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[CountryBoyJohn]

Hey folks!  Sorry if you're getting tired of my voice!  Last year when I posted the video of my setup, I got some feedback that I didn't talk about the stove.  So, here is my actual review of the stove itself.  I doubt I covered everything, but here you go.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80Q5Ebp6F80

[caper]

great video, I only hope I can sell my mf 5000 so I can buy that one....

[Dan76]

   Very good video.  They really are a well built unit.  That 10,000e is a beast....all I ever worked with is the 5000e!

[CRJR]

How many cfm is the blower on your 10,000?

[CountryBoyJohn]

Mr. CRJR, I'm not sure.  I looked it up once to price spare parts from Grainger, but I don't remember.  Next time I'm out by the stove (and I remember) I'll snap a picture and look it up again.

[racnruss]

just got my 10000E running last week.

Coming from having 2 different gasification boilers in town, to this bad boy in the country, is night and day.  I love it.

Just throw it in, doesn't matter how.  Shake the grates and ashes just fall into ash pan.
 

Easy peasy.

[Mr. Maple]

Racnruss,couldn't agree more. This furnace uses the least amount of wood of any so far,and like you said,toss the wood in any size and shape and spot and it burns up to powder in the ash pan.Never having to rake the coals and ash and breathe that stuff in is fantastic!

[Sloppy_Snood]

Racnruss,couldn't agree more. This furnace uses the least amount of wood of any so far,and like you said,toss the wood in any size and shape and spot and it burns up to powder in the ash pan.Never having to rake the coals and ash and breathe that stuff in is fantastic!

Mr. Maple - How would you compare wood consumption of the BL4044 you used to own versus Heatmaster MF 20,000e?   

[Mr. Maple]

Not really a good year for comparison yet,but on the few nights the temperature has dropped to the single digits,this furnace takes easily less than half of what the 4044 required.

[Loglivin2]

Been waiting to see the response to that question also. I chose the C250 over the BL 2840. I can't get over how little wood my Heatmaster uses. Several times I've loaded for 12 hrs and gotten 24 hrs. Still learning. I don't have another boiler to compare to but I was using a Buck model 91 for the past 5 years. It is  a catalytic and I'm using it as a insert. Manufacture specs has it at 50,400 btu/hr and 86% efficient. Don't get me wrong I have nothing bad to say about my buck and will never remove it from the home but the C250 has blown us all away in the amount of wood it burns. We only supplemented heat with the buck when the daytime highs weren't out of the 30's. With the C250 we are keeping the home at 73 degrees and heating 100% of the water. I would bring in 4 bundles of wood for 24 hrs with the buck. I don't believe my C250 is burning as much as the buck did and to be honest it puzzles me. I guess the Heatmaster just does such a better job of distributing the btu's to the water where the insert let most of the heat go up the flue. The one thing I liked about the P&M design was the fact that it had the refractory brick. I think that came from my buck also being brick lined. Would've been nice to see the C250 go head to head with the BL 2840 but guess we ain't buying cars. Anyway I saved $2500 going with the C250 and I couldn't be happier.  I feel I got the best  of the conventional line of boilers. Keep us posted on wood consumption