15 Years With Outdoor Wood Boiler: DETAILS - LIKES & DISLIKES

Holy crap, that drone shot coming out of the chimney at the beginning was epic! What miniaturized drone did you use to capture that?

I'm curious to know if you using a heat exchanger on your furnace is more or less efficient than hydronic type heat?

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I never factor in my time when it comes to firewood. I don't have the type of job where i can work whenever i want and i think of it as exercise. I much rather be outside than working then at a gym.

Looks like a lot of air pollution to me! I like my geo-therm better.

What’s the temperature of the exhaust?

Thinking about doing something like this with in-floor heating. Probably going to use an accumulator tank in the house and maybe a barn I'm converting to a workshop. A fan solution will probably go in the other buildings. One thing I noticed is that most people selling this and simpler solutions that draw heat from a regular wood stove recommend that you install an accumulator tank so you can have a reservoir of heated water there to buffer the boiler and have less heat lost to atmosphere when the water get's to hot. It also gives you a bit more time between refilling the stove as I understand it. I also plan on installing a dual coil water heater. That way you can use the excess heat from the stove to warm up the water in the boiler to a certain point and save on electricity. You could probably go full wood boiler here, but the electricity is a nice backup if the boiler ever breaks down and helps maintain an exact temperature to avoid bacterial growth. What do you or others with wood boilers think of my plans. Am i onto something or am i over complicating things?

Is the house insulated in those conditions?

I live in the 260 area code..

Great job looking great keep up the great work love your videos thank you

Wouldn't mind finding a log splitter for the front of my garden tractors some time or making one

How do you get rid of all the creosote?

So for hot water for bath and kitchen, u use same water ..?

Do you have spare pumps and blowers in case one goes out in the dead of winter?

Hey Neil, what are your thoughts on the new gasification units?

Do you ever clean the inside of the firebox? I imagine you'd get more heat out of the wood without all that soot.

the other advantage is you don't have to worry about some crazy bureaucrat shutting down the gas line

My Wife would be out there doing her part also which makes it easier for me and her

I've heated about 4500 square feet since 1988 with a Hardy and radiant floor heat wouldn't trade it for anything.

Those Li-ion Jumpers often will not read the drop from self discharge until you've put a load on them, they'll keep reading the Li-ion battery cells inside at the high voltage until a load has been put on them. And they will self discharge over a 6-12mo period of time. If it has a USB port on it, a good way to get it to pull a correct reading is to charge a phone or something on it and then hit the readout button. The same goes with Power Banks that have a meter (which isn't common but they do exist.) FWIW, it's not that the Li-ion Jumper is bad, it's just a quirk of how they work. I'd suggest plugging them in every 3mo for a couple hours to get a charge.

I grew up in a 2700 ft. ranch house my father built 70 years ago it was built on two concrete slabs the first was just a slab the second was filled wit copper pipes that went to a header in our utility room next to a coal fired boiler with the pumps to push the water through the floor yes it was nice to step on a heated floor in the morning that heated the house. You didn't mention what you did if the power went out as you would have no vent control for the flame and no pumps to circulate the water . In the dead of winter you could end up with a frozen broken pipe mess in the concrete and other places if the power went out for a long period of time also when we went to Florida for a couple weeks during the winter we had to have someone come by every day twice a day to put coal in the furnace for the house to keep heating and not freeze up. We also burned wood and had woods on our property. We also had a fireplace to burn in power outages. When I was a kid my nightly chores were to go out to the coal bin and get a bucket of coal and dump it in the furnace. Then i would get another coal scuttle full and set it next to the furnace

I recently bought a home in the country that has a wood burning furnace to heat a shop and the house. I don't have a clue how to use it, or who I should call to see if it's operational. Do you know if HVAC people service these?
Last year's winter was brutal, we lost power for about 10 days after the tornado hit the town, don't want a repeat of those cold nights again.

