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Fish Head
Yep! I'll probably never buy a steel stove. But ya know about 'never say never'...Cast is good... always has been.
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Yep! I'll probably never buy a steel stove. But ya know about 'never say never'...Cast is good... always has been.
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I don't know much about the other Jotul stoves but the 118 Black Bear is just a simple cast iron box stove with a baffle & smoke chamber above the firebox. It's a 100 year old design that they added secondary burn air tubes to. You can run it with or without secondary burn. The only thing that will need replacing on this stove is the door gasket & possibly the baffle, but that would be many, many years down the road, if at all. It is very easy on wood, but really cranks out the heat!Well, I ain't never used a Jotul... ain't even sure I've seen one in use.
But, just going on what I know from using the smoke dragons, unlined cast has to be better than what I have now for a stove in the shop... but how much better I flat can't say.
It would be nice to spend a bit of time around one first... huh??
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LMAO ‼ Now that's funny naturelover, too damn funny‼
Actually Del_, we're in the middle of a heat wave also... 12° this morning (wind is at 30 MPH though).
Looks like we'll be just a bit on the chilly side come Monday, somewhere around -20° to -25° in the morning, a high maybe hitting -10°... that's supposed to last for a couple days before the cold front moves in. They ain't really sayin' how cold that front will be yet, might just be the common, everyday, -30° at night, -20° during the day... haf'ta wait and see I guess.
So the old one didn't heat either?That was one of the only times I remember falling asleep while sitting right next to the stove... and waking up still cold‼
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So the old one didn't heat either?
Well, I ain't never used a Jotul... ain't even sure I've seen one in use.
But, just going on what I know from using the smoke dragons, unlined cast has to be better than what I have now for a stove in the shop... but how much better I flat can't say.
It would be nice to spend a bit of time around one first... huh??
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Top of the income bracket, jotuls, hands down.
Jotul is priced like most other cast stoves, but ya get what ya pay for.....and so ends my thought of ever owning a Jotul!
Thanks Bushmans. All those field stones came from our homestead property.Vermonster,
You don't see much real stone work like that anymore. Everything is cultured now. Looks so fake. I like it! Well done!
Hey Spidey, just wonderin, when the PE was in "stovace" mode did you take the factory heat shields off it?
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