EarthStove worth buying?

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I have found an earth stove on craigslist for $350. i emailed the seller and got this response:

Yes it is still for sale. I am not sure what is wrong with it but you are welcome to come plug her in, fire her up and check for yourself. It may be minor I am not sure. It has the brand EarthStove on the side of it. It came with the house I bought and worked fine for 3 years. I did not really know how to care for it or maintain it so it may just need some tlc. I can send some pics to you via cell phone if you like. I do not have internet at home. Call me if still interested.


i'm thinking if it's not burning correctly it's just full of ash being that they used it for 3 years without any cleaning.. what do you guys think of an earthstove? would it be worth buying since they are discontinued? were they good reliable stoves? I gave the seller a call and waiting to get a call back and some pictures so i can try to figure out what model it is.

thanks for the help
 
What model is it? I have been looking for another...if you don't want it. :)
 
EarthStove said:
What model is it? I have been looking for another...if you don't want it. :)
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don't know the model yet i hope to find that out soon.. i'm guessing your happy with the one you have if your looking for another one :)
 
It has not been without problems. Do a search for my posts and you will see. I think I got all the major bugs worked out once again this year with the burn pot. Overall, no problems with the stove except the burn pot issues I had and I think I got that resolved (It needs to be perfectly centered or pellets build up and a lazy burn starts after about 8 to 12 hours or so).

I am trying Stove Chow pellets (almost out of my second ton of Hamers). If these do well in the stove I will be very happy considering the cost. LOL.

I would love to get another for parts really. I wouild love to have a newer burn pot and the newer control board to give me more flexibility.

What ever you decide please let me know here. :)
 
Earth Stove was bought out by the Lennox Corporation, and since then have stopped making all Earth Stoves. The Earth pellet stove was a very unattractive stove and prone for problems. You probably will have trouble getting parts and finding a tech that knows anything about them. Probably not a good buy at any price.

Jerry
 
jerry said:
Earth Stove was bought out by the Lennox Corporation, and since then have stopped making all Earth Stoves. The Earth pellet stove was a very unattractive stove and prone for problems. You probably will have trouble getting parts and finding a tech that knows anything about them. Probably not a good buy at any price.

Jerry
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What kind of problems were the prone to? I think our stove is rather attractive compared to some pellet stoves on the market.
 
You must have one of the early ones. The last few year before they stopped making them look like they were made in someones garage. The earlier ones actually had a very realistic flame, biggest problem we had was they had to be vented exactly correct or they would not draft correctly and sometimes they still would not draft. Seemed like every one we sold we had a hard time getting it to work. Stopped selling them because of the problems we had. Not sure if Lennox is still supplying parts or not, you probably know better then me as I have not tried to buy any parts for the past 10 years.
 
bumping is fine because the threads are scrolling off too quickly these days....

I may have mentioned this before, but some of the early Earth Stove pellets stoves had the dubious honor of testing at the lowest efficiencies in a "in home" test which was done in the 1990's.

The bottom feed units (I think this is a Treager Mechanism) had a very realistic looking flame, probably the best around.

However, given the efficiency and repair history....I would only buy such a stove used if I felt very handy! Of course, that goes for a lot of pellet stoves...buying used ones which are not relatively current is always chancy.

It's another ball of wax if you are really handy.
 
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bumping is fine because the threads are scrolling off too quickly these days....

I may have mentioned this before, but some of the early Earth Stove pellets stoves had the dubious honor of testing at the lowest efficiencies in a "in home" test which was done in the 1990's.

The bottom feed units (I think this is a Treager Mechanism) had a very realistic looking flame, probably the best around.

However, given the efficiency and repair history....I would only buy such a stove used if I felt very handy! Of course, that goes for a lot of pellet stoves...buying used ones which are not relatively current is always chancy.

It's another ball of wax if you are really handy.
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thanks for the backup on the bump thing.. i'm on alot of other aoutomotive forums and things get bumped all the time because of traffic and threads getting "lost" in the mix...
i am handy i really don't mind tering stuff apart and fixing or modifying parts to make it work.. i think i'm gonna pass on this one though because of the efficiency thing.. i don't want to be blowing my money out of the vent cap..
 
86 toy said:
Webmaster said:
bumping is fine because the threads are scrolling off too quickly these days....

I may have mentioned this before, but some of the early Earth Stove pellets stoves had the dubious honor of testing at the lowest efficiencies in a "in home" test which was done in the 1990's.

The bottom feed units (I think this is a Treager Mechanism) had a very realistic looking flame, probably the best around.

However, given the efficiency and repair history....I would only buy such a stove used if I felt very handy! Of course, that goes for a lot of pellet stoves...buying used ones which are not relatively current is always chancy.

It's another ball of wax if you are really handy.
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thanks for the backup on the bump thing.. i'm on alot of other aoutomotive forums and things get bumped all the time because of traffic and threads getting "lost" in the mix...
i am handy i really don't mind tering stuff apart and fixing or modifying parts to make it work.. i think i'm gonna pass on this one though because of the efficiency thing.. i don't want to be blowing my money out of the vent cap..
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How about sending me the link too it. Generally I am happy with our stove. Would like to see what this one is and see if it would be useful to me for parts etc.

