- The American Harvest can hold up to 60 pounds of dried corn. The Heat Capacity is 1,300 square feet with 52,300 BTUs/hour
- Features include: Exhaust blower for negative draft – pulls flue products through and out – no smoke spillage. 200 CFM – automatic circulation blower spreads heat evenly.
- Nine heat settings allow the ability to adjust to your heating needs. New digital control board allows adjusting heat and draft control with a push of a button. Built in diagnostics with LED display.
- Easy ash deposit and removal with large ash pan.
Product Description
The American Harvest is rugged and built to withstand the coldest climates with maximum life expectancy. This multifuel heater burns corn, wood pellets, and other fuels such as soy beans, olive pits, cherry pits, bio mass fuel grains, and processed silage. A new Digital Control Board with built-in diagnostics and LED readouts make testing, startup, and operation a breeze with just a touch of a button.
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We’ve had this make and model and something breaks down on it about every other year. The repairs each time has been a bit over $100. I’ve had to do the repairs myself and have even had to purchase new a tool that I didn’t own just to complete the new instillation of the new part.
I now wish I had not “gone cheap” but spent more money at a local store that has in house repair men and other customer support available beyond a remote phone call.
Rating: 3 / 5
I have owned two pellet stoves before ordering this one, a Harmon Accentra and an old Whitfield. The Whitfield worked about as well as the Harmon and I came to realize they all operate on the same principal so I was not concerned about ordering the 6039.
When I went to install the stove I ran into a problem. I could not attach the ‘T’ fitting to the stove exhaust outlet. The outlet pipe had been jammed so tightly against the stove sheet metal that there was no gap for the ‘T’ to fit. I called the company at about 4:25 PM and was on hold for 25 minutes. The person I spoke to was rude and unhelpful but, best of all, she hung up on me at 5:00! I decided to just repair it and worry about the warrenty later.
As for the operation of the stove, I have used pellets only and it does pretty well. The fan is no louder than the other stoves I’ve owned. It does have to be cleaned weekly but all pellet stoves should be cleaned that often. In fact, some of the older stoves had to be cleaned daily. After 2 months I checked the ‘T’ fitting and it was virtually clean so I’m assuming the burn is efficient.
This stove does not have an auto ignitor which I was not sure would be a problem. My method is to use a propane (MAP gas) torch to lite the pellets, it works great and is fast and clean.
I have had a problem when it runs out of pellets. The stove will show ERR2 and normally you just add more and restart. Lately however it will just keep shutting down. I removed the side panel and jumped out the low temp switch to keep it running and after a few hours it was back to normal.
I would only recommend this stove based on it’s price and only if you are confident you can repair it yourself. Customer service is worse than useless. As far as parts, it looks like they used off the shelf motors you could interchange with ones from Grainger to save some money.
Rating: 3 / 5
“3 years, and the value of the parts alone under warranty would exceed the cost of the stove. Engineering is 3rd rate on it’s best days, bad enough in it’s own right, but what passes for support is total garbage.
4-7 days to ship anything (one would think they would expedite parts in cold seasons, ya,sure… guess again) Have to argue with them over what is warranty, and what is not. They call it “multifuel” but that is a risky bet. (google hopper fire 6039) use corn only.
Cleaning makes you hate it, poorly designed clean-outs require access through limited areas. “clean out” ports for heat exchanger are held in place with poor-grade sheetmetal screws, have to work in tight-dark-sooty hole to remove them. Shows up in need of modifications before use (there are a few forums that tell you how, great, isn’t it?) Pot jumping destroys fiber backplate (a nice non-warranty 80$ part). Makes more noise than you would ever believe, clunking… popping… banging, and a bit of wheezing. Out of warranty parts are SIGNIFICANTLY higher priced than they should be. Agitator motor from US stove 140$, same motor from granger is $70. Agitator motor is poorly thermally isolated, and lacks airflow, heat destroys it in short order (OEM mfgr rates it at 104 deg ambient, normal operating conditions are 180+ they fail fast). US stove gets $75 for the agitator shaft, it’s $3.80 worth of 1/2″ steel rod! (talk about getting the “shaft”)
Company is rude, rude, and, oh, yes… rude to deal with.
Other failures I have endured over nearly 3 years, all seem to be a common complaint from other owners:
1)Vacuum sensor nipple melted, causes shutdown. (result of factory forgetting heat insulator, they apologized,how nice of them)
2)Firepot cracks between vent holes. (x2)
3)Control module function erratic, took 3 to get good one.
4)Auger motor failed after 1.5 years
5) 4th!!!!!! agitator motor!!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAARRRGGGHHH the bane of my winter life.
6)Glass stress cracked along bottom corners.
Save yourself some grief, buy ANYTHING but this chunk of junk… or get good at stove repair
It reminds me of a Fiat 2000 I owned… everyday a new “surprise”, some easy to fix, some not.”
Rating: 1 / 5
I’ve had this stove about a year. I’ve had nothing but problems since day 1. Things keep breaking, I can usually fix them myself, but it’s a real headache having to pull the whole thing apart for the repair.
Cleaning it is a real pain. It’s noisy (moreso than other stoves I’ve looked at). From day 1 it was obvious the finish quality it poor, screws are cross-threaded from the factory, cheap rivets that hold the lid on popped off, seal around glass began disintegrating immediately. The electronics are clunky, hard to use, and sometimes have a ‘mind of their own’
Two weeks ago in the middle of the cold winter (and about a week outside of warranty), the auger motor went out. I immediately ordered a new one ($130 for just this one small motor!). I haven’t gotten it, I called them today, it hadn’t even shipped yet! You think they’d be more considerate and timely in shipping parts knowing that people rely on their products for heat.
If you must get a corn stove, which after owning one I can definitely recommend NOT (your homeowners insurance will go up, it’s a real hassle, gets dust all over your house, it’s not as much cheaper with rising corn prices etc), if you must stay far far away from the American Harvest and US Stove models.
Rating: 2 / 5
I’ve had this stove about a year. I’ve had nothing but problems since day 1. Things keep breaking, I can usually fix them myself, but it’s a real headache having to pull the whole thing apart for the repair.
Cleaning it is a real pain. It’s noisy (moreso than other stoves I’ve looked at). From day 1 it was obvious the finish quality it poor, screws are cross-threaded from the factory, cheap rivets that hold the lid on popped off, seal around glass and ceramic backboard began disintegrating immediately. The electronics are clunky, hard to use, and sometimes have a ‘mind of their own’
Two weeks ago in the middle of the cold winter (and about a week outside of warranty), the auger motor went out. I immediately ordered a new one ($130 for just this one small motor!). I haven’t gotten it, I called them today, it hadn’t even shipped yet! You think they’d be more considerate and timely in shipping parts knowing that people rely on their products for heat.
If you must get a corn stove, which after owning one I can definitely recommend NOT (your homeowners insurance will go up, it’s a real hassle, gets dust all over your house, it’s not as much cheaper with rising corn prices etc), if you must stay far far away from the American Harvest and US Stove models.
Rating: 2 / 5