Just a tip the wood you are using is most likely a softwood yellow pine it contains more tars that produce more creosote so more upkeep in your chimney also the wood has nails which can damage the fire brick in the stove just some precautions
Exactly this. I run a wood burning boiler all winter to save on propane costs. You can burn stuff like that but the maintenance is a pain in the ass compared to just burning hardwood.
Canadian here and I burn pine all year, burn your stove hot and Always dry seasoned wood 🪵 is the key, never had a creosote problem ever, always cut dead dry standing 🌳 and it will be fine
@@ronwilliamson8384 another Canadian here, was gonna same same thing, and if you crank the heat full blast for a few minutes every day, like first thing in the morning until it crackles, you clean your pipes out and won’t have any soot issue.
Pallet wood is sometimes pine, sometimes oak or other hardwood. Either way, they might have soaked up chemicals that you might not want to be inhaling.
I know others in the comments have said this, but pallet wood is made of pine a lot of the time because it's cheap. Pine makes a lot of smoke and is not the best wood for fires. The biggest thing about pallets is they are often treated to prevent rot with chemicals and can also be used to haul hazardous substances that can leak into the wood. You could then be spewing carcinogens out your chimney. Not saying this is the case but just something to keep in mind.
You're not wrong, but Daniel is a bright young lad. I think he'll figure out some way to cut down on the smoke. There are things to take examples from like bio-lite that figured out a way to use a fan to cut down in some cases and even eliminate in some cases the smoke altogether. He might even take this comment and figure out a way to have thermo-electric generators like the bio-lite ones made that aren't as costly to have and use them to have electric energy to spare from the wood stove. If the wood is as you said, then it's going to release carcinogens when burnt regardless and if it's disposed of commercially, it's going to be burnt regardless. It might, might be burned in a more contained way if done commercially, but chances are high that they sell off the contract to dispose of it to the lowest bidder, and it then gets disposed of in a similar way as how China and other countries did that the US sold the recycling contract to for plastic. i.e. in the cheapest most non recyclable way. In this case, burned in an open field or some other similar outcome.
I prefer to salvage hardwood limbs and small trees that are knocked down by wind storms and leaning against a neighboring standing tree. Use the skill saw to cut them to 5 foot lengths to throw in my car. I spot them as I drive home in the Spring and Fall when the foliage is light but not too cold out. Pallets are often pine and I imagine many are treated when chemicals, I would personally not burn with them.
@mattdobbs-dr2rt my grandpa had a chimney but his house still smelled like coal. You're going to have a certain amount of leakage with the venting especially those sheet metal duct types that are riveted together. The harm these chemicals can cause is no joke. I mean it's a you thought you'd get by just 1 winter and now you have the rest of your life visiting hospitals and paying for their drugs that you need to survive type serious.
Don’t know it’s released by burning or in pallets, but some lumbar is treated with arsenic to prevent pests and environmental damage. There have been cases of DIYers giving themselves arsenic poisoning by cutting arsenic wood indoors without a respirator. One was a couple doing their own home remodeling, and then wife became very sick, eventually found to be arsenic, and the husband was suspected, but he also had very high arsenic levels. An Occupational Medicine doctor saw the story on the news and called the police to say it was likely from the wood, and that this can happen.
Nice addition, you might want to have a look at rocket stoves, they are around 98% efficient and produce nearly no ash! Robert Murray Smith has a great collection on his channel!
I gotta disagree with you Daniel Miles. I've seen those Murray-Smith stoves. This is put in a nice house, not a garage. It's a great efficient stove. They wll get decades of savings from that stove. Great work, Daniel's Inventions.
@@wolin289 I gotta disagree with you. Robert-Murray Smith has lots of excellent information on it and the more informed, the better choices one can make.
@@LAStars-sratS The money spent on insurance is often better left being put into an "oh crap" fund. Insurance is largely a racket that was legalized. You pay for something that either allows you to be on the road or be within housing laws, etc, but every time that you actually NEED to use that insurance for damages caused by either you or someone else, unless you have the most expensive insurance plan with all the bells and whistles, they will fight you tooth and nail on it and leave you struggling while waiting on the claim approval, and then you have to lawyer up which even in a "you pay only if we win" clause still takes away money from you that's yours, and if you don't lawyer up, the insurance company will often deliberately stretch it out according to whatever is cheapest for them while you're struggling to just scrape by financially.
31 yrs, 3 wood stoves, napoleons. 3100 sq/ft home. On lake superior. 100% heat for home. We had 4 kids, now all grown up and families themselves. On average about 5 full chords wood each year. . Wifey at home,, she uses more wood. She pushes 75f. Loves her fire. Now we old and lost our slaves. They still buy it,, but we getting slower too. Ready for a furnace for backup now. Always our own firewood from property.
Look into maybe converting it to an oil burning oven, it's simple, barley any labor, it doesn't use much oil to burn throughout a 24 hour period and waste oil is quite easy to come by at your local auto repair shops and restaurants
I hated getting up in the middle of the night to put wood in our wood stove. And even though it was inspected and safe, I never got used to having a fire in my house. It made me slightly nervous all winter. But it's possible to heat your house cheap with a wood stove, IF it's legal in your area. That's another issue.
