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I freaked out over gas bills over 20 years ago. Then put in a wood stove. That's all I've used since. Wouldn't have it any other way now. Some friends suggested buying a pellet stove, I thought Nahhhh, I work in the woods a lot and could burn pallets if I had to. Not to mention the blowers and pellet feeder wouldn't work without power. I don't know how many times I went to their place and they were freezing because pellets were no where to be found..LOL. Glad I went old school. I also have a fireplace (that I added). We only burn that when we want to look at fire. It doesn't hold a candle to a wood stove as far as heating. Thanks for the Vid.
Gary Letcher awesome man, and I agree about the pellet stove, they are nice, but the pellets are expensive and like you said they need power to operate properly, plus wood is everywhere for free. Thanks my friend!
I have same brand 2421, just little bigger, going on 10yrs now an it works great , I use fire brick inside bottom like yours , I burn locust, hedge, ash, no problems , I also added an extra damper 3 feet higher than original cause it draws strong, great stoves, good video thanks,
I've installed one at a weekend cabin. I used regular bricks at the bottom like you did but I also added bricks on the sides. I have experienced that most of the heat radiated from the chimeney tube and not from the stove, since the firewood was too high inside the stove. Now with your video I understand that the walls of the stove are the parts that should be radiating heat to the house. I'll try to modify this the next weekend. Your fire runs slow and steady, my stove eats wood too fast, maybe it also comes from using small firewood cuts. I appreciate your video. All the best from Guatemala.
Omar Lemus you're right, the bricks along the walls of the stove will keep it from putting out a lot of heat, and mine does burn thru wood fast too, depending on the size and type. Thanks for watching from Guatemala, very cool'
Man thats cozy as can be.We have natural gas heat in front of the house but our house is big and when it gets even in the 30s the house gets chilly so I start the woodstove in the back of the house.The problem I want to get away from like you I can go maybe 3 hours at best before I have add more wood.There is one important thing in all my years of using this stove is that at night I put extra big pieces of wood so it burn as long as possible but make sure you got a hot fire before adding such big wood.I have magic heat added to the stove pipe man it doubles the heat it put out before I added it.Its a blower that captures the heat that we normally lose going out the pipe.Thanks for a very nice woodstove video.
N.E.Arkansas Trash Trucks&Lottery I do the same, adding bigger logs to it before I go to bed. I’ll check into one of those magic heat. Thanks for watching.
I got the large US log burning stove. I had it out in the garage. And moving it inside. I had the puppy glowing red HOT. Every bit of 200,000 BTU ! Then i let cool down slowly. How to make a rocket stove out of it is? By pulling out the ash tray about 1" this make it suck in air from the bottom to the top. It will sound JUST LIKE A ROCKET STOVE ~ Yes i love it 👍👍
I'm In Texas and keep wanting to get one of these to put in my shed shop for me and the outdoor animals that don't like to come in. I live in the city but have a never ending supply of fire wood from work that I just burn in the fire pit anyways. I was skeptical of the longevity of this stove. Thanks for posting. Mine will be exposed to humidity so I'll have to grease the outside to "season it" I imagine tho. I wish they were still $200.
Awesome to hear i just purchased one its never been put together and been sitting. Quick question where and do u use firebrick inside or just the cast grate
I just bought the 2421 used from a guy who needed a bigger stove for his garage. Paid $200 for it. All I need is the pipe and the damper plate on the front. I was just told to use bricks inside. I guess I should look for them. Great advice. I'm kinda new at this.
LeAnn Addleman nice! You got a good deal. If you use red bricks, be sure to use the older ones, newer bricks could explode, the ones I use are probably 60+ years old, from an old brick pile I found. It's a great stove, it'll be time to fire it up soon. Enjoy it.
Thanks I just purchased it an I’ll have it fully installed hopefully this week. Love the review cause I was worried. Does this model have the insulation in the top that most people remove?
paul connors you just clean out with a little shovel, it doesn’t build up too many ashes, but easy clean up. It’s a great stove. You won’t be disappointed. Thanks for watching.
