where do you get your wood cook stoves??
 

I have been having issues of trying to find a descent wood working cook stove...found one i liked but need to much welding in wood burning side plus parts missing-they used it for decoration only...found another one practically new but has same issues...no one i called around 50 mile radius will weld cast iron around here..

I found Antique Stove.com which is from Michigan that sells a few kind of wood cook stoves and cheaper than any place i have found/even shipping is cheaper...

My questions is what kind of wood cook stoves do you all have/use/like?? Might help me to decide on which one i will buy...would like to stay away from the 7' flue size as that pipe is harder to find...other than that don't have no likes/dislikes on any of the stoves i looked at...they are all nice stoves...don't think i want one with a water reservoir though as need to keep water in them all the time especially while cooking so seams don't go bad...and won't use water reservoir much probably...

Any information you all can give on your wood cook stoves might help me decide which one i buy since having to buy a new one.....Please help....
Thanks in advance!!!!

My pioneer made wood cook stove has a 7 inch flue and I use a 7 to 6 reducer and it works for me.

Can I add a followup question? Will house insurance still cover you if you have one?

Some ins. cos. will cover them, some not. If yours won't-get another co.
I bought my stoves from craigs list, at auction(that one was in a basement) and the one I have in the house is from an antique store.
Michigan does seem to have a lot of stoves,probably because most of the stoves I've looked at-they have not been used with coal. Coal burns out the grates. So when you buy one, that is the first suggestion to look/ask about.
I also use a reducer from 7 to 6 inches. And I put a damper in the pipe to have even more control over the stove. I have a Home Comfort, a South Bend Malable and the one in the house, Renown. Infact the the picture you posted in the last thread looked like a Renown.

Generally the older stoves are pretty, but are limited by their small fire box and lack of control because they are not air tight.
The newer Amish made stoves are air tight, functional, but not very pretty. They have big fire boxes and could heat a small home, if needed.

There are a few new stoves built to look like the old fancy stoves, but they are costly. I found an Elmira Oval on ebay and drove 500 miles to get it.
When buying an old stove, check that it has the cast iron pieces on the sides of the fire box and that the bottom grates are there. Then check the sides of the oven, especially on the side closest to the fire. Rust holes there will let smoke into the oven and into your house. Broken cast iron that has been heated a thousand times is hard to weld on, so a fix is difficult.
look on ebay.

We have had a Kitchen Queen for years and just love it! Amish made and many of the Amish around us use them. Here is a link.

http://www.kitchenqueenstoves.com/kitchenqueenstoves/

http://i384.photobucket.com/albums/o...s/DSC08512.jpg

I got mine from a sweet couple on eBay. Had to travel 5 hrs one way to get it. Was so worth it. 1920 Montgomery ward with water tank and warming oven. It burns coal and wood. Has the the liners in it for the coal.

The kitchen Queen is the one we have decided on too. Don't have it yet but the minds are made up, finally. Good pic of one there. How big is your home and are you heating with it solely?

About 850 SF on main level and 400 SF 2nd floor. Keeps the kitchen more than 80 degress if you get carried away with wood. Living area is fine (that part is a 1860's log cabin so it can be drafty) just have a lap blanket while watching TV or reading. We have convential forced air backup for when we are not home.

We sent the old hens to "canning camp"
http://i384.photobucket.com/albums/o...s/DSC00663.jpg

This is the stove I plan to put in the cabin,maybe here if we stay. Margin Gem.

Lehman's Hardware in Ohio

I sure like Your Floor, rod44. What kind of wood is that?

Character grade cherry but I wouldn't use it again. Looks nice, wears nice, but just let a dog or person with damp feet walk across it and it sure shows!!! I nice lighter oak might be a little more user friendly as far as keeping clean wise. It would be just as dirty but not show as much.:grin:

There is a Pioneer brand stove dealer, an Amish business , in Humansville Mo. Check with the Amish for directions. Or PM me and I will get directions /name for you.

In Windsor Mo Heartland building supplies north of Windsor on WW Hwy turn west Left on 1400 road at the 4 County auction house. Go past the store and turn in at J&K truss shop.

The last time (2 weeks) I was in he did not have any display models of wood stoves on hand. Had all kinds of wood heat stoves, inside and outside, vent pipes, adapters and just about everything you need.

I do not recall the brand name of cook stove they carry. They are similar to Pioneer Princess but I was told a little better made and less expensive than the Pioneer brand.


The Lehman's website has a lot of good info on stoves.

We swapped for this Fawcett-Maywood. I liked the big oven, it holds 6 big loaves and bakes nice and evenly. The firebox has a broken section against the outside but still holds up well enough. We didn't get the back/shelf in the swap, so I miss having a spoon rest that's handy.