It's amazing how safe modern wood stoves are when properly installed to specification. I put flammables under and touching my stove all the time even while I sleep and nothing ever even smolders. I'm not saying that I'd recommend it, just that I tested it so you don't have to. I have the benefit of having used a wood stove as the only heat source since I was born so my anxiety is low.
I heat with a wood stove, you cannot use pallet wood for heating indoors! Either cut your own trees and season appropriately or buy from local firewood people, safer and better heat source. You are likely to have a chimney fire from the quick, hot burn of pallets- not to mention the chemicals ingested!
Looks like you installed the chimney yourself... Not a good flashing job... Also many pallets are treated with insecticide and preservatives to make them more useful for their purposes. Not a great source of fire in a closed environment like a house.
Burning pine causes creosote buildup and eventually chimney fire.. burn hardwood pallets only...you can tell the difference because their heavy as hell.... also recommended to install a 6 inch stainless steel flex chimney liner, that way if the inside of the pipe catches fire, it will most likely burn out safely without catching the entire chimney and house on fire
I was considering the same thing, however, I first calculated the time spent finding pallets on the internet, the spent spent driving to the place, time spent loading the pallets, time spent driving back, time spent breaking the pallets down and cutting them to size, time spent putting wood in the furnace, time spent cleaning out the furnace.............estimated at over 5 hours a week or 20 hours a month. If a person makes $20 per hour, then the break even point would be $400. My electric bill is $250 and all I do is put in a little overtime at work........then I have so much MORE free time. TIME EQUALS MONEY. Your NOT saving as much money as you think because you are spending your life gathering stuff. If you're making $10 per hour at your job, then it might be worth it. Or if you guys are broke. Would this be worth it for a mechanic who makes $100 per hour? Wouldn't it more proficient for him to just work at his job a few hours more per month. Or, spend tons of time on pallets? Read a book on money and time........your life will be changed!!!
That is what a chimney fire looks like but yes free heat . Leave your rain cap loose so you can knock it off when the chimney fire happens and place a piece of drywall over the chimney to stop the fire . This method of salvage has saved houses and lives
Retired firefighter, tip. Cotact a local fire extinguisher company. Fill up zip lock bags with dry chemical, in event of chimney fire, throw a few in the wood stove, and drop a few down from the top of the chimney. Usually very effective. Still call FD though.
@@pauldiamond5707 just get isokern chimney, they can withstand very high temperatures without burning through or cracking :) many in denmark including myself have a isokern chimney and it works wonders! chimney sweep told me there is no creosote at all even though i burn pallets.. my grandparents have a metalbestos metal insulated chimney and its got lots of creosote everywhere because it doesnt heat up fast enough which is too bad
By using a method to distribute the heat throughout the home, the chimney fire issue is also being mitigated to some extent because less of the concern is being collected in one area. He'll still have to address it somehow, but it won't be nearly as dangerous if he's proactive about keeping the heat distribution system clean, and he probably will.
Pine is completely fine to burn if it is seasoned properly. It's an old wise tail that you can't burn pine, the downside is it burns fast and it burns hot. People in Oregon only have pine to burn and there chimneys are fine
Nice but not free because you had to burn fuel in a vehicle to go get the pallets,plus electricity used to cut the pallets up,plus the cost of saw blades and of course your time is worth something. Pallets burn up fast as well vs regular split logs.
And you add a couple of those kick ass candle heaters throughout the home on the exterior walls most definitely in the lower floors possibly basement and you would be set 😎✅
У меня в доме стоит похожая печь.Топка выложена вермикулитом.Для экономичной работы важно поддерживать оптимальную температуру в топке.Сейчас занят автоматизацией этого процесса.Есть ли у вас работы в этом направлении?
Most pallets are made from pine and the resin in the pine will create creosote and help create chimney fires. Keep that in mind when looking at pallets.
You would only have to start the fire for an hour or so and wait for it to die off. You might even be sweating at that point. I have a wood burning stove of my own in my 3000 sq/ft house, and it was definitely getting up to 70 degrees and above.
Well, I have a fireplace. It's big enough to turn it into an oven with the proper door and I also gave oven grates cinder blocks and cast iron cookware. I live in ten acres. I have lots of trees. Plus I also live down a dirt and gravel road and there's lots of broken trees that I can always use anytime I need it.
I have subscribed as I am enjoying your videos, but would just like to point out its not completely free heat as you had to by the stove and may have had some additional costs especially if collecting the wood 👍
Their description says that they could easily reach $500 per month on electricity this year. In two months, this stove will pay for itself and all the gas for driving to get free pallets. The cold weather can sometimes last up to six months. So, by the time the cold weather is over, they would have saved a lot of money on electricity and the stove would be paid off.
THIS is a great idea. I would bet you that if you put your great invention ideas to light and make a super efficient batch box rocket stove you would save even more money. You already have the batch box part. Now just make an rocket stove part addition and you will be king of the TH-cam channel for sure. Well that is my idea to help you Daniel with the heating of your house. Good luck. Have yourself a Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year. Peace too.
