Free standing wood burning stoves

[maple]

oh well---he's in florida he can go take a dip in the ocean

 

[cassie]

I have a Franklin stove. Bought it in 1965. It is the only heat we have. Keeps our small house warm even when it gets down below freezing which happens here in the San Joaquin Valley of California on occasion.

 

[halo]

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OMG you freekin live in Florida. Put on a sweater or something.

Wood stove in Florida...

Hey, it gets cold here! And Im a weenie! It was 20 the other morning, it looked like a winter wonderland outside when I woke up. I hate turning the heat on, its like burning dollars. I try and balance my electric bill since I run the a/c so much during the summer, I HATE turning the heater on here. Im loving all these pictures and ideas you all are posting.

 

[3goodeggs]

We have a cricket wood stove. it burns a couple pieces at a time. It is nice to go get warm by something.

Every time a tree dies in the yard we have to pay to have it removed... but we have them 'Dump it 'at our nursery so we can cut it up for fire wood. Cherry is nice slow burning wood. and I am not allergic to cherry.
If you have to cut trees from your fence line save the Black cherry, and the Cherry Laural. They grow quick and you can split them when they are young.

You can have our cedar if you want it. I am allergic and we can't burn it. We were just letting it sit in the burn pile for the 'someday' conflagration...which I can't be there for, and because I do not trust them to light fires without me, it will be there for my great grandchildren to watch it slowly rot. we have another three large trees to go, so there will be plenty if you want some.

 

[halo]

I have a monstrous live oak tree...and I mean monstrous....that fell last spring at the corner of my property. I keep eyeballing it, thinking thats an awful lot of free firewood right there. A few friends have come and cut off several truck loads, but it hasnt even put a dent in it.

I know I wouldnt use a wood stove that much, but it would be better than doubling my electric bill in a month...it just infuriates me to turn the heat on, it really does. I just need probably the smallest one they make, it would make a huge difference in my house. Id have to find someone who would know something about installation, too, and do it right.

 

[3goodeggs]

Last year was the coldest year in the history of my life. I was born here and have never lived out of state.

We did not turn the heat on at all last year. We layered up and spent our time huddled around the wood stove.
I never remember a colder year. Even the year that the pond froze over when I was a kid, it never seemed that cold for that long of a stretch.

Belleview Hardware had a little stove there for under $200. Give them a call.

 

[speckledhen]

You just have to be sure you get good triple wall insulated pipe since a wood stove burns much hotter than a fireplace, but if you don't have a fireplace, it's all new installation anyway. They had to repipe our flue, of course, since we had only a fireplace.

 

[Happy Chooks]

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Ours is a secondary burn stove, made by Lopi. It works wonderfully and we use it as our sole heat source in winter.

 

[Organics North]

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Two thumbs up to Hearthstone!! (We have the Mansfield model.)
Jotul makes a good one too..
Top end woodburners are not cheap.. However we have had ours for 10+ years and the stove paid for itself the first year.. Belive it or not we have saved $20,000 dollars in heating costs the last decade!

Heating season where I live can be 9 months out of the year. We heat 100% with wood, a fire burns 24x7.
(We have our own wood.)
ON

 

[mom'sfolly]

My sister had a wood burning stove in her living room. They finally removed it because it overheated the house. It was too effecient for their small home. Mind you, they live in Alaska and run the heat pretty much 365 days a year, and this thing was too hot!!

My brother heated his small cabin with a wood stove that wasn't any bigger than 2 feet square.


They are pretty good at the job they do.