We are now the proud owners of a Waterford Stanley wood cook stove similar to the picture above. Thank you Ted for all of your help as we could not have gotten it onto our trailer without you. It took 2 1/2 hours to get the stove apart and onto the trailer. 800 pounds of cast iron as a complete unit. We may have gotten it down to 400 pounds after taking every part we could off the stove. Thank goodness for levers, dollies, 2x4s and brute strength. All together the trip took 10 hours; a long day of driving and hard work for the guys.
The original owner of the stove bought it because her grandmother had one that was close to 100 years old. She had a lot of memories of visiting her grandmother in Ireland and many memories involved the cook stove. She is selling her current house and can't take the stove with her; and the new owners don't want the stove. She seemed happy to know that her stove was going to a good home and will be cherished for many years to come.
Now comes the hard work. First, we must put the stove back together, minus the legs, before we forget how we took it apart. Thankfully my husband found the manual online so we now have a very good diagram of how the whole thing goes together. We also need to clean out the insides as I don't think the stove has been cleaned in 3 years. All that creosote and ash around the cast iron firebox while it's in storage would invite moisture and lead to rust.
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