Why do you think they make their stoves tall and skinny rather than short and wide like in the USA.
I noticed in the vogelzangs they are not very deep as in for an ash bed and they have less head room. But like a Englander NC 30 they can have a deep ash bed and stack wood rather high in them as in alot of head room.
I figure it like this as the fire burns down your heat in the top of the stove becomes harder to maintain as thats why its good to start a fire top down style as you create a small space up in top of the stove to get heated. its very easy to heat such a small space. Plus when you load wood high in the front of the box partially blocking the smoke's exit path up and out of the stove these type stoves heat up much hotter as I think your creating a little burn chamber that builds heat hotter and gets more of the btu's out of the smoke gases.
So having a stove with less head room but a stove thats wide to still be able to load a decent amount of wood , your using the idea I explained above to make the stove overall more efficient thru the entire burn process. As keeping the fire closer to the burn tubes up in the top keeps the heat up there longer with the fire being closer to the tubes.
The Burly T3 Europian stove with its tall lots of head room design and the way the secondary air comes in from the corner vertical corners in such a way to cause a tornado like mixing of the air and smoke gases, maybe it needs the head room to get all that mixing done.
I noticed in the vogelzangs they are not very deep as in for an ash bed and they have less head room. But like a Englander NC 30 they can have a deep ash bed and stack wood rather high in them as in alot of head room.
I figure it like this as the fire burns down your heat in the top of the stove becomes harder to maintain as thats why its good to start a fire top down style as you create a small space up in top of the stove to get heated. its very easy to heat such a small space. Plus when you load wood high in the front of the box partially blocking the smoke's exit path up and out of the stove these type stoves heat up much hotter as I think your creating a little burn chamber that builds heat hotter and gets more of the btu's out of the smoke gases.
So having a stove with less head room but a stove thats wide to still be able to load a decent amount of wood , your using the idea I explained above to make the stove overall more efficient thru the entire burn process. As keeping the fire closer to the burn tubes up in the top keeps the heat up there longer with the fire being closer to the tubes.
The Burly T3 Europian stove with its tall lots of head room design and the way the secondary air comes in from the corner vertical corners in such a way to cause a tornado like mixing of the air and smoke gases, maybe it needs the head room to get all that mixing done.