Crackling Fire In The Wood Stove

Hers a quick video of a nice hot, crackling and popping fire in my new to me wood stove. The stove is a 1977 Vermont Casting Vigilant Wood/Coal burner. I found the stove for free and Craigslist and couldn't pass it up. It was in decent shape but rusty and dusty from sitting for a few years. This Wood stove is amazing and ahead of its time. It has a bi-metal thermostat controlled air inlet. When the fire cools down, it opens a damper to get the fire burning again and when it heats back up, it closes the damper so the fire burns down a little. It's such a great little stove. I plan on sending the rust off it and painting it a dark black amd replace all the window and door seals. This stove is a piece of history. Burning wood is also great for the environment. I cut dead trees down, mostly all dead ash trees killed by the invasive emerald ash boring beetle from Asia that killed 90 percent of our ash trees, and burn that. The trees did their job of cleaning and oxygenating the air while alive and now are being used to heat my work area. Nothing goes to waste and a hot well feed wood stove emits very little, next to none, pollution. Thanks for watching and have a great day!