We still use a wood stove from time to time down home. Nothing like it in the world. Big old sucker too. We have chamfered ducting running from it with several dampers for heat direction and still use it to help heat the place in the winter. I remember we had to move it once to repair the floor and I thought it was going to put us all in the hospital with broken spines and there were like six men (big men) plus two dollys on this thing. We swore that if it ever happened again we would just reinforce the floor from underneath .