Good on you for the channel and sharing your ideas, I enjoyed all the ones I've seen thus far from you. You're one blessed intelligent young lad for sure in an engineering way. But as someone who speaks from experience, some things are better kept to yourself and your close loved ones because not everyone has proper self-control and what you share to help people in need, someone may just take and ruin selfishly for their own profit, or just overuse in laziness. If too many people seek something out that's free or even cheap, supply vs demand kicks in and eventually someone thinks "say, can we make money(or more money) from this?" and then it all goes to crap for everyone in need that did and does have self-control.
@@lazarusrex9545 Thanks, I greatly appreciate that. I like yours too. It comes together to refer to a resurrected king, right? Lazarus like the guy Jesus Christ rose from the dead, and rex meaning king? That's pretty awesome.
@@Itsallsotiresome O would like to say its a reference to coming back from something you or others never thought you could. Owning your failure. Laying claim to what burnt ground is yours. Be it personal or societal. But it's also just because my family name fits in there and it sounded cool lol LazarusRex... King of the ashes
@@lazarusrex9545 Interesting, I like the thought put into it. Thanks for explaining and the honesty too lol. May the Heavenly Father bless you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ if it be the Father's will, or cheers, if a secular greeting is preferred instead. Take care.
@@Itsallsotiresome Im not religious in the least, but the older I get the less I understand people's intolerance to well meaning people who are. Someone prays for me, know what I do? Thank them. So thank you for your well wishes and consideration, and may all the good you put out into the world come right around back to you
This is my second look at this video. **Pallet wood is often soaked in whatever chemicals may leak onto it and be absorbed. Personally, I would not use it in an enclosed area, though it might be useful for burning in a fire pit.
FaceBook Marketplace always has free wood. Sometimes FaceBook puts the expensive options on the top and the free options on the bottom. In order to get the free options to the top, there is a filter where you can enter your price limit. In the maximum price option, enter 0. This will make FaceBook only show you free options of wood.
100 percent free heating except for the gas money to haul the wood from venues, electricity for chopping the wood, time spent doing all that plus feeding the fire every hour, as well as the upfront cost of installing the whole stove.
@@mareonaranch3565 Yes and no. I paid $3k. But considering I heat my house for free every year which saves me $1000 a year and is set to keep rising with inflation the ROI is superb.
My dad used a steel pipe and dug a two foot deep hole just outside his home. Drop the pipe in and from his wood stove he went horizontal through the wall and into the vertical steel pipe. He burns what ever he wants LOL every once in a while there will be fire shootings out of the pipe from the tar catching on fire. Top of the pipe is cherry red. He used triple wall pipe for the horizontal
Gotta warn you that's the scariest footage I've seen of a woodstove fire . Please don't have a chimney fire! It should not be burning that crazy smokey . Please clean your chimney frequently or start using different wood . No disrespect just concern for your well being.
@@cameronhines4726 be careful many people have lost there home in my area . I clean once per year and realize it's not that bad when I do clean it but years could build up
Didn't the stove cost a year's worth of heating tho 🤔 not to mention the $1K for the Bush cords of wood.. And the WET inspection, insurance increases... Don't get me. Wrong I agree wood is best but isn't an alternative to the already implimented heating, or you know... It would have been installed initiallyn
I hope you can come up with something to help many out in the future. This government is rotten today. And costs are so inflated. We need free thinkers! Trial and error. Over and over is what it takes until you get it right.
Another tip Do NOT use colored pallets. Pallets that are dyed RED, BLUE or BLACK are chemical shipping pallets. DO NOT REUSE OR BURN THESE FOR YOUR OWN SAFETY.
I miss having a wood burning stove. It would heat the entire house. In fact, we had to open the windows at the top floor just to vent out the excess heat
First, your stove is a cheap model that lacks a catalytic converter thus 50% of your burnable gas is escaping out your chimney, coating your chimney with tar, and polluting the air. Second, your stove is a metal box, when it should have the exterior of the stove covered in stone to absorb and store the radiant heat. Check out swedish stoves, or check out Woodstock Soapstone Stoves for proper design. Lastly the fuel you use (pallet wood) is likely the worst fuel you could choose as it has high tar and low BTU. Purchasing aged hardwood has an upfront cost, but reduces the cost of chimney cleaning and the potential hazards of chimney fires not to mention aged hardwood burns longer and hotter, an overall savings.
At garbage containers ,you find enough materials that will burn for free : wood,paper ,cartoon,cotton clothes . I make heat in my garage and entire winter for totally free . Also I use sand in a metalică box to heat my garage another 5 hours after the materials was finished ( I put more kg of sand into a metalic box and introduce in my stove ) .
