Looks like your hard work is paying off for sure and you're saving money on your heating your home it's going to pay off in the long run that's for sure keep up the good work bro
Thanks for showing all of the temps inside and out. BTW, looking forward to seeing more of your building videos!! Spring is coming... eventually! And the dogs are always an awesome addition!! 😍 Cheers!!
Good review and wood calculations! So many factor, wood type, availability, etal! For years we heated with wood, then age crept in and now its pellets. Soon I think solar with a mini split! You present enjoyable content, keep it up!
There is an historical outdoor museum in Plymouth MA. They recreated the original settlement from when the Mayflower immigrants built their fort. In one corner of a house they plastered a couple of walls all the way to the roof and left a 3x3 hole. That was their fireplace. They used about 20 cords of wood for each home, basically a big fire in the corner of the room, (Cough, Cough). They were very cold in the winter. Not far away a native of the Wampanoag tribe lived comfortably in a small double wall 'tent' made from deer skins. He had a very small fire and a very small hole in the roof. He got by mainly with branches.
I have several friends and family who heat with Central boiler OWBs in northeast PA. Having only one fire going to heat several separate buildings is a huge advantage.
The addition of propylene or ethylene glycol does decrease the thermal conductivity compared to pure water. Despite the loss, you gain lower freezing point and higher boiling point. Also some suppliers will mix in additives such as corrosion inhibitors and algecides to help with the water maintenance.
I have been operating a OWB for 29 years. I had a central boiler until it rotted beyond repair. Then I built a gasifier. I would not heat any other way. If you’re interested in seeing a home built gasifier, a friend of mine did a video about mine on his TH-cam channel. It’s called, The Story Of Big Red. His channel‘s name is Ovi Duran.
I just read my comment. When I said, I would not heat any other way, I didn’t mean specifically a gasifier. I meant an OWB. When I built mine, I actually would have preferred to build a top loading log boiler. Unfortunately, I live in a nanny state. NY. It is literally illegal in my neighboring city to walk down the sidewalk to the store, restaurant, home etc. smoking a cigarette. Yah $250 fine.
That fire almost makes it worth moving out there, nice and cosy inside. Unfortunately we are moved away from fires and only allowed central heating and soon airheater which i am not a fan of. The dog love playing out in the snow. Thank you for a great video
Out temps arent anywhere near that low, our average cold nights are 15-20* average so we dont burn that much. I fill ours up once a day for 2 houses total of around 2100sq ft but i put 3’ logs and stack it about half to 3/4 full though. A 10-15% mix of glycol in ours didnt change anything measurable in consumption or heat transfer that i could tell, i did it for corrosion protection and pump longevity (supposedly but its lasted 6yrs so far) and a little added freeze protection. We have ran my propane heat in my house with the pump running with no fire built for a long time (spring) and the water temp at the heater was about 10* cooler than the house but would match it in the daytime from just heat generated from circulating the water, probably absorbing some heat from the house too. I have a couple buddys that clear land and trim trees so i get the wood in 8-12’ logs from free to $100 a tandem dump truck load mostly hard wood but sometimes pine too. I burn it all and dont even worry about it, i have probably 100 logs here now and a 22x26 9’ wall car port stacked with the same containers you have but stacked 4 high. I will cut and sell about 50 crates a year to recover the fuel, purchase and time of cutting my own wood.
This is gonna be really nice when you get the concrete slab pex lines hooked up to this in the future. The radiant heat from the slab is probably gonna lower your wood volume use because youre heating that huge slab up & it will hold the heat & last longer cause if its volune. You probably losing a bit of efficiency doing it the way you are now with the radiator & fan. Its still really cool to do it this way though, especially when you have all the wood access around you! Nice update on the wood boiler. It is supposed to get a bit nippy in the next few weeks though....stay toasty! 🍻👍🏻👌🏻🛠️🪓
I would be curious as to how much antifreeze would be required for your boiler. Even a smaller percentage will keep it from freezing solid which is where damage begins. The advantage is that most formulas have anti corrosive additives (keeping engine block passages from corroding and blocking the flow) that would make your steel jacket actually last longer than distilled water. I would contact the anti freeze manufacturers and ask what they think. I know I have always added it to even the oil boilers for the above reasons. Long power outages can be a problem as well if you don't have alternative power to run the circulating pump (your run through the unheated garage portion comes to mind). It can be a help if you have dissimilar metals in the water jacket as well. Another property is suppression of electrolysis caused by the different metals in the water circuit. There is also the fact that anti freeze is a better conductor of heat than water. Whether than is significant I don't know but you can certainly see it in internal combustion engines that are water cooled if you run water vs anti freeze mixtures. When you open the block up it is obvious which is which! I see what you are saying about four hundred gallons (your test running it with water will show up any leaks by now). There also might be commercial antifreezes for large volume needs that are much cheaper when ordered in volume compared to the auto store prices? Might be worth researching. Always enjoy your content. Happy New Year!
