New or Used

I bought my first wood stove new when I moved in with my wife. We used that stove for 3 seasons. I grew tired of feeding the stove every 2 hours.

Then we discovered this site when some idiot broke my oil fired furnace and I purchased a used Chubby SR for $75, $300 later it was restored and running in my living room. It was a neat stove and provided ample heat as long as the temps stayed above 28°.

In December of last year I bought a new DS MACHINES DS-1600 Circulator at 130k BTU/hr I can turn my furnace off every winter. It only gets used in the fall now for a few weeks.

Greetings from snowy Lititz, PA.

I recently acquired a USED Franco Belge 1475. I've had it fired up the past two nights, and personally I'm totally happy with it. Financially, I just couldn't handle the price of a new stove, but I can understand those who would rather "know what they're getting". I saw prices as cheap as 150.00 up to 2000.00. I paid $650.00 for mine, but that included a whole mess of extra stuff: -400 lbs of coal
-two of those little handles you use to open the doors and shake the grates
-a scraper
-a coal bucket and shovel
-a full-sized metal trash can for my ashes
-barometric damper
-magnetic thermometer
-some sections of stove pipe

The guy also recently had the glass in the window replaced and new gaskets around the doors. He took really good care of the stove, so I think I got a great deal.
BTW, I had to buy a stainless steel chimney liner with all the accessories, and that actually stung much more than the price of the stove.

Seems to be a good deal. I don't know these stoves but peoples having them like the way they work. Franco can tell a lot about the Franco B. stoves. Send some photos of your stove if possible for you.