I noticed where someone commented about the stove not having a brick inner liner to hold heat. Even though this stove doesn't have brick inside, You can still keep the heat longer if you add coal to the fire. .. Cool stove btw
I disagree with the thermal mass concept. All the time you are taking to warm up the bricks and the thick steel (which is quite a long time) you get little or no heat into the room. Also, all that mass is operating as insulation; again keeping heat output low. A thinwall stove starts radiating immediately and powerfully. Sure, it cools quick, but if it's engineered to burn a long time that is irrelevant.
Looked at them there china potbellys but 60% of the heat went up the smokestack.Paid a little more for a Jotul with the tax credit got it for 600.00 bucks.20% heat is lost. Love that little thing.Like your handle.
@firewoodguy2009 agreed. I paid alot for one of those fancy glass door stoves. What a piece of BS. Couldn't even heat the basement. Got a barrel stove and when I cram 100lb of wood in there it will go all night strong with plenty of coals in the morning. What's more it starts blasting heat right away instead of taking a hour to warm up the bricks and the thick plate steel.
@transdrole Your post is puzzling. 1st, the new "fancy" stoves put out a good bit of heat per unit of wood, and will do so quickly if you understand how to build a fire properly and have appropriate draft. You need the appropriate stove relative to size of area to heat. You aren't the first person to say they put 100lbs of wood into a barrel stove at a time. I'd like to see it, and see if it overheats or runs danger of chimney fire...they aren't air tight, so burn is not very controlled.
Don't know for bugs, but they aren't the issue as much in the northwest. I have wood for a day ahead in the kitchen all the time. Hate going out for it in the mornings. But, potbellies were designed for one reason; heat. And they make a lot of it.
I don't know exactly how you would do it with a stove like this but if it gets hot too fast and then cools down too fast would it make sense to get some more thermal mass around it?
Something to even out the heat output and store it for longer so you won't be feeding it constantly. Up here most stoves either have a load of bricks or stones surrounding them. Also more fun to brush up against some warm bricks than hot iron. My 0.02€
The only problem with this picture is that the bugs will come out of all that stacked firewood in that warm room. Firewood should not be brought into the house until it is ready to be burnt.
In Maine there are very few bugs and this wood has none. Most people put 3 or 4 cord of split and dried wood in their heated cellar in the winter with no problem. But in other climates this --I am guessing here---would probably be a problem?
@minibulldesign I put at least a week of wood at a time in the basement. Bugs do come out sometimes, but I put down a tiny bit of insecticide to cordon off the wood. bugs go nowhere but the afterlife. People who say "oh no! deadly insecticide!". What do they think a professional does when you call and say you have bugs?
I usually put in just one or two small short sticks to keep the heat down to a tolerable level. This stove is too big for this small a building--10x24
I'd love a setup like that in my little place here,funny you mention the flue cost more than the stove,same problem here in the UK I can get a stove for$200 (Equiv) but the flue parts would cost me $300 or more!! and that just for a 90,flashing plates,flue tubes and a finisher for the top,you get good DRY heat from a stove none of that soggyness/damp you get with central heating,also the stove draws air through the building helping to remove damp instead of recycling it like CH!
how small is your shop ??? it must be real small if it is that easy to heat , mine is a pain to keep warm , and has to be loaded with a lot more wood than that ,
Tinny we have so much firewood around here it is a sin what they are doing with it. Last storm knocked down so many trees I wish I could afford to fill a barge loaded with fire wood pecan, oak, redwood ,cypress ,you name it. It was knocked down and it is going to waste. Many places they are grinding up the wood into mulch. If I had any worth i would get a chainsaw mill and make a killing the red wood is so beautiful patterns you cant dream up. YOur stove is a beauty gramps had one theyre great.
Nice stove Tinny. I thought about your videos as I was knocking back overgrowth today. (Just bought my first place down in Mass and it came with an acre that was about 30% overgrown) I was surprised to see some 10-15 year hickory on my property today. Set that aside for smoking, of course. It smells fantastic! Anyway, we've got a mountain of brush to chip and some decent hardwood for burning next year. Nothing beats a wood stove!
