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Dad and I traded pics tonight, he sent a pic of his stove top, so I sent him a pic of mine, both the same stoves. What's everyone else using for heat? Sorry guys the pics were texted, so they will be wrong for pucker users, last pic is my kitchen wood stove insert.
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wish i could show you mine cant seem to post pics. mines amish top loader double wall on side holes top and bottom hot air rises so it ciculates air that way without need for electricity. the air through the firebox is 2 caps on top leading down through pipes in firebox works nice heats 2 story farmhouse
 
No pic here either but is a 'floor furnace' as main heat and part time is a 2 burner wood in combo with 4 burner gas stove
 
My main source of heat is this antique stove. I have been using this for close to 40 years. Bathroom has electric heat. Stan
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No picture here but, I got a pellet burner. Us Stove brand. It will burn wood pellets and corn.
Efficient, clean, (no bark, no bugs, no mess) A little dusty though.
 
Mines a 2 year old LP Train furnace, easy to feed, no mess, no wood to cut, no wood to split, no wood to haul, no wood to stack.......you kinda get the idea.

Rick
 
Too lazy to put it on this year.


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Central Boiler 6048, working hard today.
 
This thing has been humping for about 6 weeks now.

With the little cold snap we're in, it ain't enough and the Buderus in the basement is picking up the slack.

Not looking forward to the oil man's next visit.
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Wouldn"t happen to be a D.S. Machine Circulator, would it? If so, which one? How do you like it? Any Pro"s / Con"s? Would you have bought something else? Reason I ask; I"m considering one myself, and doing my research.
 

There isn't enough heat exchanger surface area to efficiently use the btu's from eight burning pieces of wood. A charge of 2 or 3 would add almost the same energy to the room.
 
I would have to take a picture of my propane tank. But as I'm not much good in the picture department, and the white 1000 gal. tank probably wouldn't even show up for the snow, I guess I'll just stay in where it's warm.
 
Are those stoves common in your area? Brother had two of them many years ago. The sheet metal was burnt through in places on one of them. I asked if I could have it, instead he took it apart and put a piece here and there and soon parts were lost and the stove was gone. Do not know what happened to the other one.
 
US stove American harvest pellet/corn hot air furnace works good keeping the house warm -15 here in No Central Ma this am went down and turned it up to medium heat instead of low run it on low almost all the time pushes us out with heat a few minor issues since new but nothing to bad can burn almost a ton of pellets before cleaning it been using it for three winters now use to have a wood hot air furnace miss the wood heat just not all the labor and time involved
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Stopped at wally world yesterday and bought 12 pks of 4 each at $1.00 each pk. They be cheap and gonna blow fast but only .25 each bulb.
 
I was in a Rural King store lately, hardly any regular incandescent bulbs left. They had some 2 packs for $5, $2.50 a bulb and those weren't rough service!
 
This has kept us warm since 1985 we burn about 5 cord a yr. Had to make a handle out of an old weld chip hammer a few yrs back.Keep your chimneys clean and stay warm. BTW -5 deg. out.
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Its a hot water stove, water coils are inside the stoves, why would u comment on something you know nothing about?
 
Buickanddeere says you should only put 2-3 pieces at a time
in it! Lol,boiler looks good,to me.
 
If the draft on the stove is cut back it will only burn a certain amount of wood in a given time
as oxygen is controlled the more wood makes it last longer between charges.Same principle as setting a carb on a car burns the same amount of gas if the tank is full or at 1/4 full.
 
there is a name but i cant think of it.bad things every time you open the top sparks and smoke come out lots of dust but the wood i burn is not the best good thing i dont have a wife.good thing very efficent dont use any electricity and the air circulates on its own.bad thing you have to regulate the air by yourself good wood doesnt cause much trouble they also make cook stoves. im in sw wisc for more info try [email protected] i can send pic if you want stay warm larry and mutt
 
I am on A natural gas line. Same as the people use in town. My unit has both heat and air for winter or summer. I am about six miles out of town. Some people do use wood.

