Vintage dual fuel Monarch Stove-FREE

[polkanut]

[COLOR=#222222; font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Serif', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400]Monarch electric and wood burning stove. Cooks/bakes with electricity and has a wood burning side too. Perfect for a cabin or rural home that can use the electric for cooking and the wood burning side for heating. Free stove (no fees or costs). Contact to arrange a time to come and get it. Stove is between Pigeon Falls and Taylor, WI.[/COLOR]

https://eauclaire.craigslist.org/app/d/blair-vintage-stove/7518850804.html

 

[tomturbomatic]

Neat range. Thanks!

Those are strange looking surface units with no medallions in the center. I'd bet that they could be replaced with better ones. I wonder what diameter chimney a wood burner like that takes. If you had a stove like that with a gas heater in it, would the gas heater have to be vented?

I remember my mother's old owner's manual for her Presto cooker giving instructions for using it on a solid fuel range. You needed to know where to move it to keep the pressure where you wanted it or else things could get exciting.

 

[wayupnorth]

There were many dual-fuel stoves around here as a kid. Most were gas and had been converted to kerosene for heat side. You could tell when walking into someones homes by the kerosene smell to those that had one.

 

[jamiel]

The industrial design of Monarch ranges is interesting--more sophisticated than the off-brands, but not quite as well-designed as the "big names".

 

[tomturbomatic]

There were people in our area that used kerosene space heaters and they always gave an odor to the house. The dog abuser with 9 children told me he used one in the porch room with single pane windows, but when he put storm windows on, he did not have to use the heater.