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From: ksternberg1 on 18 Nov 2007 14:14
I'm going to buy a high quality cast iron wood stove for my home. I've
been studying the options and like Jotul's model F3 CB. Quadrafire
also seems very good. Does anyone have real world experience with
either?

Thanks very much.
From: Bill on 19 Nov 2007 11:31
I bought the largest woodstove I could find and am glad I did.

To get a fire going, I find I need 3 pieces of wood and kindling/paper. So
paper on bottom, then kindling, then 2 pieces of wood on bottom with air gap
between, then one piece making a "roof" over the gap of the bottom two.

This makes a little compartment inside the pieces of wood. When the fire
starts, it quickly gets hot inside that compartment and keeps the fire
going. A synergy thing. If the wood is at all moist, you really need this to
get the fire going.

Anyway that takes up a lot of space. Then add a layer of ash on the bottom.
Then have space on the top to add a new piece of wood once the fire gets
going good.

This all takes up a lot of room inside the stove!

Also good to have air space around all the pieces of wood and they not be
against the walls of the stove. Then they can burn.

Then I like to add a few large pieces of wood before going to bed and damper
it down, then it burns most of the night.

You can build a large or small fire in a very large woodstove, but only a
small fire in a small woodstove and I would imagine I would have trouble
getting it going.

I bought this one...
http://www.summersheat.com/50-snc30.html



<ksternberg1(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message
> I'm going to buy a high quality cast iron wood stove for my home. I've
> been studying the options and like Jotul's model F3 CB. Quadrafire
> also seems very good. Does anyone have real world experience with
> either?
>
> Thanks very much.


From: sylvan butler on 19 Nov 2007 12:47
On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 11:14:49 -0800 (PST), ksternberg1(a)yahoo.com <ksternberg1(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm going to buy a high quality cast iron wood stove for my home. I've
> been studying the options and like Jotul's model F3 CB. Quadrafire
> also seems very good. Does anyone have real world experience with

Does quadrafire make a cast iron stove now? I've had good experience
with their plate steel stoves.

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From: Don Phillipson on 19 Nov 2007 20:17
"sylvan butler" <ZsdbUse1+noZs_0711(a)Zbigfoot.Zcom.invalid> wrote in message
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> > I'm going to buy a high quality cast iron wood stove for my home. I've
> > been studying the options and like Jotul's model F3 CB. Quadrafire
> > also seems very good. Does anyone have real world experience with
>
> Does quadrafire make a cast iron stove now? I've had good experience
> with their plate steel stoves.

Few makers produce cast iron stoves any more
because they radiate heat uniformly in all directions.
Steel stoves usually have thermal insulation on the
bottom and sides so that most of the heat is
radiated forward from the front and up from the top.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)


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