Hi Dan!!😀😀 My Hardy boiler only holds maybe half to two thirds of the wood as your stove. But we fire it at about 5PM and then don't check it until 8 or 9AM. We get a good 15 hour burn in this kind of weather. Temperatures have been the same here as up by you. We keep the house at 74 also. But I keep the water in the system at 190 degrees witch seems to work the best for us. I wouldn't trade my stove for any other on the market that I have seen. Its worked great for 23 years now and working on number 24. LOL!! Take care buddy!!😀😀 Logger Al
We hit -36 last Saturday pellet stove is only on about medium We stretched a bag about 15 hours . Typically we just keep it on the lowest setting and keeps our house Nice and warm. We can stretch almost 36hr
that’s about the same as mine, and my house is 1892 so not very well insulated. Looking forward to improving pellet consumption next winter after making some changes
Dan an excellent Video and information on the Wood Boiler. Same as my Wood Stove Downstairs. I will fill is around 10pm. For the night, next morning around 7am, still going and doing a good job of Heating the Basement, and the House a little. We only use about 350 gallons of Oil per Year with the Stove going from October, till sometime in April. Dependent on what type of Wood you Burn. My Favorite is Locust, next Oak, etc. You are right on the Money with that Boiler, very Efficient my Friend. Will be tuning in on Friday Night Live. Stay Safe, Warm, and enjoy. Ron from the Woodyard in Duanesburg NY.
I don't have an ODWB but I can say with certainty every house I have ever been in that uses them are the warmest most comfortable house you will find anywhere. My buddy heats the house, hot water, his shop and his dogs hut all on green wood. Ya they eat the wood to do it but depending on your situation they can be very beneficial.
You have an incredibly efficient outdoor wood boiler, one of the best I've seen! I think the reason for that is that you actually season your wood and use your wood boiler properly! Most people i talk to think they can just toss in ANY wood 😆🤦♂️🤦♂️
@@Back40FirewoodI’ve got a wood room next to my furnace , I fill it every ten days or so . Here on the Coast wood never totally dries in a wood shed . A green piece of wood dries in the wood room in about a month . At sub zero temperatures , your wood consumption increases , doesn’t matter what type of wood burner you use . 👍🇨🇦
When it gets to the single digits and windy here, we go through a 330 gallon tote cage of various hardwood in 4 days. We heat the house to 72° along with the basement and put a little heat to the garage. When we have a cold, still run of weather, we get 5ish day out of the same sized tote with similar wood. I LOVE our OBW! Warm floors rock!
Same amount of wood for mine too. A face cord lasts about 5 1/2 days. But when it’s really cold and windy, I go thru a cord in 12-13 days. I burn 12-13 cord a year. Beginning of Oct-end of April.
Suprising how much or little? It makes a huge difference on the size of the house, how well it is insulated, and what temp you keep your house (oviously he keeps it at 74)
This was a very informative video, Ive seen a few others who talk about the system but don't really get into the frequency etc. This did that thanks for the info
I have the same boiler as you and also heat my hot water. However i do not split my wood unless its to heavy or large to fit in the door. I do not have mine in a shed. I burn lots of dead Elm, oak, poplar, birch, hickory and box elder. Im in Wi. During this vortex i fill boiler with 5 to 6 large blocks. Morning fill is around 8 am and then fill again around 5 pm. Always have a very good bed of coals simular to what you have shown. Over all im happy with the performance of this boiler.
How often do you have to clean out the ashes when you are burning that much wood? I had a Harman 3000 coal boiler and when it got really cold I was doing ashes almost 2X a day. I found keeping the heat at a constant temp made it a lot more efficient and kept the water temp at a nice consistent temp. I used cast iron radiators and it also heated our domestic hot water as well. Stay warm!
Properly dried wood leaves surprisingly very little ash behind, coal can produce a lot more depending on the quality of it and how dirty (aka the amount of impurities in it) it is.
I’m no expert, don’t think I am being a critic. I worked in a body shop in a very cold climate. They had a outdoor wood stove as well. We didn’t split the wood unless we were starting the fire or after cleaning. I remember loading full round log lengths on the hot coals into the stove. They lasted for a very long time. The shop was quite large and the older section was not insulated to todays standards. We loaded twice a day, first thing in the morning and then again at quitting time, roughly 6:30am to 5:30-6:00 pm. We sometimes ran the big truck/bus shop at around 80-85f. Like I said I’m no expert, you may want to try bigger chunks.
I was completely shocked at how they played that game...and yes, I am not expecting anything close to that happening at San Fran. Hopefully they somewhat show up and can put up a decent game.
Now the question is...... what are you burning???? Oak, ash, elm and other very dense hardwoods last much longer than other woods..... what are you mostly using or is a mix of everything?
