Storing a wood stove

[Welshmom]

I need to store a cast iron (well, it's a Fisher, so maybe it's plate steel?) wood stove in my barn for at least a year, until I have the funds to put it in.

What should I do to the stove to protect it from rust? I assume I should give it a good coating of stove black. Anything else?

[gone-a-milkin]

Put it up on a pallet or blocks. I would probably black it.

Otherwise, it should be fine, out of the weather.

[Windy in Kansas]

Plug the flue for certain so that critters don't make it their new clad castle.

If you are concerned about rust you could always put a 15-25 watt burning light bulb to keep just enough heat to keep moisture dried. At 10¢ per KWH it would cost about $22 for the bulb to burn a year. Do you have $22 worth of concern for the fairly high dollar stove? lol

[Stephen in SOKY]

We always keep a grass sack (dry burlap bag) in the woodstove during the off season, same thing with corn planter seed cans, to absorb any moisture/humidity that enter. May not actually help, but it's never hurt.

[Jennifer L.]

Stove black it. I suppose it would be possible to oil it if you wanted to let it sit on the driveway for four or five days burning it off after you brought it back out of storage. Go with the blacking.

Jennifer

[collegeboundgal]

I would WD-40 all hinges.

[Wis Bang]

My father put his dad's table saw 'away' covered it w/ a thick coat of greese.