People with wood gasification boilers use about 1 IBC tote a month in general in colder temps heating a space that is about the same size as you are heating . Lumnah acres says he uses 3 tote to 4 totes a winter in New Hampshire, and they have been getting down to 0 in their area a night in Northern New Hampshire.
Yes some of those boilers are impressive. But they are also more touchy, you have to have dry wood, keep up daily on cleaning and ashes. They are computerized and have a lot more moving parts but I may be interested in one someday
@ you are very miss informed as they generate less ashes as a conventional boiler and only have to have the ash bin cleaned out every 30 to 45 days. They do require the wood to be aged, but they also have less build up of creosote that has to be removed, and they are twice as efficient than the conventional wood boilers. Al Lumnah has talked about the maintenance on his boiler, and the only problem he has had since owning his boiler was a circulation pump failed, and his boiler run 365 as it also provides hot water to his house.
@@Tonnsfabrication people who have then are stating how much wood they are burning, Lumnah acres only uses 3 to 4 totes a winter in northern New Hampshire. Also some states and municipalities require them because they are high efficient and have a lower environmental impact.
@ There are plenty of Y tube chanels showing thier gassers along with what wood they burn and how much. The average use for a decent gassification boiler on an average single family home is about 6 to 8 cords per winter.
With your love of fab and metal work maybe next year you can build a rocket style burner inside a boiler. There is a lot of smoke meaning lots of room to improve efficiency. I like your channel enjoy your cheap heat.
Interesting. Around here we call 1/3rd of a bush cord a face cord. I use IBC totes as well, and they fit a face cord nicely. You use more than I thought you would at those temps, but it sounds like your wood is pretty green. I'd imagine with seasoned wood you'd get better performance.
I think it would be about 5 days with the 275-gallon IBC cage. Good stuff. I have my gasification unit and it's my first winter but... oh man do I love hot showers. Endless hot water.
I would think that if you cut your firewood as long as possible and not split it so small you would get a longer burn time. Just basing that off of loading my woodstove.
I am wondering what is the main driver to use an outdoor boiler/furnace ? There must be a significant heat loss on all sides, bottom and top, plus the transmission lines ? I see there is insulation, but that has a limit of efficiency, and the entire system is literally out in the cold, and will also suffer wind-chill. Why not have a similar sized furnace inside the workshop or garage (or installed in an outside wall), so most of the heat loss stays inside a building ? Appreciate any feedback.
I was thinking this, even a small well insulated shed to put it in (or build round it even). I would have thought would make a huge difference, plus, you could probably build it big enough to store a good amount of wood to refill it a few times. It might even help in drying out that wood a little from the ambient heat coming from the boiler which is normally going to air i.e. wasted.
The boiler is insulated very well, much more than you can see, and so are the feed and return lines underground. Danger of having a fire in your house or shop and the mess heating with wood creates is a benefit to having it outside
Home insurance is probably the number 1 reason. Keeping the mess, cleaning all the ash, the chimney is much shorter and easier to clean. These boilers are very efficient. My transmission lines are two 1" pex lines inside a spray foamed 4" pipe buried 7'. Mine are 135' long and the heat loss is 3 degrees. In the video you can see the build up of snow on the roof of the boiler. It takes a warm sunny day before I lose the snow off the roof of my boiler. These boilers have doubled in price in the last 8 years. If you're buying wood it probably isn't worth it. I'm heating 7200 sq' and my hot water. I turn it on middle of October and off end of April and I burn approximately 50 smaller IBC totes but I don't have high grade wood like maple and oak. Lots of ash and poplar. If you cut the wood and let it sit a couple of years a lot of it you don't need to split.