I was running the wood stove last weekend as hot as the Packers performance in their playoff game in Dallas! I must give credit where credit is due as much as it pains me. LOL! Stay warm my friend.
LOL....wow that was a crazy game. Usually when I end up yelling "what is happening!" it's not because they are doing good.....hahaha...the best part of the game was I think the 3rd TD where they panned the camera to Jerry's booth and he just turned his back....LMAO!
What insurance company do you have? My Hardy is 10 feet from my garage and was told I have to move it. Must be 25 feet away from any structure. Thanks for the video.
I had my wood stacked about ten feet away from my Hardy, insurance told me I had to move it or loose coverage. I moved it when it got cold and I started feeding my stove, insurance is nothing but a scam.
We're going through that arctic blast in N.E. Ohio also teens during the day and single digits at night. We have a cold blast coming tonight suppose to be in the negative temp tonight.
Very interesting 👏🏻! You answered a lot of questions about heating in colder locations, the 2 pieces per hour put a lot of perspective on a wood boiler during cold temps. I’m curious what heating cost are for non wood users, here in the south it’s bearable. 👏🏻👍🏻🇺🇸
Last year in Gettysburg PA I had a customer that was heating a 2400 sq ft 2 story home built in 2001. The house is all Natural Gas. Keeping the house at 68-70 there bill was 310 during a cold snap. Furnace was a 90 plus efficiency. Power vent hot water heater.
Dan i have a 5036 central boiler fill it just toss in full around 11pm get to it next day around 1pm n it empty but stir up coals appear toss in couple hands of junk wood it usually down around 150 degrees
Good demonstration on wood usage. I have a 4400 also however I my experience is I use a little more wood. My stove is exposed outside and distance to my house and sef manufactured water transfer piping may account for the difference. I heat an 1800 SF house (74 degrees) and a 800SF (50 degrees) garage.
Mornin Dan, the plus is no mess in the house, no danger of fire in the house and very nice heat. The minus, they are hungry and you gotta go outside to feed em. John
Yes indeed....nice to keep all the mess outside, but then you have to go outside to put the wood in like ya said...lol....but only a couple times a day so not too bad. 😀👍
@@homersimpson5668 Sure you can, just make sure to turn off the water and open up your taps so if it does freeze it doesn't burst the pipes. Was standard practice for us in Rhode Island or if we lost power.
How big is the house? We have 1600 sqft with a wood insert. I use about 1/3 of a cord every two weeks. House is between 70-76 during the day. We don’t load it overnight at all.
With as cold as it is that's pretty good. When I had my outdoor stove and it was this cold I had to fill mine 3 times a day. Nice pajamas Shifty hahahaha!! Stay safe my friend
My tiny home only needs 400 watts of btu till -15 I need 600. I’m sure when it gets to -20 to -30 I will need 750. At -15 6 candles hold the temp in there. I’m glad I’m over insulated and caulked every seam and taped every seal.
These big outdoor boilers are cool you don't see them in europe really - it does make me wonder if they're less efficient than having wood burners in doors which are not then sitting outside in like -10 all day and night? The heat loss from the boiler and pips I would imagine must be at least 25% even with all the insulation etc?
Do you have a temp-gauge on the chimney? I have a modern finnish reverse burning stove, and gets about 350f on the exhaust. The way your oven burns, you burn all the wood at once, thats not effective. Keep up the nice work and enjoy a warm house
Dan I think you should mention how many sq. ft. you are heating. I have a 3600 sq. ft. bungalow so I'm heating 7200 sq. ft. and my hot water. In January and February a small IBC tote lasts me 3.5 days and my overnight temps will be around zero. I have no protection from wind but my house is only 5 years old so it is insulated quite well. I light my boiler the middle of October until the end of April and I burn 60 IBC totes per year.
Just curious what you have your Temp set point at on your boiler? I have a Central boiler Classic edge 750 and they Recommend temp be set at or above 185 degrees. That keeps moisture in firebox to minimum. Its a gasification boiler which I have to try to burn Dry Wood. I have had it for around 4 years now and have noticed a huge reduction in what I was burning before that in my old Boiler. Cant even remember the brand. I just built a 48x48 Shop with a 30x48 attached garage that I keep both heated with the boiler. Shop says around 60-63 and garage is 52-55. I think I still burn less wood heating those and my 1600 Sq ft home then I did with old boiler just heating House.
