Buying New Stove

fishey · Post by **fishey** » Tue. Oct. 16, 2012 6:01 am

what are the pro and con between the hitzer 30/95 and the Harman megafire. inm looking for more heat. I have a hitzer55 now. im looking to buy a new stove

EarthWindandFire · Post by **EarthWindandFire** » Tue. Oct. 16, 2012 6:38 am

Hi fishey,

As you already know, the 30-95 puts out nearly the same amount of BTU's as your 55. Is your stove in the basement or the living room of your home?

Post by **Rob R.** » Tue. Oct. 16, 2012 7:33 am

If you want a bigger stove, I'd look at a 50-93 Hitzer or one if the DS Machine Circulating stoves.

Where is the 55 located in your house?

fishey · Post by **fishey** » Tue. Oct. 16, 2012 3:50 pm

the stove in the livingroom I ment the hitzer 30/95

freetown fred · Post by **freetown fred** » Tue. Oct. 16, 2012 4:07 pm

He knew what you meant. How big is your house? What is the problem w/ the 55??? If you want MORE heat, neither of the stoves you are looking at can do that I don't believe. Like was mentioned, check out the Hitzer 50-93

EarthWindandFire · Post by **EarthWindandFire** » Tue. Oct. 16, 2012 5:43 pm

Since you live on the shore of Lake Erie, I can understand why you would want/need a larger stove!

The DS Circulator model 1500 would be a great stove. It's rated for 96,000 BTU's and holds 60lbs of coal in the firebox and 40lbs of coal in the hopper.

freetown fred · Post by **freetown fred** » Tue. Oct. 16, 2012 6:23 pm

The 50-93 takes to be shook down & hopper topped off every 12 hrs or so--good to get into the consistency of doing it at those intervals. Once you get it going initially, she takes approx 40 lbs a day ( 5 gal. paint pail) No worry about power outages with the gravity feed hopper--comes with a blower which I use rarely heating 2000 sq.--the 30-95 would not do that well with that amount of space, plus I'm in an old farm house, so pretty broken up.