Anyone here using one of these or similar? Where I live, wood is an abundant and free resource. I just want to take advantage of the free fuel considering the prices of home heating fuel. From what I have read initially, its sounds like a great alternative boiler.

 

No water boiler, but I burn wood for the whole house, and am enjoying the savings, been burning wood for most of my life,my neighbors with comparable houses are paying some high elect. bills, one told me his last month was $325 and ours was around a $100, so I would say go for it and save, it is hard work to cut and haul, but hey it will keep you young. Goodluck,,Rick

 

I don't have personnal experience with these but a buddy of mine uses one.

He heats his house, his shop and a small horse barn with it. The burner is about 200 feet behind his shop and works great. I don't know the specifics but I know he has in floor radiant heat in all the buildings and it is also tied in somehow to make hot water for the house also.

He uses this brand........http://www.centralboiler.com/home.html I know he gets 24 hr burns out of one stoking of logs. I maintained his place last winter for a few weeks and only had to head up there once a day to fill the fire box.

I am going to go this route when it comes time to build. The only way to go if you have the wood source.

Jeff

 

My dad uses one to heat his house & milkbarn and is very happy with it. Large chunks of wood fit in the firebox which also reduces splitting. Keeps the dust & smoke out of the house. I will have one someday.

 

i have been doing this since 81 with an oil fired boiler. slightly modified it uses just about any oil that will burn. heat 4 places. would go to wood but too old and crippled to cut it.

 

I heat the whole house with wood also, unless the temps are above freezing, then I use the heat pump.

 

I am into my 4th year of heating with an outside wood boiler. I am heating our 50 x 80 production bldg, 24 x 40 paint shop, 24 X 40 Fiberglass shop and a 30x40 apartment with it.

 

Herb, that's what I want to do here too. I have 3 buildings I want to heat, but the longest run will be about 400 feet and I really don't want to have to purchase 2 units. How far away is your longest run? Any problems with yours? What brand is it?

chaikwa.

 

herb! You are polluting the planet with wood smoke and paint fumes? AND operating sweat shops exploiting illegals? Shame on you!

 

no,no whenever we are painting i have everyone stand outside of the exhaust fan and "breath deep" to catch the fumes before it gets into the atmosphere. <sp>

 

I am not at the shop right now and cannot remember the brand name. It is made in Canada, has a round stainless steel burning pot (one welded seam at the top of the cylinder) has a 500 gallon water resivor. It also is built on legs that keeps the unit about 18" off the ground to prevent rusting.
i am running about 100 feet in one direction (to my production shop and apt. and have two runs of about 100 feet to the other two bldg's.
I installed seperate circulation pumps to each location. No problems of any kind. I also had hard cell foam sprayed over the underground lines to minimize heat loss
i have averaged about 24 full cords of wood per season. I have the hard wood logs (8' x 12") trucked in from upstate Mich at @ 1600 dollars for 21 cords. I cut them into thirds and do not split any of it.

wood stove info and supplier
1 800 338 9188

 

Thanks Herb! I appreciate the info.

chaikwa.

 

ahh but do o have them pee out the pcb's into sealed cans and bury those in a wetland?

 

I'm proud of you herb! Clear cutting old growth forests! Those trees will just die anyway.

 

We all pee in a jar and use it for paint reducer in our yellow paint