In my Hudson Island log house, there is this beautiful wood-burning stove, a model called “Heartland Oval”. Dan and Janet MacMullin used it while staying there, (while doing floor and electrical work), and they took pictures of this stove, for my benefit, because I’ve been afraid to use it. So for my own benefit, and for future visitors staying in the log house, here are pictures and documents about the stove.
And here’s a PDF file with all the details about the stove.
OK, so Dan says, the oven door thermostat is broken, but the little moving thermometer works. The spot directly over the firebox is hottest (boiling, 140 degrees C), the middle burner is 110 degrees, and the farthest one is just for warming at 40 degrees. The oven temp was 280 degrees Fahrenheit, 140 degrees C, similar to the left burner.
There is also a fantastic electrical stove and oven. I suppose its fun to have a choice, unless the power goes out.
January 12, 2014 update. These pictures below, tell the story of an old hot water heating system, based on this stove. Inside the firebox, is a radiator.
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The hot water inside would rise up to the ceiling, via these pipes outside the stove.
Once in the ceiling, there apparently used to be a water storage tank, and presumably an inflow of cold water supply, to replace whatever hot water gets drained out beside the stove, via that faucet on the back corner of the stove. Here’s those abandoned pipes.
Now that there is no water in those pipes, they might get very hot, when the stove is used.