Who heats with a woodstove?

I'm quickly becoming a huge wood stove geek. I dream of my home being run completely on wood. It's a free resource!!!

Aren't their incinerator style burners that run everything in the house?
 
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***The best deal if your serious about wood heat is the Pioneer Maid Cookstove built by the Amish in Ontario. No website no phone you have to write them a letter to order. Firebox and flume all stainless six feet of stainless top. Airtight firebox that takes 20" pieces. Water jacket, warming oven. Nice looking and only $2000 seems like a insane deal for handmade quality.

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Are these them Bevin? Obadiah's Woodstoves.
 
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She keeps it over 70F ALL THE TIME, and she cooks alot too, so it's not uncommon for us to have a window open in January LOL. I have trouble keeping up with her appetite for firewood. She runs the stove, though, so I just need to split and stack the wood, and she does the rest. How many guys can say THAT???

-Tom

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I'm quickly becoming a huge wood stove geek. I dream of my home being run completely on wood. It's a free resource!!!

Aren't their incinerator style burners that run everything in the house?

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My friend's dad has one that is a stand-alone monster. It sits outside in it's own building, away from the house, and heats up coils of water that run to the house and tie into both a tank for hot water, and lines running through the floors of the house for radiant heat. You don't get the cozy up next to the fireplace effect, but you also won't ever burn your house down! It's a cool system anyway...
 
Yes Jamin that's the Pioneer Maid. Hard to beat if your into that kind of thing. One of my hippy friends bought one now there's a pile of them around that area. One of those off the grid things. Bakes nice, steady hot water, space heater etc. It's near the top of my wish list.

Some people are saying those outside boilers should be banned. As the water jacket surrounds the firebox the fire is kept at a low heat making nothing but smoke. Not clean burning, messy. I'm seeing quite a few 2 year old used boilers for sale. Either people are too lazy to deal with the wood or don't like the yard full of thick smoke.

There seems to be problems with even the gasification boilers. Or clean burning ones. It appears they need a swimming pool as a heat dump to burn cleanly. So I'd do some research before jackhammering the slab. Open or low pressure systems seem like a better option. The Pioneer Maid I think would run one.

A cheap tin airtight for $100 seems to git r done about as good as a 10 ton masonary stove.
 
I have a Quadrafire. Top of the line. Made a trade with woodstove store owner, exchanged work for stove. Expensive set up but I look at it as I get paid to heat my house!! Usually have more wood than I need so I sell some if I can
 
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Yes Jamin that's the Pioneer Maid. Hard to beat if your into that kind of thing. One of my hippy friends bought one now there's a pile of them around that area. One of those off the grid things. Bakes nice, steady hot water, space heater etc. It's near the top of my wish list.

Some people are saying those outside boilers should be banned. As the water jacket surrounds the firebox the fire is kept at a low heat making nothing but smoke. Not clean burning, messy. I'm seeing quite a few 2 year old used boilers for sale. Either people are too lazy to deal with the wood or don't like the yard full of thick smoke.

There seems to be problems with even the gasification boilers. Or clean burning ones. It appears they need a swimming pool as a heat dump to burn cleanly. So I'd do some research before jackhammering the slab. Open or low pressure systems seem like a better option. The Pioneer Maid I think would run one.

A cheap tin airtight for $100 seems to git r done about as good as a 10 ton masonary stove.

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They do smoke a lot but last I heard they were coming out with one that burned a lot cleaner. Dave, (tnttree) has a neat boiler, hopefully he'll chime in.
 
Best part of our woodstove beside the heat is the little magnetic temperature gauge we stuck on the front. When the dial hits 12 or more its comfortable and when it drops to 9 time to get up and throw another stick on.
 
Heat with and old Fisher that my grandfather had as a back up or main depending on the cold to the furnace. Looking this year to replace both and move the Fisher to pole barn/ shop.
Every Dec 23 we hand out a load or Cedar or Hickory fro our neighbors to burn on the 25th to get that good x-mas smell.


Remodeling the house also helps when re-insulating to the new codes from old farm house to new codes.
 
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Aaaaah Garn nice. How much?

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I have had it about ten years now think I put about 20K into the system, including : 2000 sq ft of in floor heat in the shop, Air handler in the house, 3 circulating pumps and plumbing for house, stable and shop.
Sometimes I wish I just had a stove in the house and a modine in the shop, but you can't beat floor heat and no wood mess in the house. I hope in my semi retired years to burn 100% we'll see how lazy I am, time to go stoke it right now.
 
I traded a $100 off a tree job for this medium buck stove insert. Haven't turned the gas furnace on this year, maybe next month. It is my primary heat source and I love it! This is my 2nd medium buck insert. The first one a farmer gave to me. The blower went out last year so I switched to this newer model.

I used an outdoor wood boiler for 3 years and got sick of it. Mine was not the most efficient and the time I put in to keep it burning wasn't worth it to me. I love the heat that comes from the insert and it is a whole lot less effort!
 

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Mine is a Vermont Castings Intrepid II. It's not in the house for fun, it's our only heat source. Our central heating is shut down completely.
We use about nine or ten cubic yards of the best of the best. Oak, beech and birch.
I love the wintertime when the stove is in use. What more can you possibly want than to cook on your own wood.
I don't need to be careful with the log size. 16 Inch is a piece of cake in the top loading stove.

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Interesting that you have an American made stove. good to hear that america is still producing something useful for the world.
 
Ha ha, tell me Treebing, why is that interesting.

I am a world citizen and don't have a thick skull. There is no red, white and blue in our front garden and nowhere a remark that I only buy Dutch.
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I’ve been using a Cawley 800 wood stove (formerly Cawley-LeMay), since ~ 1979.
It probably supplies 80+% of my heat in Cleveland, OH.
I have an automatic thermostat (gas)that heats the house up in the morning, and then shuts down.

Stove is installed in front of my walled off fireplace, and uses outside air for combustion.

It is beautiful.

It has cast animal figures, on all 4 doors, in relief approx. 1-1/4” deep.
(e.g. deer, squirrel, raccoon, partridge, porcupine, wood chuck & owls)
It has 4 doors (2 front for viewing or loading wood, & 2 side doors, which I use for loading.)
I typically load w/ 18” logs, but it will take 22” horizontally.
Also has 2 cook-top rings.

I think it is quite efficient. It has an air intake pre-heater chamber & a baffle for “extended” after-burning.
However, the EPA put the company out of business by mandating emissions specs & catalytic converters. (Reportedly they could not afford the testing to comply.)

The last time I checked, “Buck’s” in Portland, Oregon, had purchased the molds, and had replacement parts available.

Perhaps they could make a whole one ??? ………….. $$$
 
Here's a cool chart on the interwebs with info about a range of hardwoods and their energy values, as well as other miscellany like ease of splitting and smoke...It's pretty cool. There is also a parallel page for softwoods. I'm not sure where the info comes from, but it seems to be a fairly accurate gauge in my limited experience in regards to the species that I burn, for instance, sugar maple's superiority as a firewood over silver or red maple. Link below...

BTU's of hardwoods
 
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Ha ha, tell me Treebing, why is that interesting.

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I think Treebing is somewhat amazed that the US actually exports something of use to the rest of the world. I don't think it was a commentary on 'product patriotism' LOL.

-Tom
 
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