Jaybird1980
Grandmaster
I just realized who you are. I bought mine from Topeka because of you.Yep, he is the middle son, the youngest brother butchers in their shop. The 2x4's came from a high end home builder in Knox. Have a couple piles of them still remaining in my woodyard. Tolbrothers were the builders.
Best thing I ever did was buy my first one. We are on a 2nd one.
Heard bad things with an auger if you burnt wood with nails. Nails plug the auger. Our first one was a Central Boiler from Topeka Feed and Stove in Topeka, Indiana. Excellent guys, can't say enough good about them. That was back in '94 or '95. Cannot imagine the money saved in LP due to this purchase. About 10 or 11 or so years ago they were going to outlaw the preemission stoves so we sold our old one and bought a new one from same place but next generation. Great stove, don't darken their door, terrible to deal with and I was paying cash! The gassifiers will burn less wood, but I am lazy and burn mostly what falls on our farm. Sometimes I cut wood and throw it into the stove that afternoon evening. Gassifiers need specific percentage of moisture or they gum up. I don't want that. Crappy wood, buggy wood, some questionable wood, all provides heat.
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