This is a great set up, I really want something similar for myself, I need to find a decent priced Boiler and start digging. How hard are the insulated water lines to find?
I wonder if a something like Water Wetter would increase your efficency? We use it in race cars instead of antifreeze. It is a corrosion inhibitor, but more importantly, it increases the heat transfer to water and the efficiency of radiators. There are other similar products from companies like Royal Purple.
I have my stove ran to water heater then to house furnace then to garage heater. So if fire should go out the water heater will back heat so stove can’t freeze
WOOD PUP very informative video about your wood boiler…… my next house going to heat with a wood boiler……….. just like you did you’ve been very informative all the way long starting with the house tracing back to the wood boiler!!!!!!!!!!!!! two things if you don’t wanna move your tote with your firewood, closer to the stove, L.L. Bean, or one of the fireplace stores carry a canvas tote you can put about four or five pieces of firewood in it, and carry it over, then throw it in the fire. My suggestion to you is, you’re loading the totes the wrong way you should stand them UP !!!!!!!!!!!!one end and put a face of firewood in then,,,,,,,,,,you’re not reaching to the back of a 4 foot container to get your firewood. I would get a pallet and stand them up. You can either attach it to the Pallet. ,,,,,,,,,,, just leave it loosely and you can move it over there with your skid steer instead of walking back-and-forth. You were making me dizzy. Good luck with things keep up the great work. Keep up the information really enjoy it. Samuel bacon.
Although I wasn’t prepared this year, I like to let my firewood dry for at least 8 months. Im not sure on exact moisture contents but the longer you can let your wood dry the better! Thanks👍
I have s CL6048. new in 07.. I cut all wood to 24" I'd go longer if I had a longer Wood splitter LOL At My old House I'd go through 10+ full Cords a Year. Had to lower Water temp to 165/175 as My home brew Domestic Water heat exchanger over heated the Water heater gas valve. No mixing need for the old Baseboard Hydronic Heat just a mixing valve for the Domestic. In 2019 I moved it to My new Place which is a lot smaller on a 900sf Heated slab. I installed it on a Raised foundation so 6'5" Me is not bending over or kneeling on the Ground to load it . and with in-floor heat I lowered the water temp to 145/155. and only use maybe 5 Cords. in the 10's & 20's I'd get a 24hr burn of one stack of 24" wood (at My old Place) Just under a Brick layers cart load. ( wheel barrow with a flat deck instead of a tub.) My 30x40 Shop will have a heated floor too.. and some snow melt loops around too.. so the OWB is big enough for that. Might have to add Mixing for the infloor if I raise the Water temp I keep the Fire back away from the Door as to not over heat it.. So nice walking bare footed on a Heated floor, the House stays a nice consistent 74 all winter long. Since I found the light on the front useless, I connected it to the Damper ckt with a Blue c7 bulb so I could see from the old house that the damper was open. That was duplicated inside the House too. same at My new place. The lights on the outside of My Shop lights up the whole area around the OWB. which I can turn on from inside the house before I go out.
As with pretty much all things, you are simply transferring human capital for monetary capital. Time/effort to harvest and chop wood vs putting time/effort into something else to get paid and transferring that capital to someone in order to have heat in your home. There are those who opt one way, and others who opt the other. Personally I would rather pay for natural gas and do other things than haul and chop wood (let alone mess around with filling a boiler twice a day). Another channel called Farmcraft101 uses a HUGE outdoor wood boiler and he has the property and trees to support his flow of firewood, but it's still the equation of chopping trees, processing firewood, stoking the boiler, etc. that takes up so many hours in ones day (over time). Granted his boiler is HUGE and he has gotten his wood processing and stoking down to a low number of hours in his life, but it's still MORE hours than I put in for that endeavor (which is zero). To each their own. I started watching your channel due to the home build and how to put in a concrete foundation under a home. This type of video doesn't resonate with me as much, but interesting to learn about.
Question --if you left as whole rounds /unsplit would it last longer or about the same --if same or better would take away the work of splitting it ???
I don’t believe it would make much of a difference. A lot of guys will say rounds last much longer but I think that’s because they are still wet, rounds take much longer to dry and often don’t dry at all. So yes they probably last “longer” but only because it takes longer to burn off the moisture. So its not like you get anymore BTUs out of the wood
Starting next week temps are going be much colder then normal for our & your area I'm near South Bend, Indiana And through the rest the month there calling for the coldest temps we seen in many years close to zero for highs & at nights -10+ below zero ! Watch Ryan Hall weather on here if you didn't know about him he is the top weather guy on yt & covers all usa !