The set points on this are 160 & 170...and that is what is recommended and factory settings so not sure if a higher set point would work. I did have one time when I was having problems with my fan shutting off that I would get up near 180 and I'd have water spilling out the top fill tube...lol
It's a great way to heat if you have access to the wood - and the time to fill it up. Have to say you keep your house toasty - we max ours out at about 19.5C (67F) if I get the wood burner running in the main room we might hit 20C(68F)
For southern folks like me I’d love to know what you wear to deal with temps like that. I see the hoodie and overalls but I would imagine they are thicker or more insulated than that which we get down here. How many layers and types of layers etc.
Nope, I clean out the ashes every few weeks but just do it when there is a nice bed of coals and before I fill it up with wood...but the system stays up and running from beginning of Oct. through the end of May.
I think the real question is how long will the water pipes in the house keep from freezing without heat, maybe a day if you are lucky and isn't below zero F temps. Can you imagine paying for 175 gallons or even 1000 gallons of 50/50/mix of anti freeze to keep the heat lines and stove from freezing and spring a leak loosing it all
hi there ,great minds think a lot .i have been counting mt wood pieces as well 30 -40 about 2-3 sticks per hour , below 30 a strong 3 , a lot of variables. good show , to save on hot water draw just jump in the pool THE COOL POOL , john
What are you doing up so early?!? hahaha I think 2 sticks per hour for a whole house isn't too bad.....and below 30 is cold??? Below zero is cold....hahaha
hi up there ,just could not sleep got up at 5 our time , got about 4 inches of snow , 24 degrees out , most likely take a old man nap later like you most likely do as well ,take care buddy stay warm and don't be cool @@Back40Firewood
I don't really have a measured amount but I was going through an IBC tote full every 4-5 days. The tote was not stacked though...just had wood tossed in.
Cuz my days of wrestling big chunks into and through the door are over...lol...also want to have decent size pieces for the wife and boy to be able to load if need be.
Man Shifty that boiler is just sippin on wood. Now that you know how many sticks per hour you can do the calculations so when you’re ahead on splitting you can do a little sippin on some CLAWS🤣👏🏻👍🏻👍🏻B🥶
Ha...yes I was surprised the overnight load still had good bed of coals in the morning. Almost made me wanna just open the door and watch them glow with a nice cold Claw! LOL
I have burned wood for over fifty years. Used to have stove in the front room then moved and had heating stove and cook stove. Now for thirty some years cookstove and furnace in basement. I have always wondered if your type of heat consumes more wood than a furnace like we have but you don't have the dirt in the house so it's cleaner but I don't want to go out in the middle of the night. Don't know where you live but your temps aren't that terribly cold. We get weeks of that every year, but it takes a lot of wood to keep warm. I've always said you will use twice the amount of wood and twice as much hay to feed a cow when the weather is ten below than you do when it is ten above zero. Each year one wonders, Will I have enough wood to get to spring? In weather like what we've had the last week or two, it makes a dent in that woodpile. Keep the fires burning! Question, does that burner of yours have capability to burn coal or only wood?
Yep once you go below zero for temps it seems the amount of wood goes up by a lot. This wood burner only is designed for wood. And yes I do like having the 'mess' outside. I grew up on a farm and we had the wood stove in the basement...had to always make sure there was enough inside. Was fun sending it down the wood chute though...hahaha.
If you had had a rocket mass heater type stove or a masonry stove you could have gone 24+ hours of a warm house on the equivalent of one load of wood or less. The rocket mass heater can be homemade fairly easy. The Masonry stove needs a mason trained and skilled in building it. A down side they are heavy and have to have a good foundation of their own or very stout support and you don't get hot water.
Is there an advantage to having an outdoor burner? Will they still heat your home with no electricity? We have a wood/coal burner and that much wood will get us through 3 maybe 4 days and nights.
One advantage I like is that the mess of all the wood is outside, another is that it heats our domestic hot water so our electric bill is cut down when we run it. It does need power so if the power is out it won't run, that is a disadvantage for sure.
Do your self a favor line the complete fire box with full fire bricks up 3/4 up the door even the bottom but could use 1/2 bricks. Keep the fire hot, heat will transfer the bricks but better combustion with an insulated fire
I would do one that coupd do both wood an coal,wood is good heat but coal burns longer an hotter for colder weather, i watched a guy that has a anthracite coal an wood burning fire place an he live in canda he uses wood for mild cold an then switches to the coal for colder weather
More efficient to run a stove inside your home in basement, and electric water heater. These boilers have huge losses due to distance. More trips in/out house means cold air in, tracking stuff into house. Not sure this is best solution today
Well I only went in and out of the house twice...lol...and when I run the boiler my electric bill is about cut in half with the saving of not having to run the electric water heater. Also I don't need to bring any wood or the mess into the house. 😀👍
I don't understand the benefit of an outdoor wood furnace. Isn't there a loss in efficiency in piping the heat to your house? Also, you have to go outside to feed it.
