Want a ton of pellets? Good quality hardwood.
The Breckwell is a blow through stove. Didn’t know that and would never have another. It also bottom feeds with an auger through an elbow. Breckwell didn’t adapt the angle of the elbow as the designer learned it had to be so it jams with pellets. When it jams it shears the drive of the auger then it burns back into the hopper. Dreadful design and hazardous. Should be taken off the market, recalled and money refunded at least. Breckwell borders on fly by night and won’t address their product.
The Hearthstone soapstone stove stays warm, runs without electricity and I have lots of dead fall and stuff to cut up for wood. I would like an outside air supply. Heating for us is sometime late November to about March so not so much. I sometimes have my doubts the air sucked from the house is not a net loss in heating even though our house is newer and tight. The stove pipe has to heat up to get much draft at all and the ash cleanout is the key to getting a fire started.
The thing about a stove is more wood doesn’t necessarily last longer, it mostly just makes it hotter. Loading up before bedtime gives a very hot house that gets cold a little slower. The higher the delta T the faster the heat goes out.
I am in NH. So your pellets might be too far to travel.
I am sorry to hear about your pellet stove. I know two other people that had the exact same Harman insert that I bought. I also talked to and read a lot of reviews on Hearth.com before making the Harman purchase. It is the only brand of pellet stove I would buy in North America. There are a couple European brands that are also good, but parts are harder to get here. Plus the dealer is a few miles from my house.
The link I sent you to the Progress hybrid Woodstock Soapstone wood stove is similar to the Hearthstone. Except the catalytic converter is right under the top lid of the stove. So, it is easy to take out and clean when it gets dirty. It also has the option to load from either side depending how you want to order it. They sell direct through their website.
My in laws have an old Vermont Castings wood stove with the catalytic on the back. It is a pain in the butt to clean because you have to take the stove pipe off to get at it. Vermont Castings used to make good stoves back in the 1980s.
I have lots of firewood too. I have 12 acres. I cut two 16” DAB maples down this winter because they broke during storms. I need to cut down four more White Ash trees because they all are dead from the emerald ash bore. Now, I just stack the wood and let it dry for a couple years. Then sell it on the Facebook page of my local town. I sold about six Toyota pickup loads last fall for $150 CASH delivered.