Best small hand fired for corner installation
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Ideas of best small hand fired stove , that will burn wood ok and coal great for corner install
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harmon/legacy tlc 2000,
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That’s a nice stove , I’ve been looking all around just keep coming up with hitzer and Ds , I like the hitzer 254 but that Harmon looks like the hot ticket as well , anyone burning a 254 or a Harmon /legacy tlc 2000
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*** sorry for the sideways pictures ,they uploaded that way , that’s my current setup old federal airtight burning nut
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The picture upload issue seems to be a reoccurring event. I just posted pictures and all were upside down. Weird thing is I had posted them here before and they showed up perfectly normal.
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I am not sure if a Legacy Mark I is smaller than a Hitzer 254 or not. Of course the TLC2000 is a good stove but capable of putting out tremendous heat according to the brochure, like my Hitzer 354. There’s 4 stoves mentioned. All good ones, but the last two can heat a lot of space.
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another "vote" for the Harman (Legacy) TLC2000
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Yea I have a Legacy TLC 2000 here. There pretty good stoves so far. I just got it at the end of last burning season so not too much super cold day's with it yet. So far my home is keeping around a 74 degree average, so it's underwear weather here in the house. Our home is extremely leaky and is poorly laid out. We have no storm windows or insulation in our upstairs living area, and it's still around 74 degrees. There was a good article that I think a guy named Devil 500 wrote about building up the TLC's fire bed with some extra firebricks. I have done this to mine, and I really think that it does give a deeper bed and the stove holds it's fire better with a banked deeper bed. I usually only shake once a day and the stove only needs to be fired about every 12 hours. Although since I am retired, I do fiddle with mine more than that.Mobile-tech1 wrote: ↑Tue. Dec. 22, 2020 11:31 pmThat’s a nice stove , I’ve been looking all around just keep coming up with hitzer and Ds , I like the hitzer 254 but that Harmon looks like the hot ticket as well , anyone burning a 254 or a Harmon /legacy tlc 2000
If I were to do it all over again, I would have bought a DS comfortmax, but I really have no complaints with my modified TLC 2000. As far as wood burners go the comfortmax looks like a winner, with it's secondary burners built into them. This makes that stove burn wood a little better than my TLC. But all in all my TLC doesn't do a bad job of burning wood. The government (EPA) changed the laws around, so now you can't buy a wood/coal stove, at least the dealers cannot tell you that, but if you do your research, you will find them out there.
Remember, you can always burn wood in a coal stove, but you can't burn coal in a wood stove.
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The biggest problem I have is space.. I’m limited on it the stove has to go back in this room and it’s our family room and corner instal , I do like the ds comfort max but it’s too wide / deep for my application , I’m primarily going to be burning coal , expect in early and late season heating , the old federal I’m running heats the hole house so far I burned wood last winter and just switched to coal this winter , but it’s kinda a pain to keep running , maybe it’s just me haven’t lost my fire but ash clean out is less than to be desired
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Seagrave , if it’s not to much trouble what are your measurements from the corner of stove to your wall ?
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The TLC might be a better fit for your space. And I think at 75,000 btu's they have a closer wall spacing specs than the average stove. I am also burning mostly coal now, but I will burn wood in the shoulder season. Let me see if I can locate the wall specs for the TLC.Mobile-tech1 wrote: ↑Wed. Dec. 23, 2020 8:59 amThe biggest problem I have is space.. I’m limited on it the stove has to go back in this room and it’s our family room and corner instal , I do like the ds comfort max but it’s too wide / deep for my application , I’m primarily going to be burning coal , expect in early and late season heating , the old federal I’m running heats the hole house so far I burned wood last winter and just switched to coal this winter , but it’s kinda a pain to keep running , maybe it’s just me haven’t lost my fire but ash clean out is less than to be desired
Yea here's the manual. Look on page 6 for the corner clearances. 12" ain't to far for a corner clearance.
https://legacystoves.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/ ... C_2000.pdf
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By the way the TLC is a top/door loading stove. It is also a top venting stove, which take 6" stovepipe.
The T.L.C. stands for Top Loading Coal. And the 2000 stands for the year 2000, (Y2K) for when it was designed as a completely energy independent stove. So if you loose power, your stove will still work. Although there is an AC fan blower option for the stove.
As for me,It's a really good stove, as I don't want to depend on electricity to keep warm.
The T.L.C. stands for Top Loading Coal. And the 2000 stands for the year 2000, (Y2K) for when it was designed as a completely energy independent stove. So if you loose power, your stove will still work. Although there is an AC fan blower option for the stove.
As for me,It's a really good stove, as I don't want to depend on electricity to keep warm.
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If your just going to burn wood in shoulder months just get a coal stove that fits the size you need. It will still burn wood. Dont get all caught up in efficient wood burning if your mostly going to burn coal anyway. You'll figure out a way to burn coal in warmer weather anyway and forget about wood.
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Have you considered a restored antique stove ?
Of the more well-know makes of cast iron Oak, Base Heater, and Suspended Pot type parlor stoves, their heat extracting ability for their size is about the highest you'll ever find. They were designed and built for coal at the height of coal burning technology. It's easy to build a stove to burn wood. It takes more design work to burn coal efficiently. Not meaning to put down modern stoves, but many are just box stoves based on 1970's wood stove designs. Their conversion to coal stoves often isn't as efficient as the antique stoves designed specifically for coal back when stove competition was fierce and coal stove design was at it's pinnacle.
The antique stoves tend to be narrower and taller than modern stoves, which not only fits better in a corner setting, their deep, round, insulated firepots increases their burn efficiency.
Paul
Of the more well-know makes of cast iron Oak, Base Heater, and Suspended Pot type parlor stoves, their heat extracting ability for their size is about the highest you'll ever find. They were designed and built for coal at the height of coal burning technology. It's easy to build a stove to burn wood. It takes more design work to burn coal efficiently. Not meaning to put down modern stoves, but many are just box stoves based on 1970's wood stove designs. Their conversion to coal stoves often isn't as efficient as the antique stoves designed specifically for coal back when stove competition was fierce and coal stove design was at it's pinnacle.
The antique stoves tend to be narrower and taller than modern stoves, which not only fits better in a corner setting, their deep, round, insulated firepots increases their burn efficiency.
Paul