Do you pay for your wood or get it free off your own property? If you get it free then it's a no brainer and who cares how much you use. By the way, how does the boiler regulate the heat output for differing loads? Does it just open/close an automatic air damper?
In east central Alberta, out temp. Was down to -49C for 3 days, it moderated up to -30C. You know that's cold in any man's language! You know -40C & -40F equal out! Use whole blocks they burn longer!
I figure the other way, they burn longer yes, but they also produce less heat because of the amount of cold air used is also needed to be warmed up. the faster the burn(hotter the burn) the less cold air needed to be heated saving wood
Rather Strange. But you do have a small boiler I guess. I load mine twice a day. It's ripped out of an old lobster fishing boat. I almost exclusively burn waste pallets I get for free from Pepsi.
Energy needed to keep an old large inefficient poorly insulated house warm vs a new energy efficient well insulated moderate sized house is HUGE! So your numbers of wood chunks per hour is meaningless without some idea/description of your heated structure….
Hi Dan!!😀😀
My Hardy boiler only holds maybe half to two thirds of the wood as your stove. But we fire it at about 5PM and then don't check it until 8 or 9AM. We get a good 15 hour burn in this kind of weather. Temperatures have been the same here as up by you. We keep the house at 74 also. But I keep the water in the system at 190 degrees witch seems to work the best for us.
I wouldn't trade my stove for any other on the market that I have seen. Its worked great for 23 years now and working on number 24. LOL!!
Take care buddy!!😀😀
Logger Al
Exact same here. My Hardy was purchased in 1995, still going strong, here in NC
I get about a 12 hour burn out of my H4 Hardy, I keep it about 70° 24/7 . Same as you I wouldn't trade it for nothing.
It's been low to mid teens here, and my pellet stove has been running full blast, and it's keeping up. One 40lb bag is lasting 12 hours
that's $7.50 per bag?
@brianczuhai8909 : I get them closer to 5 bucks a bag on sale in September. But yeah, it's still not cheap, but cheaper than propane
We hit -36 last Saturday pellet stove is only on about medium
We stretched a bag about 15 hours .
Typically we just keep it on the lowest setting and keeps our house Nice and warm. We can stretch almost 36hr
that’s about the same as mine, and my house is 1892 so not very well insulated. Looking forward to improving pellet consumption next winter after making some changes
I dont know much about pellet stoves but i know enough about wood stoves that 40lbs of wood for 12 hours?@?@? Thats incredible. And its constant heat!
Dan an excellent Video and information on the Wood Boiler. Same as my Wood Stove Downstairs. I will fill is around 10pm. For the night, next morning around 7am, still going and doing a good job of Heating the Basement, and the House a little. We only use about 350 gallons of Oil per Year with the Stove going from October, till sometime in April. Dependent on what type of Wood you Burn. My Favorite is Locust, next Oak, etc. You are right on the Money with that Boiler, very Efficient my Friend. Will be tuning in on Friday Night Live. Stay Safe, Warm, and enjoy. Ron from the Woodyard in Duanesburg NY.
I don't have an ODWB but I can say with certainty every house I have ever been in that uses them are the warmest most comfortable house you will find anywhere. My buddy heats the house, hot water, his shop and his dogs hut all on green wood. Ya they eat the wood to do it but depending on your situation they can be very beneficial.
You have an incredibly efficient outdoor wood boiler, one of the best I've seen! I think the reason for that is that you actually season your wood and use your wood boiler properly! Most people i talk to think they can just toss in ANY wood 😆🤦♂️🤦♂️
That is a big part of the equation is burning seasoned wood.
@@Back40FirewoodI’ve got a wood room next to my furnace , I fill it every ten days or so . Here on the Coast wood never totally dries in a wood shed . A green piece of wood dries in the wood room in about a month . At sub zero temperatures , your wood consumption increases , doesn’t matter what type of wood burner you use . 👍🇨🇦
When it gets to the single digits and windy here, we go through a 330 gallon tote cage of various hardwood in 4 days. We heat the house to 72° along with the basement and put a little heat to the garage. When we have a cold, still run of weather, we get 5ish day out of the same sized tote with similar wood. I LOVE our OBW! Warm floors rock!
What an inefficient waste of wood. Thanks for obliterating our natural resources!!!!
Same amount of wood for mine too. A face cord lasts about 5 1/2 days. But when it’s really cold and windy, I go thru a cord in 12-13 days. I burn 12-13 cord a year. Beginning of Oct-end of April.
That's pretty surprising the amount of wood used to keep your house that warm. Well done Sir.
Suprising how much or little?
