I loaded up the stove at about 10:00 last night. I crammed it full of pine, N/S like I have been with all the coals raked to the right hand side of the stove. I went out to feed the dog, came back in and shut the door to the stove, but left it wide open and slowly shut it down before heading to bed at 10:30. The room was 77 at this point.
Slept like a baby until 5:30, then decided I needed to go check on the fire and empty the bladder that has seemed to shrink in the past couple of years. I get down into the stove room and it's 77F still... Look into the firebox and the stinking thing has about 1/3 of its load left. Temps on the stove were down to about 400, so I opened it up, because I needed to be able to reload and go to work in about another 2 hours. 77 and rising is warm, so I felt really tired and fell asleep on the couch. woke back up around 6:30 and the room was 79. By the time I needed to reload for work I had to shove enough coals over to the side that easily equaled a very large split. That was easily a 9 hour load with PINE and it had plenty of fuel left. I certainly was burning clean and hot for the whole nite. Glass is clean, and the big gauge was that the room was still warm! That would never have happened with the 12. I guess what car people say is true. There just is no replacement for displacement... (unless you are talking turbos, and the secondaries on this thing mean I got more displacement AND some turbos)
I have a long day at work ahead of me, but I know that when I wander through the door at about 5, I won't have to RUSH to the stove and throw more wood in. I used to end the day here at work fretting about how the stove room would be dropping into the 50's by the time I got home and how I may have to go through the pains of trying to restart it from some teensy little coals hiding in the ashes.
This is a nice place to be, but I really need to stop waking up randomly to go load a stove that just doesn't need it anymore.
Slept like a baby until 5:30, then decided I needed to go check on the fire and empty the bladder that has seemed to shrink in the past couple of years. I get down into the stove room and it's 77F still... Look into the firebox and the stinking thing has about 1/3 of its load left. Temps on the stove were down to about 400, so I opened it up, because I needed to be able to reload and go to work in about another 2 hours. 77 and rising is warm, so I felt really tired and fell asleep on the couch. woke back up around 6:30 and the room was 79. By the time I needed to reload for work I had to shove enough coals over to the side that easily equaled a very large split. That was easily a 9 hour load with PINE and it had plenty of fuel left. I certainly was burning clean and hot for the whole nite. Glass is clean, and the big gauge was that the room was still warm! That would never have happened with the 12. I guess what car people say is true. There just is no replacement for displacement... (unless you are talking turbos, and the secondaries on this thing mean I got more displacement AND some turbos)
I have a long day at work ahead of me, but I know that when I wander through the door at about 5, I won't have to RUSH to the stove and throw more wood in. I used to end the day here at work fretting about how the stove room would be dropping into the 50's by the time I got home and how I may have to go through the pains of trying to restart it from some teensy little coals hiding in the ashes.
This is a nice place to be, but I really need to stop waking up randomly to go load a stove that just doesn't need it anymore.
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