I like the fire brick in the bottom of the box. I purchased the Logwood 2421 about 10 years ago when I bought this house but haven't installed it. Now that we're looking at skyrocketing prices on LP I'm looking to install it in the basement (1 story with a basement) and it should heat the house entirely.
Quick question. I’m looking at this stove but was cautioned to over heat the stove to the point of the side of bottom to turn white. (Too hot) can you or anyone else please advise?
Brandon Sorensen while that is true, my stove has had white sides since the first season of use. I’ve gotten it so hot, I’ve had to open the door to the outside winter, to cool off our house lol. But it still works all these years later, and just as good as day one, which is 6 or 7 years now. Just try not to over heat it, it’s hard not to at times. That’s with any stove though.
Howdy SurvivorMetalMan, and great video! I see that you passed the pipe through that window. Can you show us on the next video how it looks while working on the outside of the house? How will it work on a house with vinyl siding?
I’ve actually got it going straight up through the roof now. But when I had it going out the window, I had a 3 foot section going straight out, then up, as to not get too close to the out side walls. I have vinyl siding as well, and never had an issue.
I got one, and the epa got hold of the newer ones and the tops no longer are removable. I am hoping we can cook on it, it gets windy up here in farm country in pa and the power does go out a bit. And plus electric heat jesus raises the bill sky rocket.
I got one like it and last year we had that thang pushing heat in the front room could not get heat any where else with fans around it I live in Oklahoma
I’m in Oklahoma too, it heats my house very good. It doesn’t heat every room to 75 degrees, but it warms every room. It’s been so hot in my living room, we’ve had to open the front door to let some heat out. This winter will be 8 or 9 years using it.
I put bricks in the bottom so as to not burn the bottom out over time. But I only use very old bricks, newer bricks still have moisture in them, and will explode.
Eric Moses I do not know that. I do know, that I’ve had it super hot, where it practically burn us out of the house, we hold to open the door to the winter weather to cool it off a bit. And there were no issues with it. It’s still keeping us warm this winter too. It should serve you well.
To be honest I've buried my temp guage past 800 and have gotten very concerned was trying to suffocate it etc all it wanted ti di was keep building heat 800+ an it not once has glown yet
Double Walled pipes are best, especially for small stoves. That way the chimney stays hot enough to burn out the creosote for you most of the time. :-)
Nice stove. When I first saw the video in my subscription videos for the day I thought to myself who the crap is survivormetalman? Didn't take long to get it. Wish we were allowed to have a setup like that here but we are not due to codes etc.
heiðinn lol, I recently changed the name of my channel to kind of fit everything this channel is, lol. Too bad about the codes in your area, it really works very well. It's worth every penny I paid for it. Thanks for watching.
How many sq ft is your house. I have the exact model 900sq ft and my house is 1257sq ft and I had to put it in a room that is all the way in the north west corner of my house. I'll be running fans in the upper windows and fans on the floor. Upper window fans to pull the not air out and floor fans to push cold towards it. I will have money set aside incase I need the 1600sq ft model but shouldn't I be okay for the most part
My house is 1390 sq ft, and it stays very warm, sometimes too warm. My master bedroom stays pretty cold, but only because I keep it that way, I like a cold bedroom to sleep, but this keeps the whole house warm.
Thats good to know my house is 1,300 square feet and i just bought one from a buddy for 100 bucks i havent got it installed yet i initially put in a pellet furnace and have a propane furnace for a backup but honestly the pellet stove is supposed heat 2,200 square feet and i have it tied into the duct work but its not enough i live in northern Michigan and we have lots of power outages and crazy cold tempatures with lots of snow ill be taking out the pellet stove and putting the woodstove i remember when i was a kid my step dad started out here with a cast iron woodstove in the mud room but i cant for the life of me remember of it was small medium or large i dont think it was much bigger then that cast iron stove then we ended up with a forced outdoor wood stove but the back of the house caught fire and burned that all up had it redone but no woodstove back there i cant afford to heat with propane its way to expensive up here and i have 25 acres of good hardwood
@@joerevord8050 I just literally fired it up today because I didn't want to use propane with how cold it will be tonight in the 10's it works good just have to keep it roaring for my old house. Used a lot of wood since it isn't very efficient
@@coryhaase1237 i dont have much of a choice in that i havent been working i had to quit my job to take care of my mom who found shes got breast cancer again only this time its not curable the place i was working wouldnt let me take anytime off at all to take her to appointments but things are not that great so i have to be here full time to take care of her with no money to pay for pellets or propane i dont have much else choice but to run that
Have you ever tried blocking some of the air intake area in the front of the stove to slow your burn and increase burn times? That's in addition to the dampener. I would think there would still be plenty of air to keep it going.