It makes a huge difference on the size of the house, how well it is insulated, and what temp you keep your house (oviously he keeps it at 74)
This was a very informative video, Ive seen a few others who talk about the system but don't really get into the frequency etc. This did that thanks for the info
I have the same boiler as you and also heat my hot water. However i do not split my wood unless its to heavy or large to fit in the door. I do not have mine in a shed. I burn lots of dead Elm, oak, poplar, birch, hickory and box elder. Im in Wi. During this vortex i fill boiler with 5 to 6 large blocks. Morning fill is around 8 am and then fill again around 5 pm. Always have a very good bed of coals simular to what you have shown. Over all im happy with the performance of this boiler.
The WoodMaster 4400 is a great wood burner, boiler, whatever the name is...lol...I love the simple design and operating of it...and maintenance!
How often do you have to clean out the ashes when you are burning that much wood? I had a Harman 3000 coal boiler and when it got really cold I was doing ashes almost 2X a day. I found keeping the heat at a constant temp made it a lot more efficient and kept the water temp at a nice consistent temp. I used cast iron radiators and it also heated our domestic hot water as well. Stay warm!
Properly dried wood leaves surprisingly very little ash behind, coal can produce a lot more depending on the quality of it and how dirty (aka the amount of impurities in it) it is.
That’s exactly how my times are when it’s cold like here in Minnesota. I usually when it’s cold try and wait till 10 pm so it will last till 8-9 am.
I’m no expert, don’t think I am being a critic. I worked in a body shop in a very cold climate. They had a outdoor wood stove as well. We didn’t split the wood unless we were starting the fire or after cleaning. I remember loading full round log lengths on the hot coals into the stove. They lasted for a very long time. The shop was quite large and the older section was not insulated to todays standards. We loaded twice a day, first thing in the morning and then again at quitting time, roughly 6:30am to 5:30-6:00 pm. We sometimes ran the big truck/bus shop at around 80-85f. Like I said I’m no expert, you may want to try bigger chunks.
Go Packers! Wasn't expecting that. Definitely not expecting that same type of performance against the 49ers. Wouldn't it be something though...
I was completely shocked at how they played that game...and yes, I am not expecting anything close to that happening at San Fran. Hopefully they somewhat show up and can put up a decent game.
hey Dan, Congrats on your Packers win moving on to the 9ers
Now the question is...... what are you burning???? Oak, ash, elm and other very dense hardwoods last much longer than other woods..... what are you mostly using or is a mix of everything?
I had a mix of some Elm, Oak, and Sugar Maple in that tote...the Oak leaves a nice bed of coals.
From the size of that thing. Probably eats up everything you put in there 😂And then some more
By weight it doesn't matter which species. It's all ~9,000 BTUs per pound.
@@joewoodchuck3824 I find that hard to believe. Even pine?
I was running the wood stove last weekend as hot as the Packers performance in their playoff game in Dallas! I must give credit where credit is due as much as it pains me. LOL! Stay warm my friend.
LOL....wow that was a crazy game. Usually when I end up yelling "what is happening!" it's not because they are doing good.....hahaha...the best part of the game was I think the 3rd TD where they panned the camera to Jerry's booth and he just turned his back....LMAO!
@@Back40Firewood Jerry was like “someone call Bill Belichik!”
What insurance company do you have? My Hardy is 10 feet from my garage and was told I have to move it. Must be 25 feet away from any structure. Thanks for the video.
I had my wood stacked about ten feet away from my Hardy, insurance told me I had to move it or loose coverage. I moved it when it got cold and I started feeding my stove, insurance is nothing but a scam.
We're going through that arctic blast in N.E. Ohio also teens during the day and single digits at night. We have a cold blast coming tonight suppose to be in the negative temp tonight.
Very interesting 👏🏻! You answered a lot of questions about heating in colder locations, the 2 pieces per hour put a lot of perspective on a wood boiler during cold temps. I’m curious what heating cost are for non wood users, here in the south it’s bearable. 👏🏻👍🏻🇺🇸
Depends on the fuel costs to a large degree. Propane is expensive. I heat with natural gas and my highest heat bill was $200.
Last year in Gettysburg PA I had a customer that was heating a 2400 sq ft 2 story home built in 2001. The house is all Natural Gas. Keeping the house at 68-70 there bill was 310 during a cold snap. Furnace was a 90 plus efficiency. Power vent hot water heater.
Do you have backup power for the boiler?
how much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood. I learned something new today thanks.
Dan i have a 5036 central boiler fill it just toss in full around 11pm get to it next day around 1pm n it empty but stir up coals appear toss in couple hands of junk wood it usually down around 150 degrees
The cold starts here tonight in foothills of NC . I could not stand 74 degrees I like 68 that’s where my house stays .
is there no heat exchanger on the exhaust? or am i not seeing it? is all that heat being wasted blasted up & out & cold air is being pulled in?