Look up 'Cp' for water and 'Cp' for glycol. You might need to learn a bit about Thermodynamics, but I am pretty sure you can answer your question about mixing some glycol with your water.
I realize you have a small saw mill yourself, but do you have any access to slab wood on the cheap.. sometimes it can go for $20-30 a bunk around here.
Thanks for the celsius conversions.
Another cool video, love seeing the supervisors
Thanks
I appreciate the conversion to Celsius as we haven't used the Fahrenheit scale since the early 70's!
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Looks like your hard work is paying off for sure and you're saving money on your heating your home it's going to pay off in the long run that's for sure keep up the good work bro
Thanks
Thanks for showing all of the temps inside and out. BTW, looking forward to seeing more of your building videos!! Spring is coming... eventually! And the dogs are always an awesome addition!! 😍 Cheers!!
Thanks!
Good review and wood calculations! So many factor, wood type, availability, etal! For years we heated with wood, then age crept in and now its pellets. Soon I think solar with a mini split! You present enjoyable content, keep it up!
Thanks!
There is an historical outdoor museum in Plymouth MA. They recreated the original settlement from when the Mayflower immigrants built their fort. In one corner of a house they plastered a couple of walls all the way to the roof and left a 3x3 hole. That was their fireplace. They used about 20 cords of wood for each home, basically a big fire in the corner of the room, (Cough, Cough). They were very cold in the winter. Not far away a native of the Wampanoag tribe lived comfortably in a small double wall 'tent' made from deer skins. He had a very small fire and a very small hole in the roof. He got by mainly with branches.
Very interesting. Makes you realize how good we have it these days
I have several friends and family who heat with Central boiler OWBs in northeast PA. Having only one fire going to heat several separate buildings is a huge advantage.
I agree
The addition of propylene or ethylene glycol does decrease the thermal conductivity compared to pure water. Despite the loss, you gain lower freezing point and higher boiling point. Also some suppliers will mix in additives such as corrosion inhibitors and algecides to help with the water maintenance.
Good to know👍
Nice, good information
I have been operating a OWB for 29 years. I had a central boiler until it rotted beyond repair. Then I built a gasifier. I would not heat any other way. If you’re interested in seeing a home built gasifier, a friend of mine did a video about mine on his TH-cam channel. It’s called, The Story Of Big Red. His channel‘s name is Ovi Duran.
I just read my comment. When I said, I would not heat any other way, I didn’t mean specifically a gasifier. I meant an OWB. When I built mine, I actually would have preferred to build a top loading log boiler. Unfortunately, I live in a nanny state. NY. It is literally illegal in my neighboring city to walk down the sidewalk to the store, restaurant, home etc. smoking a cigarette. Yah $250 fine.
@@howlandexcavatingWow where is that? I'm in Buffalo so I know the states issues, hopefully some things will change for the better soon.
i use twice that for a week at around the same temperatures with just a fireplace that is super reasonable
Also the glycol does effect heat transfer but its so little it doesnt really matter in a big system :D
Good to know
That fire almost makes it worth moving out there, nice and cosy inside. Unfortunately we are moved away from fires and only allowed central heating and soon airheater which i am not a fan of. The dog love playing out in the snow. Thank you for a great video
Thanks for watching
Out temps arent anywhere near that low, our average cold nights are 15-20* average so we dont burn that much. I fill ours up once a day for 2 houses total of around 2100sq ft but i put 3’ logs and stack it about half to 3/4 full though.
A 10-15% mix of glycol in ours didnt change anything measurable in consumption or heat transfer that i could tell, i did it for corrosion protection and pump longevity (supposedly but its lasted 6yrs so far) and a little added freeze protection. We have ran my propane heat in my house with the pump running with no fire built for a long time (spring) and the water temp at the heater was about 10* cooler than the house but would match it in the daytime from just heat generated from circulating the water, probably absorbing some heat from the house too.
