Log Burner?

[Steven P]

Stainless steel shell -could- be there to make it look nicer and not affect the stoves operation.

 

When I was looking last night I had a feeling that the top hole should have a cover on it and for some reason thought it would be removable with a handle or something but no cover shown in the pictures. If you take the pipe out the back as a flu connection (controllable which does happen to dampen the fire), then the top hole doesn't make sense to be left open as part of a passageway for the smoke - it wold flood the room with smoke. There might be alternative flu connections of course for a more versatile installation. If so is the back connection removable, if not then it only has 1 flue connection. (and then going by these guesses, rear flu, with a hole on the top... what is that hole for?)

 

The next piece to work out then is maybe fuelling the stove. Can you get a log in past the grid at the front? If you couldn't get a log in then it isn't a log burner and is for smaller stuff like coal, chips or pellets. it isn't a liquid stove because it has an ash pan and no feed pipe connection from what I see.

[Jamesmonsey]

Hi Steven,

 

there is a lid at the top (quite a heavy one)

 

there isn’t enough space to sit / burn logs at the front where the grill is. My thoughts were that it was top-loading and logs would be fed in through the opening at the top. 
 

the rear connection / exit with the butterfly valve isn’t removable

[Paul in the woods]

I wonder if it is some form of rocket mass stove?

[Steven P]

1 hour ago, Paul in the woods said:

I wonder if it is some form of rocket mass stove?

Maybe, just been looking at saw dust burners and stoves. similar apart from the bit at the bottom

[djbobbins]

Now the flue on the back is shown, it’s more evident. It looks a bit like a pellet / chip stove I saw in a holiday property in either France or Germany.

Definitely not connected properly though, so not recommended to light it as is!