Good demonstration on wood usage. I have a 4400 also however I my experience is I use a little more wood. My stove is exposed outside and distance to my house and sef manufactured water transfer piping may account for the difference. I heat an 1800 SF house (74 degrees) and a 800SF (50 degrees) garage.
Mornin Dan, the plus is no mess in the house, no danger of fire in the house and very nice heat. The minus, they are hungry and you gotta go outside to feed em. John
Yes indeed....nice to keep all the mess outside, but then you have to go outside to put the wood in like ya said...lol....but only a couple times a day so not too bad. 😀👍
Another downside is you can’t leave for the weekend unattended…..
@@homersimpson5668 Sure you can, just make sure to turn off the water and open up your taps so if it does freeze it doesn't burst the pipes. Was standard practice for us in Rhode Island or if we lost power.
Fascinating 😊 Thanks
How big is the house? We have 1600 sqft with a wood insert. I use about 1/3 of a cord every two weeks. House is between 70-76 during the day. We don’t load it overnight at all.
Stay warm it’s been really cold 🥶 here in Missouri
You mean misoura
I've been burning a little extra but I'm into a couple rows of hemlock and we hit -22.. Nothing like the nice coals in your burner.
It must be satisfying to know every BTU in your house came from your hands.
I have the same thing with my 4400. Single digits and wind in michigan. Had to go to three times a day feeding.
Wow Dan, That's COLD........🥶🥶🥶Get some 🪵🪵🪵 on the fire🔥🔥🔥👍👍👍 !
Heat my house with wood always pull the coal to the front on reload great video
With as cold as it is that's pretty good. When I had my outdoor stove and it was this cold I had to fill mine 3 times a day. Nice pajamas Shifty hahahaha!! Stay safe my friend
My tiny home only needs 400 watts of btu till -15 I need 600. I’m sure when it gets to -20 to -30 I will need 750. At -15 6 candles hold the temp in there. I’m glad I’m over insulated and caulked every seam and taped every seal.
Stay safe and warm.
These big outdoor boilers are cool you don't see them in europe really - it does make me wonder if they're less efficient than having wood burners in doors which are not then sitting outside in like -10 all day and night? The heat loss from the boiler and pips I would imagine must be at least 25% even with all the insulation etc?
I am able to keep my whole house and garage at 70 , approximately 5 cords hardwood 10 cords of pine. Classic 6048 year 18
Do you have a temp-gauge on the chimney? I have a modern finnish reverse burning stove, and gets about 350f on the exhaust. The way your oven burns, you burn all the wood at once, thats not effective. Keep up the nice work and enjoy a warm house
Dan I think you should mention how many sq. ft. you are heating. I have a 3600 sq. ft. bungalow so I'm heating 7200 sq. ft. and my hot water. In January and February a small IBC tote lasts me 3.5 days and my overnight temps will be around zero. I have no protection from wind but my house is only 5 years old so it is insulated quite well. I light my boiler the middle of October until the end of April and I burn 60 IBC totes per year.
How many cords do you think that is ?
That is 20 cords
@@danschacht9950 How did you figure that out?
Just curious what you have your Temp set point at on your boiler? I have a Central boiler Classic edge 750 and they Recommend temp be set at or above 185 degrees. That keeps moisture in firebox to minimum. Its a gasification boiler which I have to try to burn Dry Wood. I have had it for around 4 years now and have noticed a huge reduction in what I was burning before that in my old Boiler. Cant even remember the brand. I just built a 48x48 Shop with a 30x48 attached garage that I keep both heated with the boiler. Shop says around 60-63 and garage is 52-55. I think I still burn less wood heating those and my 1600 Sq ft home then I did with old boiler just heating House.
The set points on this are 160 & 170...and that is what is recommended and factory settings so not sure if a higher set point would work. I did have one time when I was having problems with my fan shutting off that I would get up near 180 and I'd have water spilling out the top fill tube...lol
I'll stay with my indoor wood heater I use about the same amount as you but I don't have to go outside thanks for the videos
Do you store and season your wood inside?
It's a great way to heat if you have access to the wood - and the time to fill it up.
Have to say you keep your house toasty - we max ours out at about 19.5C (67F) if I get the wood burner running in the main room we might hit 20C(68F)
I have been going through wood like crazy but I noticed if I fill it with big rounds I don’t burn through as much wood. I have a heatmaster c250
How much wood would a wood stove suck if a wood stove could suck wood?
I have a gasification unit and I went through 2x as much as you did! Also mine is outdoors not in a shed and I hate it want to go to a conventional.
