Finally...
So every thing went well. The old stove Defiant 1610 had to get moved about 15 ft for now. The new stove was picked up at the local Ace Hardware store, 1.5 miles from my house. The loaded it onto a small utility trailer with ramp. We decided to keep the stove on the pallet. Strapped the stove to the pallet. Strapped the dolly to the stove. Brought stove on the dolly around the house. Had to snow blow a path through 16" of snow pack. Got stove inside through door opening on the pallet with no problem. Get stove of from pallet. Switching out the pedestal was a little difficult. I thought I could support the stove at the corners with cribbing and remove pedestal and install the legs. Well my plan was working, BUT the bolts holding the pedestal on (carriage bolts) were jamed in the "square " of the carriage bolt. So we took out the fire brick and flopped the stove on its side and removed the bolts with hammer and screw driver. Installed legs and installed fire brick. The fire brick actually was very easy to remove and put back in. One stone was split so we put it in a place that would not give any trouble. Hooked the flue to masonry. Finally lit a few break in fires.
The only issue is my wood is a bit less than perfect. Its not green. Its not dry. Its seasoned just not enough. I think smaller splits are in order to help get coals and then it should be fine. Really the VC was burning the same wood. I have a clean out that I check weekly. And sweep my chimney every 4 to 6 weeks.
I'm very happy with the stove so far. It hasn't been cold enough to crank it up. But it will.
I am very comfortable knowing that this stove has been talked about on this site a lot. There are very few people that have or have had problems. It also very nice knowing that help from very knowledgeable people is very close by 24/7!
Thanks to all!
So every thing went well. The old stove Defiant 1610 had to get moved about 15 ft for now. The new stove was picked up at the local Ace Hardware store, 1.5 miles from my house. The loaded it onto a small utility trailer with ramp. We decided to keep the stove on the pallet. Strapped the stove to the pallet. Strapped the dolly to the stove. Brought stove on the dolly around the house. Had to snow blow a path through 16" of snow pack. Got stove inside through door opening on the pallet with no problem. Get stove of from pallet. Switching out the pedestal was a little difficult. I thought I could support the stove at the corners with cribbing and remove pedestal and install the legs. Well my plan was working, BUT the bolts holding the pedestal on (carriage bolts) were jamed in the "square " of the carriage bolt. So we took out the fire brick and flopped the stove on its side and removed the bolts with hammer and screw driver. Installed legs and installed fire brick. The fire brick actually was very easy to remove and put back in. One stone was split so we put it in a place that would not give any trouble. Hooked the flue to masonry. Finally lit a few break in fires.
The only issue is my wood is a bit less than perfect. Its not green. Its not dry. Its seasoned just not enough. I think smaller splits are in order to help get coals and then it should be fine. Really the VC was burning the same wood. I have a clean out that I check weekly. And sweep my chimney every 4 to 6 weeks.
I'm very happy with the stove so far. It hasn't been cold enough to crank it up. But it will.
I am very comfortable knowing that this stove has been talked about on this site a lot. There are very few people that have or have had problems. It also very nice knowing that help from very knowledgeable people is very close by 24/7!
Thanks to all!