What Is A Wood Stove?

[Gypo Logger]

Isn't a wood stove just a metal box with a door, an exhaust pipe and air regulator?
Why are some stoves better than others, when the basic concept of every stove should be to burn dry wood starved for air based on how cold it is outside, how warm you want it inside and how much wood you want to burn?
Isn't a stove also a small metal box within a larger wooden box?
John

 

[Ironworker]

Ummm, yea, I guess

 

[Trx250r180]

Hmmmmmm

 

[Jakers]

 

[chucker]

I wood guess you have summed up the idea of a box in a box.... lol possibly without getting heated up doing it as well!

 

[chucker]

?? oh -by the way= what about a wooden stove in a metal box idea?? what do ya think in this order?? this is what I have!

 

[Trx250r180]

Soak the logs in oil gypo ,i hear there is lots of oil up there

 

[Gypo Logger]

This?Or this

 

[stihl sawing]

I only burn old railroad ties.

 

[Trx250r180]

This

 

[chucker]

these are my idea of a wooden stove in a metal box... lol "mobile home metal box".....

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[hamish]

Most are way too over engineered. Days of living in the tent my sheetmetal stove with a crude dampering system, burning a diet of yellow birch and pine, could hold a fire for at least 6hrs on a -35C night. The POS Pacific Energy in my insulated house burning the finest hardwoods keeps things well get a sweater (won't even waste precious bacon trying to fry it on there).

When I want heat I want heat!

 

[Gypo Logger]

 

[cantoo]

Yeah and Oprah has the same body parts that Beyoncé has but I'm not gonna put my wood in Oprah's box if Beyoncé is available.

 

[chucker]

Yeah and Oprah has the same body parts that Beyoncé has but I'm not gonna put my wood in Oprah's box if Beyoncé is available.
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?? who wood! but with all of oprah's $$$$ you wood think she wood have a better box for wood heat? lol

 

[cantoo]

I haven't got enough wood to keep either one happy so I might as well be the happy one. All I have is a little bit of willow, I think it would take a pretty big piece of walnut to make either of them happy. Maybe some big Basswood?

 

[chucker]

I haven't got enough wood to keep either one happy so I might as well be the happy one. All I have is a little bit of willow, I think it would take a pretty big piece of walnut to make either of them happy. Maybe some big Basswood?

basswood don't last long in a hot fire box, but it wood do for a quicky heat up!! lol

 

[Jakers]

boy that escalated quickly...

 

[Philbert]

Isn't a carburetor just a tube where fuel and air mix? Some work better than others.

If you follow any of the cylinder mod threads, and the combustion discussions, I think you can apply some of that to your metal boxes. Some are going to be more efficient that others. Some stoves have baffles that burn more of the wood gas, instead of letting it go up the flue.

If you think of fireplace chimneys as a bunch of rocks or bricks with a hole at each end, you will end up with some that back up into the house, and some that draw efficiently. Same with your wood stove.

The other part of stove design should be how efficiently it radiates the heat into the living area. In theory, you could build one so insulated that little of the heat is dissipated (like an incinerator or a modern oven), or one with fancy ornaments that radiate heat, or tubes that convect heat around the room.

Philbert

P.S. And thank you for not suggesting that a 'wood stove' is a stove made out of wood!

 

[windthrown]

Well, where I put my wood, I do not call it a stove. Things do heat up in there, but I call her Alice. If I got her knocked up I would call it 'having one in the oven', but she is still not a stove.