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["Franklin W. Davis" <knarfme AT comcast.net>]

  Hi jerry b...the wood stove I have is at least ten years old...thats when I 
bought it used...don't know how much older it could be. It's called an 
All-Nighter. Made out of boiler plate...lined with firebrick...cast iron 
door. I would say of medium size...will take a 24" piece of wood. Has a pipe 
that runs through the inside...provisions to hook up a blower to it... which 
I've done...blows hot air into the basemnt where it's located. Also this year 
I've installed an Magic-Heat extractor in the flue pipe...which has a 
thermostatically controlled fan...that removes some of the heat that would 
otherwise go up the stack. I burn from five to eight cords of 
wood...depending on how cold the winter is here in Maine. Have my own wood 
lot...mostly hard wood...burn some pine and hemlock also... during the cooler 
days. Buy a good used stove...learn how to use it...burn good dry wood...and 
to hell with the smoke and particulates...which should not be too bad. Good 
luck...and stay warm...Franklin
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Our's runs ya out of the house too.  DH goes to the other end of the house
and closes the bedroom door and opens the window <g>  Thing doesn't have a
name on it and is probably about 30 years old.

We also have a CO detector but it is in the hall between the bedrooms.

Lynda
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From: "EarthNSky" <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>


> When we bought the house, it came with a cast iron stove.  It's our only
> heat source. I've never seen another one exactly like it-it's bigger
> than similarly shaped stoves.  We sealed up as many leaks as possible,
> and it will run you out of the house.  I have a small, less than 1000
> square foot home.  The stove has no blowers, no fancy stuff at all. I
> love it. I do have a CO detector in the room with the stove, just to be
> safe, but I've never felt unsafe with it.  Here in GA our winters don't
> approach those of say, Maine, but you still need heat here in zone 7.
> We usually get down to 10 or so in the winter, sometimes colder, with
> normal highs in the upper 20's or 30's.
> At this point in the year, we are building one fire a day-not continuous
> heat, jus to throw off the chill as it is regularly dipping into the
> 20's at night.