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  1. Al Smith

    Post Your Favorite Wood Burning Stove!

    $400 a ton,good grief coal would be cheaper .
  2. Al Smith

    Post Your Favorite Wood Burning Stove!

    I've said before when I sold firewood I made about as much per hour as I did at my regular job .Although times have changed and a dollar doesn't go as far ,all told I save nearly as much per hour spent on the firewood verses paying the electric bill .Tonight for example it took me all of 5...
  3. Al Smith

    Post Your Favorite Wood Burning Stove!

    Now I know because of living conditions etc. not everyone can but if so it's silly not to have a woodburner if you're in the tree biz . Think about it now, how many people get paid to cut their own wood plus haul it off .Not many .Money saved is really better than money earned,you don't have...
  4. Al Smith

    Post Your Favorite Wood Burning Stove!

    On that creosote thing . With the stove I built by basically copying another design there was very little accumulation of same because in actuality the vapors which cause the build up were burned in their gassious form .Another plus with that design . What actually happened is after using...
  5. Al Smith

    Post Your Favorite Wood Burning Stove!

    From what info I remember when delving into designs of stoves years back there evidently are several levels of combustion .The burning stage ,the gassious stage and the charcoal stage .Without high enough temperatures and secondary combustion air it seems a lot of the gasses are just vented off...
  6. Al Smith

    Post Your Favorite Wood Burning Stove!

    My actual favorite of stove designs is patterned after the "Vermont down drafter " .This design passes the volatable gasses of combustion through the coal bed and is extremely efficient using secondary air to burn off the gasses which burn with a blue flame much like natural gas . Being a...
  7. Al Smith

    Post Your Favorite Wood Burning Stove!

    From the info gather it seems the barrel stoves either got their start from the forrestry service or when they built the Al_Can highway during WW2 .Makes sense though ,troops freezing their behinds off and empty oil drums everywhere .Neccessity they say is the mother of all invention . If...
  8. Al Smith

    Post Your Favorite Wood Burning Stove!

    This is what we have which is a glass front Lopi .It is really a free standing stove which has been modified for use as an insert and does real well . Because of the caotic mess of the remodeling project it's not been fired yet but I aim to have it going some time tomorrow .
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