I have a couple buddys that clear land and trim trees so i get the wood in 8-12’ logs from free to $100 a tandem dump truck load mostly hard wood but sometimes pine too. I burn it all and dont even worry about it, i have probably 100 logs here now and a 22x26 9’ wall car port stacked with the same containers you have but stacked 4 high. I will cut and sell about 50 crates a year to recover the fuel, purchase and time of cutting my own wood.
I get three days on mine! Low temps and 12k sqr ft. to heat! 15 full cords this year.
Wow that’s a lot of wood but you are also heating and huge amount of square footage
This is gonna be really nice when you get the concrete slab pex lines hooked up to this in the future. The radiant heat from the slab is probably gonna lower your wood volume use because youre heating that huge slab up & it will hold the heat & last longer cause if its volune. You probably losing a bit of efficiency doing it the way you are now with the radiator & fan. Its still really cool to do it this way though, especially when you have all the wood access around you! Nice update on the wood boiler. It is supposed to get a bit nippy in the next few weeks though....stay toasty! 🍻👍🏻👌🏻🛠️🪓
Yes I am excited for next year it should be more efficient 👍
I would be curious as to how much antifreeze would be required for your boiler. Even a smaller percentage will keep it from freezing solid which is where damage begins. The advantage is that most formulas have anti corrosive additives (keeping engine block passages from corroding and blocking the flow) that would make your steel jacket actually last longer than distilled water. I would contact the anti freeze manufacturers and ask what they think. I know I have always added it to even the oil boilers for the above reasons. Long power outages can be a problem as well if you don't have alternative power to run the circulating pump (your run through the unheated garage portion comes to mind). It can be a help if you have dissimilar metals in the water jacket as well. Another property is suppression of electrolysis caused by the different metals in the water circuit. There is also the fact that anti freeze is a better conductor of heat than water. Whether than is significant I don't know but you can certainly see it in internal combustion engines that are water cooled if you run water vs anti freeze mixtures. When you open the block up it is obvious which is which! I see what you are saying about four hundred gallons (your test running it with water will show up any leaks by now). There also might be commercial antifreezes for large volume needs that are much cheaper when ordered in volume compared to the auto store prices? Might be worth researching. Always enjoy your content. Happy New Year!
People with wood gasification boilers use about 1 IBC tote a month in general in colder temps heating a space that is about the same size as you are heating . Lumnah acres says he uses 3 tote to 4 totes a winter in New Hampshire, and they have been getting down to 0 in their area a night in Northern New Hampshire.
Yes some of those boilers are impressive. But they are also more touchy, you have to have dry wood, keep up daily on cleaning and ashes. They are computerized and have a lot more moving parts but I may be interested in one someday
I'd call BS on that, someone is yanking your chain. The gassers are effient but they don't perform magic tricks.
@ you are very miss informed as they generate less ashes as a conventional boiler and only have to have the ash bin cleaned out every 30 to 45 days. They do require the wood to be aged, but they also have less build up of creosote that has to be removed, and they are twice as efficient than the conventional wood boilers.
Al Lumnah has talked about the maintenance on his boiler, and the only problem he has had since owning his boiler was a circulation pump failed, and his boiler run 365 as it also provides hot water to his house.
@@Tonnsfabrication people who have then are stating how much wood they are burning, Lumnah acres only uses 3 to 4 totes a winter in northern New Hampshire. Also some states and municipalities require them because they are high efficient and have a lower environmental impact.
@ There are plenty of Y tube chanels showing thier gassers along with what wood they burn and how much. The average use for a decent gassification boiler on an average single family home is about 6 to 8 cords per winter.
Have you heard about the new WOOD BURNING SHIP?
Does 30 miles to the galleon.
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With your love of fab and metal work maybe next year you can build a rocket style burner inside a boiler. There is a lot of smoke meaning lots of room to improve efficiency. I like your channel enjoy your cheap heat.
Before this boiler came along I planned on building my own from the ground up and may still do someday. Thanks I appreciate it👍
Interesting. Around here we call 1/3rd of a bush cord a face cord. I use IBC totes as well, and they fit a face cord nicely. You use more than I thought you would at those temps, but it sounds like your wood is pretty green. I'd imagine with seasoned wood you'd get better performance.
Yeah he did mention that in the last video that most of the wood is not dry\seasoned in the least bit but can't beat the price 👍🏻
I think it would be about 5 days with the 275-gallon IBC cage. Good stuff. I have my gasification unit and it's my first winter but... oh man do I love hot showers. Endless hot water.
good stuff
I would think that if you cut your firewood as long as possible and not split it so small you would get a longer burn time. Just basing that off of loading my woodstove.