That's still a joke in the American way, to have gas fireplaces, in France that doesn't exist, well yes, but they are boilers so you don't put them in decoration in your living room. The best heating system is wood, I agree with you. The house where I grew up in France and the one where my parents currently live was and is equipped with an insert fireplace, which is in fact a kind of wood stove, built-in, cast iron. When it is 2°c outside they have 25°c in the living room and 22°c on average in the rest of their house, however very well insulated, walls, attic and basement as well as window and door leading to the outside aluminum double glazing. Afterwards, there is still a downside, not all woods are equal in terms of combustion speed and heat release. And that's without taking into account the fact that certain types of wood will foul the pipes to death, requiring more regular sweeping of the latter; with at the top of the list, softwoods. And precisely, your pallet wood, is generally made with softwood, spruce, Douglas fir or pine, so it burns like gasoline because of the particular sap that these woods contain and it does not give off only very limited intensive heat over time. So you will consume large quantities of wood, for a fairly limited length of heating time and even if you can find it for free, it is not profitable. The good wood to burn will be green or white oak, olive tree, beech and driftwood, which you find on the beaches at the exit of the mouths of rivers, after heavy rains or equinox tides, which can be like your pallet wood, harvested for free.
Sure, it does take work to cut up FREE pallets, but at least you will be saving money. They said that their heating bill could easily reach $500 this year. In a little over a month, the stove would have already paid for itself. By that point, you could purchase firewood if you wanted to, but that defeats the purpose. I have seen piles of free chopped up firewood on FaceBook Marketplace. I would get a whole lot of wood for free from the places that they mentioned in the video and stockpile it for the rest of the winter.
@@Sir_Viver You can do all the cutting in a month so that you have it ready for a whole year. That will barely cost anything. The blower does not have to be used, but it does help to warm up your home faster. My home gets hot very quickly, and I usually have to turn off the blower so that I can cool down. Sometimes I don't even use the blower. They said they could easily reach up to $500 a month on electricity. That means they would pay off their stove in a little over a month. Then, in less than a month, they would have paid off any other electricity used to cut up wood or use the blower. From that point on, they are only saving money, not losing it.
100% free heat? If you're plugging a blower in your wall you're using energy. "Free heat? Just buy a $650 wood stove then push air with electicity. Completely free!"
You would be surprised. My parents had a 2400 sq/ft and burned a fireplace that was in the living room. It heated the whole house, but the house was relatively more open spaced than most homes.
@@windchimesilo9623 I agree. I have a 3000 sq/ft house as well, and I was surprised when I used a woodburning stove for the first time. It heated my house into the 70-degree range, and it started to get too hot in the house.
That is true, although, they are paying $500 a month for electricity. So, they would technically pay off the stove in a little over a month and a half. From that point on, they would be saving money every day they use it.
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Just a tip the wood you are using is most likely a softwood yellow pine it contains more tars that produce more creosote so more upkeep in your chimney also the wood has nails which can damage the fire brick in the stove just some precautions
Exactly this. I run a wood burning boiler all winter to save on propane costs. You can burn stuff like that but the maintenance is a pain in the ass compared to just burning hardwood.
I totally agree
Canadian here and I burn pine all year, burn your stove hot and Always dry seasoned wood 🪵 is the key, never had a creosote problem ever, always cut dead dry standing 🌳 and it will be fine
@@ronwilliamson8384 another Canadian here, was gonna same same thing, and if you crank the heat full blast for a few minutes every day, like first thing in the morning until it crackles, you clean your pipes out and won’t have any soot issue.
I would add that pallets are frequently exposed to industrial chemicals ranging from cutting oils, to caustic liquids, etc.
Keep in mind that burning Pine requires cleaning the chimney more often . You have to clean it to prevent chimney fires!
Creosote logs do the cleaning job. After 60 fires you gotta burn one to do the cleaning.
Pallet wood is sometimes pine, sometimes oak or other hardwood. Either way, they might have soaked up chemicals that you might not want to be inhaling.
I know others in the comments have said this, but pallet wood is made of pine a lot of the time because it's cheap. Pine makes a lot of smoke and is not the best wood for fires. The biggest thing about pallets is they are often treated to prevent rot with chemicals and can also be used to haul hazardous substances that can leak into the wood. You could then be spewing carcinogens out your chimney. Not saying this is the case but just something to keep in mind.
You're not wrong, but Daniel is a bright young lad. I think he'll figure out some way to cut down on the smoke. There are things to take examples from like bio-lite that figured out a way to use a fan to cut down in some cases and even eliminate in some cases the smoke altogether. He might even take this comment and figure out a way to have thermo-electric generators like the bio-lite ones made that aren't as costly to have and use them to have electric energy to spare from the wood stove.
If the wood is as you said, then it's going to release carcinogens when burnt regardless and if it's disposed of commercially, it's going to be burnt regardless. It might, might be burned in a more contained way if done commercially, but chances are high that they sell off the contract to dispose of it to the lowest bidder, and it then gets disposed of in a similar way as how China and other countries did that the US sold the recycling contract to for plastic. i.e. in the cheapest most non recyclable way. In this case, burned in an open field or some other similar outcome.
I prefer to salvage hardwood limbs and small trees that are knocked down by wind storms and leaning against a neighboring standing tree. Use the skill saw to cut them to 5 foot lengths to throw in my car. I spot them as I drive home in the Spring and Fall when the foliage is light but not too cold out. Pallets are often pine and I imagine many are treated when chemicals, I would personally not burn with them.