Well just looking at what I can of your house I highly doubt it insulated properly so yea heating will cost alot , also does your insurance cover that stove ?? I doubt it and 3 years and you say it works great wait till that cheap thing cracks
It’s an older home, so yeah, it’s not the best insulation, but it’s actually not too bad. That “cheap thing” has been going 8 or 9 years strong with zero issues.
I freaked out over gas bills over 20 years ago. Then put in a wood stove. That's all I've used since. Wouldn't have it any other way now. Some friends suggested buying a pellet stove, I thought Nahhhh, I work in the woods a lot and could burn pallets if I had to. Not to mention the blowers and pellet feeder wouldn't work without power. I don't know how many times I went to their place and they were freezing because pellets were no where to be found..LOL. Glad I went old school. I also have a fireplace (that I added). We only burn that when we want to look at fire. It doesn't hold a candle to a wood stove as far as heating. Thanks for the Vid.
I freaked out over gas bills over 20 years ago. Then put in a wood stove. That's all I've used since. Wouldn't have it any other way now. Some friends suggested buying a pellet stove, I thought Nahhhh, I work in the woods a lot and could burn pallets if I had to. Not to mention the blowers and pellet feeder wouldn't work without power. I don't know how many times I went to their place and they were freezing because pellets were no where to be found..LOL. Glad I went old school. I also have a fireplace (that I added). We only burn that when we want to look at fire. It doesn't hold a candle to a wood stove as far as heating. Thanks for the Vid.
Gary Letcher awesome man, and I agree about the pellet stove, they are nice, but the pellets are expensive and like you said they need power to operate properly, plus wood is everywhere for free. Thanks my friend!
I have same brand 2421, just little bigger, going on 10yrs now an it works great , I use fire brick inside bottom like yours , I burn locust, hedge, ash, no problems , I also added an extra damper 3 feet higher than original cause it draws strong, great stoves, good video thanks,
Indian Creek awesome! I may give that extra damper a try.
US Stove actually recommends firebrick to line the bottom of the stove to prevent it from cracking.Good job thinking ahead.
pavman1000 yep, and thank you sir, it's an old school trick, and it works. Thanks for watching.
How about building up 4 or 5 inches of ash?
Excellent video. Thanks a ton.
Love the retro look
1991tommygun it’s a great stove.
I've installed one at a weekend cabin. I used regular bricks at the bottom like you did but I also added bricks on the sides. I have experienced that most of the heat radiated from the chimeney tube and not from the stove, since the firewood was too high inside the stove. Now with your video I understand that the walls of the stove are the parts that should be radiating heat to the house.
I'll try to modify this the next weekend. Your fire runs slow and steady, my stove eats wood too fast, maybe it also comes from using small firewood cuts. I appreciate your video. All the best from Guatemala.
Omar Lemus you're right, the bricks along the walls of the stove will keep it from putting out a lot of heat, and mine does burn thru wood fast too, depending on the size and type. Thanks for watching from Guatemala, very cool'
Omar Lemus thats one good thing about CZcams we can learn from each other.
Man thats cozy as can be.We have natural gas heat in front of the house but our house is big and when it gets even in the 30s the house gets chilly so I start the woodstove in the back of the house.The problem I want to get away from like you I can go maybe 3 hours at best before I have add more wood.There is one important thing in all my years of using this stove is that at night I put extra big pieces of wood so it burn as long as possible but make sure you got a hot fire before adding such big wood.I have magic heat added to the stove pipe man it doubles the heat it put out before I added it.Its a blower that captures the heat that we normally lose going out the pipe.Thanks for a very nice woodstove video.