I am wondering what is the main driver to use an outdoor boiler/furnace ? There must be a significant heat loss on all sides, bottom and top, plus the transmission lines ? I see there is insulation, but that has a limit of efficiency, and the entire system is literally out in the cold, and will also suffer wind-chill. Why not have a similar sized furnace inside the workshop or garage (or installed in an outside wall), so most of the heat loss stays inside a building ? Appreciate any feedback.
I was thinking this, even a small well insulated shed to put it in (or build round it even). I would have thought would make a huge difference, plus, you could probably build it big enough to store a good amount of wood to refill it a few times. It might even help in drying out that wood a little from the ambient heat coming from the boiler which is normally going to air i.e. wasted.
The boiler is insulated very well, much more than you can see, and so are the feed and return lines underground. Danger of having a fire in your house or shop and the mess heating with wood creates is a benefit to having it outside
Home insurance is probably the number 1 reason. Keeping the mess, cleaning all the ash, the chimney is much shorter and easier to clean. These boilers are very efficient. My transmission lines are two 1" pex lines inside a spray foamed 4" pipe buried 7'. Mine are 135' long and the heat loss is 3 degrees. In the video you can see the build up of snow on the roof of the boiler. It takes a warm sunny day before I lose the snow off the roof of my boiler. These boilers have doubled in price in the last 8 years. If you're buying wood it probably isn't worth it. I'm heating 7200 sq' and my hot water. I turn it on middle of October and off end of April and I burn approximately 50 smaller IBC totes but I don't have high grade wood like maple and oak. Lots of ash and poplar. If you cut the wood and let it sit a couple of years a lot of it you don't need to split.
@@christhomas9837well said
This is a great set up, I really want something similar for myself, I need to find a decent priced Boiler and start digging. How hard are the insulated water lines to find?
Not that hard. I would start your search on Facebook marketplace and watch this video th-cam.com/video/g2TreDmjc_g/w-d-xo.htmlsi=pTHBW05jfMeN2gW-
I wonder if a something like Water Wetter would increase your efficency? We use it in race cars instead of antifreeze. It is a corrosion inhibitor, but more importantly, it increases the heat transfer to water and the efficiency of radiators. There are other similar products from companies like Royal Purple.
Possibly but I feel It would be the same reason I didn’t mix my water with glycol $$$
I have my stove ran to water heater then to house furnace then to garage heater. So if fire should go out the water heater will back heat so stove can’t freeze
round sticks last longer but they dry slower
WOOD PUP very informative video about your wood boiler…… my next house going to heat with a wood boiler……….. just like you did you’ve been very informative all the way long starting with the house tracing back to the wood boiler!!!!!!!!!!!!! two things if you don’t wanna move your tote with your firewood, closer to the stove, L.L. Bean, or one of the fireplace stores carry a canvas tote you can put about four or five pieces of firewood in it, and carry it over, then throw it in the fire. My suggestion to you is, you’re loading the totes the wrong way you should stand them UP !!!!!!!!!!!!one end and put a face of firewood in then,,,,,,,,,,you’re not reaching to the back of a 4 foot container to get your firewood. I would get a pallet and stand them up. You can either attach it to the Pallet. ,,,,,,,,,,, just leave it loosely and you can move it over there with your skid steer instead of walking back-and-forth. You were making me dizzy. Good luck with things keep up the great work. Keep up the information really enjoy it. Samuel bacon.
Thanks👍
ordinarily, how long would you let your wood dry? What's the difference in moisture content? I really enjoy your content and your presentation.
Although I wasn’t prepared this year, I like to let my firewood dry for at least 8 months. Im not sure on exact moisture contents but the longer you can let your wood dry the better! Thanks👍
I have s CL6048. new in 07.. I cut all wood to 24" I'd go longer if I had a longer Wood splitter LOL
At My old House I'd go through 10+ full Cords a Year. Had to lower Water temp to 165/175 as My home brew Domestic Water heat exchanger over heated the Water heater gas valve. No mixing need for the old Baseboard Hydronic Heat just a mixing valve for the Domestic.
