my new little stove works awsome!!

[aldochina]

i put this in this year! took the old behemoth fisher out, and put in this little all nighter!! alot harder to load because the pipes for the blower, but burns much cleaner, and puts out alot of heat for a little guy!
http://i674.photobucket.com/albums/vv103/aldochina/DSCN1263.jpg

how you like my heat sinks lol!! my wife doesnt like the way they "look", but believe it or not they function really well!!

[Jason125m]

Can't beat the heat of a woodstove. Its the only source of heat we have in 3 different places. Looks good Aldo, we have a little guy like that in our house.

[fabiodriven]

We have much to discuss this weekend Rory.

What did you do with the Fisher?

[roostin atc]

I have a old fisher in my basement heats my whole house. She's kind of a pig though. I can get about eight hours of burn time out of it.

[fabiodriven]

Eight hours ain't bad at all Craig. I can get about 9 out of my Russo but when I get to it after it's been going for 9 hours it's literally just ash and a handful of hot coals. It's enough coals to toss more wood in and get it going again though (usually).

[roostin atc]

My basement rarely ever drops below 85 all winter the thing is a monster. Looks good Rory I like how it has a blower.

[bkm]

I have a small Dutchwest in my house and it will run you out if your not careful. I love wood heat. I take it your is a 4 cylinder with the DG cool heads:lol:

[RIDE-RED 250r]

Love wood heat!

My inlaws generously gave us a nice Pacific Energy stove last year when they switched to an outdoor wood boiler system. It's rated for something like 72000 BTU and heats our little house effortlessly. It has some sort of baffle in the ceiling of the firebox that causes it to actually burn some of the smoke when the firebox gets hot enough. REALLY nice stove and I'm grateful to have it.

Nice stove Aldo.. :beer

[bkm]

Love wood heat!

My inlaws generously gave us a nice Pacific Energy stove last year when they switched to an outdoor wood boiler system. It's rated for something like 72000 BTU and heats our little house effortlessly. It has some sort of baffle in the ceiling of the firebox that causes it to actually burn some of the smoke when the firebox gets hot enough. REALLY nice stove and I'm grateful to have it.

Nice stove Aldo.. :beerIts a catalytic combustor. Like a catalytic converter for a stove. Mine has it also, but it puts out too much heat for my little house, so I just keep the bypass open and use the flue.

[aldochina]

i still have the fisher, hope to hook it up in the basement some day. I'll have to find an old pic of that install! loved the stove, just not the proper setup for where i had it! Needed 270 deg of bends to go out the back, through the shelf and up!! no way to clean it with out moving the whole stove!! Rpita!! Served me well for 4 yrs though! could shove a damn 30 inch log in that one! With this one i installed a stainless liner i got on craigs for 50 bucks, straight into the top of the stove, no bends!! Drafts excellant, only take 16-18" log though!
The newer stoves are nice with the cats in them, but big bucks! I like finding these old bad boys from the 70's, nothin fancy, just some heavy boiler plate!!
right now i dont have the actual blower hooked up, gotta do some custom fab, as there is no room behind the stove for the old blower setup. the old fireplace has a built in blower mounted in the basement that used to circulate air from the basement through some 1 1/2 pipe that served as the fire grate, and out the bottom of the hearth. right now i just have some flex conduit going around the back of the stove blowing air over the top of the stove! Works well actually. i have a custom duct fabbed up to adapt this to the actual pipes in the stove, just gotta find some time to weld it up! I think its gonna work sweet when done!! Plus since the fan motor is mounted in the basement you dont hear it at all!!

[roostin atc]

There is nothing like wood heat. I wouldn't have it any other way. Wene I come home cold after working on boilers in the winter. The first thing I do is take a seat in my lazyboy that is within ten feet of the stove and thaw out. You can't drill for oil or make pellets but anyone can cut there own wood.

[RIDE-RED 250r]

Yeah, those Fishers are beasts! My brother in law has a Mama Bear and that thing puts out ungodly heat. Was in a house once visiting some other friends a few years ago and they had the Papa Bear and holy smokes! I was relieved to go back outside to 10 deg (farenheit) air!

[RIDE-RED 250r]

There is nothing like wood heat. I wouldn't have it any other way. Wene I come home cold after working on boilers in the winter. The first thing I do is take a seat in my lazyboy that is within ten feet of the stove and thaw out. You can't drill for oil or make pellets but anyone can cut there own wood.

You got that right!

My furnace didn't run at all last year, not one bit. I heat my house solely with wood and it is essentially free for me. The only expence in getting it is gas for my saws, the splitter and tractor and my time in the woods. But I don't mind spending the time in the woods playing weekend logger as opposed to driving the big rig all week....Would much rather be in the woods.

