I was a busy young Mom who had 4 little ones getting in trouble enough without getting burned while I was cooking,doing laundry or cleaning up after dogs and kids. I'd had to spend hours messing with the old stoves to get them to burn at all. I have nothing but fond memories of my old Ashley wood stove! Before that all my babies had been burned on inadequate wood stoves that barely heated the one room. If you cut green wood and toss it in your stove, you will be dissapppointed. The downside is you need truely seasoned wood. Another benefit is burning the smoke yields a ton of heat AND reduces the amount of wood one burns a goodly bit. Most of the stoves burn off the smoke before it gets out the chimney giving a very clean burn and no smoke out the chimney. There is a better way and that is to get an epa compliant stove. Lots of trips to clean out the chimney too. We all did that back in the fisher air tight stove days.
If you tighten it up, you will likely have a smoke dragon - which is fine if you want to live with the additional creosote and potential for flue fire. My guess is your Ashley stove is a non-epa stove and that's why your missing the part you need.
Ashley c60d owners manual free#
The non-epa stoves you buy today are designed to flow free air through them like a fireplace. Problem was - how do you regulate a fireplace, so they made an exemption. When they decided to limit the emissions of wood burning appliances, they set some standards. My understanding of EPA stove regulations is this: STOVE BURN YOUR HOUSE DOWN - EPA BE DAMNED. I have no idea what other type of non-functional crap they are trying to foist off on the consumer, but I wouldn't buy so much as a pencil from this company.ĭO NOT LET U.S. They also make a line called "Wonder Wood". Stove should not be foisting these dysfunctional products on the consumer, simply under the guise "the EPA made me do it."
Ashley c60d owners manual manual#
Stove's own admonitions in the reference manual quoted above.) If you load up this stove, it will burn so hot that it will overheat and become a true fire hazard. To use this stove in this condition is DANGEROUS!. And despite their contention otherwise it is missing! I'll have to assume that manual was written when the ash door draft control was still an integral part of that stove. Here's a doozy! "Don't use the heater with missing or worn parts."
Ashley c60d owners manual full#
Check the freakin' gasket? The door is full of holes, and they suggest checking the gasket?
That's about as helpful as screen doors on a submarine isn't it? In another silly reference, they suggest checking for a worn gasket in the door, if your fires are burning too hot. Make sure the door is closed, even though damn thing is full of holes, keep it closed. Now you wanna hear (see) some funny stuff? This is from their manual that comes with the stove. Of what earthly value is that draft if the door right next to it is full of holes like this? The fire will burn so hot that the draft will never open! Stove should simply not sell this product if this is how they have to configure it!įor those of you who are unfamiliar with this stove, it has a thermostatic draft that opens or closes at the stove cools down or warms up. The point is, this stove will not function in an acceptable manner with all that air coming through the ash door all the time. I don't know how the freakin' EPA got its nose stuck into wood stoves but that IS NOT the point. They said that the EPA would not allow them to put that part on the stove. They told me, in terms less than apologetic, that the part was not missing. So I called the company ( United States Stove Company) to let them know about the missing part. Look at the holes in that door! If you know anything about burning wood you will know that you cannot possibly control the fire in the stove with that much air coming in underneath it.