The stove smoked on the outside until the paint and oil burned off but now it is smoke and smell free--but-- the building it is in is so small and tight that if you slam the front door with all the windows closed the stove will let off one small poof of smoke out the front draft.
why is your wood so close to the wood stove
firewoodguy2009 2 months ago
you should make a good roring fire out of thin kndling and keep adding mor e in till you fill up the stove for a real hot short burn
should get your shop up to 130 to 150
firewoodguy2009 7 months ago
nice stove I saw one like it for sale in a Northern tool and equipment magazine recently it looks like its the same brand
wtmc1 7 months ago
why is your wood so cloase to the stove
it might dry out and catch on fire and burn down the shop
firewoodguy2009 9 months ago
you should burn a mixs of wood and coal
so your chimney dosent get sooted up a creasoted cloased
firewoodguy2009 9 months ago
I noticed where someone commented about the stove not having a brick inner liner to hold heat. Even though this stove doesn't have brick inside, You can still keep the heat longer if you add coal to the fire. .. Cool stove btw
DolittleMccoy 11 months ago
hey if your cold why where only a sleeveless t-shirt
microdork80 1 year ago
nice stove but its not good for your guns near that to be heating and cooling all the time
nictycaram 1 year ago
that is a nice potbelly stove you got there my man,Im working on getting one for the house.
nitrostang50 1 year ago
Load the wood from the door on front, not the top cook plate. And open your damper first before you load wood.
ivegotamagicstix 1 year ago
I disagree with the thermal mass concept. All the time you are taking to warm up the bricks and the thick steel (which is quite a long time) you get little or no heat into the room. Also, all that mass is operating as insulation; again keeping heat output low. A thinwall stove starts radiating immediately and powerfully. Sure, it cools quick, but if it's engineered to burn a long time that is irrelevant.
transdrole 1 year ago
Man,that was nice!
slapheadcodeman 1 year ago
Season your wood over a year more heat less smoke
40markava 1 year ago
A spitting humidifier and a fan on that stove would double the mass heat. I can't believe you let that puff of smoke in the house
MalibuCornelius 1 year ago
you should light a fire than completly fill up the stove with logs for a very long hot burn
firewoodguy2009 1 year ago
the wood in back of the stove should be super dry ed from the heat coming of the stove
firewoodguy2009 1 year ago
wwhy you store your firewood so cloase to the stove
do you whant to burn down your buliding
firewoodguy2009 1 year ago
@firewoodguy2009 24" is all you need
ivegotamagicstix 1 year ago
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@firewoodguy2009 wwhy you keep posting the same comments in different words
natedog2069 4 months ago
Looked at them there china potbellys but 60% of the heat went up the smokestack.Paid a little more for a Jotul with the tax credit got it for 600.00 bucks.20% heat is lost. Love that little thing.Like your handle.
minibullterriers 1 year ago
why dont you burn a 5gal bucket of coal
it should burn all day
and keep you warm
firewoodguy2009 2 years ago
looks like to much smoke comeing out of your chimney.
GREEKGREEK1974 2 years ago
Would a potbelly stove heat more than a double 55 gallon barrel stove?
graffin00000 2 years ago
no
you can get more wood in a barrel stove
probably 10 to 20 nice size pcs of split oak
for an all day burn
firewoodguy2009 1 year ago
@firewoodguy2009 agreed. I paid alot for one of those fancy glass door stoves. What a piece of BS. Couldn't even heat the basement. Got a barrel stove and when I cram 100lb of wood in there it will go all night strong with plenty of coals in the morning. What's more it starts blasting heat right away instead of taking a hour to warm up the bricks and the thick plate steel.
transdrole 1 year ago
@transdrole Your post is puzzling. 1st, the new "fancy" stoves put out a good bit of heat per unit of wood, and will do so quickly if you understand how to build a fire properly and have appropriate draft. You need the appropriate stove relative to size of area to heat. You aren't the first person to say they put 100lbs of wood into a barrel stove at a time. I'd like to see it, and see if it overheats or runs danger of chimney fire...they aren't air tight, so burn is not very controlled.
kenfo0 1 year ago
That stove is a bout what, 36-42 inches tall about 14" diameter, how many cu-ft you heating? Room about 15X15X8FT? That's 1800 Sq FT?
Now if you crack the baffles and the wood smolders just put a small cut piece in?
Wow! Nice!
PhantomMaster101 2 years ago
Good Ol, Potbelly style stoves. Designed tall for maximum heat collection and ease of cooking. Designed round to maximize surface area for heating.
mythril4 2 years ago
dennis ferguson.
bonymkus 2 years ago
Man, thats just nice! super!!!!
kev1957tuc 2 years ago
Don't know for bugs, but they aren't the issue as much in the northwest. I have wood for a day ahead in the kitchen all the time. Hate going out for it in the mornings. But, potbellies were designed for one reason; heat. And they make a lot of it.
dgr8zod 2 years ago
I don't know exactly how you would do it with a stove like this but if it gets hot too fast and then cools down too fast would it make sense to get some more thermal mass around it?
