That carpet! Vintage 1968! That stuff lasts forever, long after everyone tires of the color!

My brother has this same stove in his living room. House was built in 1965 and the stove has been there since as long as I can remember.

Always remember to keep that chimney clean or that stove will keep you warm for the rest of your life.

The fireboxes on these were fairly thin stampings. They will rot over time and quickly if ashes are left in them.

I’d be willing to wager it’s been keeping people warm for close to 60 years.

Give a man fire and he'll be warm for a day...

Theres government programs to replace or buy woodstoves for prople that use wood as their source of heat.

My grandmother had the same stove in her living room. Brings back memories of my childhood.

... set a man on fire and he'll never feel anything again.

Reminds me of childhood, needs a pot of water on top to complete the ensemble.

It's worth to note that new modern fireplaces use airflows to burn more cleanly and completely, getting more heat out of the same amount of wood.

Sounds like the stove is made of wood.

But English is not my primary language so please do not beat me to full death :D

It usually did.

Haha! It does sound like the stove is made of wood. But we say “wood stove” because it’s the one where we have a fire and burn wood. If you just say “stove” or “oven” it means the one in the kitchen that plugs in.

(Just in case you wondered.)

Didn't know that, thanks for explaining!

Vintage for sure but no way that is a wood stove. Looks likes is a very old forced air heater. Maybe one of the first few out there. That or a traditional convection one but most convection dont have a filter on front.

Carpet under a wood stove! Eek I guess we have building code for a reason. That's a serious fire hazard. It should have no flammable materials within at least a foot or two.

How does it work more or less?

It just looks like a box.

You seem to know a lot just by looking at a photo

Quickly? Is 30 years quick?

Confidently incorrect.

Hey, this is kinda cool- however the number of fire hazards I see just in this photo has me so concerned for you bud.

Plastic chair that close is a no. Paper on top is a no. The carpet is a no. The curtains that close. The amount of crud that has to be down that register can’t be good for your health when it kicks on.

Seriously, at least rectify the easy stuff here, but make a plan for the rest. You’re taking your life into your hands here, like majorly. Count in your blessings that you haven’t died in a fire!

Check your smoke detectors right now if you do nothing else. Like, stop reading this and go press the test buttons. Go to the store and buy one for each room if you don’t have them already.

Show me a wood stove that is not cast iron for one, show me a fire burning furnace / heater that is made our of sheet metal from anywhere around the age of this one. Show me a fire burning apparatus that has a filter on front.

We do make firepits out of sheet metal now adays because they are cheap and they last about 1 year because the heat destroys them. Furthermore i have a 1970's convection heater that looks very similar to this one.

Until we get the exact model number or pictures showing the inside, i suppose we wont know will we.

No, I already know, it's a woodstove. Did you check the photo to maybe find surroundings that might confirm or deny your suspicions?

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It hasn't caught fire in the last 30 years, so I guess it's not a problem.

So, this stove was moved around to different rooms in the house? Because the condition of the carpet under it testifies that it has not sat in this same location for 30 years.

That brown sheet metal you see on the outside is just a cover/shell. The inner part is made of thick plate steel.

What? Do you not see the concrete under it? Also why do you care?

>That brown sheet metal you see on the outside is just a cover/shell. The inner part is made of thick plate steel.

This could very well be true, but whats the point of the filter on the front?

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I have owned several wood stoves and none of them have looked like this. Where do you put the wood in?

Judging by how old everything looks in that picture, it’s probably asbestos carpet.

Wow that thing is not attractive. If you’re going to be stuck with some box of fire in your living room, at least get one that looks nice.

Lol

Zoolilba I got angry for you having to spend energy responding to that person lol . Hopefully you have a decent day and don't let that posters negative vibe get to you.

my grandfather as well as others in this post have the exact same wood stove. maybe don’t make assumptions about things you don’t know about?

Sorry bud, but I grew up with (nearly) the exact same wood stove sitting ontop of a giant metal street sign on the carpeted floor of my parent’s living room.

It’s basically a metal shell around what you’re more familiar with.

No, these things are amazingly effective at heating a decent size dwelling. Depending on how you damp it, just a couple of pieces of firewood thrown in when you go to bed would last until morning. Ours was the only means of heating for the entirety of my childhood, and we always stayed warm - even during the blizzard of ‘93 when we had no electricity for over a week straight!

