Woodburning Grates

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I have a woodburning stove and need a grate. There are two pieces, each are 10" x 12". There are some numbers on the grate: 2629 L4, but no name. Can anyone tell me where I can find a replacement?

-- Bobby (woodgratemessageboard@anigalax.hypermart.net), January 04, 2002

Answers

What brand of stove is it? Does it have a model number? Look for a small plate somewhere on the stove. Without the brand and probably the model number or the model name it will be very hard to find exactly what you need.

Is it possible someone could weld it or repair it? Just a thought.

Talk to you later.

-- Bob in WI (bjwick@hotmail.com), January 04, 2002.


I just put in a woodburner with grates this year and am very new to burning wood. However, a friend of mine who claims to have heated with wood for 23 years is telling me to NOT use my grates, and merely make the fire on the bed of ashes. In addition, when I use my grates, I am putting wood on every hour or so. He says that is becuase the ash falls off through the grates rather than mounded up.

So have you tried burning without grates...just on firebrick. I am thinking about giving it a try as soon as our cold weather returns.

-- Gary from MN (hpysheep@midwestinfo.com), January 06, 2002.


I no longer use a grate. It's just not necessary. To get the same effect for firestarting just place two mid-sized pieces of wood parallel to each other on either side of the firebox. Put your paper between them and stack your kindling on top. I've got a small stove so one of the tricks I use to get a long burn is to place the two pieces of wood right up against the firebricks. I can come back hours after the fire appears to be out and pull what remains of those two sticks from their corners, put them in the center of the stove with some smaller wood and the remaining coals will relight everything.

-- Curt (curtislarson177@hotmail.com), February 13, 2002.

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