Something to even out the heat output and store it for longer so you won't be feeding it constantly. Up here most stoves either have a load of bricks or stones surrounding them. Also more fun to brush up against some warm bricks than hot iron. My 0.02€
janevski 2 years ago
Good point
minibulldesign 2 years ago
The only problem with this picture is that the bugs will come out of all that stacked firewood in that warm room. Firewood should not be brought into the house until it is ready to be burnt.
nossful 2 years ago
In Maine there are very few bugs and this wood has none. Most people put 3 or 4 cord of split and dried wood in their heated cellar in the winter with no problem. But in other climates this --I am guessing here---would probably be a problem?
minibulldesign 2 years ago
@minibulldesign I put at least a week of wood at a time in the basement. Bugs do come out sometimes, but I put down a tiny bit of insecticide to cordon off the wood. bugs go nowhere but the afterlife. People who say "oh no! deadly insecticide!". What do they think a professional does when you call and say you have bugs?
kenfo0 1 year ago
@nossful he said it was his shop
ncbookz 1 year ago
she's a beaut!
rhokdatroll 2 years ago
you should filler up with coal
it burns hotter
firewoodguy2009 2 years ago
why dont you filler up with oak
for a long hot burn
firewoodguy2009 2 years ago
when you put wood in your pot belly stove do you completly fill it with wood
firewoodguy2009 2 years ago
I usually put in just one or two small short sticks to keep the heat down to a tolerable level. This stove is too big for this small a building--10x24
minibulldesign 2 years ago
I like your stove.I bet you bought it at Northern Tools?We got our electric logsplitter and our Boxwood stove there!!Very nice video thanks..
arkansastrash320 2 years ago
Thanks
MrStockSquared 2 years ago
nice stove.
YouGotTheWord 2 years ago
Thats a great stove i got one in my shop!!!!!
levicopper94 3 years ago
I'd love a setup like that in my little place here,funny you mention the flue cost more than the stove,same problem here in the UK I can get a stove for$200 (Equiv) but the flue parts would cost me $300 or more!! and that just for a 90,flashing plates,flue tubes and a finisher for the top,you get good DRY heat from a stove none of that soggyness/damp you get with central heating,also the stove draws air through the building helping to remove damp instead of recycling it like CH!
silver760 3 years ago
how small is your shop ??? it must be real small if it is that easy to heat , mine is a pain to keep warm , and has to be loaded with a lot more wood than that ,
lasttry666666 3 years ago
CHINA
minibulldesign 3 years ago
Tinny, where did you get your new stove?
cinechromefilms 3 years ago
Yep---I had to take it out though-- so I could open the window and cool it down when it get above 104
minibulldesign 3 years ago
the wood stove going with the A/C unit still in the window
WeekendAdventurer 3 years ago
can you burn coal in that stove also?
beutifullady 3 years ago
Yes--- coal or wood
minibulldesign 3 years ago
Tinny we have so much firewood around here it is a sin what they are doing with it. Last storm knocked down so many trees I wish I could afford to fill a barge loaded with fire wood pecan, oak, redwood ,cypress ,you name it. It was knocked down and it is going to waste. Many places they are grinding up the wood into mulch. If I had any worth i would get a chainsaw mill and make a killing the red wood is so beautiful patterns you cant dream up. YOur stove is a beauty gramps had one theyre great.
cdltpx 3 years ago
Sweet!
There is nothing more soulfully satisfying than to bask in the radiance of a wood fire during winter.
FriarTuck1961 3 years ago
That's such a lovely stove Im filled with envy,positive envy that is LOL! .
I really like the way you live it is very inspirationl.I would like to be much more self sufficient your videos are certainly helping.Many Thanks.
James
clearskyblue 3 years ago
Nice stove Tinny. I thought about your videos as I was knocking back overgrowth today. (Just bought my first place down in Mass and it came with an acre that was about 30% overgrown) I was surprised to see some 10-15 year hickory on my property today. Set that aside for smoking, of course. It smells fantastic! Anyway, we've got a mountain of brush to chip and some decent hardwood for burning next year. Nothing beats a wood stove!
spacecowboy2k 3 years ago
With all that wood you did over the summer you should be set for the winter. Good job Tinny.
Josiah531 3 years ago
I have a pellet stove and a woodstove to heat my house. Theyll save you a lot of money in heating.
ArmyRanger10 3 years ago
104! Man I look forward to getting away from the city so I can get some of this stuff going. Good show.
HelmerandRawlins 3 years ago
interesting. do you get any smoke or smell?
BowlingFreak218 3 years ago
The stove smoked on the outside until the paint and oil burned off but now it is smoke and smell free--but-- the building it is in is so small and tight that if you slam the front door with all the windows closed the stove will let off one small poof of smoke out the front draft.
minibulldesign 3 years ago