The Q becomes, how much wood (efficiency) does an outdoor wood furnace consume in comparison to an indoor home wood burning system? That has always been a Q in my mind and has mitigated my purchase of an outdoor wood burning boiler aystem. I can literally heat 2500ft³ with my Vermont Castings Winter Warm System for a day using 5 pieces of 17"-18" seasoned hardwood (once burning) in 36-37 degree outdoor temps. I think that is somewhat efficient.

I dont understand why you cannot add the heating pipes on the cement floor and pour a new floor on top.

Deere’s and Fords brother, Crap

My parents heat 2300 sq ft. With just a fire place. House built in early 70s. Yes they have land and don't pay for wood. We spend all summer taking out dead and junk trees. It's alot of work but it's quality time with my dad. Love it

Love your door yard sir! Looks organized!

A quiet replacement for the noisy blade fan would be to adapt a HVAC blower and if you want it distributed better, duct it.

Without reading all 326 comments, what happens when the power goes out? How efficient is it at that point & could it be operated with solar panels?

Are u from the Batesville area? Love the videos. Keep up the good wook

Imagine: All these hardworking farmers are now fu+++ by the senile potato persuing a communist agenda

If u take the odd or special stuff out of the equation & get a sign on deal at $200-225 cord rate u stack. Or $350 if they stack for 5yrs pricing u take all the tuff math out of it. Either good pricing deal for heat or it is not bc u may not be able to find or cut& stack it in future.

If not under pressure like car like not hving a radiator on your car/truck biggest problem, it is 2nd hand discount for a smaller load.

319: u can cut troff for pex lines in the flow of the bar then shallow patch.

I burn 2+ year seasoned wood. I burn much less wood, which=less work. Yes, the upfront was processing 3 years of wood in one year. But now every year is processing 1 years worth.

15 years of carbon released into the ecosphere... humans are destroying their ability to survive on this planet.

A little thought about the noise in the shop. Get a few more radiators and adjustable fans and turn them down. You will get more use out of the heat going in. A think you return Quite alot of heat to the stove.

If natural gas is an option, no way would I choose to heat with wood. If it's LP or wood, then it's more of a decision. Firewood processing is kinda fun, but yeah, it's time consuming!

The cost of this is too expensive

What do you do for a living?

You'll be sorry if by Alter wood furnace they sound so good but they burn a lot of wood and you better have a lot of wood to burn it's unbelievable I sold those for 10 years my biggest complaint was they burn a lot of wood not to mention how the world's the world is stoves together quit and they start leaking In

You'll be sorry if you buy outdoor wood furnace unless you've got a lot of wood because they burn a lot of wood just listen to me I was a dealer for many years that was my biggest complaint the wood consumption

Those stoves that you're feeling so good about burn so dang much wood it's unbelievable

Nice!!! I literally said Ardvark as a joke guess, but I did go polar bear for the second,

I used to run a 036 and 042 in the forest services back in the 90’s. Great saws, great times.

Just found you channel. Love it. Thanks for sharing.

Love the video. Down here in Georgia, we are advised to let our firewood dry out. Is that not a concern with a boiler since it is so efficient at keeping the fire going with the fans?

Do you add something to prevent corrosion at certain intervals?

I do not heat or cool with firewood or pellets; so my comments are theory or ideas not reality. My thoughts are that I would hate the handling and re-handling of regular firewood. Pellets in a big tower might be made to act more like a "set the thermostat and forget furnace". There are ways, using the tractors you have, to make those pellets from your free wood. Also with making pellets, even the leaves you collect can be made into fuel. Now for the real odd part! Run the fire all year long and use a chiller to do your air conditioning! Yazaki Energy Systems Inc is the only one I have seen and I have no idea of the cost. However as a stop gap, get a lot of old trailers and put the wood in them so you do not have to re-stack the wood all the time. You did that with a trailer in this video. When empty you have plenty of ways to stack them up out of the way.

Talk to the town DPW TREE DEPARTMENT as they have to put the blown down trees somewhere usually the town dump. Tell them if they would cut it to 16 inch lengths you’ll take all they dump where your wood storage is. The other option is talk to a local tree company and inform them you’ll not only take logs but will take wood chips as well. An aluminum coal scoop is great for shoveling wood chips into the firebox.

Food for thought