Does anyone know a good website with info on wood burning stoves and installation, pro's and con's etc...
Here are a couple of good resouce pages:
http://www.cnr.uidaho.edu/extforest/WFS9.pdf
http://www.cdc.gov/nasd/docs/d000101-d000200/d000132/d000132.html
You might want to look at this site. They have some good info and make GREAT stoves. I just bought one last week.
http://www.jotulflame.com/
Jutol stoves are great. They are made of cast iron so they last nearly forever. They are also handsome and well designed.
I have used a Chinese copy of the Jutol boxwood stove that I bought back in 1982 expecting to replace it with something bigger and better. It has heated our 1500 sf solar-assisted home for over 22 years now! This stove doesn't have a catalytic converter but I have enough thermal mass in the house that I can burn a hot fire and have only a few minutes of noticeable smoke coming out the chimney.
Here is a series of page links to cast iron stoves of all kinds. You can see that they are not the least expensive.
http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=Cast+iron+wood+stove&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&sa=N&tab=ff&oi=froogler
PS - You can probably find used cast iron stoves locally. There are only a few things that can go wrong with them (plates warped with heat, fireboxes burned out). Most stoves can be cleaned up and resealed with fireproof stove caulk and new gaskets.
I agree, John. My uncle lives in Colorado (N of Denver) and has a Jotul that heats his entire house year round.
That is why I bought mine. :)
here is a good site on wood burning and stoves
http://hearth.com/