I live in
the NE corner of Iowa 15 miles from the Mississippi River and
15 Miles from the Minnesota border. I have been making stoves
for many years and they should last a lifetime! They will heat
the largest 3 story farm house there is and I will estimate
the output is at least 200,000 btu/hr. I built these stoves
this size so I could cut my labor in half for cutting and splitting
a winter's supply of wood. And after 30 years of cutting wood,
this was very important to me. I could make these stoves smaller
but they would cost almost as much, since the labor would be
about the same. Why would anyone give up the [cut the labor
in half] feature just to save a few inches of space? You can
run a 10 inch round pipe to the hot air chamber of your furnace
if you wish or just run it to a small register in the central
room of the 1st floor like I do. My furnace never runs while
I have the wood stove going and 1 winter my furnace died and
I never got it fixed until the next fall. This stove is so efficient
that people can't believe it,especially when you burn dry wood.
If you burn DRY wood, you can have very little air coming into
the stove and the fire still stays hot while there is very little
air going up the chimney. If you look at the pics of my setup
in the basement you will see the smokepipe is auger tubing and
painted black. I made a mistake and grabbed a can of cheap paint
that was next to the high temp paint I wanted to use. So when
I got over being mad at myself for using the wrong paint, I
figured I would just paint it with the high temp paint once
the cheap stuff burned off. It has been over 5 years now and
all the paint is still there. I figure the pipe has only gotten
up to 350 degrees, and my paint chemist friend that works for
John Deere said that if it would get to 400 degrees that "cheap
crap" would be gone! My woodroom measures 13'x14' and now
a full room of wood lasts 2 years instead of 1 year with my
old smaller stove.
The stove has a 2 inch space between
the firebox and jacket and the air is replaced 2 1/2 times
per second. The outside of the stove gets up to approximately
230 degrees and as you can see in one of my pics, the top
is loaded with wood for drying. However, the front of the
stove and smoke pipe gets hotter so you should not have anything
touching them . I can heat my 2 story, 100 year old farm house
( 5 bedrooms upstairs) from September to June, without the
help of my LP furnace, on 5 bundles of slabs which is about
3 cords of wood. Even at 0 degrees outside temperature, I
only throw a few slabs in the stove at a time or it gets way
too hot in the house.
With these new "LIFETIME WOOD STOVES", you can cut your labor in half by burning larger pieces of wood. With the huge firebox (10 cubic feet!) you won't have to
keep feeding it several times a day. This stove warms a cold house fast and will pay for itself the first year. 50 YEAR GUARANTEE.
The
model shown in the slideshow is $2,695.00 ready to start using
as your main heat source. Saving tons of money and wood, won't
that be GREAT!
I also have standard
models [ without blower, thermostat, and jacket ] for $2,095.00.
Thank you for your interest...
Dick.
I just talked to one of my
old stove customers who had one of my stoves for 5 years but
sold it back to me because his basement would get flooded
every time it rained hard. His wood was always getting wet
so he decided to get an outdoor boiler wood stove. He used
it last winter and said he was going to get a larger model
because it couldn't keep up when it was real cold. I couldn't
believe what I was hearing because when he had my stove I
would always ask him how the stove was going and he would
always tell me it was just on low and his house was plenty
warm. His outdoor stove is 5 times as big as mine and it can't
keep up? It doesn't sound like a very efficient stove to me
and it takes 4 times the wood that my stove needs to do the
same job and costs 3 times as much!
Testimonials
Dick:
I was just looking at ebay today and saw your auction for
your woodburner. You probably don't remember me, my name is
RUSS RADLOFF from CASCADE, IA - I BOUGHT A WOOD STOVE FROM
YOU ABOUT A YEAR AGO. I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN MEANING TO CALL YOU
BACK, AND EXPRESS TO YOU HOW PLEASED I AM WITH IT. IT HEATS
MY SHOP 35X40X12 PERFECTLY. FEEL FREE TO HAVE ANY POTENTIAL
CUSTOMERS CALL ME. I WILL PUT IN A GOOD WORD ABOUT YOUR STOVES.
.....Russ
Dick:
This is James Beasley, and a friend and I had purchased 2
of your stoves last year, and I wanted to let you know that
they work very well and if you ever need someone to recommend
them, just give them my name and e-mail address or phone number
and I'll tell them how well we like them. I have a 3000 sq
ft house and it will literally run me out of it. Thanks again!
---James
Dick:
Our house is MUCH warmer than it was last year! We only had
it at 63 degrees last year and the old woodstove was always
loaded and the furnace was running ... this year we are at
68 to 70 with the stove on low and basically no furnace! It
really is a great stove! We really are VERY happy with it!.......Michele
Dick:
Just want to tell you how happy I am with the stove. It provides
plenty of heat to my whole house (3 thousand sq ft). For the
first time in history, we actually are finding ourselves opening
windows when it gets too hot inside - Thank you for your patience
while talking me through the blower and thermostat wiring
- You're a gentleman of your word and you build a first rate
product - that's saying alot nowadays. The stove has incredible
draft and wood ignites easily. The firebox is huge and I can
load it up with lots of firewood for many hours of steady
heat - I burn alot of garbage in it too. I'm 100% off fossil
fuels to heat my house. With home heating oil over $3 now,
your stove came at the right time, although I wish I had it
years ago. What can you do about my car?! Seriously, please
post this as a testimonial to your product, and feel free
to give my phone number to anyone considering buying your
stove. .......Sincerely, George
in NJ
With these
new "LIFETIME WOOD STOVES", you can cut your labor
in half by burning larger pieces of wood. With the huge firebox
(10 cubic feet!) you won't have to keep feeding it several times
a day. The 200,000 btu/hr rated stove warms a cold house fast.
Stove will pay for itself in 1 or 2 years.
• You can burn anything
in these stoves and the warranty stands... Unlike some outdoor
stoves that void the _warranty
if you burn --anything but wood.
• Outside dimensions
are 40"L x 25"W x 42"H not counting blower.
• Large 13" x 13"
door and 36" L x 20"W x 24"H firebox.
• Heavy 3/16" thick
firebox surrounded by 7 pieces of channel iron for long stove
life.
• Flame deflector to
keep flames from shooting up the chimney.
• Heavy 1/2" thick 65
lb.. steel grate ( will outlast stove). I checked a grate
after 10 seasons and it still has the white paint letters
from my steel company. They write Dick's Machine Shop on a
bar in the bundle and I just happened to use it on the grate.
There was no metal loss and the torched air hole edges were
as sharp as when new......grate will probably last over 200
years.
• 8" flue for 8
inch stove pipe to chimney....... use an increaser for 6"
stove pipe to chimney.
• 10" diameter
opening ( top front) where hot clean air is blown out.
• Door opening reinforced
with 3/8" x 2" steel to prevent warping.
• Large 16 gauge ash
pan.
• Top of the line Honeywell
thermostat and Very Quiet 549 cfm (cubic feet per minute)
Dayton blower
_(
replaces air around firebox 2
½ times per second ).
• Heavy 1/8" outer
jacket for quiet operation... absolutely no vibration noise.
•You can also stack
300 lbs of wood on top for drying.
• Stove legs with skid-like
pads for sliding without cutting into floor.
• Brick only around
grate to keep it centered above the ash pan.
• Stove weighs approximately
800 lbs.
• Will heat the largest
3 story farm house there is.
• 50 Yr. guarantee against
firebox burn-through.
• Stove
blower and thermostat should be wired by an electrician or I
will tell you how I wired mine.