If I might ask, what brand of gasification stove? Are you burning seasoned wood? I'm trying to cut through the sales hype on these right now...
For southern folks like me I’d love to know what you wear to deal with temps like that. I see the hoodie and overalls but I would imagine they are thicker or more insulated than that which we get down here. How many layers and types of layers etc.
Do you ever shut down in winter time to clean out?
Nope, I clean out the ashes every few weeks but just do it when there is a nice bed of coals and before I fill it up with wood...but the system stays up and running from beginning of Oct. through the end of May.
How does it work if you go away for a week in the winter? How quickly can you get it started back up producing heat and hot water for the house?
I think it would freeze and break ????😢
I think the real question is how long will the water pipes in the house keep from freezing without heat, maybe a day if you are lucky and isn't below zero F temps.
Can you imagine paying for 175 gallons or even 1000 gallons of 50/50/mix of anti freeze to keep the heat lines and stove from freezing and spring a leak loosing it all
Keep that stuff by you. Lol. Stay warm and be safe
hi there ,great minds think a lot .i have been counting mt wood pieces as well 30 -40 about 2-3 sticks per hour , below 30 a strong 3 , a lot of variables. good show , to save on hot water draw just jump in the pool THE COOL POOL , john
What are you doing up so early?!? hahaha I think 2 sticks per hour for a whole house isn't too bad.....and below 30 is cold??? Below zero is cold....hahaha
hi up there ,just could not sleep got up at 5 our time , got about 4 inches of snow , 24 degrees out , most likely take a old man nap later like you most likely do as well ,take care buddy stay warm and don't be cool @@Back40Firewood
Hi what is the temp of the flue pipe?
Love your building around your Wood Master 4400. Your design? Any videos on the building? Interesting! Be warm.😊
At that rate how long would a cord last?
I don't really have a measured amount but I was going through an IBC tote full every 4-5 days. The tote was not stacked though...just had wood tossed in.
Those polar vortices are something
You mean a high pressure with a cold front with jet stream involvement. Has been like this many centuries!
Stay cosy, stay safe👍
Hey, is that a high efficiency one with a catalyst? Plus, what's the size of your home in sq ft?
Nope this is not a gasification or high efficiency unit...am heating around 2500 sq ft plus the hot water.
Are you looking forward to when LBM can go out and do this while you stay inside and warm?
Bill
If you wear your glasses, Amanda will think it is 10 degrees warmer in the house! 😜🤓
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hey, woodhounds yes cold i'm burning six pieces every two hr's but staying warm . no problem stay safe, the SR.
That’s pretty damn good. I probably burn more than that in my fireplace in the house. Granted, it’s been -35c, windchill -51
Damn! That's cold!
Why do you use "woodstove" size wood in outside boiler ?
I’m curious about that too. Guessing it’s just the output of the firewood process, but seems like a ton of unused space in the boiler.
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Thought it was just me !. 👍
Cuz my days of wrestling big chunks into and through the door are over...lol...also want to have decent size pieces for the wife and boy to be able to load if need be.
Man Shifty that boiler is just sippin on wood. Now that you know how many sticks per hour you can do the calculations so when you’re ahead on splitting you can do a little sippin on some CLAWS🤣👏🏻👍🏻👍🏻B🥶
Ha...yes I was surprised the overnight load still had good bed of coals in the morning. Almost made me wanna just open the door and watch them glow with a nice cold Claw! LOL
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I have burned wood for over fifty years. Used to have stove in the front room then moved and had heating stove and cook stove. Now for thirty some years cookstove and furnace in basement. I have always wondered if your type of heat consumes more wood than a furnace like we have but you don't have the dirt in the house so it's cleaner but I don't want to go out in the middle of the night. Don't know where you live but your temps aren't that terribly cold. We get weeks of that every year, but it takes a lot of wood to keep warm. I've always said you will use twice the amount of wood and twice as much hay to feed a cow when the weather is ten below than you do when it is ten above zero. Each year one wonders, Will I have enough wood to get to spring? In weather like what we've had the last week or two, it makes a dent in that woodpile. Keep the fires burning! Question, does that burner of yours have capability to burn coal or only wood?
Yep once you go below zero for temps it seems the amount of wood goes up by a lot. This wood burner only is designed for wood. And yes I do like having the 'mess' outside. I grew up on a farm and we had the wood stove in the basement...had to always make sure there was enough inside. Was fun sending it down the wood chute though...hahaha.
74 is a ridiculously high setting!!
It’s what we keep our house at. Love it 😍 ❤
I love wood heat it’s hard to beat
Anyone have the name of the background music in the very beginning?
