I bought a Drolet HT3000 and love it. Thanks for sharing your video.

@mattsara2802

4 ай бұрын

Congrats that’s awesome

My parents and grandparents all heat with wood. I live on the very tip top of the Appalachian mountains in North Carolina. Most people unfamiliar with the area don't realize that have cold winters. As a matter of fact it snowed a little last night 4/1/22. I grew up "getting wood" all summer. When your entire family heats with wood it takes a lot of work to cut and split enough wood to heat multiple homes. I really miss cutting wood with my father and grandfather's.

@mattsara2802

2 жыл бұрын

It does take lots of wood but so worth it. Sorry about your father and grandfather.

I watched you this morning on the TV. Can't comment there. Came back to say Hi! Hi there! 💚🌞

@mattsara2802

2 жыл бұрын

😂 well thanks and 👋

@MinnesotaBeekeeper

2 жыл бұрын

On TV?

@mattsara2802

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah watching KZread on TV

@Minnesota_Mama_Bear

2 жыл бұрын

Watching through the fire stick on the television means I can like but not comment. How the heck am I supposed to interact with a channel if they don't let me? 💚🌞

@MinnesotaBeekeeper

2 жыл бұрын

@@Minnesota_Mama_Bear oh I am sorry, I thought you meant you were watching them on a local TV station

Drolet makes pretty decent stoves with a good price. I’m looking at the Drolet Spark for a little future cabin. 2-3 cords is really great for your sized house. I’m heating about 1000 sq ft log cabin with a Jotul F45 in NW WI and we were pushing 3.5 cords last season but I burn a lot of Aspen since I have tons of it on the property. Nice video.

@mattsara2802

2 жыл бұрын

Yes they do. 3.5 isn’t to bad if most is aspen. We burn mostly hardwood here.

Yeah I'm as far north as yous, but up in the Green Mountains here the winter weather's mild to begin with then deep freeze hits after Christmas usually. Wouldn't be to be if it wasn't for the wind. I started out with an old smoke dragon, triple wall Buck 27000 and she was absolutely incredible for awhile but ate wood like crazy, my pipe setup was extremely make-shift with only uninsulated double wall black pipe. Had 3 full 90's and 16' of horizontal run with only 16' of vertical rise to pull the smoke out then I capped her with a wind cap. She back drafted a lot with the high winds before the wind cap, after the wind cap problem was 90% solved. I finally found what's called a DRAFT COLLAR! Let me tell ya as someone who grew up on a real farm with most of the family burning wood, the best thing for even a brand new wood stove setup is a draft collar. It works by using an electric heating coil wrapped around a 6" pipe to either preheat or HEAT the pipe when your fire dies down. Before the draft collar when my stove burned down I would have backdraft issues which set off the smoke/carbon monoxide detectors which is unacceptable obviously, well the draft collar ALONE completely solved the issue. The root of all the problems wasn't the stove, wasn't the wind it was my horrible piping, I knew it was Tarded but my wife begged me to run the pipe down to the far side gable end ( we have a raised ranch) so I did it for her. Years later I bought all new stainless class A pipe, Droplet HT3000 stove and ran everything PROPERLY! My reasoning was the wife finally understood I wasn't kidding how awful the pipe would make the stove run and we welcomed our Beautiful Baby Boy I to the world. My main job is to protect my family obviously so there was zero room for messing around. With my new stove/setup I saved atleast 1/3 the firewood and even the wife can easily reload it during the Day, the old Buck had good heat output but the drolet blows it's doors off and burning totally clean at the same dam time. I only have to clean my pipe 1 time a year as opposed to every month with clean dry wood! Even with a proper stove and piping I still installed the SBI draw collar that is how dam good it is, I love the fckn thing and recommend it to absolutely everyone. I do own a good amount of land with a big ole Deere, so I have the best of the best for fire wood, sugar Maple, red oak, black Birch, black cherry, white Ash red maple, beech, but the best is common serviceberry and Ironwood (eastern hophornbeam) When the outside temps are say 20-30 below zero with the 40-60+ mph winds that's real cold especially sustained. That's when I load the big pops of my serviceberry/Ironwood in for the big boost of burn time and heat output, hell with black Birch an say some red oak loaded if I don't choke the damper down almost entirely my stove will easily cross 800 degrees no problem (and I have my stove modified to control both the main and secondary intakes) With that "secret weapon" load I get 12-14 hour heat cycles where our upstairs drops about 4 degrees, and with the 20-30 degree below with strong winds that's incredible burn times for a non catalytic stove especially with such brutally cold weather. I'm a carpenter by trade. We were planning on all new windows/doors the exact year COVID shut down and priced us out of doing it lol so I have all first gen Anderson window units, single pane which is the coldest, but do have good therma-tru main entrys. My ceiling is only r24 so my stove setup is absolutely remarkable, leaving me eating my own words basically haha took me months to fully know how to run the stove effectively AND efficiently but no that I have the mods and stove down it's awesome. We burn 1/4 the oil at most (hot waters still oil heat and sometimes my sweet heart gets lazy and does t reload just turns that easy dial instead lol) so with oil expected to be $5 a gallon this year FCK THAT MAN! I am big time happy I go thru the added work of firewood and the big expense of wood stove and pipe. Hell within 1 full year she's already paid herself off which is incredible. Hope all is well with yous, enjoy the heating season this year 😎🇺🇸👍

