Wow! Kinda feelin like home around here. Welcome Doug and thanks Charlie, two customers who have now become apart of the Obadiah Family. See why we feel so blessed? Name another business that a guy could be in that allows him to make great friends while doing business all over the world..... Thanks again for the Kudos's!
The funnest part is Doug used to live in Libby Montana where we had our store, until the "EPA/HPBA's Great Woodstove Change Out Program" Because of the poor air quality and the Asbestos related illness in this area, everyone had to update their wood burning appliance to newer EPA Certified unit, we did about 10 yrs worth of business that year! But after that the market was saturated, so we shifted our focus online, in order to survive. Sorry, off on a bunny trail here.........
Anyhow, Doug left Montana and the Boonies, moved to Michigan and took a job with Ford..... I left Michigan and GM's Chevy Creative Services, moved to Montana, so I could live in the Boonies! How funny is that??? A complete flip flop! It really is a very small world.
Anyhooo thanks for your input, guys! Now we'll have some first hand experiences with the Ironheart's, we'll need to find some other folks with cookstoves to join in on this little party, so we can get some more input on folks experiences with their cookers.
Maybe I'll share next about my experience with the Kitchen Queen and the Bakers Choice. My Ironheart should be here this week, so I'll do some You Tubes on it next winter. Right now I need to finish what I started on the Kitchen Queen 380 Cookstove and properly reducing clearances to combustibles. My hope is to provide honest feedback on every cookstove we sell and eventually even woodstove's and boilers.
I also plan doing some videos next on soapstone and how it affects the heating properties of the Bakers Oven. I'll also be demonstrating the Draw Collar on this unit as it is actually installed in my Avion Coach that I live in while fighting wildfires in the Rockies. The chimney is only 3' tall. As the oven is below the firebox on a Bakers Oven, this can present a problem. This should really put the Draw Collar to the test to see if it really works as well as they say it does. We'll also take a close look at the benefits of soapstone and how it smooths out the spikes in a radiant heating application.
By the way I was not bad mouthing the Margin Cookers, just stating how they are built, as well as feedback from some of our customers. I want to get one of each model and burn them myself so I have first hand experience. I have never personally owned one and just like Doug said, without that first hand knowledge, it is like critiquing the neighbors rig, we don't drive cars here, we drive "Rigs" in Montana
Know this, the Amish that build the Margin Stoves stand behind them, if they weren't any good, they would not be on our website, we would not be selling them. We sell a ton of them! We have only had a few complaints. I only brought it up to begin with to answer the original question that started this thread. What is the difference between the Flameview and the Ironheart. Hopefully our Canadian friend can shed some further light into this by sharing his experience with his Flameview. In fact I think maybe we already talked on the phone. We sell a ton of stoves and fireplaces to Canada, now I understand why. There are only a couple of Cookers we cant ship into Canada, the Esse's and the Margin's, so sorry to my Canadian friends, we cant help save you any money on these brands.
Hopefully with the recent elections in Canada, your prices will start to come back down, before ours start to go up!
We'll gotta git back to work here, might be crossing the line again.......
PS- here is a recent picture from another customer enjoying a dish of ice cream in-front of their new Ironheart. One of my favorite pictures that have been sent in so far.
Be Blessed!
Read Obadiah's post, the FlameView is not a sealed stove, smoke and creosote leaks! Plus noise as the stove heats and cools. I think Esse has proved their worth! Plus I can sit and watch my food cook and look at the fire at the same time. I think having the fire box window on the side would not be viewed as often as having it in the front. Alot easier to cook and be able to just look down at the fire instead of running around to the side everytime. Just my opinion. The Esse's not burning up my money, my wood is free, right from my farm!
