help me find the right wood stove

[sebf]

Hi, we have a rustic cabin with no electricity. We need a wood stove that can heat well the room (obviously) and cook on it as well.
We currently have a waterford trinity mkII that need to be replace, we canot find an other one in Canada right now.

So i found a vermont casting intrepid II (#1308), what do you think of it ?
is there another option i can check ? maybe Jotul

Thank you
Sebastien

 

[begreen]

Is there any other heat in the cabin or just the woodstove? Canada can be very cold so it can take a bigger stove and a lot of btus to heat up all the mass inside the building. Where is the cabin located? How large is the cabin?

The Intrepid is pretty small, take a look at the True North TN20 for starters.

 

[sebf]

It is the only source of heat. we slept confortably in the cabin with the waterford and a -17 degres C outside, after about 6-8hours burning to heat the room.
it is a log cabin about 1000sqft in the forest.

 

[begreen]

The Trinity was a decent heater with much larger capacity than the little Intrepid. For traditional styling with good heat output look at the Jotul Oslo and the Hearthstone Shelburne stoves.

 

[sebf]

thank you for the reply.
that's what i thought about the size of the intrepid, i will try to find a used Jotul 500.

 

[begreen]

Sounds good. If looking at used stoves also be on the lookout for a Quadrafire Explorer II, PE Alderlea T5 and an Enviro Boston 1700.