I prefer to just get my heat energy from outside via a heat pump
Man you reminded me of when I was young and cold. It will keep you alive, good thing about pallets the wood is kiln dry.
Burning pallets is a bad idea. Some have chemicals that have spilled on them and others are treated with chemicals that are toxic when burned.
Who gives a fuck
Good thing it has a chimney 😂
@mattdobbs-dr2rt my grandpa had a chimney but his house still smelled like coal. You're going to have a certain amount of leakage with the venting especially those sheet metal duct types that are riveted together.
The harm these chemicals can cause is no joke. I mean it's a you thought you'd get by just 1 winter and now you have the rest of your life visiting hospitals and paying for their drugs that you need to survive type serious.
Don’t know it’s released by burning or in pallets, but some lumbar is treated with arsenic to prevent pests and environmental damage.
There have been cases of DIYers giving themselves arsenic poisoning by cutting arsenic wood indoors without a respirator. One was a couple doing their own home remodeling, and then wife became very sick, eventually found to be arsenic, and the husband was suspected, but he also had very high arsenic levels. An Occupational Medicine doctor saw the story on the news and called the police to say it was likely from the wood, and that this can happen.
Nah that depends where the pellet wood u got from.
Nice addition, you might want to have a look at rocket stoves, they are around 98% efficient and produce nearly no ash! Robert Murray Smith has a great collection on his channel!
I gotta disagree with you Daniel Miles. I've seen those Murray-Smith stoves. This is put in a nice house, not a garage. It's a great efficient stove. They wll get decades of savings from that stove. Great work, Daniel's Inventions.
@@wolin289 I gotta disagree with you. Robert-Murray Smith has lots of excellent information on it and the more informed, the better choices one can make.
Your house insurance will be more expensive with a stove, so, not free, and also the purchase price.
Love his channel
@@LAStars-sratS The money spent on insurance is often better left being put into an "oh crap" fund. Insurance is largely a racket that was legalized. You pay for something that either allows you to be on the road or be within housing laws, etc, but every time that you actually NEED to use that insurance for damages caused by either you or someone else, unless you have the most expensive insurance plan with all the bells and whistles, they will fight you tooth and nail on it and leave you struggling while waiting on the claim approval, and then you have to lawyer up which even in a "you pay only if we win" clause still takes away money from you that's yours, and if you don't lawyer up, the insurance company will often deliberately stretch it out according to whatever is cheapest for them while you're struggling to just scrape by financially.
My sister who lives up north has that exact wood burning stove and they love it!
It looks like a very nice wood burning stove, and I would buy it for my house except I already have two!
31 yrs, 3 wood stoves, napoleons. 3100 sq/ft home. On lake superior. 100% heat for home. We had 4 kids, now all grown up and families themselves. On average about 5 full chords wood each year. . Wifey at home,, she uses more wood. She pushes 75f. Loves her fire. Now we old and lost our slaves. They still buy it,, but we getting slower too. Ready for a furnace for backup now. Always our own firewood from property.
Do not use pallet wood for indoor fires!!!!!
Look into maybe converting it to an oil burning oven, it's simple, barley any labor, it doesn't use much oil to burn throughout a 24 hour period and waste oil is quite easy to come by at your local auto repair shops and restaurants
I hated getting up in the middle of the night to put wood in our wood stove. And even though it was inspected and safe, I never got used to having a fire in my house. It made me slightly nervous all winter. But it's possible to heat your house cheap with a wood stove, IF it's legal in your area. That's another issue.
It's amazing how safe modern wood stoves are when properly installed to specification. I put flammables under and touching my stove all the time even while I sleep and nothing ever even smolders. I'm not saying that I'd recommend it, just that I tested it so you don't have to. I have the benefit of having used a wood stove as the only heat source since I was born so my anxiety is low.
Make the chimney look like central air conditioner unit and light the fire at night.
I heat with a wood stove, you cannot use pallet wood for heating indoors! Either cut your own trees and season appropriately or buy from local firewood people, safer and better heat source. You are likely to have a chimney fire from the quick, hot burn of pallets- not to mention the chemicals ingested!
Just got our chimney installed Monday. We went with a soapstone stove
Looks like you installed the chimney yourself... Not a good flashing job... Also many pallets are treated with insecticide and preservatives to make them more useful for their purposes. Not a great source of fire in a closed environment like a house.
Burning pine causes creosote buildup and eventually chimney fire.. burn hardwood pallets only...you can tell the difference because their heavy as hell.... also recommended to install a 6 inch stainless steel flex chimney liner, that way if the inside of the pipe catches fire, it will most likely burn out safely without catching the entire chimney and house on fire
Thanks for the video.
Even the comments were useful.
I would like to know more on the motor or blower to circulate the heat.
Thanks all.
Some pallets are treated with chemicals to prevent rotting. Have you eliminated that danger of inhaling?
It is all going up the chimney?