N.E.Arkansas Trash Trucks&Lottery I do the same, adding bigger logs to it before I go to bed. I’ll check into one of those magic heat. Thanks for watching.
Looks very good! Thumbs up from Ireland! :)
Drone Girl thanks! I love 🇮🇪
I got the large US log burning stove. I had it out in the garage. And moving it inside. I had the puppy glowing red HOT. Every bit of 200,000 BTU ! Then i let cool down slowly. How to make a rocket stove out of it is? By pulling out the ash tray about 1" this make it suck in air from the bottom to the top. It will sound JUST LIKE A ROCKET STOVE ~ Yes i love it 👍👍
I'm In Texas and keep wanting to get one of these to put in my shed shop for me and the outdoor animals that don't like to come in. I live in the city but have a never ending supply of fire wood from work that I just burn in the fire pit anyways. I was skeptical of the longevity of this stove. Thanks for posting. Mine will be exposed to humidity so I'll have to grease the outside to "season it" I imagine tho. I wish they were still $200.
I’m still using it, it’s going on 8 or 9 years now. Still functioning good.
Great information!
Jesse Alvarado thanks my friend!
Awesome to hear i just purchased one its never been put together and been sitting. Quick question where and do u use firebrick inside or just the cast grate
B.Baggins I use firebrick inside, line the bottom, it’ll make your stove last years longer.
Kansas here bro.. if you get it, we got it first... lol! great video.. ty..
This is 2021 now, Menards has a 1229E stove for sale. i wonder how these two stoves compare.
My chimney leaks so I ran it out the window works great.
Nice setup dude. I need to redo mine one of these days
Man, it’s our sole source of heating in the winter, it works great. I’m tired of paying the utility company money lol.
I just bought the 2421 used from a guy who needed a bigger stove for his garage. Paid $200 for it. All I need is the pipe and the damper plate on the front. I was just told to use bricks inside. I guess I should look for them. Great advice. I'm kinda new at this.
LeAnn Addleman nice! You got a good deal. If you use red bricks, be sure to use the older ones, newer bricks could explode, the ones I use are probably 60+ years old, from an old brick pile I found. It's a great stove, it'll be time to fire it up soon. Enjoy it.
They are worth 75 used. You got hosed.
Thanks I just purchased it an I’ll have it fully installed hopefully this week. Love the review cause I was worried. Does this model have the insulation in the top that most people remove?
You’ll love it, it works great. Mine didn’t have any insulation, but not sure on the newer models.
im looking to get one of these stoves how do you clean doesn't look like it has a trap at the bottom for ashes
paul connors you just clean out with a little shovel, it doesn’t build up too many ashes, but easy clean up. It’s a great stove. You won’t be disappointed. Thanks for watching.
Thanks I just got one
I like the fire brick in the bottom of the box. I purchased the Logwood 2421 about 10 years ago when I bought this house but haven't installed it. Now that we're looking at skyrocketing prices on LP I'm looking to install it in the basement (1 story with a basement) and it should heat the house entirely.
I bet you still haven't installed, yah lazy bastah'd
@@theproudONE92 AND the E.P.A. would shut it down because it doesn't have a catalytic converter! Fracken environmentalist tree-hugger bastah'ds.
Quick question. I’m looking at this stove but was cautioned to over heat the stove to the point of the side of bottom to turn white. (Too hot) can you or anyone else please advise?
Brandon Sorensen while that is true, my stove has had white sides since the first season of use. I’ve gotten it so hot, I’ve had to open the door to the outside winter, to cool off our house lol. But it still works all these years later, and just as good as day one, which is 6 or 7 years now. Just try not to over heat it, it’s hard not to at times. That’s with any stove though.
