I like this!

[||Downhome||]

I like many on here would like a nice wood cook stove, but those are hard to find, or at least at a decent price. most people are trying to unload junk for a fortune. At least that is what I keep finding at least. I'm sure there are some exceptions but not in my local market.

I really like this and honestly dont know much about it.
but seems like a fair enough price when you do the considerations.
its brand spanking new so you should not have any issues with it for many years with proper use and care.
it offsets the gas bill in the heating and cooking, I know some of you have to pay a small fortune for wood but around here with a chainsaw there is lots of opportunity for free wood or even to be paid on top of it.

anyways heres the eye candy

http://www.woodstoves.net/MarginGem.htm

[momofseven]

We are waiting for our Flame View to be delivered the week of the 13th. Can't wait until it gets here! We are also selling 2 Meal Masters in order to pay for it! The FV was very pricey, but we believe that it will pay for itself in a few years as we will also be supplying hot water for the house with it.

A friend of ours sells them and he can get a better deal than that website take a look at:

info@stovesandmoreonline.com,

[chewie]

that certainly is eye candy!! beauty!

[mustangsally17]

Man, Id love to have one, wood isnt a problem here either we heat with it..

[Pony]

We're saving for the Flame View. It's spendy, but we really do think it will better meet our needs than the 1930's wood cook stove we now use.

Gotta tell ya, that Flame View looks wonderful! HUGE firebox, and oven that actually has SPACE for food, a fan to distribute heat, and it holds a fire all night long.

Momofseven, please give us a report once you get yours!

[ronbre]

in Mich the amish make a really great wood burning cookstove..

we used to have a kitchen queen ..antique.. loved it but it wasn't practical like the amish ones are

[Pouncer]

*drools* Wow, nice! I don't even want to know how much they are, lol

[Timberline]

We love our Flameview by Margin Stoves. We've had it a few years now and it functions perfectly, our home is toasty warm and we do all of our fall, winter and early spring cooking and baking with it. Heat water for washing with it, too. And, it's drop dead gorgeous. You just can't beat the huge firebox, no more splitting wood to kindling size to enjoy using a cookstove. Everyone who comes over spends a lot of time admiring it and asking questions.

[haypoint]

Those older stoves are great if the firebox isn’t messed up and the insides aren’t badly cracked or rusted through. But the fireboxes are small and they are not airtight. I used one for 30 years. The water heating casting in the firebox was a real plus. By day’s end, after cooking a couple meals, the tank had enough hot water to fill the bathtub a couple times.
The Elmira is a Canadian made cast iron stove that looks like the old-time stoves, but has firebrick lined ample firebox. But they are pricy. As a long term investment, it may be worth it.
The Amish made heavy steel wood cook stoves have big fireboxes and will heat a well insulated moderate sized home. Lots of happy users. I did see one that had been fired hard and there was a good bit of internal warpage. So, if you are buying used, check that.
I have a couple wood cook stoves that are also gas ranges. Dual fuel. Four gas burners on one side and two or four plates on the wood side. One has a gas oven and I’m not sure about the other one.
Here’s a site you might want to study, lots of info: http://www.woodstoves.net/cookstoves.htm

The Flame view fire box is 4752 cu in, Princess is 4,620 and the Kitchen Queen is 5472. You won't find many (any?) older cook stoves that'll take an 18 inch long piece of wood. These will. Plus they'll hold a fire overnight.

[bill83]

We sure like our Flame view for the same reasons that Chalk Creek does--HUGE firebox can heat 2000 sq ft, not as much splitting, is gorgeous and radiates heat for quite a while after I let the fire go out. Yeah, it's spendy but it's a worthwhile investment. I had it a while before I got it hooked up and my city raised wife was quite sceptical until after I did get it connected and ran it a week, Now she loves it.

[||Downhome||]

momofseven did not notice to big of a break on price between sites, theres a distributor here in mi, I was thinking I could drive and pick up and save shipping cost but they are most likely drop shipped. not that saving the shipping would get me any closer. (BROKE just a nice dream at the moment)

ronbre have a link for those michigan amish made stoves?

pounce better then 3k on price.

with what I have in mind I think the gem would work for me I think a nice balance of form and function is achieved.

I would opt out on the reservoir and go with a water jacket and stove boiler though.
along with zone control and a boiler pump and hot water heat. even out the over all temps.

gives me something to think on.

[horsepoor21]

We picked up a Margin Gem ,that was only used for 4 months , this summer on craigslist for under two thousand !

It's not been hooked up yet , just sitting in the middle of our kitchen , wonderful for hitting your hip bone or stubbing toes on right now . LOL

[steff bugielski]

OK the Flame view is an awesome stove. I am putting it on my wish list.

[7thswan]

This is the one I'll be putting in the cabin, my parents cabin that I'll be getting in the next few years. The white one. We have a dealer I spoke with this spring. His wife uses a Kitchen Queen tho. She prefers it for bakeing and I'd like the Flameview for both heating and bakeing. The problem is that it does not have a "summer" grate, which brings the grate upward for a smaller firebox in the summer. My dh can fix that problem.

[randy11acres]

Drool

[Pony]

We're reconsidering the Kitchen Queen. That is one serious firebox, and the oven is good-sized as well.

For the difference in price, we can live with "ugly" (or "unattractive"). We can use the extra thousand bucks on a lot of other things here on the farm.