@@padraigmulligan2742 ok, Thanx👍
I was considering the same thing, however, I first calculated the time spent finding pallets on the internet, the spent spent driving to the place, time spent loading the pallets, time spent driving back, time spent breaking the pallets down and cutting them to size, time spent putting wood in the furnace, time spent cleaning out the furnace.............estimated at over 5 hours a week or 20 hours a month. If a person makes $20 per hour, then the break even point would be $400. My electric bill is $250 and all I do is put in a little overtime at work........then I have so much MORE free time. TIME EQUALS MONEY. Your NOT saving as much money as you think because you are spending your life gathering stuff.
If you're making $10 per hour at your job, then it might be worth it. Or if you guys are broke.
Would this be worth it for a mechanic who makes $100 per hour?
Wouldn't it more proficient for him to just work at his job a few hours more per month. Or, spend tons of time on pallets?
Read a book on money and time........your life will be changed!!!
Burning pallet wood can be dangerous because some of the wood is treated and has chemicals that give off vapor in the home.
That is what a chimney fire looks like but yes free heat . Leave your rain cap loose so you can knock it off when the chimney fire happens and place a piece of drywall over the chimney to stop the fire . This method of salvage has saved houses and lives
Retired firefighter, tip. Cotact a local fire extinguisher company. Fill up zip lock bags with dry chemical, in event of chimney fire, throw a few in the wood stove, and drop a few down from the top of the chimney. Usually very effective. Still call FD though.
@@pauldiamond5707 just get isokern chimney, they can withstand very high temperatures without burning through or cracking :) many in denmark including myself have a isokern chimney and it works wonders! chimney sweep told me there is no creosote at all even though i burn pallets.. my grandparents have a metalbestos metal insulated chimney and its got lots of creosote everywhere because it doesnt heat up fast enough which is too bad
By using a method to distribute the heat throughout the home, the chimney fire issue is also being mitigated to some extent because less of the concern is being collected in one area. He'll still have to address it somehow, but it won't be nearly as dangerous if he's proactive about keeping the heat distribution system clean, and he probably will.
@@DanishSpeakerChannel that's cool
Pine is completely fine to burn if it is seasoned properly. It's an old wise tail that you can't burn pine, the downside is it burns fast and it burns hot. People in Oregon only have pine to burn and there chimneys are fine
Nice but not free because you had to burn fuel in a vehicle to go get the pallets,plus electricity used to cut the pallets up,plus the cost of saw blades and of course your time is worth something.
Pallets burn up fast as well vs regular split logs.
What stove is it?
And you add a couple of those kick ass candle heaters throughout the home on the exterior walls most definitely in the lower floors possibly basement and you would be set 😎✅
Some pallets are not safe to burn due to industrial coatings
Love wood heat. Hard woods burn cleaner and longer.
Also, double check your homeowners insurance policy and any legal issues etc in your area.
Can you provide a link for the stove in your video
У меня в доме стоит похожая печь.Топка выложена вермикулитом.Для экономичной работы важно поддерживать оптимальную температуру в топке.Сейчас занят автоматизацией этого процесса.Есть ли у вас работы в этом направлении?
Most pallets are made from pine and the resin in the pine will create creosote and help create chimney fires. Keep that in mind when looking at pallets.
I have a 20x20 insulated cabin. Does anyone know how long the heat would last if I used a similar stove?
You would only have to start the fire for an hour or so and wait for it to die off. You might even be sweating at that point. I have a wood burning stove of my own in my 3000 sq/ft house, and it was definitely getting up to 70 degrees and above.
Well, I have a fireplace. It's big enough to turn it into an oven with the proper door and I also gave oven grates cinder blocks and cast iron cookware. I live in ten acres. I have lots of trees. Plus I also live down a dirt and gravel road and there's lots of broken trees that I can always use anytime I need it.
I have subscribed as I am enjoying your videos, but would just like to point out its not completely free heat as you had to by the stove and may have had some additional costs especially if collecting the wood 👍
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Their description says that they could easily reach $500 per month on electricity this year. In two months, this stove will pay for itself and all the gas for driving to get free pallets. The cold weather can sometimes last up to six months. So, by the time the cold weather is over, they would have saved a lot of money on electricity and the stove would be paid off.
@@jimwei4life thx john wei, also if like to point out, the efficiency is offset by a a product that will last 50 years, not just the ROI ;-)
THIS is a great idea. I would bet you that if you put your great invention ideas to light and make a super efficient batch box rocket stove you would save even more money. You already have the batch box part. Now just make an rocket stove part addition and you will be king of the TH-cam channel for sure.
Well that is my idea to help you Daniel with the heating of your house. Good luck.
Have yourself a Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year. Peace too.
What is the name brand and model of that wood burning stove?
What stove did you buy?
Hello Daniel! I'm looking for a heater for a mobile home. Do you have any suggestions? Or an invention. Propane or wood. Please help
Good on you for the channel and sharing your ideas, I enjoyed all the ones I've seen thus far from you. You're one blessed intelligent young lad for sure in an engineering way. But as someone who speaks from experience, some things are better kept to yourself and your close loved ones because not everyone has proper self-control and what you share to help people in need, someone may just take and ruin selfishly for their own profit, or just overuse in laziness. If too many people seek something out that's free or even cheap, supply vs demand kicks in and eventually someone thinks "say, can we make money(or more money) from this?" and then it all goes to crap for everyone in need that did and does have self-control.
