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I have been burning wood for 25 years now, with the last 10 years being exclusively heat from our Regency woodstove. We had a small Vermont Castings stove with the catyletic burner, but ended up warping a few things inside, so we bought the heaviest unit we could fing. The Regency has the most 3/8" thick steel on the market, and weighs in about 650#, but keeps the whole house warm on 3 small arm loads of wood per day (seasoned hard wood), or about 5 cords per year.
At 53 years old with some health issues, I will be looking at replacing our old un-efficient water baseboard boiler with some new technology in the next year, or two, and possibly adding central air, or a couple of those Mitsubishi room units..
From the picture, it looks like you also have plenty of good Ash wood to burn (damn those killing beetles).
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