New to me stove choices

[nathan125]

I have a 1200 sq ft single level home, attic insulation is sparse but will add more later on down the road.
I have been using a Sweet Home Alpine stove and it works well and heats the house fine enough but I acquired a Osburn 1600 stove, 1989 is the year it was built.
It has a secondary burn set up it appears but is it much of an upgrade to the Sweet Home I am currently using?
Any help in this decision would be good.

 

[begreen]

If you are burning well seasoned wood then I would expect the Osburn to be a bit more efficient. Does the Alpine have a baffle?

 

[nathan125]

If you are burning well seasoned wood then I would expect the Osburn to be a bit more efficient. Does the Alpine have a baffle?

Yes, it does have a baffle. I do have seasoned wood; 2-3 years seasoned for hardwood and pine is standing dead when harvested.

 

[begreen]

So yes, I'd expect some improvement. It will burn cleaner and should burn a bit less wood. The Osburn 1600 is an E/W loader and I thought the Alpine was a N/S loader, but could be wrong. My preference is for N/S loading or ideally a squarish firebox so the loading direction is up to me.