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@@lazarusrex9545 Thanks, I greatly appreciate that. I like yours too. It comes together to refer to a resurrected king, right? Lazarus like the guy Jesus Christ rose from the dead, and rex meaning king? That's pretty awesome.
@@Itsallsotiresome O would like to say its a reference to coming back from something you or others never thought you could. Owning your failure. Laying claim to what burnt ground is yours. Be it personal or societal.
But it's also just because my family name fits in there and it sounded cool lol
LazarusRex... King of the ashes
@@lazarusrex9545 Interesting, I like the thought put into it. Thanks for explaining and the honesty too lol. May the Heavenly Father bless you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ if it be the Father's will, or cheers, if a secular greeting is preferred instead. Take care.
@@Itsallsotiresome Im not religious in the least, but the older I get the less I understand people's intolerance to well meaning people who are. Someone prays for me, know what I do? Thank them. So thank you for your well wishes and consideration, and may all the good you put out into the world come right around back to you
Most home insurance companies may cancel the insurance if they find out you installed a wood stove in your home.
This is my second look at this video.
**Pallet wood is often soaked in whatever chemicals may leak onto it and be absorbed. Personally, I would not use it in an enclosed area, though it might be useful for burning in a fire pit.
Hey Daniel , I want your suggestion to design a coil. Can you please help me to get out of this problem?
Where we live they charge for pallet wood.
FaceBook Marketplace always has free wood. Sometimes FaceBook puts the expensive options on the top and the free options on the bottom. In order to get the free options to the top, there is a filter where you can enter your price limit. In the maximum price option, enter 0. This will make FaceBook only show you free options of wood.
@@jimwei4life and where do you live?
Keep up the good work!
Great idea. I have a business and we wish someone would pick up our junk pallets once a month.
Call the electric company and ask where they are currently trimming trees.
How do you power the blower
100 percent free heating except for the gas money to haul the wood from venues, electricity for chopping the wood, time spent doing all that plus feeding the fire every hour, as well as the upfront cost of installing the whole stove.
I make pellets with a Pellet Mill that I burn in a pellet stove... works awesome...
Aren't those pellet mills expensive?
@@mareonaranch3565 Yes and no. I paid $3k. But considering I heat my house for free every year which saves me $1000 a year and is set to keep rising with inflation the ROI is superb.
who sells this model?
Do you live in Minnesota?
My dad used a steel pipe and dug a two foot deep hole just outside his home. Drop the pipe in and from his wood stove he went horizontal through the wall and into the vertical steel pipe. He burns what ever he wants LOL every once in a while there will be fire shootings out of the pipe from the tar catching on fire. Top of the pipe is cherry red. He used triple wall pipe for the horizontal
Good Job CLapping!!
Gotta warn you that's the scariest footage I've seen of a woodstove fire . Please don't have a chimney fire! It should not be burning that crazy smokey . Please clean your chimney frequently or start using different wood . No disrespect just concern for your well being.
I burn anything in my wood stove idgaf no chimney fire yet
@@cameronhines4726 do you clean the chimney ever ? How long have u been burning ?
@@mattg6472 haven’t cleaned my chimney yet only installed it last year so this is my second winter using it .
@@cameronhines4726 be careful many people have lost there home in my area . I clean once per year and realize it's not that bad when I do clean it but years could build up
Didn't the stove cost a year's worth of heating tho 🤔 not to mention the $1K for the Bush cords of wood.. And the WET inspection, insurance increases... Don't get me. Wrong I agree wood is best but isn't an alternative to the already implimented heating, or you know... It would have been installed initiallyn
Watch out for bylaws. Most places don’t allow them.
pallets might be free, but you still need a vehicle to pick them up. Can't carry many pallets on a bicycle.
I used Free wood from fallen trees and pallets without any problems for 13 years now
It's not wise to burn pallets
Once diesel fuel goes away there will be no pallets on the road again so better find another supply real quick.
I hope you can come up with something to help many out in the future. This government is rotten today. And costs are so inflated. We need free thinkers! Trial and error. Over and over is what it takes until you get it right.
Another tip
Do NOT use colored pallets.
Pallets that are dyed RED, BLUE or BLACK are chemical shipping pallets. DO NOT REUSE OR BURN THESE FOR YOUR OWN SAFETY.
you are in colorado too? im in denver
3000 Square foot home.
pallet wood burns fast
It will heat up the house in an hour or so.
wood also pallets are not free
Ooh man. You gotta be careful with palettes. A lot of that wood is pressure treated. Don’t wanna burn those chemicals.