@mattsara2802

Жыл бұрын

Wow you saved a lot on wood just by switching. 😂 yes it will definitely be paid for after this year! Crazy prices. I am ready and excited for this winter. 😃❄️. We love the would stove and our family and friends like it too. 😆 everyone that comes over is like wow 75 in here. 😂 yup we like it warm.

@johnserrano9689

Жыл бұрын

@@mattsara2802 👍 I installed the stove in our "mudroom" as that's where you enter the house downstairs. 18' x 32' and the room still reaches around the 75 degrees you have, hell I've gotten her up to 88 degrees by pushing the stove hard after just starting it up in cold weather, but after everything inside soaks up that heat the temps stabilize to the 72-75 degrees as the heat pumps throughout. But even that's Max, we lucked out with the original layout of the the house as upstairs opens up to a very large fully open floor plan with a continuous ceiling, only our main bath and 2 bedrooms upstairs even have doors. The house gains big-big time from solar heat gain during daylight so the original builder deserves a massive amount of the credit for ease of heating. I'm ordering the blower unit for the drolet tomorrow morning, that alone will increase efficiency big-time on its own. As you're well aware man we all just do the best we can, learning from our mistakes an whenever possible from folks like you who take the time to try an help with things like heating with wood stoves Keep up the Good an hard work 👍

@mattsara2802

Жыл бұрын

Thanks and same to you.

Nice! We have an outdoor wood furnace that is a greedy goblin and goes thru a good 2 to 4 cord in winter and our winters aren't near as cold. Though we do occasionally get a day or two that never gets out of single digits. I'll have to look into the Drolet. Thanks for sharing.

@mattsara2802

2 жыл бұрын

A outdoor wood stove would be nice but like you said lots of wood.

That IS helpful! I just had my new Lopi stove installed this past week. I just could not grasp how much wood I’ll need, so your info gave me some insight. I’m in central NC where the winters are not so long and not as deep as your region. I think 1/2 cord will do it for me, but will look to order more if possible. I don’t have a nice wood shed like you’ve got there. I’ll probably just tarp over the wood for the first year as our winters are rainy. Thanks for video! Stay warm this coming winter.

@mattsara2802

9 ай бұрын

Yes I would definitely tarp it.

Great stove ❗️Great video bro !

@mattsara2802

Жыл бұрын

Thanks

Matt, Durn Good Video. Respect.

@mattsara2802

Жыл бұрын

Thanks

Good video, this is our 3rd session heating with the HT2000 and it's truly a heating beast. We have an 1800 sqft farm house built around 1900. Haven't run our oil furnace once this year. On our way to burning around 15 face chords. Great stoves!

@mattsara2802

2 жыл бұрын

That’s awesome. It definitely saves us money 💰

Great information, Thanks!

@mattsara2802

8 ай бұрын

😃

Good morning Matt and Sara ☀️. I appreciate letting us know what kind of stove you use...great information. Have a wonderful day 👍

@mattsara2802

2 жыл бұрын

Good morning Mary and thanks. Hope you have a wonderful day.