The song is April Will Be Cold by Francis Wells. But let's hope it won't be this cold come April....hahaha
@@Back40Firewood thanks a lot!
If you had had a rocket mass heater type stove or a masonry stove you could have gone 24+ hours of a warm house on the equivalent of one load of wood or less. The rocket mass heater can be homemade fairly easy. The Masonry stove needs a mason trained and skilled in building it. A down side they are heavy and have to have a good foundation of their own or very stout support and you don't get hot water.
Is there an advantage to having an outdoor burner? Will they still heat your home with no electricity? We have a wood/coal burner and that much wood will get us through 3 maybe 4 days and nights.
One advantage I like is that the mess of all the wood is outside, another is that it heats our domestic hot water so our electric bill is cut down when we run it. It does need power so if the power is out it won't run, that is a disadvantage for sure.
or you need a small generator to run the boiler, lights and refrigeration. Remember gas and oil heating need electricity too!!
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What's an outdoor wood burner cost these days? 30K
Do your self a favor line the complete fire box with full fire bricks up 3/4 up the door even the bottom but could use 1/2 bricks. Keep the fire hot, heat will transfer the bricks but better combustion with an insulated fire
Yikes. Stay warm
My indoor wood stove (lopi) takes 12 sticks of wood a day to heat my 2700sf home in these same temperatures.
We have fed our stove a week’s worth of wood the last three days. So, so cold.
I'll be glad when the sub-zero temps move out...looks like next week we're gonna be back to the 30s.
@@Back40Firewood looks the same here in NE Kansas. -12 this morning. Flirting with 40 next week.
-10 not cold we had a good week this year so far at -30 last year we had 3 weeks of -30 and colder
I would do one that coupd do both wood an coal,wood is good heat but coal burns longer an hotter for colder weather, i watched a guy that has a anthracite coal an wood burning fire place an he live in canda he uses wood for mild cold an then switches to the coal for colder weather
I felt the heat from your fire
More efficient to run a stove inside your home in basement, and electric water heater. These boilers have huge losses due to distance. More trips in/out house means cold air in, tracking stuff into house. Not sure this is best solution today
Well I only went in and out of the house twice...lol...and when I run the boiler my electric bill is about cut in half with the saving of not having to run the electric water heater. Also I don't need to bring any wood or the mess into the house. 😀👍
Our coldest night was -54 without the windchill.
🥶 Montana?
Yes
Holy moly...now that is COLD!!! wow
I don't understand the benefit of an outdoor wood furnace. Isn't there a loss in efficiency in piping the heat to your house? Also, you have to go outside to feed it.
No need to say “Stay Cool” during a polar vortex!
The more wood you use I’m sure drives up your sales 😊
Do you pay for your wood or get it free off your own property? If you get it free then it's a no brainer and who cares how much you use.
By the way, how does the boiler regulate the heat output for differing loads? Does it just open/close an automatic air damper?
Not bad at all!
It would be good to hear from Joe.
His burner sits right outside.
I wonder how much wood his wife and daughter had to put in.
the sides and door could use a scraping
In east central Alberta, out temp. Was down to -49C for 3 days, it moderated up to -30C. You know that's cold in any man's language! You know -40C & -40F equal out! Use whole blocks they burn longer!
I figure the other way, they burn longer yes, but they also produce less heat because of the amount of cold air used is also needed to be warmed up.
the faster the burn(hotter the burn) the less cold air needed to be heated saving wood
You got more snow then I did
74 Holy Crap!
Hahaha....yeah I like wearing t-shirt & shorts around the house.
@@Back40Firewood And bare feet on a Heated floor. HAHAHAHA
You mean a high pressure with a cold front.
What you put in, in the Morning is a 24Hr burn for Me..
What do you burn in?
@@mrpush2532 That second load of wood He put in would burn for a 24 Hr period before I'd have to load again.
We burn more wood then that in the summer when we’re camping!
The 2 main factors for summer campfires are when ya start the fire and how late ya party....lol
Look into a coal stove for inside.Very good from people take on them.
I have a CB OWB. If you were to lower the house to 70. Let coals burn down for 4 hours and you would cut consumption by 50%,
Just saying
Rather Strange. But you do have a small boiler I guess.
I load mine twice a day.
It's ripped out of an old lobster fishing boat.
I almost exclusively burn waste pallets I get for free from Pepsi.
Hmmm, polar vortex, means we have about 18 weeks till I open the pool🙃🏊♂
Use some 10 to 12 inch diameter rounds they will last longer
Energy needed to keep an old large inefficient poorly insulated house warm vs a new energy efficient well insulated moderate sized house is HUGE! So your numbers of wood chunks per hour is meaningless without some idea/description of your heated structure….
Holy mother of creosote!