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On that stove pipe .I have a glass front Lopi insert ,3/8" plate steel .It was originally inside an arched fireplace with a 9" clay lined chimney which was creosoting .I put a 7" 22 gauge single wall stainless liner inside the clay liner and stuffed insulation around the pipe .That eliminated...

Using the geo thermal for heat .I don't fire the stove until it gets below 20 degrees which has not happened yet .

My ladys' cats just love it.So does she for that matter .Warms the soul so to speak.

One of the best barrel kits made was one that Stotz,Sotz or how ever you spell it sold .It was stamped 10 guage sheet steel and would seal off completly air tight .They made the double kits too . That same company made the "monster maul" Big solid steel contraption ,weighed about 16-18...

I had my head directly in my butt when I built it .Prior to that I had about a 1920 Round oak which did fine .I thought bigger was better .Since I've learned all about heat loss and btu outputs .You think in your late 20's you know it all but you don't . If that thing were in the center...

That brings up a stove I made in the mid 70's .Patterned after a Vermont downdrafter with the size increased by 50 percent .Secondary air with a bypass damper to burn conventional up draft . Once a good bed of coals got going you could hardly see any smoke out the stack .Took me two weeks of...

A glass front is neat but the pictures are misleading .They carbon up if they get closed down and you can only see at best a glow .Not a big deal because once you get a good bed of coals in them and lay the air to it it burns it all off and you see the fire again . The secret is you just don't...

Those old pot bellies like a round oak probabley had the best of two worlds .Cast iron base with a sheet steel side and an iron top .Those old hot burning rascals wouldn't creosote either .They'd burn anything that would fit through the door ,wood ,lump coal corn cobs ,the neighbors yappy...

That's nice looking too .

Fact of that matter it seems I'm going to need to install a stainless liner in my flue . I hadn't noticed it before until a couple weeks ago the top ten feet is creosoted so badly I can't knock it loose with a wire brush any more . Danged clay liner flue was designed for a fire place not an...

I'd about bet on the double barrel type stove they used when they built the AlCan you could heat a barn .Fired hard they are rated at like 250 thousand btu's . Fact I've seen them where they stuffed a 30 inside a 55 on the top section and blew air though it which came out like a blast furnace .

Oh say on Jay's barrel stove those things have a huge amount of radiant surface and do extremely well .Problem being they aren't approved for any thing but a concrete floor regarding insurance edicts .

Oops I somehow double posted by adding that picture .

Cast iron stoves are probabley a leg up on plate steel stoves .Having said that I have Lopi glass front plate steel stove converted to an insert and it heats very well a tad over 2000 square feet unless Mrs Smith lets the fire get low .--actually the old gal does pretty good for a city girl...

Cast iron stoves are probabley a leg up on plate steel stoves .Having said that I have a Lopi glass front plate steel stove converted to an insert and it heats very well a tad over 2000 square feet unless Mrs Smith lets the fire get low .--actually the old gal does pretty good for a city girl...