Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Way back during the Lucenet days I wrote a post saying that I would send another forum a copy of a Fisher Manual. Since then I've received dozens of requests for the manual and have faithfully sent them out for free. With this website address I'll NEVER have to mail another paper copy of the manual!

Thanks again!

Haha! I own a Fisher woodstove but it's sitting in the barn. (my backup) Tookme days to find that link. I even copied it but can't find it in my computer. So had to go back to the original site. Compliments to www.hearth.com

What a GREAT site! (Hearth.com)

My son and I started building holzhauzens after I read about it through another site and insisted I wanted to try it. I love them. MUCH better for me than a row. AND it looks cool too. We build small ones since I'm smaller and we don't have much wood put by... So far, there isn't anything I DON'T like about holzhauzens... I suppose the mice will like them better than a traditional row rick/cord, but *shrug* it gives the dogs something to do...

I've bookmarked the site AND printed off the Fisher manual. Thanks!

Hey Cabin Fever! I just installed that very Fischer stove you have a picture of. I don't have any info on it though and there is no underwriting laboratory sticker on it. Do you still have your manual on it? Thanks

Great link, Thank you..

Although I don't need the manual for our Fisher stove, we used it and maintained it for years before switching to a coal stove. Now it sits in storage till we need it again, which may be sooner then we think or hope..
But as times get rough, it's always nice knowing you can still heat the home without a lot of costs..

1976 Grandma Bear, Fisher stove
 

Still heating with my Grandma Bear Fisher stove.. 1976 model,before baffle and gasket around door...Cast iron door has pine trees and a star with 76 in it...
Still using the same fire brick that first came with the stove... Works great..
Haven't had to do a thing to it in 32 years,just clean half the ashes out in the morning...
I was looking at new stoves this spring.. Then I started reading about removing baffles,gaskets around the baffles falling out, and secondary gas tubes warping.. Think I'm just going to stick with the Fisher after all..

Up State NY, Honeoye Falls..

Welcome any suggestions on new stoves that may be as reliable as my old Fisher is,but friendlier on wood consumption.. Thanks, Capt..

As you can see from my post up above, I was a proud owner of a Fisher stove in another place where I once lived. The closest stove that I found that is American-made and built as well as the old Fishers is the Lopi Stove brand. I know have the Lopi Endeavor.

Small Fisher Stove
 

Thanks

We are renting a big house and there is a small Fisher Stove in the den that has 3 pine trees on the door. It is about 14" wide and 22" long so when you look inside it looks like it would not burn enough wood to heat anything, but I may be wrong :grin:

Does anyone use starter logs in their stove? The instructions on the started logs say not to use them in a stove :yuck:

thanks again

david a

Had one years ago, and sold it to a friend who really liked it. I still kick myself for not keeping it. Good stoves.

We do not use starter logs or the small pieces in either of our wood stoves. We just use sticks or "fat lighter" for starters. All summer we just pick up sticks and break them and stuff 'em in bundles. The bundles are stored in a wood shed next to the regular wood sheds. Then we just bring in a few bundles and use them as starters.

We still use our Fisher and still like it. We have a Mamma Bear and it is harder to get it hot than our smaller Vermont Castings Stove but once we get the Fisher fired up and hot, then it lasts a long time.

Not to make you uncomfortable, but replace it as soon as possible with a new, high efficiency with the re-burn tube system ( NOT the catalytic converter type).

Two reasons: You'll burn a LOT less wood for the same amount of heat. Those stoves were about 40-50% efficient, and the new ones are in the mid 80% range.

And more important, you won't produce NEAR the amount of creosote the old stoves did.....they were creosote making machines, because often they were oversized for the room/house, and folks kept the air intake cranked way low, and that is the primary cause of creosote ( along with the moisture content of the wood).

I put in a new, high efficiency stove couple years back, and over the course of the entire winter, the amount of creosote won't fill 1/2 a #10 can.....whereas the old stove would fill a 5 gallon bucket.

We use the commerical starter pucks made of wax and sawdust in our wood stove. Also used them to start fires in our old Fisher stove. There are no such warnings on this type of starter. Many here make there own starters out of the exact same or very similar ingredients.

I believe you have a Fisher "Baby Bear" stove as shown below
http://www.wood-stove.org/images/fisher-baby-bear.jpg

I love mine!

Littlebritches,
You can greatly reduce the clearance to flamable walls if you hang a piece of cement board an inch and a half off the wall. I used 2x2s on the outside edges and the old fence post ceramic insulators where it gets hot to space the cement board off the wood wall. I also propped up a couple of scraps against the wall right behind the firebox. The cement board behind the scraps is warm to the touch even though the stove is cooking pretty good. It is -12 as I take these pictures.

http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/...oodstove-2.jpg

http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/...oodstove-1.jpg


Cabin Fever,
Who is the chick in the picture?

That "chick" happens to be my daughter at age 14 (circa ~1993).

She could strangle me because whenever someone reviews the images when they google "Fisher stoves," her photos pop up!

Here she is at age 2 (1981)..
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...isherStove.jpg

Baby Bear
 

YES, we have a Baby Bear - Thank you

It seems so small whan you open the door and look inside. Our den is about 18'x20'.
We will be using wood - will this little stove heat a room this big? I have a feeling yall are going to tell me it will get so hot it will run me out of the room
:hysterical:

thanks again

david a

A friend has the exact same Fisher insert you have in his cabin, great stove! They bring premium prices on the second hand market. His heats a 28X40 cathedral cieling cabin with no effort. Has a good sized firebox and holds a fire all night long.

Thank You
 

Thanks

Sounds like a Baby Bear will do fine

david a

I have a Fisher PaPa Bear free standing wood stove and really like it. I enjoy sitting by a fire in the winter and the Fisher stove throws plenty of heat to warm a north Georgia evening. I like to look at the fire while I read or relax so I keep the doors open when I am right nearby.