I've been reading along here and as someone who's main source of heat has been wood stoves his entire life, here's my $.02. The gas furnace is 20 years old and...
Of course, if you want your stove to last a while, never burn hedge. I only burn hedge. You get a lot more heat, and the chimney cleans itself...but I don't...
Thought I'd finally share a picture of ours. Every morning, the crystal in our front door casts the most beautiful rainbows across the front of the stove....
Loved your pictures of baking bread in your stove. What kind of a pan do you use for that? Thanks! Dana Life more abundant @ http://roscommonacres.com...
Hi Dana, I don't know what kind of pan Raven uses, however I just bought a cast iron bread pan to use in our new Sedore when it gets here. I have to season it...
The white seal thing on the inside of the lid fell off today when my husband dropped the lid. It's sort of stuck back on, but what can we use to fix it back in...
Candy, a cast iron bread pan sounds wonderful! Where did you get it? It should make delicious crust. I just use my old tin bread pans... most of mine were...
We had this very question yesterday from a customer of ours. Here is Bruce Wolfe's answer: Use red high temp silicone to glue it back into place. this can...
There are high temp sealer/glue products on the market for this type of thing. You should be able to buy them at your local hardware or home products centers ...
Hello! What keeps the wood and ashes from plugging up the vent hole at the bottom of these stoves? Or maybe you just keep the ashes away from this? thanks!...
My guess is the air flow. Ash is pretty light. We have had it build up and cause a bit of a problem but we're on a better cleaning schedule now. Dana Life more...
... Every day or two you have to let the fuel supply burn down, prop open the lid and push ash away from the air intakes and into the rear chamber. After that...
I'm not sure what you mean by "hedge"....you mean softwoods? Anyways, I've never used one of those barrel stoves. When I say built, I mean built with sheet...
LOL. "Hedge" is anything but soft. Google "osage orange". It is the closest you can get to coal that is still alive. Burns hotter than ash, and longer. It...
In the NE we have Iron wood or Hop Hornbeam Like your Osage Orange it is very hard and have a very high BTU rating per ton. It doesn't grow to large diameter...
Oh, like Ironwood, I see, might not be exactly the same, but yup, sounds like ironwood. Yup, damn good firewood. I'm thinking "Hedge", like people have around...
The hedge trees around here were planted in response to the dust bowl to prevent wind erosion...so there are rows of them every 1/4 mile or so. The ones which...
Tried making bread last night for the first time in the Sedore. It sort of turned out... http://roscommonacres.com/2010/12/baking-in-my-wood-burning-stove/ ...
Horse Apples are also known around here as Hedge Apples. The name may be derived from the purposed planting of the "hedge rows" on the 40 and 80 acre field...
I have a wood stove out in my garage that has baked hundreds of loaves of bread. Actually just a bit over 100 years cooking all of the meals on a farm. It is...
What a delightful blog entry and the bread looks just fine for foil wrapped "hobo bread"! I really like your stove set-up. It looks so charming! Rae...
The door on top will no longer stay open resting against the stack. I tell you, that thing hurts when it slams down on your arm, and it is making loading the...
Dana ... I had the same problem. The lid would not stay open when in the upright position resting on the stove pipe. Solution ... my stack thermometer had...
I've had the lid drop on me... my back was turned and let me tell you I jumped so hard I thought I broke bones. LOL! Sometimes it seems like the metal has...
Just hook up my Sedore to domestic hot water two days ago and it has been working great. I have a single loop coil in the back(Exhaust Box) of the Sedore....
Be careful with that hot water. Ask at your favorite hardware store and see if they have a Tempering Valve. A Tempering Valve is installed at your water heater...
Another warning, the tempering valve, ie mixer valve, tends to go bad after a year or so of use according to my boiler man. They are required by code and are...