Thank you.

Oh, as far as efficiency, We heat our 2200 sqft 2 story colonial with about the same amount of pellets others are here with other stoves.
 
We have owned two Earthstoves in the past, A WP-50 and a traditions cast iron one.

The little cast stove was marvelous and we never had any issues that were stove related.

A good vertical stack makes these stoves work really well.

The only thing I did not like was the time it took to get the fire up and going.

You had to start the fire then make sure that the thing was hot enough to set the low temp switch before you left it alone.

Some times I would need to press the start button twice.

The overide start circuit timer was not quite long enough at times and if you did not watch the thing, the fire could go out.

Other than this little issue, they were great stoves, heated well and never gave any real mechanical problems.

We bought the WP-50 used in 1993 (made in 90) and ran it up until last Feb when we installed a Whitfield Advantage II.

The little Iron stove is still in the house we had at the time and still being used. Was made in 1991 and we used it until winter 1993 when the house was sold.

The house has changed owners twice since then and the stove is still working I am told.


If the stove you are looking at is in good physical condition, $350 is certainly not a bad price.

I would vent it into a tall stack though, as these are a positive pressure stove and a direct vent can be problematic.


Good luck

Snowy
 
The Earthstove used a treager burn system.

There are two feed motors, the top one operates the "feed cup", this drops pellets from the hopper across about a 6 inch drop into the main auger that is a "bottom feed" type.

The auger feeds the pellets into the "fire tray" and they feed in and then are pushed out to both sides as they burn.

The fire tray has air holes both front and back of the 1-1/2" wide slot in the center. The fire then flickers up between two cast log units and looks very realistic.

It was called the "Natural fire"

These did give a far more "real log looking fire than many of the stoves made today with the small little burn pots.

Many stoves have the Blow torch look, sort of like a firey tornado.

The EarthStove controls were upgraded a couple times and were pretty trouble free overall.

These stoves use a single draft fan that blows fresh air into the fire tray and also a room air fan to distribute the heat.

Safeties include a couple overtemp snap switches as well as a low limit switch.

Many models had a room air fan snap switch too that would turn the convection fan on if you forgot to turn the variable rheostat up yourself.

The larger stoves had two room air fans and the smaller units had one.

The feed motors are slightly different in that the auger motor and the cup motor turn at different speeds.

Same type of little gear motors though as found on most other pellet stoves.

The firetray is a stainless steel unit and lasts very well even under constant use.

Really overall, a darned good stove.


Snowy
 
Snowy Rivers said:
The Earthstove used a treager burn system.

There are two feed motors, the top one operates the "feed cup", this drops pellets from the hopper across about a 6 inch drop into the main auger that is a "bottom feed" type.

The auger feeds the pellets into the "fire tray" and they feed in and then are pushed out to both sides as they burn.

The fire tray has air holes both front and back of the 1-1/2" wide slot in the center. The fire then flickers up between two cast log units and looks very realistic.

It was called the "Natural fire"

These did give a far more "real log looking fire than many of the stoves made today with the small little burn pots.

Many stoves have the Blow torch look, sort of like a firey tornado.

The EarthStove controls were upgraded a couple times and were pretty trouble free overall.

These stoves use a single draft fan that blows fresh air into the fire tray and also a room air fan to distribute the heat.

Safeties include a couple overtemp snap switches as well as a low limit switch.

Many models had a room air fan snap switch too that would turn the convection fan on if you forgot to turn the variable rheostat up yourself.

The larger stoves had two room air fans and the smaller units had one.

The feed motors are slightly different in that the auger motor and the cup motor turn at different speeds.

Same type of little gear motors though as found on most other pellet stoves.

The firetray is a stainless steel unit and lasts very well even under constant use.

Really overall, a darned good stove.


Snowy
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good write up, need a job?
 
Snowy Rivers said:
The Earthstove used a treager burn system.

There are two feed motors, the top one operates the "feed cup", this drops pellets from the hopper across about a 6 inch drop into the main auger that is a "bottom feed" type.

The auger feeds the pellets into the "fire tray" and they feed in and then are pushed out to both sides as they burn.

The fire tray has air holes both front and back of the 1-1/2" wide slot in the center. The fire then flickers up between two cast log units and looks very realistic.

It was called the "Natural fire"

These did give a far more "real log looking fire than many of the stoves made today with the small little burn pots.

Many stoves have the Blow torch look, sort of like a firey tornado.

The EarthStove controls were upgraded a couple times and were pretty trouble free overall.

These stoves use a single draft fan that blows fresh air into the fire tray and also a room air fan to distribute the heat.

thank you very much this is what i was looking for.. i'm gonna try to get more info before i write this one off.. if i could just get the lady to call me back!

Safeties include a couple overtemp snap switches as well as a low limit switch.

Many models had a room air fan snap switch too that would turn the convection fan on if you forgot to turn the variable rheostat up yourself.

The larger stoves had two room air fans and the smaller units had one.

The feed motors are slightly different in that the auger motor and the cup motor turn at different speeds.

Same type of little gear motors though as found on most other pellet stoves.

The firetray is a stainless steel unit and lasts very well even under constant use.

Really overall, a darned good stove.


Snowy
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