Newbie here! needing to get another wood stove and thinking about buying a Buck stove model 81. Anyone own one and if so what do you think about it? I'm looking for burn times/wood amount and such. I burn primarily red oak/white oak/hickory/locust and wild cherry. These are the wood type available to me. Thanks for the replys!!
Thanks for the welcome pal! I've got and old Buck 2700 that I used as an insert for years but it wasn't what I needed for the basement. I got the 81 and hope it works well!
Thank y'all! Got the 81, new pipe and it's ready! The weather is looking like I can do a break in burn. I'll post a review after some burn time.
So, Got the 81 up and going. I'm burning primarily Red Oak thats been in the wood pile since last November. I can fill it up, choke it down and usually there's plenty of coals making it easy to throw a couple of sticks in and they'll light right up after around 9 hours. My house is a split level, around 2400 sq. ft. and it does good as long as it isn't windy. The quality of the stove is excellent. I've only had to clean the glass a couple of times and that was because the wife accidently put wood against the glass. I would recommend this stove but after using it, I wish I had bought a bigger stove. It's still a good stove and heats better than expected and uses less wood than my old stove.
It just doesn't heat my home very well when it's very cold, say around 0-20, or when it's windy. My old stove had no problem doing so in both conditions. And when I run the air control wide open I usually only get around 1-2, maybe 2 1/2 hours of burn time that produces decent heat and then I have to add more wood. If I run it on Med. air control it actually seems to heat almost as good for a much longer time and w/much less wood. I'm burning seasoned red oak, cherry and some black locust. My old stove did burn a lot more wood but it had a 4 cf firebox. This one only has a 2.4cf firebox. Sometimes wonder if I shouldn't have gotten a catalyst stove, but I only have a 6"flue and the ones I looked at you had to have a 8" flue.
