Treespotter
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Cleaned out the combustion chamber and catalyst today and found out that the catalyst is half gone. Need a replacement for that ons ASAP.
Who heats with a woodstove?
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Cleaned out the combustion chamber and catalyst today and found out that the catalyst is half gone. Need a replacement for that ons ASAP.
When i lived in PA I had a Vermont castings Federal XL in a circa 1860 triple brick house. Loved the way it worked. Usually didn't fire up the main furnace until December. I do like the idea of a single mart too. Whats your preference, Speyside or Highland? I was in the liquor store last week looking at a bottle of Jura single malt. according to the label, tradition says you must finish a bottle of Jura on the day it is opened. I'll have to try that sometime.
opposablethumb
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- Mid-Atlantic
Burnin\' for the first time this season...
Bump.
We fired up the stove for the first time tonite. Dropping into the 40's down here in Tennessee. Water oak kindling, White oak wood = fireworks.
I'm starting to sweat...
I imagine you folks up in Canada and the PNW have been burning since July or something...
Bump.
We fired up the stove for the first time tonite. Dropping into the 40's down here in Tennessee. Water oak kindling, White oak wood = fireworks.
I'm starting to sweat...
I imagine you folks up in Canada and the PNW have been burning since July or something...
Re: Burnin\' for the first time this season...
I milled up a ton of pine this year and last so I've been burning year round. Rainy days to dry out the house or any excuse to get a fire going. Windows doors open wide to compensate for the heat. I'll give the chimney a cleaning this month before we go into hardwood mode.
Burning white oak, nice. Seasoned sugar maple is my personal fav. We get mostly white ash, oak, soft maple some birch. Got a large pile of mostly the same from my neighbor last weekend. His father in law lost his river bank due to Irene. The excavator cut a path through the woods to get out to it. I got called in to remove the pile of logs. It'll get it split before the winter and save it for next year or the year after. Stockpiling.
I milled up a ton of pine this year and last so I've been burning year round. Rainy days to dry out the house or any excuse to get a fire going. Windows doors open wide to compensate for the heat. I'll give the chimney a cleaning this month before we go into hardwood mode.
Burning white oak, nice. Seasoned sugar maple is my personal fav. We get mostly white ash, oak, soft maple some birch. Got a large pile of mostly the same from my neighbor last weekend. His father in law lost his river bank due to Irene. The excavator cut a path through the woods to get out to it. I got called in to remove the pile of logs. It'll get it split before the winter and save it for next year or the year after. Stockpiling.
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- Longmont, CO
Re: Burnin\' for the first time this season...
32° is tonight's low. I've started my stove the past 2 weeks now.
32° is tonight's low. I've started my stove the past 2 weeks now.
Have a friend who used a jotul stove. It was super efficient. We have a Ben Franklin type stove at home that will run you out of the living room, but man does that warmth sink right into your bones. I keep mom supplied with about 4 cords a season for her double 55 gal. drum stove. The bottom barrel is the combustion part and the smoke circulates through the top barrel for added heat to the basement where it is stoked. It will take 30" long pieces, but we use mostly regular sized stove wood. The chimney runs up through the center of the house, and when it warms up it is like a 2 story radiator.
allmark
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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.
I have 2 outside boilers. Burn 4' long wood. one heats my shop and one heats my house/domestic hot water and my fathers house next door. They work great. The key too not having smoke is to burn good wood and nothing your not supposed to. The smoke would only be when the tstat cllas for heat and fires up the blower. This is brief 2 minutes. I use mine all summer long to keep the hot water.
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.
I have 2 outside boilers. Burn 4' long wood. one heats my shop and one heats my house/domestic hot water and my fathers house next door. They work great. The key too not having smoke is to burn good wood and nothing your not supposed to. The smoke would only be when the tstat cllas for heat and fires up the blower. This is brief 2 minutes. I use mine all summer long to keep the hot water.
treevet
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- Cincinnati, Ohio
I have run woodstoves for 30 years and then 9 years ago with a new house and having to leave behind the last one I tried an insert (Vt. Castings Winter Warm-see attachment) which was only good enough for the room it is in on sort of a wing of the house.
Frustrated I finally tried a Clayton ll57m wood furnace add on that has a 3 speed blower (Tractor Supply about $1400.) into the ducts and I added a humidifier. It takes 30 inch by 12 inch dia logs and heats the basement and first floor floors as well unlike a woodstove. I am absolutely thrilled with it into my 7th year of full time winter use. I burn absolutely nothing but wood ever but I could if going out of town and the thermostat would kick on.
Last three days I have heated my 4 bedroom house entirely with the large barkless deadwood off of 2 giant oaks we pruned days ago. What a perc! This is the best way to heat your house with wood if you have a basement and furnace and ductwork already there imo.
Frustrated I finally tried a Clayton ll57m wood furnace add on that has a 3 speed blower (Tractor Supply about $1400.) into the ducts and I added a humidifier. It takes 30 inch by 12 inch dia logs and heats the basement and first floor floors as well unlike a woodstove. I am absolutely thrilled with it into my 7th year of full time winter use. I burn absolutely nothing but wood ever but I could if going out of town and the thermostat would kick on.
Last three days I have heated my 4 bedroom house entirely with the large barkless deadwood off of 2 giant oaks we pruned days ago. What a perc! This is the best way to heat your house with wood if you have a basement and furnace and ductwork already there imo.
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