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[Chicken Rustler]

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Yes they normally go in the area being heated. Most commonly used in shops, garages etc. I don't know of any in houses and am pretty sure they would not pass for WA.
I don't have a barrel stove. I think you missunderstood. It was 4312 that said her family had one when she was a kid (you know like 2-3 years ago). I have a blaze king and yes I do "normally" load it once a day.

And yes you do have to use some caution with barrel stoves but if you put some brick or sand in the bottom and don't run them too hot they will last quite a while.
A better plan for a barrel stove is to get some yarder tube and plate then build your own and it will last a very long time. Also CGG with the barrel stove you only put wood in the bottom the top is just to radiat heat

Regarding house insurance ..... I have no clue. At the time the double barrel stove passed and was okayed by the insurance company..but it was the pellet furnace (a few years later) that my dad wanted to insert that the insurance company questioned and my dad had to do all sorts of researching for them and get their approval...yada yada yada.

And yes it was 2 or 3 years ago.....x 10. Truly I think it was 30-35 years ago when we had that in our house.

Well along with Ins they also need to bee (are ya ready for this) Clean air certified. Mine is and when it is up to temp and running right you barely see any smoke.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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Keep in mind that poultry wire will also collapse under snow if not well supported. I tend to run Like a "spider web" of twine under mine to help support. Also if we get more than a couple inches of snow I clear the wire by just a little shaking it.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Regarding house insurance ..... I have no clue. At the time the double barrel stove passed and was okayed by the insurance company..but it was the pellet furnace (a few years later) that my dad wanted to insert that the insurance company questioned and my dad had to do all sorts of researching for them and get their approval...yada yada yada.

And yes it was 2 or 3 years ago.....x 10. Truly I think it was 30-35 years ago when we had that in our house.

Well along with Ins they also need to bee (are ya ready for this) Clean air certified. Mine is and when it is up to temp and running right you barely see any smoke.

Very true. Forgot about this. But....I bet the technology on them has come a long way since we had it. Your Blaze King I am sure is great for this.

 

[Hinotori]

Ohh. I didn't know that. My family always had the chickenwire top to keep the birds in. I can only remember two years we got a lot of snow around the Hermiston area growing up. The freezing rain would just mostly go through. Hmm. DH says he'll run some 2x4s for the top support. That would strengthen the run, too.

Thanks

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Yes they normally go in the area being heated. Most commonly used in shops, garages etc. I don't know of any in houses and am pretty sure they would not pass for WA.
I don't have a barrel stove. I think you missunderstood. It was 4312 that said her family had one when she was a kid (you know like 2-3 years ago). I have a blaze king and yes I do "normally" load it once a day.

And yes you do have to use some caution with barrel stoves but if you put some brick or sand in the bottom and don't run them too hot they will last quite a while.
A better plan for a barrel stove is to get some yarder tube and plate then build your own and it will last a very long time. Also CGG with the barrel stove you only put wood in the bottom the top is just to radiat heat

There was a double-barrel stove in the lowest level at the house my sister lives in up until about 15 years ago- the family room is an SOB to heat, concrete slab floor, three big single-paned aluminum frame windows, a slider, and open stairs to an upper level to make sure there's never a build-up of warm air in the room (great space in the summer time, but of course nobody in that house sits down during hay season). It got junked for the same reason people I know who tried to use double-barrel stoves to replace old basement wood furnaces trashed them: the second barrel cools the stack temp too much, and a two-story stovepipe ends up full of creosote.

CR, is yours a single-fuel Blaze King? I think that's the brand of the pellet/ 11" stick stove one of my cousins uses to heat a four-bedroom house.

 

[Kaneke]

our Alpha-1 wood stove does a great job of heating -- also clean-air certified ... though we haven't been using it as much with DS "out of service" due to long hours at work and then this last episode

will have to get the chimney swept before we use it again this year though; we had a couple of birds flapping around in the chimney and while I finally got them into the stove portion, by flapping the damper, I'm sure there is "stuff" up there that needs to be removed before we get the stacks heated (they are exposed stacks on the main floor great room; 20 feet of radiant stack really gets things toasty)

got another smaller woodstove in the basement that we wind up never using ... since we aren't using the "office" space down there any more, it's all storage

no word from DS about the chickens so I presume everything is okay .. of course he leaves for work early, comes home late, and usually sleeps in on Sunday morning, especially if his DGF comes over to stay the night

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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Yes they normally go in the area being heated. Most commonly used in shops, garages etc. I don't know of any in houses and am pretty sure they would not pass for WA.
I don't have a barrel stove. I think you missunderstood. It was 4312 that said her family had one when she was a kid (you know like 2-3 years ago). I have a blaze king and yes I do "normally" load it once a day.

And yes you do have to use some caution with barrel stoves but if you put some brick or sand in the bottom and don't run them too hot they will last quite a while.
A better plan for a barrel stove is to get some yarder tube and plate then build your own and it will last a very long time. Also CGG with the barrel stove you only put wood in the bottom the top is just to radiat heat

There was a double-barrel stove in the lowest level at the house my sister lives in up until about 15 years ago- the family room is an SOB to heat, concrete slab floor, three big single-paned aluminum frame windows, a slider, and open stairs to an upper level to make sure there's never a build-up of warm air in the room (great space in the summer time, but of course nobody in that house sits down during hay season). It got junked for the same reason people I know who tried to use double-barrel stoves to replace old basement wood furnaces trashed them: the second barrel cools the stack temp too much, and a two-story stovepipe ends up full of creosote.

CR, is yours a single-fuel Blaze King? I think that's the brand of the pellet/ 11" stick stove one of my cousins uses to heat a four-bedroom house.

Yes mine is "stick" wood only. It takes 2 arm loads of 18" wood to fill it.

 

[SadieSue]

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It has happened to me. I'd only get concerned if it seems to happen very frequently. Do you offer oyster shell?


VF

Yes. I keep a dish attached to the run filled with oyster shell for them. I'll be watching to see how the next few days go before I get too concerned. Thanks VF. And thank you CR and 4312 as well.

 

[cheryl98117]

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Oh good! Im glad she made it home safely! Now breath deep and enjoy your time together!

 

[jbear]

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Both FABULOUS people in our club.