In 2019 I moved it to My new Place which is a lot smaller on a 900sf Heated slab. I installed it on a Raised foundation so 6'5" Me is not bending over or kneeling on the Ground to load it . and with in-floor heat I lowered the water temp to 145/155. and only use maybe 5 Cords. in the 10's & 20's I'd get a 24hr burn of one stack of 24" wood (at My old Place) Just under a Brick layers cart load. ( wheel barrow with a flat deck instead of a tub.)
My 30x40 Shop will have a heated floor too.. and some snow melt loops around too.. so the OWB is big enough for that. Might have to add Mixing for the infloor if I raise the Water temp
I keep the Fire back away from the Door as to not over heat it..
So nice walking bare footed on a Heated floor, the House stays a nice consistent 74 all winter long.
Since I found the light on the front useless, I connected it to the Damper ckt with a Blue c7 bulb so I could see from the old house that the damper was open. That was duplicated inside the House too. same at My new place.
The lights on the outside of My Shop lights up the whole area around the OWB. which I can turn on from inside the house before I go out.
As with pretty much all things, you are simply transferring human capital for monetary capital. Time/effort to harvest and chop wood vs putting time/effort into something else to get paid and transferring that capital to someone in order to have heat in your home. There are those who opt one way, and others who opt the other. Personally I would rather pay for natural gas and do other things than haul and chop wood (let alone mess around with filling a boiler twice a day). Another channel called Farmcraft101 uses a HUGE outdoor wood boiler and he has the property and trees to support his flow of firewood, but it's still the equation of chopping trees, processing firewood, stoking the boiler, etc. that takes up so many hours in ones day (over time). Granted his boiler is HUGE and he has gotten his wood processing and stoking down to a low number of hours in his life, but it's still MORE hours than I put in for that endeavor (which is zero). To each their own. I started watching your channel due to the home build and how to put in a concrete foundation under a home. This type of video doesn't resonate with me as much, but interesting to learn about.
Well said thanks for the input
Wouldn’t the heat from the ground under the house keep the water from freezing if it were circulating?
In theory but if it gets cold enough it may not be enough circulation
Question --if you left as whole rounds /unsplit would it last longer or about the same --if same or better would take away the work of splitting it ???
I don’t believe it would make much of a difference. A lot of guys will say rounds last much longer but I think that’s because they are still wet, rounds take much longer to dry and often don’t dry at all. So yes they probably last “longer” but only because it takes longer to burn off the moisture. So its not like you get anymore BTUs out of the wood
Is it burning hot enough long enough to keep your creosote build up down?
Yea I don’t think the creosote is bad
Where did you get the distilled water from?
A truck delivered it
Yes a local water company
I use 12 cords of wood when I burn wood NNY. I only use 100 bags of coal 40 lb each and I'm 72 to 80
How often do you need to remove ash from your boiler?
Two or three times a burning season
Det kan finnas en app styrd termostat då ser du på mobilen om värmen i pannan är låg
Starting next week temps are going be much colder then normal for our & your area I'm near South Bend, Indiana And through the rest the month there calling for the coldest temps we seen in many years close to zero for highs & at nights -10+ below zero ! Watch Ryan Hall weather on here if you didn't know about him he is the top weather guy on yt & covers all usa !
Yes I’m actually looking forward to it. I get to put my boiler to work!
I think you will find stuffing it full waists a lot of wood, at least that’s what I’ve found with mine. Take care
That is what I have heard but I am curious to see if that’s the case for me
Du behöver minst 25 ibc behållare och ett större ved förråd så veden ligger torr
Look up 'Cp' for water and 'Cp' for glycol. You might need to learn a bit about Thermodynamics, but I am pretty sure you can answer your question about mixing some glycol with your water.
Fy vad orättvisst du har ljus ute kl 5 PM 😞 här är det mörkt 3:40 PM
That is unfortunate
Don’t look like you have enough wood to me, that’s bad now 😊
We will find out
Stack the front like you doing and the backside as well and I bet you'll get 24 hrs.. would be interesting to see.
thats a small boiler should last u a week maybe mine takes a basket every 2 days with large logs too
Oh my
I realize you have a small saw mill yourself, but do you have any access to slab wood on the cheap.. sometimes it can go for $20-30 a bunk around here.
Yes I do have local slab wood bundles I can get for $15. Pretty cheep but I have not needed to buy wood
larger logs on top... it will burn slower