This might be a long post, so i have been lurking for a while and learned some great stuff from this site. Thanks to all for posting. So I growed up in Minnesota and moved to Utah in 1995, got married and now some odd 16 years later, five kids and bought a house in 2009. Two level rambler, stove in the basement family room. Had a wood stove or should say wood eating air sucking thick smoking tin box. Two weeks ago i purchased the timberwolf 2200 from a local Heating and air conditioning supply store. Have a good friend that is an HVAC contractor and I ordered it through his account. Out the door after taxes $678.00 and another $65 for single wall to connect to existing thimble. Clay liner brick chimney, will most likely go for liner next year. I bought this stove mainly due to price. five kids and all, i have to watch pennies. So from all the info from this forum, I really wanted the PE super 27, little spendy, so next True North TN1.9, still same situation. The HVAC friend priced all of these for me and the Timberwolf was the economy choice. So i went for it. After burning the stove for two weeks, i kinda should of bought the 2300, 3 cubic box, but that was another $300. Anyways i really like this stove and prolly cause i am used to the old tin box. The welds are a little ugly, i have looked at them after one week of good burning and they still look the same, time will tell. Load her up at night, and yes i am using cottonwood, i have a friend that works for the city parks and recreation and when they drop trees he calls me. they cleared out city property for a cemetery and it was all cottonwood. After reading on the forum i was bummed and thought i wasted a lot of time and effort, but it burns ok for me. Take the truck to work, and the city yard is a couple blocks from where i work, load her up and bring home, it is already cut to length, and split with the fiskars, splits ok wet, My son and i split 80 percent by hand and borrowed a buddies log splitter for the big stuff, gots around 12 cord of the stuff and plenty more in the city yard already cut to length. sucks to split dry. i split all of this in march and april this year, so load up at night 9:00, close air halfway at 9:20, push the lever all the way close at 9:45 and wake up at 6:30 to plenty of coals to restart in the morning, start process again at 6:30, leave for work 7:15, trained the wife to load stove and she loves it. She opens air back to half open at around 9:30 after she gets back from taking kids to school, around 11:00 she opens air back to wide open. Loads two splits in at 12 or lunch and starts all over again. She thought i was a little hard on her in training process, cause ya know it is just a wood stove. I told her this is not just a wood stove. this is a technologically advanced machine for heating. she didn't laugh. but she now knows why after loading during the day. I really like the stove and she is throwing good heat and heats both levels pretty well. I can not wait for the real cold weather to see how the stove can keep up. i split the cottonwood leaving it in the biggest splits possible for the stove, i like to stuff the stove with 3 or 4 pieces, wife only does 2 and likes to leave air 1/4 open and enjoy the heat. Stove likes to cruise at 550 to 600, with flue temps at 300.
sorry so long and some pics to go with. tried to break out the ugly fake rock on the hearth and wall, after an hour of wailing and chiseling i decided to leave it, kicked my butt. once again thanks to all the people who take time to post. good info to keep safe and burnin.
sorry so long and some pics to go with. tried to break out the ugly fake rock on the hearth and wall, after an hour of wailing and chiseling i decided to leave it, kicked my butt. once again thanks to all the people who take time to post. good info to keep safe and burnin.
