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It's a 190 CC flathead with 6.75 ft-lbs of torque. On lots of lawn mowers. I think they call it a 5 hp engine. I have this splitter too and the old briggs is still in great shape but what I did is buy a pressure washer with a subaru 5 hp vertical shaft engine. Eventually that washer pump will...

28' of vertical chimney will do a lot to overcome lack of draft from a 6" compared to an 8". It looks like a little single wall reducer on the stove top and right into the double wall. Doing it that way really takes your eyes away from the size change.

5.5 softwood

Tile cutting equipment.

I would recommend an off the shelf 40 gallon electric tank heater. The wires are already there, the plumbing is in the right spot. No moving parts, a reservoir of hot water if the power goes out short term, etc. These things are cheap to buy and replace. No explosions, noise, or CO poison.

4-5 years of full time use can easily exceed the expected 10,000 hour life cycle of a catalyst. I swap mine after it fails approximately every 3 years. If you only use the stove occasionally, it can last many years. The key is 10,000 hours. 18 feet of single wall is too much for any stove. My...

Just stink like saw exhaust.

Nah, we in western washington at 750' ASL had 42 this morning. The afternoons still get hot though so we're not needing heat in the house quite yet.

I think you misunderstood what I said. It wasn't really written well, my fault. When I said people out of the PNW, I meant people that are not in the PNW don't get these large log trucks with thick stems and long lengths. We agree!

I was trying to clarify your statement and agreeing. The other issue is that a full tank is less likely to accumulate water so keep her full!

Yes. All fires are started with the green LP bottles and a trigger ignited torch head on top. Works great.

Nomatter how full the fuel tank is, you are always sucking the fuel off of the bottom where this mud will fall.

Interesting. And no OAK for the wood furnace? I'm actually glad to see that you have also melted the airwash plate at the top of the loading door opening. Mine has sagged in a very similar way.

Not when you're cold! When making big heat your stove will be eating lots of fuel and be running at higher intake settings. Once your home is up to temperature you can reduce the primary air to stretch out the burn time.

I tried to photograph the "tunnel of love" that really seems to help this thing rip. You'll also notice that I stack wood in there like hot dogs to the roof. Seriously, fill it up and let it eat. My lowest cruise setting, 19 foot vertical chimney, is with the tip of the spring vertically under...

Mustang, you are not filling it up. That's just a half load. You need to stuff that thing with wood and quit closing the draft so far. Let it eat! Leave it like the first picture. Last night I had a nice NC30 fire and shot the stove next to the door with an IR gun, way over 600.

You can add a wood boiler but keep your propane domestic hot water, wood stove, even your propane furnace. I have a BK ultra and it's great for me but those things are 3500-4000 bucks.

If I had to tell you my one best trick to getting heat from this thing it has been to fill it up with 3-5" splits and hold 400 flue surface temperatures and ignore everything else. No door open burning, that just blows your heat up the stack. Load north to south and it really helps to have a...

I run an NC30 really hard to heat a shop building. Added a convection deck and bigger blower. I think you're babying it. I like to run this thing at Stove top temps of 700-750 with full loads of dry PNW softwoods that only last about three hours. I measure flue surface temperatures on my single...

I'm willing to bet that the 450 you remember is internal flue gas temperatures which correspond to about 225 surface temperatures on single wall pipe. That would be a logical minimum to prevent most creosote.