Please Help Identify this Stove

[MVRuss]

Brand new to this forum but after looking around a bit I recognize the collective knowledge on this board! Maybe someone can answer this two-part question for me.

• First, what brand / model wood stove is this (it has zero markings that we could find). I am guessing that it would be from the early to mid 1980's.
• Secondly, where is the best place to get doors? The others were taken for scrap by vandals / druggies from a property my kids are purchasing. Stove looks to be in magnificent condition, but I have no idea what it is other than it kind of looked like old Kodiaks or even Schaffers that I saw.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks from MVRuss in the Missouri Ozarks.

 

[stoveliker]

I think this is a Schrader?

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[stoveliker]

I read they are not very efficient (pre-epa) and that the doors tend to warp. Some folks use it with a fireplace screen, i.e. doors off or open. This all indicates that you'll likely be better off getting another stove.

Doors will be hard or impossible to find.

 

[begreen]

An old Schrader is a good guess. Here is a picture of one off the interwebs.


Although it's a tank, it is not an efficient stove. I would pull it out and scrap it. The family would get a much safer and more enjoyable experience with a modern stove and they would get to enjoy a nice view of the fire.

 

[MVRuss]

Thanks guys, I had said I thought it was a Schaffer (I meant Schrader --- I got the stove confused with the one beer to have when you're having more than one). They will be heating the house --- it is a colossus (30 foot ceilings in the room with the stove) --- with an outdoor boiler. They have no money to spend on an efficient EPA-approved stove right now and frankly do not need it. Not sure what they will do with it but thanks for the help!!

 

[begreen]

Hope they have a lot of wood already on split and stacked for the outdoor boiler. That sounds more like a barn than a house.