http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=productDetail&productId=200300-594-BX26E&lpage=none
Would this be worth it for a small cabin? Looks alright for the money.
Would this be worth it for a small cabin? Looks alright for the money.
paulgp602 said:http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=productDetail&productId=200300-594-BX26E&lpage=none
Would this be worth it for a small cabin? Looks alright for the money.
paulgp602 said:Wow I guess it is a no brainer on this stove! I have a Regency insert that is a top notch stove.
I didn't realize that a stove could be built so cheaply and sold like this Lowe's model. I will look around some more.
Sandor said:Why not an Englander?
MountainStoveGuy said:Yea you can control them, but there not worth the cast iron that there made out of. I would not be comfortable going to sleep with one burning, and if your splitting wood, your ROI on a decent stove will be about three cords. There is no reason to buy one of these unless its temporary in a hunting camp or wall tent. I would not put it in place that is carrying insurance. You might as well buy a volgelzane barrel stove kit for 50 bucks and strap it to a 33 gallon drum, it would be about the same thing except the 33 gallon drum will burn all night.
BrotherBart said:MountainStoveGuy said:Yea you can control them, but there not worth the cast iron that there made out of. I would not be comfortable going to sleep with one burning, and if your splitting wood, your ROI on a decent stove will be about three cords. There is no reason to buy one of these unless its temporary in a hunting camp or wall tent. I would not put it in place that is carrying insurance. You might as well buy a volgelzane barrel stove kit for 50 bucks and strap it to a 33 gallon drum, it would be about the same thing except the 33 gallon drum will burn all night.
I haven't had the heart to tell my insurance agent yet that I replaced the 55 gallon barrel stove in the basement with a cast iron wood stove a few years ago. I don't want him sleeping too well. That was one heat throwing SOB. And never a drop of creosote in the tile flue. In fact when I took the thing out the flue tiles looked like the day the chimney was built. Start it up, throw in three three foot logs, whole, and you were set. Concrete floor and walls required. The little Jotul down there now is cute, but that sucker was a HEATER. When I took it out I added the top barrel kit to it, cut doors in the top barrel and put in grates. You could smoke a whole pig in the dude.
I keep thinking that someday somebody is going to pop up with a picture of a barrel stove sticking out of a masonry fireplace. One has to be out there somewhere.
Warren said:Well, 170 for that stove vs a Jotul 602 or VC Aspen both of which are about 800 bucks. The Century stoves at the BORG are about 650 and they're pretty big stoves. Recently I saw the Morso 1410 for about 750.
I've never seen anyone compalin that those stoves were un-controllable, and all seem to heat well. I have to say though that the Jotul 602 is the standard for very small stoves like that "box" stove though.
BrotherBart said:That is a "tin stove". Actually had one for a while. Every hardware store used to sell the things. Made of thin sheet metal and acid blued like a gun. You couldn't control the air worth a darn and when it started firing too hard it would actually start rocking and the lid on top would start bouncing up and down. That would get your attention.
Sitting a brick on the lid was known as controlling the stove.
Wonder why I chuckle sometimes at all of the fancy stoves out there now? People heated for a lot of years with things nobody would get within a block of these days. And didn't burn down their houses. Well, not too often. Think about the days when railroad passenger cars each had a wood stove in them. Talk about trouble controlling the draft. Try having your chimney moving at thirty or forty miles an hour.
Webwidow said:BrotherBart said:That is a "tin stove". Actually had one for a while. Every hardware store used to sell the things. Made of thin sheet metal and acid blued like a gun. You couldn't control the air worth a darn and when it started firing too hard it would actually start rocking and the lid on top would start bouncing up and down. That would get your attention.
Sitting a brick on the lid was known as controlling the stove.
Wonder why I chuckle sometimes at all of the fancy stoves out there now? People heated for a lot of years with things nobody would get within a block of these days. And didn't burn down their houses. Well, not too often. Think about the days when railroad passenger cars each had a wood stove in them. Talk about trouble controlling the draft. Try having your chimney moving at thirty or forty miles an hour.
**WARNING illegal stove yarns***
Yup fond memories of the Ole Tin Stove. haha First stove we ever had, we had 2 in fact. First one when we lived in an old 20x20 army tent in TN. Next when we rented a house/shack in WV on the banks of the Gauley River. Used to watch the ole tin turn cherry red at night, for fun we would spritz some water on it and watch it sizzle and pop.Warning do not try this at home. We were young and stupid, but by golly could those suckers heat. Stick a huge stump in and let it rip. Must remember to add the ole tin in my list of stoves. This was back in the early 70's before the "airtights."
jeffatus said:When I started hunting with my uncle and his friends, they had that same stove in their cabin. I loved that thing, it was great....it's actually what got me into wanting a wood stove (I just bought a Century stove last week). I think it was there long before I started going hunting with them (over ten years ago), and they never had a problem. Boy, that thing kicked out the heat too. WHen it was really cooking, you could not stand too close to it for long.
It's funny to hear everyone warning you about it, I never really gave it much thought. I can see how it would be very inefficient though, there was not too much in the way of controlling the air flow...just a plate that would sometimes get blocked by ashes! I remember it glowing when it was hot as well.
I want to clarify that I am not telling you to go out and buy one, but if I had never been on this website, I would have bought one of those, for that kind of money, in a second. The phrase that comes to mind is "you go with what you know". I guess I would have to ask the experts here; can it be that dangerous if they are allowed to sell it, especially in such large numbers? I can only imagine how many there are in use in little cabins like the one I used to go to.
Hhhmmph, something to think about....
BrotherBart said:MountainStoveGuy said:Yea you can control them, but there not worth the cast iron that there made out of. I would not be comfortable going to sleep with one burning, and if your splitting wood, your ROI on a decent stove will be about three cords. There is no reason to buy one of these unless its temporary in a hunting camp or wall tent. I would not put it in place that is carrying insurance. You might as well buy a volgelzane barrel stove kit for 50 bucks and strap it to a 33 gallon drum, it would be about the same thing except the 33 gallon drum will burn all night.
I haven't had the heart to tell my insurance agent yet that I replaced the 55 gallon barrel stove in the basement with a cast iron wood stove a few years ago. I don't want him sleeping too well. That was one heat throwing SOB. And never a drop of creosote in the tile flue. In fact when I took the thing out the flue tiles looked like the day the chimney was built. Start it up, throw in three three foot logs, whole, and you were set. Concrete floor and walls required. The little Jotul down there now is cute, but that sucker was a HEATER. When I took it out I added the top barrel kit to it, cut doors in the top barrel and put in grates. You could smoke a whole pig in the dude.
I keep thinking that someday somebody is going to pop up with a picture of a barrel stove sticking out of a masonry fireplace. One has to be out there somewhere.
BrotherBart said:That is a "tin stove". Actually had one for a while. Every hardware store used to sell the things. Made of thin sheet metal and acid blued like a gun. You couldn't control the air worth a darn and when it started firing too hard it would actually start rocking and the lid on top would start bouncing up and down. That would get your attention.
Sitting a brick on the lid was known as controlling the stove.
Wonder why I chuckle sometimes at all of the fancy stoves out there now? People heated for a lot of years with things nobody would get within a block of these days. And didn't burn down their houses. Well, not too often. Think about the days when railroad passenger cars each had a wood stove in them. Talk about trouble controlling the draft. Try having your chimney moving at thirty or forty miles an hour.
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