Vintage stove for a vintage house? Show me yours!

[farmermiller]

I end up giveing the Roper away,tryed to sell the stove for 250.00 i gave 450.00 for the stove. The apartment size stove cost me 250.00

[lupinfarm]

I am jealous of you all with those lovely stoves. Hey mross I love the airplane cockpit dials on yours. My hubby was asking
about a month ago if we should get a vintage wood burning model for our kitchen, just in case we were ever out of Propane
in the dead of winter. Don't laugh, sometimes my driveway is so icy the Propane company "red flags" it and they wont
make a delivery until I get all 1/3 klm winter sanded, which costs a cool $100. I have a lot of dead trees I could take down and
some that have already "taken themselves down" that I could use. A wood burning model could also provide backup heat
as well, just in case the Propane cannot be delivered.
Found this one on Kijiji
http://peterborough.kijiji.ca/c-buy-and ... Z356144006
http://belleville.kijiji.ca/c-buy-and-s ... Z356570793
http://belleville.kijiji.ca/c-buy-and-s ... Z356587892

[eclecticcottage]

I don't know if they are as common in Canada, I didn't find any in Peterborough, but have you considered a wood/gas combo stove? Like this http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... rid=229466 or http://buffalo.craigslist.org/app/2862171524.html

I thought about getting one, but we just don't have the space for one, plus the clearances and I'm not completely sure if our insurance company would really like it much.

Be sure you split and season your wood if you go that route The good folks over at Hearth.com will have plenty of suggestions for you in that regard should you want them.

Spent a few hours scrubbing the Bengal today. Blogger is being a pain or I'd have pics posted up of the before and after. Amazing how much ick there was considering it didn't really look that bad. And I'm no where near done.

[farmermiller]

Now days you never know when, you will have your gas shut off. Here my back up stove may have to cut a few trees down in my back yard. 20012 picture

[lupinfarm]

Farmermiller.....Love your stove and kitchen, very woodsy. Yes I agree it is always wise to have a back up plan incase your
main source of energy is not available. I am trying to achieve this, but on a shoe string budget it's not easy. My hubby had
mentioned about a month ago that it might be good to replace our newish modern range with a dual fuel model. To buy new
would be about $3000. to find one used in good condition is very hard and they are still expensive as there must be a demand
for them around here. There was one on Kijiji about 2 weeks ago but it was sold as soon as posted.
Just found this beauty however only $500 Canadian
http://peterborough.kijiji.ca/c-buy-and ... Z356619193

[eclecticcottage]

Lupin, do you think you could come over to the WNY area? I see older (early 1900's and some Bengals which I believe are 1940s/1950s) dual fuels posted around here somewhat frequently on Craigslist. I don't know what they'd think of a big ole stove at the border though, lol.

In fact, here is an absolutely beautiful stove in the rochester area: http://buffalo.craigslist.org/atq/2863402618.html

[lupinfarm]

oooooh, Shes pretty, the stove I mean..Yes I would love a trip to your "neck of the woods" eclecticcottage, alas money is
in short supply right now as I have to replace my old and condemned oil furnace by the middle of March cost fo the new
propane furnace $3000. Insurance company insists on new rather than reconditioned. Originally I wanted a straight wood burner, but I soon realized that if i ran out of wood I wouldn't be doing much cooking. Shame is I bought a new propane
stove about 9 months ago cost us $2000. But only a couple of weeks ago my hubby asked me how much a wood cookstove
would be, I said it would be better to get a dual fuel instead. That's how my quest began . Then our furnace had to die
on us and the idea has been put of the back burner. No pun intended.

[eclecticcottage]

Oh that just sucks! Our old house had a way of doing that to us. They've been listing that stove for about two months now, and it stated off at about $2,600!

[farmermiller]

I bought my wood cook stove for 300.00 in 2005. The stove came from a Amish country store in 1988.But never been used,has a cook stove until i bought it. There is some good buys out there.

[eclecticcottage]

It isn't hooked up yet (orifice questions in regards to converting from NG to propane), but it's now in it's new home:

Floyd Wells Bengal AA10