I do have A fireplace in my house, but I have not use it in A long time. l have lots of woods around if I need wood.

Hammer Man
E. Texas
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Perhaps B&amp;D is not familiar with the fire triangle!
:roll: I find it much more effective to control heat output with oxygen, rather than fuel! :wink:
We are in the midst of our 14th heating season with this OWB. :D
 
Here's our Pacific Energy stove, made in Canada. Heats our living area, using 4 to 5 cords/winter. Basement is heated with resistance heat. Eastern Nebraska.
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37Chief, is that stove a "Sycamore Oak"? We had one when I was a tad. Our"s had a grate in the bottom that allowed the use of lump coal with an ash pan below. Lot of work, but still think wood/coal is the "best" heat ever. Thanks for the memory.
 
The stove has a 8-10 hour burn time, and it burns 24/7.I load it full then go to sleep for the night, what do you do, get up every other hour to put in a piece? Besides the top 2 stoves are in our basements, which heat the water to 150-160* +_ for the baseboards, which heats the entire house, my house is 5 bedrooms, so it's completely different from a free standing wood stove in a room, not hooked to anything.
 
Nobody has shown a pic of one of these. Propane stove. It used to be a messy, sooty old oil burner but I finally switched to propane after the third poof-back and a day spent washing oily soot off of things. We have one gas burner in the basement and one upstairs. They still work if we lose electricity. I live on the fairly baren plains of Northwest Iowa where gathering firewood involves invading some landowner's grove possibly many miles away, so we don't have many people burning wood. I used to burn wood but driving many miles to get it just didn't work out. Stay warm. Jim
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Hardy boiler for my shops with hot water in floor heat. Works excellent. House is a 13 year old Geothermal heat pump and not much to see. Love the $30-40 average annual monthly energy cost, but miss the wood fireplace I had in the last house. No toasty warm spots in the house.
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(quoted from post at 10:04:41 01/04/14) Buickanddeere says you should only put 2-3 pieces at a time
in it! Lol,boiler looks good,to me.
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I wasn't taking about a boiler although jamming the firebox full and checking the air back. While that extends the time between charges.
The stove has been turned into a coke oven. Much of the wood gasses escape the stack unburned and wasted due to not enough oxygen available for combustion.
Over charging makes for a stinking and smoking stack which irritates neighbours. Then gives the EPA an excuse to stick their noses in another aspect of our lives.
 
I see you have an old newholland manure spreader, I'm guessing you use it for a wood wagon? I have an older JD one I use, they work great for moving firewood.
 
The name is Round Oak. I had to put a piece of stainless steel around the inside, as the original was starting to burn through. Not many heat with wood. Some have a fire place, but all that does is burn up wood. Stan
 
wood wagon it is. Easy to work in the woods and can get it most anyplace. Have been known to hook it behind my 310g crawler/loader and crawl up the side of eskers to get dead wood on top.
 
An interesting post. I use a Hardy boiler, and it looks just like all the others, so I won't post a pic. A stainless steel box out in the yard.

Some of the "expert comments" remind me of an energy audit that we had about thirty five years ago. Some guy in a business suit showed up and started trying to tell me how to manage the draft on a wood stove that I'd been heating with for several years. I finally had to demonstrate for him - if I set the draft per his instructions, the kettle on the stove stopped boiling. If I set the draft contrary to his instructions, the kettle resumed boiling. And he still didn't understand. . . I think of him every time I hear the words "energy audit", ha. My dad used to say, "Don't mess with nothing that you know nothing about", and it applied in this guys case. He'd obviously never had a stick of firewood in his hands, but he was a paid expert for the power company.
 
Ayup, my FiL ran his comb wood/oil furnace that way for years due to a fear of chimney fire! He was up and down the cellar stairs a dozen times a day, and the wood fire would go out at night causing the oil burner to take over! Then, he would have to kindle another wood fire in the morning! Now, we have heat exchangers, in the plenum of that furnace, fed from the OWB.
 
