Wood/Coal burning cook stove

New Freedom

New Freedom

Veteran Member
I have been trying to research getting a wood cook stove.....but they are so freakin expensive!! I'm hoping to find a good used one tucked away in some antique store somewhere! New and old ones are just too pricey for me! Anyway.....I happened to find this tent-stove and thought it was pretty cool. Not what I'm quite looking for, but could serve as a good prep item:


http://www.tent-stove.com/Wood-Stoves.html



The Valley Wood Stove

tent stoves, wall tent stoves, tent wood stoves, wood burning stoves for tent


These stoves are built tough. Whether you pack in with horses or drive to camp, these stoves are going to do the job right once you get there! The top and door are made from 10 gauge steel and the rest is cold rolled 12 gauge steel which makes for a superior stove. Guaranteed! Good For Tents 12' x 14' and smaller.

Stove dimensions are: 24" Long X 14" Wide X 11" High

Included:

* Warming tray,
* Water heater,
* Coal grate,
* Nesting Stove pipe,
* Spark arrestor,
*
Damper,
 

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CAgdma

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We have a Findlay Oval. Got it years ago for about 1500. It took six months to get here, because the train froze on the tracks in Canada. It came in two boxes. One weighed 25 lbs, and the other about 600 lbs or so. I cook on it in the wintertime. It heats half the house.

BUT, rather than get an antique, which may be missing some crucial parts, (unreplaceable) and will not have the insulation and calking and stuff that the new stoves have, have you considered building an outdoor cooking area? You could even build it with an oven. Then you could burn scrap wood, like pine, which is too oily for most stovepipes. Or get one of those fancy barbeque
stoves, like people put on their patios.

Lehmans (www.lehmans ) I think, has cast iron cookware, and probably a bunch of other cooking stuff, as well as both expensive and reasonable wood stoves.
 
Freeholder

Freeholder

This too shall pass.
Do you ever travel out of the D.C. area? You could look in other areas for the stove you want, and plan a trip to pick it up. We had a good older wood cookstove in NH and couldn't sell it for more than five hundred dollars -- in great working condition, had a water reservoir and a warming oven. It would heat a small, well-insulated house, but had the small firebox of all older cook stoves. (My ex may still have it, and want to sell it, if you are interested I could contact him.) Or have you checked into the Pioneer Maid and Baker's Choice cook stoves? They aren't as pretty as some of the more expensive stoves, are Amish-made, and designed to heat the house as well as cooking the food, and they can also heat water.

Kathleen
 
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AnnCats

Deceased
Bakers Choice

Take a look at the Baker's Choice cook stove at Lehmans ( it's the smaller brother of the Pioneer Maid). I bought mine about six years ago and have been very happy with it. ANother dealer, and I think it's the people who make it, is Suppertime Stoves.

It's around $950 to start with and you can buy it set up for wood/coal burning. The pioneer maid, by the way, does NOT burn coal. The interior of the oven is relatively small, you'd be able to do a small turkey, but nothing more - the top is quite nice, easy to clean, marks easily when something overflows or spits. Buy it with the water tank and the shelf, it's really useful. YOu can also retrofit with a copper pipe insert in the stove to circulate water and heat it and store it in your water tank, but it's a real deal to get it set up right.

The stove works fine, it heats my 2000 square ft upper part of the house and the heat also gets down into the basement so it's really quite nice. It doesn't burn all that much wood at one time, the fire box is adequate - I think it takes an 18 inch log, and it's quite sturdy. YOu can get a good wood fire going and dump coal on top of it, and it'll stay very hot for overnight even.

If you buy one, GET THE PIPE INSERT FOR THE BACK OF THE STOVE. The pipe fits into a kind of oval outlet, and getting a piece of pipe to fit that oval is a real hard deal. We had to hand bend our stainless steel pipe and it ws a pain.

If you are going to use coal with any regularity, get stainless steel pipe. i KNOW it's terribly expensive, but it really outlasts the regular stove pipe and is much safer.

ANything else I can tell you?
 
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