Howdy
SurvivorMetalMan, and great video! I see that you passed the pipe through that window. Can you show us on the next video how it looks while working on the outside of the house? How will it work on a house with vinyl siding?
I’ve actually got it going straight up through the roof now. But when I had it going out the window, I had a 3 foot section going straight out, then up, as to not get too close to the out side walls. I have vinyl siding as well, and never had an issue.
I got one, and the epa got hold of the newer ones and the tops no longer are removable. I am hoping we can cook on it, it gets windy up here in farm country in pa and the power does go out a bit. And plus electric heat jesus raises the bill sky rocket.
It’s been serving us well for many years now. And with this Siberian front, it’s worked tremendously well.
I remember you putting that in
I got one like it and last year we had that thang pushing heat in the front room could not get heat any where else with fans around it I live in Oklahoma
I’m in Oklahoma too, it heats my house very good. It doesn’t heat every room to 75 degrees, but it warms every room. It’s been so hot in my living room, we’ve had to open the front door to let some heat out. This winter will be 8 or 9 years using it.
Does smoke seep out of the burner covers or the top plate?
No. With a good draw, there is seapage
How did you connect your pipe to the stove? Its just over 6 inch and a b!tc# to put a 6 in pipe on
I took a pair of pliers, and flared out the end of the pipe just a bit, and then just mashed it in there. it’s a tight fight for sure.
I’ve got the newer version of this stove, and they say do not put bricks in it
I put bricks in the bottom so as to not burn the bottom out over time. But I only use very old bricks, newer bricks still have moisture in them, and will explode.
I just bought an old school bus with this stove in it, do u by chance know what the "overfire temp" rating is
Eric Moses I do not know that. I do know, that I’ve had it super hot, where it practically burn us out of the house, we hold to open the door to the winter weather to cool it off a bit. And there were no issues with it. It’s still keeping us warm this winter too. It should serve you well.
@@SurvivorMetalMan I've had mine past 800° been kinda worried but it hasn't glowed yet so I guess shouldn't be too worried lol
To be honest I've buried my temp guage past 800 and have gotten very concerned was trying to suffocate it etc all it wanted ti di was keep building heat 800+ an it not once has glown yet
They're cheap.
They work.
They last.
Maybe not as efficient as a more modern stove but ...... When you can get wood cheap go for it
Does thaw stove get hot enough on top to cook food
Absolutely
hello, what kind of pipes did you use
Jackes Belony I used regular old stove pipe, I bought at Lowe's.
Double Walled pipes are best, especially for small stoves. That way the chimney stays hot enough to burn out the creosote for you most of the time. :-)
How long can you keep a fire going in it ?
Thom Miller full load of good seasoned oak hardwood, 3-4 hours.
@@SurvivorMetalMan Thank you !!!
im in Muskogee and looking at one of these on Facebook without legs to stick in a FirePlace
Pancakebut it works good my friend.
Nice stove. When I first saw the video in my subscription videos for the day I thought to myself who the crap is survivormetalman? Didn't take long to get it. Wish we were allowed to have a setup like that here but we are not due to codes etc.
heiðinn lol, I recently changed the name of my channel to kind of fit everything this channel is, lol. Too bad about the codes in your area, it really works very well. It's worth every penny I paid for it. Thanks for watching.
I have a similar stove but it has an opening under the door and two small holes on each side.
Did I waste $50?
Nope
You can seal it up with a gasket kit and stove cement. Apparently magnets over the holes work.
Show us how you ran the pipe out the window.
seoulkidd1 look at my older stove videos, it just went up from stove, then an elbow to run straight out the window, another elbow, then straight up.
Are those bricks on the bottom?
Paul Watterson yes, old bricks, not newer ones.
@@SurvivorMetalMan Thank you.
How clean does it burn
it’s pretty clean, I only have to give it one yearly cleaning. But I guess that depends on the type of wood you burn.
