Thank you @john park and @Loving Life
Yes, I’m aware of the risks of just willy nilly installing a wood stove. One reason we don’t have one yet. 🙂
I agree, keeping wood cut is a lot of work. We used covered wood piles when I was a kid too. But I do also know people that prefer the wood shed.
@Loving Life I admired the vermont castings stoves. But I don’t have 10k to toss at something that I don’t plan on using every winter.
If it is a SHTF scenario, you’d be hard pressed to come up with a lot of firewood around here. Too much has been cleared for farmland. But at the same time, in SHTF where you going to get propane for a heater?
In my mind, a wood stove has more potential for most scenarios. But it’s so expensive.I have also looked at tent stoves, they look about the same as the little Jotul, but I could be wrong.