I miss having a wood burning stove. It would heat the entire house. In fact, we had to open the windows at the top floor just to vent out the excess heat
Why did y'all waste the beer on the Dodge Dakota in the dynaweld trailer party? Could've saved on a beer run
No cost to get the wood and no cost to cut the wood. 🤔
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First, your stove is a cheap model that lacks a catalytic converter thus 50% of your burnable gas is escaping out your chimney, coating your chimney with tar, and polluting the air. Second, your stove is a metal box, when it should have the exterior of the stove covered in stone to absorb and store the radiant heat. Check out swedish stoves, or check out Woodstock Soapstone Stoves for proper design. Lastly the fuel you use (pallet wood) is likely the worst fuel you could choose as it has high tar and low BTU. Purchasing aged hardwood has an upfront cost, but reduces the cost of chimney cleaning and the potential hazards of chimney fires not to mention aged hardwood burns longer and hotter, an overall savings.
great video
I don't think it's safe to burn pallet wood, it's all treated and painted, let's off toxic fumes
Just like you
It's fine, I have been doing it for years
Did they deliver them? boom
At garbage containers ,you find enough materials that will burn for free : wood,paper ,cartoon,cotton clothes . I make heat in my garage and entire winter for totally free . Also I use sand in a metalică box to heat my garage another 5 hours after the materials was finished ( I put more kg of sand into a metalic box and introduce in my stove ) .
That's still a joke in the American way, to have gas fireplaces, in France that doesn't exist, well yes, but they are boilers so you don't put them in decoration in your living room.
The best heating system is wood, I agree with you.
The house where I grew up in France and the one where my parents currently live was and is equipped with an insert fireplace, which is in fact a kind of wood stove, built-in, cast iron.
When it is 2°c outside they have 25°c in the living room and 22°c on average in the rest of their house, however very well insulated, walls, attic and basement as well as window and door leading to the outside aluminum double glazing.
Afterwards, there is still a downside, not all woods are equal in terms of combustion speed and heat release.
And that's without taking into account the fact that certain types of wood will foul the pipes to death, requiring more regular sweeping of the latter; with at the top of the list, softwoods.
And precisely, your pallet wood, is generally made with softwood, spruce, Douglas fir or pine, so it burns like gasoline because of the particular sap that these woods contain and it does not give off only very limited intensive heat over time.
So you will consume large quantities of wood, for a fairly limited length of heating time and even if you can find it for free, it is not profitable.
The good wood to burn will be green or white oak, olive tree, beech and driftwood, which you find on the beaches at the exit of the mouths of rivers, after heavy rains or equinox tides, which can be like your pallet wood, harvested for free.
imma be number 69k i promise
Now "We" needs Geothermal free energy from the ground to run the electric air blower for the wood fired stove or a solar panel setup 😀
Cant you make your calculation in metric?
Nice vid. Wood heat is great, unless 6 month worth of pallets was delivered to your home, it was not free.
Also required extra electricity to cut up the wood, plus the blower to circulate the heat uses extra electricity.
Sure, it does take work to cut up FREE pallets, but at least you will be saving money. They said that their heating bill could easily reach $500 this year. In a little over a month, the stove would have already paid for itself. By that point, you could purchase firewood if you wanted to, but that defeats the purpose. I have seen piles of free chopped up firewood on FaceBook Marketplace. I would get a whole lot of wood for free from the places that they mentioned in the video and stockpile it for the rest of the winter.
@@Sir_Viver You can do all the cutting in a month so that you have it ready for a whole year. That will barely cost anything. The blower does not have to be used, but it does help to warm up your home faster. My home gets hot very quickly, and I usually have to turn off the blower so that I can cool down. Sometimes I don't even use the blower. They said they could easily reach up to $500 a month on electricity. That means they would pay off their stove in a little over a month. Then, in less than a month, they would have paid off any other electricity used to cut up wood or use the blower. From that point on, they are only saving money, not losing it.
@@jimwei4life agreed on all counts.
Delivered, did I spell it wrong? Every pallet had to be driven to and driven back home. Does that explain it better?
That wood is ok to start a fire, but don’t use it exclusively, as u are risking chimney fires.
Is this your idea! How to avoid cold and money waste.....??? I think you can show us more creative ideas with performance and efficiency. :)
wood costs money, too.
It's not free heat you had to pay for the stove and you had to use your power drill which uses electric
This kid is a genius!!
that wood is fast burning you have to keep putting in more every hour
Get slab wood from a saw mill
Fan blowing on the wood stove heats the house way quicker. Heated my house for 20 years with wood
@@polok890 poke got plenty o wood
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100% free heat? If you're plugging a blower in your wall you're using energy. "Free heat? Just buy a $650 wood stove then push air with electicity. Completely free!"
Invention’s???
A 3000 square-foot home with just that stove, yeah sure
You would be surprised. My parents had a 2400 sq/ft and burned a fireplace that was in the living room. It heated the whole house, but the house was relatively more open spaced than most homes.
@@windchimesilo9623 I agree. I have a 3000 sq/ft house as well, and I was surprised when I used a woodburning stove for the first time. It heated my house into the 70-degree range, and it started to get too hot in the house.
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Or the oil heater in your video
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I'm sitting here all comfortable with my heat pump. Who burns Wood this isn't the 1800s lol
You had to buy the stove
That is true, although, they are paying $500 a month for electricity. So, they would technically pay off the stove in a little over a month and a half. From that point on, they would be saving money every day they use it.
Do not just burn any pallets, you don't want to be burning pine
Yeah, be great if your house is all one level