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Mike in Mn. · Feb 7, 2011

I need to upgrade my heating system for next winter. Have an old oil furnace with a add on wood burner that also heats the hot water. All worked wonderful but is over twenty years old and time to go. Looked at a lot of combination furnaces and decided to go with a Yukon Eagle I. It"s a oil/coal/wood furnace that will heat water also. I might also add central air, so I"m really going modern here. With the price of fuel going up I want to keep using wood. Every body tells me at my age I"m nuts, but I like to make wood. Check out there web site and let me know what you think, There only a hundred miles from me. Anybody using one? Thanks.

buickanddeere · Feb 7, 2011

How about a straight wood/coal furnace?. And run a heating coil from the domestic water heater. Into the heating plenum for backup heat.
An ordinary oil water heater will be more efficient than running an over sized oil boiler.
All around cheaper and more efficient.

BLW · Feb 7, 2011

I made my own wood furnace out of plate steel welded up with an ashley door w/ auto draft made it in the 60's and still works fine also ran a coil of copper from the water heater in behind the furnace but inside the brick outer wall does a good job hot water costs less in the winter than in the summer and since it is 48" deep by 38" high and 28" wide I can load it to last a long time-- and I saved a lot of money over boughten furnaces you will need a cast furnace door large enough to load large wood above the ashley door think about need plans??

JayinNY · Feb 7, 2011

Mine is not all in one like that, but the Yukon should work for you. Heres what I have, wood stove with ss coils inside heats the water, oil boiler to the right of the wood stove behind the water tank, (you can see the gun and fuel filter sticking out) heats the base board water also, but it only comes on if it gets real cold out, or I can bump the thermo stat up if we feel cool. If its spring I can shut down the wood stove close its valves and just use the oil boiler. Nice thing about the holding tank is after the oil boiler shuts down the wood stove cirulator keeps moving the hot water threw the house. My friend has a Olsen or something, like the Yukon Wood/ oil for hot air and he likes it. Good luck.

tomturkey · Feb 8, 2011

Mike: We bought a dual fuel furnace from Alpha American 7 years ago. A Yukon LP/WOOD. We seldom use the LP as I do not let us run out of wood. We did take a trip last february and the "back-up LP" worked just fine. We put in central air with ours----but---we installed the A-Coil in the RETURN air plentum. Works fine for us. I'll check for any response-This blog is a long ways from the top. gobble

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