenheit.

Thanks again,
Ryan

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Backwoods Savage said:

pegasus said:

Fired my stove up for the first time last night and it went great. I have to thank hearth.com for all of the tremendous information, advice, and links that made it all possible. My wife and I did the entire project of installing the stove, pipe, and chimney liner by ourselves. Including the cost of the used wood stove, the price of installation was around $800. There was a little smoke associated with some oil that had soaked into the cast iron causing us to open the windows for an hour, but the stove put off enough heat to warm things back up. The stove maintained over 500 degrees fahrenheit for more than 2 hours on no more than an arm load of oak and black walnut. The wood stove is not my primary heat source but I will use it when we lose power,holidays and when the temps get down around 0 degrees fahrenheit.

Thanks again,
Ryan

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Ryan, you very well might find yourself using that stove more than you think. Once you get used to the wood heat it is difficult to go without it!

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