I have about 6 cords total. Mostly red and silver maple but some oak and pine also. The silver maple was cut in August of 2022 and that’s the oldest of it all. I should be fine, it’s stacked accordingly.
Nice, sounds like you are set. Red Maple has gotten me through several times when I was behind on dry wood for my two SILs. It will get pretty dry over one summer if it's not split real big.
To clarify your last sentence, the princess firebox is not the same as the chinook/scirocco/ashford. It’s better.
The hearthstone GM stoves look great but the catalytic system is not great.
I think he said only those three were the same box, not also the Pea-sleeper.
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Agreed though, you don't want to settle for a cat system that leaves a lot of room for error. Experienced cat operators could probably do fine with it, but it might require more attention that most new burners are willing or able to give.
Well, that is most unlikely unless for someone else. In that size for a pure catalytic stove, it would be either a BK or the Regency 3500.
C'mon, man, with the big money they pay you, you could be testing five stoves at a time, cat, non, hybrids, including the new AI-controlled electro-plasma gasifiers! 😀
You'd have them mounted on a rotating table capable of horizontal and vertical movement, to match the stove to your chimney system. You could even have a series of telescoping sections to easily test different chimney heights on each stove.
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Looking at the manual, it's nice that the Regency F3500 minimum chimney requirement is just 12', but it looks like it's a hybrid, not a straight cat..
