Getting ready for winter - bought a new stove!

After my first season of burning coal, I'm hooked! I figured it's time to "step it up" and replace the old Dutchwest with a true coal burner. I ended up going with the DS Machine DS1500 circulator with hopper. I managed to get it into my basement, now I just need to get the new hearth built. I have 462 white lorraine full range brick on order from glen gery, they should be here next week!

Here are some pics!







At home, in the garage, still wrapped


My Dad gave me a hand lowering the stove into the basement


Here it is at the bottom of the basement steps. It will be here for several weeks until the new hearth is complete.

She's a beauty! Congratulations!

Nice purchase my friend. SEVERAL WEEKS????--who'd ya hire, a bunch of union pygmies sorry LD, couldn't help myself

Great choice of a stove!

Big medicine...you will be warm with that beast in the house.

That sure is a nice looking stove you got there. Don't worry, my DS sat in the middle of my living room for 2-3 weeks before she found her new home on my hearth. Your trailer is like my Dakota when I brought the stove home. It made my already tiny truck look even smaller.

freetown fred wrote:Nice purchase my friend. SEVERAL WEEKS????--who'd ya hire, a bunch of union pygmies sorry LD, couldn't help myself

Actually, the labor is free, my dad worked in masonry for years before taking a job in the IT field, and he's building the hearth for me at his leisure I get to mix the mortar, fun fun!

Well done LD. Should make a big difference for you this season.
I know it's finally summer and about 85 degrees up here today but I psyched about a new stove too. Of course mine is 100yrs old but as soon as it's finished, it will be like the day it was new. Just waiting on my nickel to come back now. I'll post the restoration when it's complete.

By the way I love the into the basement pix! That's priceless!

For the other DS Machine owners, and I guess any hopper fed stoves...

What is your preferred supplier of coal? I burned mostly superior coal in my dutchwest last year, and about 1/4 ton of UAE. The UAE seemed to kick out more heat, but I ended up with some nasty clinkers.

Thanks!

Sa-WEET! You feed that bad boy a big breakfast & you be happy all day & night!

You can sell off all those extra quilts, blankets, coats, Long Johns.....etc and may have to replace several windows with LARGER openings!!!! The DutchWest is not even in the same league as your Paul Bunyan unit!
Well crafted, indestructible and a sweet heating machine. You will have a happy group of folks at your house this winter!

Prius towing a coal stove PRICELESS I would of expected a wind mill : You are saving $$ on both fronts way to go Nice pictures I had a Buderus hand fed with a hopper for 28 years and was very happy. The German shaker wasn't the best for red ash coal, I believe you have a rocker grate which is better when coal is red ash which tends to fuse or clinker. Don't over fire red ash and life should be good.

It looks like a beauty. If you want to use pea coal in this unit send me a PM.