Plus, I have fond memories of helping my dad with the firewood and all that. Good memories.

Damn, people in this thread are so stubbornly close minded. “It doesn’t look like what I’m used to, so it can’t be that. It isn’t what I think is attractive in current times, why would you ever buy it?” I’m over here just thinking if you actually look at the picture it is pretty clear how it works. And I can definitely see these being for sale described as modern and up to date, not old fashioned like your neighbor’s.

It is just a freestanding square fireplace-thing with probably baffles up top to create some warm airflow.

No problem!

30 years? How much freakin wood did you put in that thing?

... set a man on fire and he'll never feel cold again.

My grandparents had a similar looking coal burning stove (not exactly but reminiscent). Coal is bad I know - this was a long time ago. They had no money and my grandfather would buy one big cheap load of coal every year, and they were warm through the cold Ohio winter. I never remember a different stove so I think it must have lasted a long time. (Coal is bad but nothing makes a cozier kind of warmth.)

My mom dried our jeans on top of ours... so add some wet blue jeans too... Maybe some socks that got wet from playing in snow. Stick the wet boots and shoes under the front edge there....

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It has a box inside the box... cast iron? I think? Inside that it is lined with fire blocks. Has a grate in the floor of it so ashes can fall through to an ash pan, which slides out and you can dump your ashes outside or wherever. Cast iron door will have a fiber 'seal' that runs all the way around it.

Should have a 'damper' on it which controls the airflow. You open it wide open when starting a fire or you want the fire to kick up, dial it down almost all the way at night or enjoy sweating all night long.

Chimney gets cleaned regularly, just like with any wood stove or fireplace.

You assume it's in use right now.

Man, they are indeed ugly. But holy shit they work.

Sweet Jesus. It is a wood burning stove. Don't be a dick. You're wrong.

It's a grate/expanded metal for heat disbursement, so you don't melt your palm if you touch it.

I grew up with these, it is a wood stove. Look up Ashley Wood stoves - they are still made today, and just as ugly as they were in the 70s and 80s.

Some are side loaders, some have double doors in the front. This one is a side loader.

I remember mom and dad saving the black jack oak for night logs. That shit was too dense to split by hand, but would burn all night, low and slow.

I can remember trying to split oak logs by myself when I was like, 13, 14? Just for giggles. Talk about getting you in shape and giving you a cardio workout!

I set lots of things on my wood stove in the summertime. Obviously I remove them before firing it up in the fall.

I remember being really intimidated by the giant wood splitting maul my dad used for the initial splitting of logs. I think it was a 15lb head, like a giant metal slice of cheese lol

Felt like a damn superhero tho, splitting a 40” slice of an oak tree lol

I don't think ours was that heavy, but man did it give me an upper body workout. And talk about burning off some pent up ADHD energy...

They use a power splitter now. Goes a lot faster, still get to sit around and watch and talk shit, maybe have the occasional beer, but I miss the inevitable competitiveness the splitting parties used to have... that and my grandpa. I miss him too - he was always there, every time.

Exactly.

It's useful for piling stuff on top of during the off season.

Thank you. I had no clue.

You're welcome. Ashley (brand, but not the furniture people, I don't think) still makes them to this day. They are NOT attractive at all, very function over form, but quite effective. Used properly, with a good hardwood, like seasoned red oak, they can heat an entire house and not burn through a ton of wood.

Ours had two dampers: one that has a handle on the outside, and another that’s connected to a bimetallic spring assembly. The one on the spring can be adjusted like a thermostat to open and increase airflow when the furnace cools and close when it gets super hot.

Is that a King? We use one my husband has used his entire life. It's getting hard to find replacement bricks and grates. It was our only heat source for a time. Waking up at 4 am and running to stoke the fire to warm up the house in the morning and sprinting back to the warm bed to wait, people take modern heating conveniences for granted.

Our grates did wear out after a while. I think we had to use something we scrounged up.

Yes, we've had to have a metal fabricator shop create some stuff for ours.

People are interesting when it comes to stoves. It amazes me how many think it's the most dangerous thing in the entire world as if people haven't been using them for 100 years.

Or they think you must use the new ones with the catalytic piping as if everyone can afford to buy a new one.

Yes, modern wood stoves move the efficiency from perhaps 65% to 90%. Frankly burning wood is still a very environmentally friendly means of heating even in an inefficient form. Open fireplaces are essentially worthless though.