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Tip

08-19-2005 19:58:15




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I read quite a few posts in the archives about wood boilers. Anyone have any current opinions?

I am seriously considering one to heat my old farmhouse and shop. I live in a rural area and have plenty of wood. Since these units are unregulated, it is hard to get a handle on efficiency, but I am interested in the best unit I can get my hands on. With heating oil over $2.20 a gallon in the middle of the summer, I am going to have to do something or buy more longjohns!

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Tip

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Coldiorn

08-25-2005 21:54:19




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 Re: Outdoor Wood Boilers in reply to Tip, 08-19-2005 19:58:15  
I just priced a wood fired unit for 5900.00 uninstalled. By the time I got it installed it would take a long long time for the pay off. Then we have to mention the time to cut the wood, haul it, stack it and then wish we had built a shed to cover it from three feet of snow when we are digging it out so we can feed the furnace twice a day. Think I will stick with my Trager pellet furnace for a while longer till the boilers come down a little. 6 tons of pellets is a lot easier to manage than 5 cords of wood when you are 64.

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buickanddeere

08-23-2005 05:21:41




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 Re: Outdoor Wood Boilers in reply to Tip, 08-19-2005 19:58:15  
Harmon model 45 stoker grain and wood pellet stove. Clog free design. Vented, no chimney required. Shitches from wood pellets to grain in minutes. Self lighting and thermostat control. Outside boilers are fine IF. Properly installed, properly stoked and size matched to the heating load. Filling them once a day and restricting the airflow. Just turns them into coke ovens that push unburned wood gases out the chimmney and make a smoking, stinking creosoot mess.

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Midwest redneck

08-23-2005 15:13:29




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 Re: Outdoor Wood Boilers in reply to buickanddeere, 08-23-2005 05:21:41  
Are you saying that if I bought a Harman 45 pellet stove that I would not need a chimney pipe going out the roof or side wall? If this is true then I could easily get one. Fill me in on this.



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Robert in W. Mi.

08-24-2005 19:13:15




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 Re: Outdoor Wood Boilers in reply to Midwest redneck, 08-23-2005 15:13:29  
They vent through the side wall, no chimney at all.

Personally, i'd get one that burns corn too, as if you don't grow it, it can be bought fairly cheaply..

Robert



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Midwest redneck

08-21-2005 17:08:02




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 Re: Outdoor Wood Boilers in reply to Tip, 08-19-2005 19:58:15  
You may want to get a pellet stove. one bushel will (may) heat the house for a whole day. Pellet stove may be much cheaper than a outside woodboiler.



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NC Wayne

08-20-2005 20:27:53




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 Re: Outdoor Wood Boilers in reply to Tip, 08-19-2005 19:58:15  
Been looking into them myself lately for the same reason. All of them are a little out of my price range at the moment so I'm gonna stick with my fireplace insert for at least another year. I've got a customer in Chapel Hill that bought a Taylor several years back. He got one of the biggest they offer to heat both his home and a huge shed he's building. He says he hasn't had any problems with it at all and he burns pretty much anything he can find.

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Joe in MN

08-20-2005 09:10:29




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 Re: Outdoor Wood Boilers in reply to Tip, 08-19-2005 19:58:15  
I have a Wood Master Boiler, it works just great, What I'v noticed about the WoodMaster is it has very good Insulation which keeps the heat in, like the other don't. although I had to change a few things on it to my liking but for the most part, it works for me.



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JMS/MN

08-20-2005 07:19:03




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 Re: Outdoor Wood Boilers in reply to Tip, 08-19-2005 19:58:15  
Check Implement Alley, 8-14-05.



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TimS

08-23-2005 08:11:28




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 Re: Outdoor Wood Boilers in reply to JMS/MN, 08-20-2005 07:19:03  
I've got one of the Hardy outdoor wood burners. We use it every winter, I really like it. I fill it up twice a day, ours has a electric blower and solenoid activated damper that turns on to blow air in and cause the fire to blaze up and raise the water temp back to the shut off point. When the water is hot enough the fan shuts off and the damper closes, there isn't hardly any smoke emitted at all.

I know there are some models that produce a smog when damped but the Hardy isn't one of em.

As a matter of fact, when it is damped down, a lot of the time you don't see any smoke at all coming out, at most a little wisp like that off of a cigarette left in an ashtray.

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