It's 60 degrees outside, 72 inside, and I am burning 24/7 on a 24 hour reloading schedule. BK's not holding out on me! Maybe you should switch brands....
Oh,
Hay-o, no! I last loaded the Ks two days ago, and it's still 72 in here! No need to re-invent the wheel...
After reading so many comments from some "non BK owners". I now know which ones to skip right over. I don't want to know anything they have to say.
Less knowledge...that sounds like a plan! Let us know how that works out for ya, Skippy!
If I had researched stoves more, I could have avoided the purchase of my precious stove. A very costly mistake.
I entirely agree with what you said here, but I assume you mistakenly put the word "precious" in there.
"It has a giant steel converter" Well, that right there is enough to get me to run right out and buy one. Hey wait a minute, that cat's only 2/3 the size of the Buck 91's.
"This stove is more like a furnace than a wood stove." Why, because the window is black and you can't see inside?
"Unless you get the fan kit, it uses no electricity." Must be alien technology at work. With
my darn stove, I noticed my power usage goes down when I'm not burning. Wait, that
could be because it's summer and we don't use the electric range, the lights or the TV as much. Maybe my stove doesn't use as much electricity as I thought.
I still open the door in shoulder season and go "No WAY" when I see how much wood is left
I can look through the door and see how much wood is left.....maybe
you should switch brands.
Good products usually have a loyal following, superior products seem too have an equal following of haters.
I
hate that when it happens.
for the most part when the stove goes out it's because it's comfortable without any heat source other than the sun shining on the roof. My stove burns really, really low. I actually had to add a few feet of flue pipe to get there. (Which is counterintuitive for me; why does having MORE draft let the stove keep the cat active
Yep, that's why super-low burns aren't high on my list of must-haves. Even in my leaky house with no wall insulation, room temp in shoulder season will fall very slowly. My head is solid brick...maybe it holds heat, then releases it later.
Thermostat would be nice to automatically burn down the coals, but the only time it really comes into play is when it's super-cold outside; Then I open the air a good bit, when the coal bed is pretty big, so that the stove top will stay 350 or better and I can hold room temp while waiting to re-load. I'm usually around to do that. If not, the room might drop to around 67 or so.
As for the draft, eventually the chimney will cool to the point where draft is too low to keep the wood burning, so even less draft plus no smoke for the cat. When you added chimney, you added draft. You created a greater pressure difference between the bottom and the top of the stack, which is increasingly important when flue temp is very low, and temp difference isn't creating much draft.
Well, I hope I didn't offend anyone, because my comments were all in good fun. But I'm like a kid at his ball game; If you keep teeing the ball up like that, my instinct is gonna be to swing at it.
As I've said, this thread is one of the most entertaining on the forum....except for a few of these posts, which have been real snoozers.
Been one waist size for 12 yrs, starting to make the change now...I hate the beginning of my mid 30's.
Wow, you're about over the hill! C'mon out here, we'll get you trimmed down; I've got a lot of wood to get out before the brush grows in.