Had an energy audit done while I lived in Minneapolis/St Paul and it was a joke. I spent a lot of money and had no savings to show for it. When I retired 14 years ago, I contacted the local electrical power company and they were excellent. They reviewed all my building plans, visited my site several times and made numerous suggestions that were all excellent. Our home and shops are very energy efficient.

Regarding the Hardy boiler, it has been good. I did learn to program the controller to delay the draft blower start after the draft is opened and on warmer days I do not need the blower to raise boiler water temp. Do need to burn the creosote out occasionally.

Some people are hard to convince. Have a neighbor that has a wood boiler and no wood source. I let him cut on my land for free because I can not burn wood fast enough to stay ahead of the dead Oak. He only wants green wood because "it burns slower". Have never been able to convince his that slower also means longer because of the reduced BTU value of green wood. Good news is that he does take a lot of standing dead wood off the land
 
Any problems with that American harvest I've had one for a few years now only problem was burning up the pellet agitators in the burn pot till I made one myself
 
I like our Hardy, but it's 15 years old. I'd get another one if this one failed. I'm nearly 65, but still in good health.

The energy audit that we had years ago was courtesy of the power company - no cost to us. They were attempting to prove that we couldn't heat our old house with a wood stove, and that somehow we were getting natural gas through their meter without it registering. The gas furnace had actually been shut off for a couple of years, but we couldn't prove it. We did win the contest, but it was a long drawn out affair, and it finally ended with a ruling, in our favor, by the Illinois Commerce Commission. The clincher - in our favor - was that the house had been built in 1914, and I put the very first furnace in it in 1970. For 56 years it had been heated solely with wood/coal stoves. Their "energy auditor" was a shill for the power company in the same vein as a "company doctor" would be.
 
(quoted from post at 15:43:25 01/04/14)
You are asking a retired firefighter with 10yrs experience about combustion and chimney fires?
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Nah, I don't think so! I only did 35 years with the local fire dept, and retired with the rank of Captain!
Dave
 
We burn dry cured elm, maple, iron wood or beech blocks not softwood.
If the fresh wood is placed on, behind or in front of the coals. Ignition and burn time varies.
We use a Napoleon airtight fireplace insert with upgraded HX fans. Two blocks last from 11:00PM until 4:00PM with a hearty bed of coals left and heat still blowing from the grill.
Firebox design and burn efficiency varies.
 
Doesn't have to be a smokey fire if you know what you're doing.Amazing how many Americans have no
practical skills these days.Most smokey fires come from Idiots burning green and wet wood BTW.
 
(quoted from post at 07:04:41 01/04/14) Buickanddeere says you should only put 2-3 pieces at a time
in it! Lol,boiler looks good,to me.
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Don't you wonder how many homes B&amp;D makes a circuit of putting in just three pieces at a time helping people to be more efficient?
 
I have a EFM automatic coal stoker boiler in my detached garage/shop. I have the water piped under ground to the house. Furnace runs 365 days a year.
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(quoted from post at 20:40:42 01/04/14)
(quoted from post at 07:04:41 01/04/14) Buickanddeere says you should only put 2-3 pieces at a time
in it! Lol,boiler looks good,to me.
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Don't you wonder how many homes B&amp;D makes a circuit of putting in just three pieces at a time helping people to be more efficient?
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Shows who is lazy and won't get out of his chair.
 
No major problems yet. Like yours I've burned up several agitators, they seem to disappear quicker when I burn corn. Mine also seems to like frequent cleanings, my wife gave me an ash vacuum for Christmas two years ago and cleaning goes much faster now. I've found the agitator on Ebay for about half price than the ones at fleet farm. Other than those little things I'm quite happy with it. Can you offer any suggestions to get longer burn times between cleanings?
 
Email is open. I can get about 3/4 of a ton through it before I shut it down and vac it out some times longer never burned corn just premium pellets here I usually take the little hoe that came with it and tap the burn pot at least once a day while it's running to try to keep it cleaner and the agitator it made out of stainless has a little longer fingers to help scrape the burn pot down next time I have it out I'll try to take a pic of the stainless one compared to a new cast one
 
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