SurvivorMetalMan like the smoke I mean
How many sq ft is your house. I have the exact model 900sq ft and my house is 1257sq ft and I had to put it in a room that is all the way in the north west corner of my house. I'll be running fans in the upper windows and fans on the floor. Upper window fans to pull the not air out and floor fans to push cold towards it. I will have money set aside incase I need the 1600sq ft model but shouldn't I be okay for the most part
My house is 1390 sq ft, and it stays very warm, sometimes too warm. My master bedroom stays pretty cold, but only because I keep it that way, I like a cold bedroom to sleep, but this keeps the whole house warm.
I appreciate it man
Thats good to know my house is 1,300 square feet and i just bought one from a buddy for 100 bucks i havent got it installed yet i initially put in a pellet furnace and have a propane furnace for a backup but honestly the pellet stove is supposed heat 2,200 square feet and i have it tied into the duct work but its not enough i live in northern Michigan and we have lots of power outages and crazy cold tempatures with lots of snow ill be taking out the pellet stove and putting the woodstove i remember when i was a kid my step dad started out here with a cast iron woodstove in the mud room but i cant for the life of me remember of it was small medium or large i dont think it was much bigger then that cast iron stove then we ended up with a forced outdoor wood stove but the back of the house caught fire and burned that all up had it redone but no woodstove back there i cant afford to heat with propane its way to expensive up here and i have 25 acres of good hardwood
@@joerevord8050 I just literally fired it up today because I didn't want to use propane with how cold it will be tonight in the 10's it works good just have to keep it roaring for my old house. Used a lot of wood since it isn't very efficient
@@coryhaase1237 i dont have much of a choice in that i havent been working i had to quit my job to take care of my mom who found shes got breast cancer again only this time its not curable the place i was working wouldnt let me take anytime off at all to take her to appointments but things are not that great so i have to be here full time to take care of her with no money to pay for pellets or propane i dont have much else choice but to run that
I would comment if I could hear it, turn up the volume please...
Can you burn coal in this stove (real coal, not charcoal)?
Paul Watterson I’m no sure, I don’t see why not, but not much coal in my area to try. But that’s something to find out.
@@SurvivorMetalMan Thank you for sharing.
yes, but you would need to add a grate
just leaving about 2" of ash in the bottom would also protect it... or sand for that matter
Whats your burn time?
seoulkidd1 depends on the load and wood type, but around 1 1/2 to 2 hours, as a ballpark roundabout guess.
Wow thats nuts!!! Even 2 hrs????? You need a new stove and save on wood!!!!! You might as well put a chair by it and just chuck the wood in!!!
Have you ever tried blocking some of the air intake area in the front of the stove to slow your burn and increase burn times? That's in addition to the dampener. I would think there would still be plenty of air to keep it going.
Make sure they are clay bricks like they use to make not concrete brick like is now made.
pavman1000 they are old red bricks, probably 75+ years old. Don’t use newer red bricks either.
Gas central heat is much more even than wood heat. I have experience with both.
Gammareign so do I, that’s why I opted for the wood stove.
At full volume I cannot hear what you are saying.
I just got mine $399......
Voice to low. Turned up but still to low
Well just looking at what I can of your house I highly doubt it insulated properly so yea heating will cost alot , also does your insurance cover that stove ?? I doubt it and 3 years and you say it works great wait till that cheap thing cracks
It’s an older home, so yeah, it’s not the best insulation, but it’s actually not too bad. That “cheap thing” has been going 8 or 9 years strong with zero issues.
Mike Dude you obviously have never used one of them, so I wouldn't be so quick to knock it. And also why pick the guy apart?
Talk louder
I freaked out over gas bills over 20 years ago. Then put in a wood stove. That's all I've used since. Wouldn't have it any other way now. Some friends suggested buying a pellet stove, I thought Nahhhh, I work in the woods a lot and could burn pallets if I had to. Not to mention the blowers and pellet feeder wouldn't work without power. I don't know how many times I went to their place and they were freezing because pellets were no where to be found..LOL. Glad I went old school. I also have a fireplace (that I added). We only burn that when we want to look at fire. It doesn't hold a candle to a wood stove as far as heating. Thanks for the Vid.
Gary Letcher awesome my friend, I wouldn’t be without a wood stove again.