City Slicker
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Anyone have a favorite top load wood stove? Mine is a Vermont castings Vigliant model, and the top lid opens up, and in goes the wood. No ashes to fall out when loading. Just wondering what you guys like?
I am using a 70's vintage Downdrafter steel top loader that does a good job for me. It has heated our 24X40 ranch since last October and no furnace run time yet. This is one of the few stoves I have seen that takes the draft air from the top of the stove. Kind of unique but seems to work fine.
Maplemeister:
I'll bet that's an old Tempwood made down the road from you (rt.7) in Adams, Mass. by Mohawk Industries. Does it have two tubes for the downdraft? They are long gone but my Pops had the large model (They made 2 sizes) in his basement. Fastest stove I've ever seen for coming up too temps. I loved that old downdraft design too. Very simple, yet effective. They looked like this.
Anyone have a favorite top load wood stove? Mine is a Vermont castings Vigliant model, and the top lid opens up, and in goes the wood. No ashes to fall out when loading. Just wondering what you guys like?
LOvely pic Steve. The large Tempwood heats the workshop now. Nothing like those airbrushed photos of new Tempwoods you got. The sides of this Tempwood are bowed out, sheetrock mud caked to the sides ( lent it out to contractor friends ) , the quickest, easiest to use heater out there. Simple design that a good welder should be able to work up: all straight panels.
They come on the market in Uncle Henry's every once in awhile.
I top load my old cookstove. Lift up a lid and toss in 2-4 sticks of wood depending on size after poking and raking the bed of coals a couple of times.
The thing is, they need to be reloaded every 60-90 minutes, depending on the species of wood used, damper positioning, and tightness of a load. I've developed my thick seasonal callous on the index finger of my left hand from frequent relaoding.
Yeah me too WB,
I've never loaded mine through the front door. Pull the front burner plate, use the hooked end of the poker (or the burner handle) and lift the middle a hair and throw em in. It becomes a little like a jigsaw puzzel fitting the sticks in. My Glenwood has a big firebox compared too others I've seen. When I first had it switched back too wood (New grates and liners) I had the extension back put on it. This allows you too fit almost a 22" stick in there. I don't cut em that long cause it limits the others but it's nice too have that margin of error on my 16"-18" normal bucks.
I'll bet that's an old Tempwood made down the road from you (rt.7) in Adams, Mass. by Mohawk Industries. Does it have two tubes for the downdraft? They are long gone but my Pops had the large model (They made 2 sizes) in his basement. Fastest stove I've ever seen for coming up too temps. I loved that old downdraft design too. Very simple, yet effective. They looked like this.
Maybe one of you guys could take some pictures of your Tempwood.I like the design.
Maybe one of you guys could take some pictures of your Tempwood.I like the design.
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