Gallery: This Ridiculous Stove Can Burn an Entire Tree Trunk
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The Spruce Stove isn't stoked with split cordwood or puny sawdust pellets, but rather entire tree trunks are fed into its fiery maw. *Photo: Spruce Stove*
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The length of the log dictates the amount of heat produced while simultaneously acting a visual indicator for the amount of heat remaining, a sort of pinewood progress bar. *Photo: Spruce Stove*
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The Spruce Stove breaks with tradition by trading out the boring hinged door for a portal that irises open like an airlock on a sci-fi space ship or the opening credits of a *Bond* flick. *Photo: Spruce Stove*
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Many incorrectly assume that flames will leap forth when the iris opens, but the draft pulls the fire in and the front face is cool to the touch less than an hour after the fire is extinguished. *Photo: Spruce Stove*
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Hoisting the log into position takes some effort, but a custom designed cart makes pushing another linear foot into the fire as easily as turning the knob of a thermostat. *Photo: Spruce Stove*
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"When you have the ability to create almost anything you can think of, it makes you think of what you want," says designer Michiel Martens. "No ordinary stove would do—we wanted a special one that would fit our way of shaping reality." *Photo: Spruce Stove*
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"It's a stove for people who are not afraid of a little adventure," says designer Martens. "We made this stove for the adventurers and their living rooms." *Photo: Spruce Stove*
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"It's a pity you can't see, feel, and hear it burn," says designer Roel de Boer. "When people use it, they fall in love."*Photo: Spruce Stove*
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"I don't like 'safe' designs, for me it needs to have a rough side, a twist, that makes a product or what ever exiting and worth remembering," says Martens.*Photo: Spruce Stove*
