Wood Heat Thread ~ post pics

That's a good load there. With that topper how much do you think you can fit in there? 1/2 a cord?

 

Yeah , maybe just under , I don't go too crazy cause I gotta be careful with the glass on the cap

It takes about 4-5 loads like that to fill my woodshed near the house , usually do it in a day

 

This is my playground!

 

Got the woodshed by the house all stacked full

Ready for whatever Old Man Winter has in store for us this time

Had our first fire of the season in the woodstove tonight

 

I'm gonna have to get busy cutting. I usually hold out until November before light'n it up.

 

Original Thelin-Thompson T1000 Top loader. Needs some TLC - new seals around the doors, new mica windows, and I guess replacement of the concrete embedded in the bottom of the stove. But I'm gonna burn wood in this thing come winter.

 

Steve , the Smithsonian called and wanted to make sure you have lots of fire insurance

Haha

 

The firebox is a fair amount bigger than the T-4000 that Thelin is making now.

http://thelinco.com/product/parlour-t-4000-wood-stove/

The new ones - you kinda have to take care that your firewood's all cut to 16" -- as 18" logs get kinda hard to insert.

 

Hey, is there some "pipe thing" that's supposed to come out of the top? Seems like most of the woodstoves I see have some kinda pipe sticking out the top. What's that all about?

Yes - kidding. That's a joke, son.

 

Haha

 

Oz- what are you running for rear leafs? Or are you resting on the bump stops in that shot? Reason I ask is I brought a roadside load home on Friday (dead Oak that the power company had dropped and worked up into 4-foot lengths), and with the bed mounded I was tapping the bump stops whenever I hit a decent pothole. Granted, it's green wood so it weighs more, but still...
Never had that problem with my '99, but I had a rear AAL in it.

 

I have OME Dakars , it only sags maybe 3/4"-1" under this type of load

 

Nice...
Do you notice a rougher ride with those? I never really did with the AAL in my '99, but my girlfriend used to complain about it.

 

A serious question about your stove, does the wood burn upright? I've never seen anything new like that. Also, how do you control air intake?

 

Stiffer than stock especially unloaded , my cap and tools are about 400-450 lbs and are carried at all times , that seems to make the Dakars ride happier

 

If it's anything like the parlor stove we used to have out at camp, the air is controlled by either having the door open or closed. Beyond that, the only control we had over that stove was was with the damper in the chimney.

Which is part of why you don't see modern stoves with this design. The other parts are that it's cheaper and easier to make them square boxes, and that modern woodstoves are designed to be much more efficient. With a tall, narrow design like that there's not much room for smoke routing, reburn tubes, or catalytic converters. That basic "hollow-tube-with-a-chimney" design kind of makes for an 'up-and-out' burn, with a lot of heat lost up the flue.

 

Keeping in mind I haven't lit anything in it yet, but...

I figure you start a fire conventionally by building a fire on the floor with the front door open and lighting it.

Small to medium logs can be inserted via that door.

Once the fire's going - large logs can be fed from the top via a door in front of the chimney that opens there. I'm kinda amazed that the draw is such that smoke won't escape when that door is opened. Perhaps some does.

As far as air control goes, there's a manual lever on the bottom. There's also a little controller designed to be hooked to a thermostat - but it wasn't hooked up so I'm not at all convinced that's still working.

 

This was a fairly forward-thinking design from the 70s. There's no catalytic converter or EPA compliance, but it IS supposed to be pretty efficient. I'm no expert on stoves (learning as I go) but as I mentioned there's an air intake control, an a heated air intake routing pipe, and wiring for an electronic thermostat.

 

Oh, it's from the 70's? The one we had at camp was turn-of-the-century (and not this one!) and was significantly lower-tech.
That being said, some of the oil-crunch stoves were remarkably inefficient. Some of them were great (Vermont Castings built their reputation on producing good stoves during the oil crunch) and some of the plate steel stoves from that era were pretty good too.
Can't say much about yours, not knowing more about it. Might be great, might suck. I'll cross my fingers for you that it'll be the first option! Can't beat wood heat, unless your stove sucks (been there done that-bought a better stove)

 

I'm jelly of the woodstoves. I have a pellet stove, its nice and easy, but doesnt heat near as well as the stove I grep up with at my Dad's house. I want to get a woodstove to put in my shop for now. Then if I were ever without power for a long period of time in the winter I could put it in the house.