OT Wood Gasification Boiler

I lived outside of Limerick in Anacotty from 1980 until 1982 and went to school at Crescent College Comprehensive in Duradoyle.

Dad worked at the Burlington Industries plant in Limerick and Tralee.

We drove around the countryside every weekend to see various historic sites and ruins.

I took my family on a bus tour a couple of years ago. We started in Dublin and did the Ring of Kerry , Cliffs of Moher , Bunratty and wound up in Killarnee.

We had a wonderful time.

As silly as it sounds, lunch at Durty Nelley"s was one of the highlights of the trip.When we lived there, Dad would take us there once a month for supper. I would get a steak and a prawn cocktail.

The weather was beautiful.We were there for a week and it only rained one day.

We went in July. When we left North Carolina, it was about 94 degrees but about 55 when we landed in Dublin.

I have a lot of fond memories of Ireland and all of my friends there.

Ford Man

Weather is ok here now 7 degrees C and not raining for a change! I would think that it's a very different country here now compared to the early 1980's especially in urban areas , rural places probably have not changed much apart from more houses being built theres a construction boom here in the last few years

There are several models that will operate on greener wood too. The AHS and Greenwood models for example.

The gasification models are about 75-85 % total efficiency, for comparison an airtight stove from the 70's maybe about 50% efficient. An outdoor wood boiler is about 25% efficient.

A brand new top of the heap EPA stove can be up to 75% efficient. Most are in the 60's.

I'm a big fan of burning wood, I'm also a big fan of burning it clean. The more efficent outdoor boilers have fire brick linings, forced draft fans etc to reduce smoking and get higher firebox temps.

The problem is burning wood in a big steel drum surrounded by cold water causes lots of pollution, the fire can't get hot enough. You need to burn it in a chamber then take the heat out of the exhaust or you need to line part of the barrel with fire brick.

An OWB has no business producing 25-50 times the pollutants a stove does when making only 2-3 times as much heat.

Garn make a fantastic but expensive outdoor boiler, blackbear boilers in maine make a low emission outdoor boiler, there are several of the big name ones that have fire brick and fans than do really good too. But at least around here, everyone wants the cheaper ones that are 500 or 1000$ cheaper that is a barrel in a barrel with a door on it.

Making a science out of wood burning is cool if a person is so inclined but in my opininated opinion people who look at wood burning stictly as cost vs cost and keep track of the labor so it may be multiplied by some rate pulled from the sky would serve themselves better by getting a Saturday job and using the check to pay a gas or electric bill. Flipping burgers is no doubt lots easier than swinging a maul, but I enjoy a day in the woods.

You are probably kicking out a simiar amount of smoke at the old air-tights are about 10 x as smoky as an epa.