Survival/Navajo Hybrid

Navajo Dual-Fuel Hybrid Stove & Survival Hybrid Wood Stove A Story of Great Challenge & RewardThe story of Navajo & Survival Hybrid stoves had a fascinating start with the design and development of a clean burning, small, dual fuel stove for use on the Navajo Nation at the Four Corners of New Mexico..

News Update - Navajo Stove Project Below is a brief video interview with our Navajo Beta tester Robert Owen, from mid March, 2018.  Robert is one of our Navajo beta testers whose stove was installed this January, 2018.   It’s a little bit unclear in the video, but in the six weeks between his i..

Survival Stove in the Lodge Motif  Our newest woodstove, the SURVIVAL Hybrid, is on sale through  January 31st for just $1299. It is available in the two designs pictured here, the Survival “Orchard” and the Survival “Lodge” with a variety of accent colors for the artwork.  More information is..

Will, explaining to dad how to have a smoke-free start-up and how to operate the stove, and Robert (dad), teaching Will  about the Four Sacred Mountains. Yá’át’ééh (Hello in Navajo), We’ve posted about our recent installation in a Navajo Hogan several times. We feel a real kinshi..

Navajo Hogan It’s gratifying to make a difference! On Friday, January 12th, our team visited the Navajo hogan where they had installed a stove on Wednesday.  The stove was burning away merrily in the center of the hogan.  Outside, there was no smoke coming out of the stack.  A clean burn! But ..

Contemporary Hogan Home We are getting towards the end of the first week of the first round of installing the Navajo Stoves.  We are replacing the stoves that were left there last March for beta testing. These are photos from Tuesday’s demonstration installation near Window Rock, Arizona.  The..

Our first shipment of Navajo Stoves are shipping today.  We are replacing last year’s Navajo beta stoves with the first production stoves made after EPA certification and UL listing.Here are a few photos of these stoves on their way to being crated for shipment.  We like the Navajo colors!  A few me..

Dear Friends,       Hello and Holiday Greetings from all of us at Woodstock Soapstone Company!  We are approaching our 40th year of making the highest quality wood and gas burning stoves, and are now proud to be debuting our newest hybrid that adds a “little spark” to our already stellar line-up.   ..

Survival Stove - The OrchardFor the last 14 months, we’ve been working vigorously to develop a small hybrid wood and coal stove for the Navajo Nation - a stove that is clean, efficient and inexpensive.  The development of that stove is finished, and we’ll begin shipping Navajo Stoves to the Navajo r..

Navajo Beta StoveA little over a year ago, we started working on a design for a clean-burning wood/coal stove for use in the Navajo Nation, located at the “4 corners” where Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah meet.  In February, 2017, we installed a series of “beta” stoves in Navajo homes on the ..

This 5 minute video (edited down from 7.5 minutes), shows our crew's drive out from the last Navajo Beta Stove installation in Steamboat, Arizona.  The trick to getting to some homes is to get in and out early while the ground is still frozen, but we didn't have that option!..

Moving in the new stoveThe second beta installation was for a young family in Lupton, AZ.  Just starting out with their own little home on familial land, Amber & Leonard, were in need of some economical heat.  They were incurring huge electric bills each month from using space heaters.  The addition..

The stove Tony was usingThe crew is back and we are beginning to get the stories of their Navajo Adventures.  It was a non-stop, whirlwind of driving, hauling, and installing.  From picking up the stoves and equipment at the ABF Truck Terminal, to making the two-hour drive from Albuquerque, New Mexi..

The objective: Install a wood stove into a home on the Navajo Reservation. The challenge: Getting the wood stove from the truck to the home during Navajo mud season. The solution: Woodstock Soapstone Stove Wranglers!Yankee ingenuity was put to good use when confronted with the obstacles of mud seaso..

End of a long dayAs our team winds down their delivery and installation of the new stoves on the Navajo American Indian Reservation, we thought we’d take a moment to share a little of their adventures.Mud Season comes early in the Southwestern part of the United States.  This was only one of the cha..

Navajo Beta Stove - Gasket is AddedHere at the Woodstock Soapstone Company, we have been very busy.  For the past 3-4 months, we have been fervently working on a stove designed for use by Navajo American Indians who live on the Navajo Nation Reservation at the “4 Corners”  (where Colorado, Utah, Ari..