Natural Fire (Earth Sove by Lennox)?

[ChandlerR]

I'm not really interested in this one but I have seen some of the posts where people have bought cheap, broken stoves on Craigslist and fixed them I may be interested in doing this if the stove was right. I could then sell it or perhaps install it upstairs in my sons apartment. I seem to remember someone saying that Earth Stoves were to be avoided. This one has a very weird burnpot. Anyone know anything about them? I did a quick search and there are parts available.

http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/hsh/1596457774.html

Chan

 

[Snowy Rivers]

I have owned Earth stoves and had great luck with them.

The one in the piccy seems a tad grungy but the rust may be just surface rust from sitting in a damp garage.

The Earth stove is a "Bottom Feeder" and also a positive pressure stove.

The pellets feed into the lower portion iof the fire pot from the auger.
They also use a two stage feed system.
The pellets are fed from the hopper via a feed drum and then they fall into the auger and from there they are feed to the fire.

In the event of a burnback (never seen one) the fire can't get to the fuel in the hopper.

I just today sold a WP50 Earth Stove that we had run for 15 years.

Never gave me one bit of trouble. Ran that sucker every winter often 24/7 when it was cold out.

Buy on what you can see in the way of condition.

If the shell, heat exchangers and such are good then it's likely a good stove.

Snowy