I dont know about you guys, but if I couldnt rely on my firewood for heat and had to buy fuel oil at almost $4 a gallon I would be in a heap of trouble

Aldo: what were those heat sinks originally used for??

[roostin atc]

Papa bear is all I got to say

[RIDE-RED 250r]

Papa bear is all I got to say

I think it would have been more aptly named "Lucifer".... LOL! :lol:

[roostin atc]

I think it would have been more aptly named "Lucifer".... LOL! :lol:
I call it the inferno maker

[coolpool]

I'm totally jealous about the wood heat guys. I used to heat my house in Ontario with an old inefficient beast of a stove. We had great hardwood there, ash hickory, maples, oaks etc. This boreal forest crap in Alberta is nothing but birch, poplar, black spruce and tamarack. You won't get 4 hours of burn out of that stuff.

[fabiodriven]

I've heated with wood my whole life and I've never paid for it once. I did buy a couple chain saws and a splitter, but I do enjoy getting out there and messing with that stuff. My oil tank is still empty from last year and it'll probably stay that way unless I have to go away for a couple days and nobody is going to be here to tend the stove. I run a Russo. This is my second Russo actually. They're great stoves.

[sammiefish]

http://i674.photobucket.com/albums/vv103/aldochina/DSCN1263.jpg

how you like my heat sinks lol!! my wife doesnt like the way they "look", but believe it or not they function really well!!

tell her they look much nicer than old cylinder jugs sitting on the top of the stove :)
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[aldochina]

the heat sinks where used in a big switch essentially to cool some diodes! 3 diodes about the size of a cat food can where sandwiched between the ones you see, and one long piecw!

[aldochina]

here is the old stove!! beast of a thing! obviously not ideal for the location, but i did the best i could with it, and didnt burn any oil for 4 yrs!! got more room now with the add a hearth removed:lol: and i dont have to cringe every time my little guys go chasing eachother past it!!
http://i674.photobucket.com/albums/vv103/aldochina/100_1538.jpg
http://i674.photobucket.com/albums/vv103/aldochina/100_1540.jpg

[aldochina]

here is a better shot of the new install with make shift temp blower lol!
http://i674.photobucket.com/albums/vv103/aldochina/DSCN1291.jpg

[roostin atc]

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gets the job done

[RIDE-RED 250r]

^^^^LUCIFER^^^^


LOL! :lol::beer

[fabiodriven]

This is my early 80's Russo CW2. The CW stands for coal/wood. It can burn either. The 2 stands for the size. I don't know what size they go up to, but I have seen CW1's and it's literally the same stove at about half the size. I've burned a little bit of coal in the past, but I don't really anymore. I'm sure it's not as efficient as some of the newer or more efficient stoves, but it does the job. It has a built-in blower which I used to use primarily when bringing the house up to temperature. Once the house was warm, I'd shut it off. The blower is currently removed because I couldn't fit it once I installed the chimney liner but that's OK. Once I got the liner installed, there was no need for the blower.

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A quick tip for my fellow wood burners- If you don't have a chimney liner, I HIGHLY suggest getting one. There are the obvious safety concerns with running a stove without a liner, but that's not the point I'm getting at here. I was told about 3 years ago to put a stainless liner from my stove all the way up the chimney. At the time I only had about 3 or 4 feet of black pipe going up the chimney where it just dumped from that point. Well, the problem with that setup is it will never draft correctly. I finally understood when somebody explained it to me this way-

If you've ever run an engine with either an open header or no exhaust manifold at all, you know that it doesn't run very smooth at all. You lose horsepower throughout the entire RPM range. A tuned exhaust system is in fact part of the combustion process and critical to normal engine performance and tuning. A wood stove is the exact same way. I put in a 6" stainless liner last year that goes to the top of my chimney and IS SEALED* (pay attention, we'll revisit this) at the top and has a cap. The difference is night and day. My stove drafts like a fricken jet engine now and burns fantastic on both low and high. Not only that, but if any creosote builds up in the liner, it simply falls down to the "T" behind my stove where the pieces gather and eventually burn off on their own inside the liner harmlessly.

*Back to the part about your chimney being sealed. As I said, for years I ran my stove with a short piece of black pipe going into the chimney. Not only is this bad for drafting, as I already said, but the other issue you run into is all of your hot air going straight up the chimney and out. The chimney drafts and it takes all of the hot air you're making with it. Obviously the point is to keep all of the hot air IN the house, not send it up and out the chimney. If you don't have a liner going all the way to the top with a sealed cap, your hot air is going to travel out with the draft.

I know there are many of you on here who already know all of this stuff, but I'm sure there are some who do not.