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My new Dovre Vintage 50 stove has arrived. The 18 ton delivery truck couldn't get up our road so we got it in the back of the Discovery. It weighs a ton, and is built like an AGA. No chance of lifting it by hand so I had to fire up the Fergie to get it out of the Discovery and into the house.
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I think I'd have strapped it to the shovel!
shame the door's not wide enough to get the tractor right inside 🙂
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Brilliant ,how many channels can you get on it ?
🙂
Does it do Freeview?
That's ace. Retrotastic.
Don't know about Freeview but I bet you can plug a Ferguson top loader into it!
Flatscreen as well?
It reminds me of when I went to pick up a Stovax with the father in law in his Escort van. The last words the bloke in the warehouse said were [i]“Careful on the brakes boys, if that slides forward it will f#cking kill you”[/i]. A very tense 30 mile drive followed.
It took 4 of us with scaffold poles to get it in the house.
Never mind the stove that tractor is ace, wish I had a garden big enough so I could have one
that's beautiful. how many kW?
The stove's pretty nice as well.....
mcmoonter is RICH!
TAX HIM!
that's beautiful. how many kW?
11KW, it's going to be toasty here come the winter.
mcmoonter is RICH!
If I were, my tractor tyres wouldn't be bald and perished, and I'd have a man to install it for me!
You are gonna need several pretty big wood shelters full to the brim to keep that running!!
You have a tractor and don't appear to be a farmer = RICH!
I'm telling TJ!
Can you get inside those big pot thing's by your front door....
That's where he puts his loose change on the way in.
I can't think why but when I saw these pictures the other day I thought of mcmoonter.
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BLOODY 'ELL, your loaded loaded, that's what buying/selling bike parts gets you aye. 😉 😛
For the record it cost way more than my car and it's the first new thing I've bought in years!
I'm seeing pop up adverts for AGAs on STW, surely a first. 😯
how do you get it from the door to the final resting place? (and of that we will require pics)
Does it have a little coal powered remote?
Flue pipe in the first pic sure doesnt look big enough!!
Flue pipe in the first pic sure doesnt look big enough!!
That's the set top ariel. It's too retro for a dish and it's only got three channels, all in black and white.
hipster stoves. now i have seen everything
It's in!
We used a combination of a trolley and carpet surfing to get it in place.
Bloody hell it's hot. It's rated at 11kw max, and something like 9kw ticking over. It's using bardly any fuel compared to the open fire. We might need to think about replacing our 70s stove in the hall. Thee new ones are so much more efficient.
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Hortus = posh 🙂
In the absence of professional installation can I suggest that sir invests in a CO detector?
I suggest that sir invests in a CO detector?
It came supplied with one.
a budgie?
Granny keeling over?
that's good.
It's a smart looking stove 🙂
stylish stove, not so stylish tiles and surround?
Nice.
Just had a call from Firebelly. Going to have our stove installed next month.
Why is it so efficient?
You absolutely must put up a picture when it's in situ. it's the STW law 🙂Nice.Just had a call from Firebelly. Going to have our stove installed next month.
Beautiful I like! ... errrmmm ... but you need to have the matching retro deco in your house ... 😆
Also, it looks a bit out of character with the fireplace. Are you going to do it up?
Also, it looks a bit out of character with the fireplace. Are you going to do it up?
It's in the Georgian part of the house which was built in 1712, it was last modernised early in the 20th century. Installing a retro style stove [b]is[/b] modernisation at Moonter towers.
Fair enough 🙂
mcmoonter - you are one of the reasons I still stay on STW, as it's not always the friendliest of places imo 🙂
I will have one when I build my own house ... very nice. 
Nice :o)
Cant believe I still have mine lit and it's nearly june! brrrr
One unfortunate effect of the stove popularity.. noticed loads of new gates going up around these parts as tree theft is now out of control.
Nice burner BTW
Its my belief that tossing the caber originally developed as a way to get stolen logs over deer fences.
Works too 🙂
Great looking woodburner - doesn't really go with that surround though - you 're happy and that's all that counts !!!
After a week or so we are smitten with it. The output is huge, we have rosy cheeks like Santa Claus, as a bonus it burns very little fuel.
We've had a old stove in our main hall. It's efficiency is hopeless, so we are considering another new stove for there. We might go for another of these Dovre stoves, this time in the cheaper anthracite colour. A brief squint says the Firebell FB2 is a bit cheper with a bigger output. Does anyone have any experience with them. Are there any other modern looking high output (10 - 15 kw) stoves I should consider.
I've got a tiny Firebelly FB0, fits nicely in a hole in the wall. Only 4kw so doesn't need a firebrick/ extra ventilation. Very hypnotic when it's going, doesn't get the living room stupidly hot but in the winter it's pleasant. Just need to use small logs as it's not the biggest.
Just checked the Firebelly website, they're now about twice the price i paid 4 years ago!
can stoke it up and take some photos if anyone wants (although it looks as though it'll be a nice warm day)
They call that the Vintage 50?
What does the modern stove look like?
Cool! er...hot well you know what I mean.
wood surrounds cause me headaches every day. Ths is worth a read
The 'main hall' sounds like it may be a big old space. Just right for one of these
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Morso also do some big modern ones. Not sure if they do as big as you want but it may be worth a look at Hwam, Harrie Leenders and Rais.
Elzorillo where do you live?One unfortunate effect of the stove popularity.. noticed loads of new gates going up around these parts as tree theft is now out of control.
Our neighbour keeps his wood pile outside at the front of the house, I'm sure it's safe.
A brief squint says the Firebell FB2 is a bit cheper with a bigger output. Does anyone have any experience with them.
Going to arrange a fitting for a FB1 tomorrow. Hope to have it in next month. Will report back.
I went to the factory in Yorkshire (they're handmade there). Nice bunch of people.
nevermind the stove and tractor, thats a mighty impressive driveway and house!
Hortus = poshOur garden was was open to the public under the Jubilee Garden Scheme at the weekend.
We had a visit from , and an invitation to, the guys below. That's what I call posh!
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Is that Highgrove?
Is that Highgrove?
No, the dude with the crown never showed.
It's Balcarres House in Fife.