Well spotted Mary indeed it is.
Hey Mike, the link you gave has even more info about the woodburner than I had found online elsehwere, so thanks for that.
I paid only €15 for my burner and it was in much better state than that one. The photos above show the mica in the windows has been replaced with metal. On mine I bught some ceramic glass and bedded them inplace with fireproof mastic. Even as I type this the woodburner's alight in the corner warming me nicely.
Whatever they ask for it has got to be a good investment, they're REALLY easy to clean up as the outside case is solid caste irn and it all unbolts to separate slabs. You only have front left side, right side and hinged lid. This entire cast iron shell surrounds a thin metal firebox. If this has rusted through then it could be still worth buying as making a metal box should be easy enough for something handy with a welder. My burner also has ceramic tiles in the base to stop the heat burning through the bottom of the metal box. If this one is missing theirs a couple of layers of ordinary ceramic tiles cut and laid down should work just fine.
What I really like about my woodburner is the 90mm chimney pipe comes out the back, thus allowing the heat to stay in the box just a little longer, rather than whooshing up the chimney. I run this 90mm pipe through an adapter into 130mm solid pipe. With the ceramic base tiles, I burn coal as well as wood in my burner and I have not had a single problem with it. Just to heat my room I think I go through about one of those large heavy duty shopping bags full of logs in a day.
As for prices? I watched one sell on eBay, the difference was that that one was covered in brown coloured enamel, no window mica though and needed a bit of work on it. It finally went for £495 not inc the £75 the seller was asking to post it. So if the seller of that burner asks for £100 for it you'd still be getting a bargain once cleaned up and running. Evening punting it on on eBay you could get your money return and then some. Sell in Sept though, not at the beginning of spring
You can lift one of these reasonably easy one handed and they're small enough to fit into the boot of a car.
If anyone decides to go after this one, hit me up with a PM and I'll give you any advice you need. It's a VERY simple piece of kit, basically a Frontier stove in a 4 sided cast iron shell.
Nice find Mike. I swear if I didn't have one of these already and I lived closer to you I'd nab that and clean it up and sell it on myself.