Good salesman! Now get back to that Thunder Laser haha.

@mattsara2802

8 ай бұрын

😂

This year definitely was a cold one. I'd rather have a stove than pay gas like we do.

@mattsara2802

2 жыл бұрын

😂 right

We have the same wood stove in our 600sq cabin. It’s slightly overkill.

@mattsara2802

2 жыл бұрын

😂 I bet it is. 😂 that’s awesome you could turn it to a Sana.

Hey Matt and Sara! My wife and I enjoy your videos from MN also. I am wondering if you guys have needed or use a fresh air kit on this stove? We are looking at the Myraid III or something close to that from Drolet. We have a pretty tight house with an air exchanger I am torn if I should try to put a fresh air kit (Big pain for my circumstance) or just crack a window if needed. This is a new install, never owned a wood stove before :-D Thanks!

@mattsara2802

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Jeremy we do not use one but we have an older house. I know if you have a mobile home they recommend it because those are very airtight. You could always try it without it and if you need it you can just add some PVC down the road.

@mrracer98

2 жыл бұрын

@@mattsara2802 Thanks!!

Great video man. Would love to know if you chose this stove over other stoves. Great quick info and good editing. Thank you . I'm from NB canada

@mattsara2802

Жыл бұрын

Yes I do. I know people that have other stove that they say they can heat 3k feet and heat 2500 and can’t but I can. I love this stove. Had a US stove and it was terrible.

I have a very inefficient late 1800s era large home that has been costing me a liver to heat (gas and heat pumps) since I bought it. Am looking into a wood or coal stove. The Drolet site says the HT3000 pumps out over 300K BTU, which would awesome. But it also says its only meant to heat a 2400sf home??? Tat makes no sense. 300K BTU should heat a much larger home. Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Any feedback would be appreciated, as I am new to this. Thanks!

@mattsara2802

2 ай бұрын

It all depends on where you live. It will cook us out of the house and we have a 2100sq old house and live in central MN

@mothanwrdz

2 ай бұрын

@@mattsara2802 OK. Then it might work for us. We are in the Baltimore, MD area, which I imagine is not as cold as it is on your neck of the woods. Based on how cold things have been these past few winters, I don't think we'd mind being cooked out of the house for less money that with gas! Thanks for the feedback.

Don't feel bad about all the wood Matt. I think between the wood kiln, shop and house we are around 30 cords. Saving dough.

@mattsara2802

2 жыл бұрын

Still worth it

Great thing about wood is that it will warm you twice. Once chopping and stacking then 2nd when you burn it in the stove. LOL Old stupid joke. When I was your age I owned an old farmhouse with no insulation and bad windows. I think I burned 5-6 cords a winter in a good air-tight stove. Looks like this stove is a step up from what I had.

@mattsara2802

2 жыл бұрын

😆 old but so true. Wow that’s a lot.

Looks like a big house where is the fire place located in the home for it to keep the home warm?

@mattsara2802

Жыл бұрын

Our house is above average square feet. We have the wood stove in the basement so the heat rises heating the house. It has been a lifesaver!

So can you cook on it too? I see those pots and pans up there?

@mattsara2802

Жыл бұрын

We have only done soups on it.

I can’t believe Sara would trust Matt with this and how is even eye 👁

@mattsara2802

2 жыл бұрын

😂 I have blue eyes 😂

@Mrwillie95

2 жыл бұрын

🤦 😂

Do you know if your stove is approved for use with an optional firescreen?

@mattsara2802

2 жыл бұрын

I don’t know. I never looked in to that.

@oldsteamguy

2 жыл бұрын

@@mattsara2802 If you have the manual, it will say.

@mattsara2802

2 жыл бұрын

I just looked and it’s a no go. For this model.

How hot can you get this stove

@mattsara2802

Жыл бұрын

The manufacturer says anything over 800 is over firing. I have never had to go over 600f.

@itsyurb0ylayy4

Жыл бұрын

@@mattsara2802 sounds good, I only asked because I have a pacific energy and it doesn’t say anything bout temperatures I know the book says if any part of the stove turns red that’s a sign of over firing

@mattsara2802

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I had to call the manufacture for them to tell me the temps.

Nice! But big pass on music in informative videos

@mattsara2802

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your input 😃