It's definitely not air-tight, a full load of wood burns out in about 30-45 minutes, if I'm baking it's every 20 minutes using finer chopped wood, as I need the oven temperature over 400 F. We set the electric stove's timer, when it goes off, we put in more wood. In the morning, we steal a couple scoops of live coals from the Valley Comfort, as there's a nice coal bed in there. This way we get almost instant heat, which speeds up breakfast preparations.

Between the wood cook-stove and the air-tight Valley Comfort we heat 3000 sq. ft of living space. We don't need any other back up heat. We go through a little under 1 cubic cord of seasoned white poplar a month. That figures in using the cook stove all year round, except for the odd really hot spell, where the electric stove sees some use, but that's pretty rare. Poplar produces lots of ashes-- we have to empty the ash container every 3rd day.

I have had a Kitchen Queen for 8 years. It is not as good as my mother's Wamsler. We heat the house with it, besides cooking. It takes a lot of wood until you finally can fry an egg.
Certainly is a heater/cooker combination. Couple of things I do not like, I wish the oven door would open down, and I wish the clean out opening were on the side and not behind. That is a pain in the kazoo. If your stove is freestanding in the room it would not matter. The cooking surface is difficult to clean and rusts. If you heat and cook a lot it does not look nice for long. Unless there is a secret to cleaning it that I do not know.

Do you heat solely with it? How big is your home? Any guess on how much wood u go through a season? Thanks

The top on a kitchen Queen stays nice and shining clean if you keep at it like the Amish do. It seems that it is a sign of good housekeeping to have a shiny clean stove top. They scrub it every day with fine grit paper or stainless steel cleanser. I would not win any contests with mine however:(

Sorry if I missed this but can you heat your entire house with this?? And would you heat with this cook stove or normal wood stove if you had to make a choice??

I am going to heat a 800 sq foot house and trying to decide between cook stove and wood stove??

I have three wood stoves here. A cheapo in the living room that eats firewood, a small Vermont Castings in a back room that is awesome, but the location doesn't benefit the rest of the house much, and a Pioneer Maid cook stove. The cook stove is by far my option if I'm going to use one stove. It really kicks out the heat and it's fairly easy on wood and has a large firebox. It's not a pretty as a lot of stoves, but as far as functionality I think it's hard to beat. And how good stuff works is my main concern. Looks is way down the list for me personally.

Cindilu
It should heat the whole area with no problem. Especially if you have a fan to circulate the heat. A wood stove takes up less space but it sure is nice to have that oven and cook top.

I've had my Kitchen Queen for 2 years. Absolutely love it! Kept my house around 80+ most of winter. I like it hot. One night, slightly over loaded the firebox and was 102 in a couple of hours. I use regular wood stove wood up to 14 inches. That's just the way I cut it for my particular handling. Larger unsplit rounds for longer burns. Still have a good bed of embers when I get home from work. I've only been through just under 3 cords for the entire winter.

My stove top isn't shiny anymore, but I found that if I spilled milk on it, it turned a shiny bluish-grey.

It is our only source of heat. Our house is about 1000 sqf. Two bedrooms. Our house is super insulated, so we use a lot less.
Maybe two cords so far.

I'm planning on buying a 380 Kitchen Queen.....I've looked at this and that, talked with this dealer and that dealer....and I plan to use it for heat mainly, and cook on it when I'm using it in the winter.
I'm putting my old mealmaster in a screen house for summer canning....if I can find a few like I've seen advertised on craigslist I may put a couple more in so I can run 6 or 8 canners at the time and not have to can all day and half the night.

We bought our Pioneer Princess from the Amish in Seymour.

I bought an Elmira Oval from an ebay auction. About 20 years old, airtight, large firebox, heavy and not cheap.

Pioneer princess link:http://www.antiquestoves.com/Pioneer...r-Princess.htm

Here is my old girl. I permanitaly sealed the vent on the side,both for safety and so I have more control over the burn. The firebox is small, but we use a woodburner for our main heat sourse.

I like craigslist for such things,,heres a couple I found just using the search engine,typed in wood cook stove,,there are quite a few near me

http://centralmich.craigslist.org/atq/4270424142.html

http://grandrapids.craigslist.org/app/4307067110.html

http://grandrapids.craigslist.org/atq/4330131414.html

http://grandrapids.craigslist.org/atq/4269741507.html

double post :gaptooth:

Love everyone's wood cook stove pics!!! Thanks for sharing!!

Still doing research on them-found a place that are Mennonites/Amish in West Plains that suppose to sell them-gonna call them today & if they don't have them-gonna get the pioneer princess from antiquestoves.com...they seem to have the best prices & cheapest chipping.......already called & talked to them about their stoves..they are out of Michigan..
If anyone is near West Plains,Mo & knows of Peace Valley Poultry-that is the place that is suppose to sell the stoves,so can drive down & buy one.....let me know if you know of this place/or live in the area......417-277-5869 is their number if anyone else is looking for wood cook stoves in Mo.

Thanks so much for everyone's help.......