What is it made of?
Can you post a picture?
Linda C

The guy across the street from me has a burner just as you described...now I am curious if it is the same was pfmatrix. Tomorrow I will go over and get some photos as well as see what the name may be along with some measurements. It seems this one is a cast iron type top with white porcelain like sides.

Casey
"Sean McDonagh Racing"

I have not forgotten...the guy next door is out for the weekend.

Casey
"Sean McDonagh Racing"

The description posted by Casey sounds the same as the stove I'm talking about. Cast iron top with round removable lids. White sides. The name is on the top of the stove on sort of a 4-5 inch back splash type thing. I hope to get back that way in a few weeks to get pictures and a better description. The stove is nearly 3 hours away from me. Thanks for the replies so far.

So far, what you have described is a wood burning cook stove, or utility stove. If the top is 30 to 34 inches above the floor, its a cook stove. The white finish and backsplash says it was more than a 'trash burner', although it may have been used for that purpose.

I have seen heating stoves with round, removeable lids. Usually, these stoves were taller than wide, and would have only 1 or 2 lids. The lid could be removed for limited cooking such as in a cabin, but when the stove was placed in the living room, the major purpose (of the lid) was to heat water. Many families made a practice of setting a large teakettle on the stove with the removeable lids in place. The purpose was to humidify the room and to have a source of hot water for tea or coffee. The lid was left in place to prevent overheating the kettle should it boil dry.

We had one like that in the kitchen when I was growing up. We used it for heat, but my mom raised chickens both for meat and for eggs. Once a year or so, she would butcher chickens and would crumple a piece of newspaper, lay it on top of that round lid, light it on fire, and use it to singe the small hairlike feathers from the chicken (after it had the rest of the feathers picked off). When finished, she would use the handle that attached to the round lid to move it out of the way, and the remnents of the burning newspaper would drop down into the stove.

Not terribly safe, by today's standards, and I'm sure it was a real fire hazerd, but that's what she did!

I just got one but can't find the stack kit. Mine is a Montag from Oregon.