- You can get coal Inserts for fire places, cheap and easy to store totally anti environment. When installing wood stoves biggest problems are roof penetration, using standard stuff is not in your best interest, going to heavier pipe same diameter is way better ie 8 Inch shedual 40 pipe 5/16 thickness. The roof penetration insulate with thermo 12 hard Insulation, or preformed rock wool to pipe diameter size then cover it with a stainless steel jacket. The standard caps and roof crickets will still fit. The pipe can be cut down and welded in place for ease of install or if you want and have equipment lowered through hole in roof in one piece.
Why go so heavy? Chimney fires, once you do this you can sleep without care of fires. The pipe will never burn out no matter how hot you get wood stove or have a cresote fire. The insulation on there should be MIn 1 1/2 thick wall. You can find the lenths you need at Industrial insulation shop. The binder may smoke first few times but once set the pipe can get 1600 degrees inside and you can put your hand on the outside jacket. This is how Industrial boilers are vented think steel foundries and aluminum smelter, pulp mills. The piping is more expensive but a one time and forever cost, standard to code stove pipe is so thin if you ever have a fire it can collapse. One of biggest causes of fire is chimney fires, even if past point that insurance matters, where in shft will you get new piping? Plus with this set up burning greener wood is not an issue as chimney fire does absolutely nothing expecially if onto a metal roof.
We do have hard woods, but mostly burn pine and cedar as easiest to salvage from clear cut piles, plus easier on chainsaws.
If you really want to cook on it you can find old pio eer stoves made by Amish called pioneer princess, get the extra hot water heaters as hot water is a huge bonus when nothing works all gravity fed just cloth wrap the drain handle or extend it like we did to avoid scalding your hands. The cooking temp marked are for birch and maple seasoned wood, baking is a snap has warming trays to keep food warm or reheat. We have the grill top so we can do breakfast restaraunt style 2 kg bacon 12 pancakes has browns and dozen eggs at once. When done there are scrapers and run offs to clean while hot like professional cook top in restaraunt.
http://www.amishcookstoves.com/pioneer_princess.shtml
As for amount of wood we store 17 chords a year, it’s used to warm houses, shop, 3 barns and green house, the barns, greenhouse and shop are with rocket stove mass heaters so no flame once you are gone but still keeps heat for up to 2 days above 0 c in up to-40c. Excellent insulation is must we do most building to r 60 walls and roof. The green house you need to heat rockets stove mass heater everyday as greenhouse has poor Insulation value.
Also the stainless steel top in the pioneer princess is easier to clean.
To add wood to princess we have a tool for opening the top burners, and stick wood in that way rather than through door on fire box.
The only problem is in summer as it gets too hot I house, we are building a new outdoor kitchen this summer, will have smokehouse, bbq, wok wood fired or coal. There is also running water and counter space sinks and propane heaters for canning outside in covered bug netted area.
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