How was I not paged for this thread?
I have been running two stoves 24/7 in an old house for six years. It was damn near killing me the first several years, as my old stoves would easily chew through three large (3 cu.ft.) loads per day, and the 10+ cords I was processing and loading some years still left me coming up short. There were times of those years where I felt that heating with wood was taking up almost 100% of my free time, between tree felling, hauling, processing, stacking, moving, loading, and cleaning stoves.
I eventually resigned myself to a plan of just keeping the stoves going at a low baseline rate, which fit my work schedule and processing abilities, and using my central heating (oil-fired boiler) to pick up the slack. Unfortunately, I found my old stoves just weren't up to the task of achieving the long burn times I needed to make this plan work.
Enter Blaze King. After reading about folks getting 40+ hour burn times in the King, and even 30+ hour burn times in the smaller Princess and 30 models, I knew this was the answer. I moved my three old stoves out, and replaced them with a pair of Blaze King Ashford 30's. I found the thermostat settings that give me perfectly consistent 12 and 24 hour burn times (I burn mostly the same species of wood), and I just run them there.
Now I'm moving only three loads of wood per day, instead of six, and life is much happier. To our surprise, our house is actually WARMER, and we're burning LESS oil, while also burning less wood. A large part of this is because the convective design of the Blaze King wastes a lot less heat into the stonework of my house, than the old stoves which were mostly radiant heaters. But it is also thanks to the super consistent heat output I get from the BK's, as I used to have to overheat the joint with large loads of wood (and less control over output rate), to get the long burn times required to keep the house warm for morning or return from work time.
My current burn rate is about a cord every 20 days, which is much better than the 7 - 10 days per cord I was pushing thru my old Jotuls. I have a system down where it's not too bad to keep up with it, but everyone's level of interest and stamina is different, so I can't predict how difficult you'll find the work.