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This will be a short lived series but may appeal to niche stovists. We bought this about twenty five years ago, though it's much older. It stands about seven feet tall. The firebox is at the bottom and the flue zig zags it's way upwards conducting heat as it goes. It is Scandinavian, probably Norwegian.
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And why is it not plumbed in and working for a living?
It does, the flue goes out the back.
Is the door scared? It appears to have jumped a bit. 😉
that's awesome!
looks like a stand-up coffin.
is there a mcvampire inside?
Nice that. That lovely floor wouldn't stay in that state for long if I was filling the stove though.
does it have an oven?
Fabulous thing, that! Good thing it's plumbed in, it doesn't look like something you'd want to move too often... 😀
does it have an oven?
It doesn't have an oven, but I have boiled a kettle on the level above the firebox, I expect it may simmer on the next level. There are little doors that open on each level. The bottom one is open. It's in a flat we rent out in Edinburgh, the guys don't light it much, but they get a boot load of logs a year if it's especially cold.
One of my dreams is to have a kakkeloven (sp?) or similar. I know modern clean burn stoves are seriously efficient, but I still think they miss a trick by not having much more thermal mass and a chimney like yours / a rocket stove that gets every last ounce of heat out the thing.....nice stove.
looks like something out the Addams family pile.. cracking, by the way.
looks like an awesome little (?) artifact
but I still think they miss a trick by not having much more thermal mass
There's a few out there:
http://www.cornishmasonrystoves.com/
Agreed, there are stoves out there that do. I wouldn't buy another stove that was not, or at least was sat on / surrounded by thermally massive materials.
Kachelofen's are ace. We used to go walking a lot in Austria as a kid and it was always so nice to get in to a mountain hut at the end of the day to one of them blazing out heat.
That thing is awesome. My daughter would never walk past it alone if it was in our hallway!
Stovewise, has anyone on here had any experience with an Hwam?