Wood Chip Furnace | How Do We Burn Wood Chips
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- Just a short video showing our wood chip furnace.
We use wood chips to heat our house. We make around 60 m3 of wood chips per year, for ourselves and our neighbour. We put them in main storage from where we take them every month and fill a small storage room in the house. From there all goes automatically, ignition, burning and ash removal. Between the storage room and furnace is a fire damper that prevents fire reaching the storage. Furnace is equipped with various sensors that can trigger an alarm and stop the burner if something isn't right. It also tells if ther is no fuel, if the service interval is up or if the ash container is full.
Thanks for watching!
Cool setup. I was wondering how that works. Good to hear some narration
That sure seems preferable over splitting and stacking cord wood! Very interesting set-up!
Exactly this is how I make my wood chips too. For me its not just heating, its a passion. Heating with the trees, my grandfather once planted...........
We need an outdoor wood burner as we live in a thatched house. Yours is a great system. Tidy and efficient as everything on your farm - well done.
Many years ago when I was in college I was in the horticulture program, we visited a commercial greenhouse company that used wood chips as their main heating source. In Washington state, USA
Interesting, is it common in the US otherwise? 🤔
@@farmerspov4709 it was not common even in the 70's . It was in a city with several lumber mills and the price was low. Don't know if they are still in business. It was near Spokane Washington.
I think that’s the smallest wood boiler I’ve seen! Nice to hear you’ve not lost your voice 🤪🙂
Haha, not yet 😋
Thanks for showing this, we used something very similar but it used stoker coal. Which is a finer grade of coal which was augered into the furnace.
Interesting 🤔
Nice, such kind of small explanation videos. Keep up the good work. Greetings from the Netherlands.
Thank you very much for this video I admire your farm, order and clever solutions. I wish you continued success and satisfaction with your own work.
Thank you very much 🙂
Brilliant filming 👍 a good explanation of how it works 👍
Thanks 🙂
Nice to hear your voice!
Also a interesting Video 🙂
Greetings from Bavaria✌
Great video, and well explained, what is the make of the burner ? , so I can look it up , many thanks ☘️🇮🇪
KWB 🙂
Very cool vide my friend. Stay safe and God Bless
Thanks for making the video, I just got a chance to watch it. Great filming and explanation!
That's interesting, here in Ireland a lot of people use Oil Fired Central Heating that burns Kerosene but with wood you can use what you have on your land - In the city where you are I am guessing they don't use wood ?
Here they mostly use oil fuel, wood chips are used by some companies or schools 😉
Great Video we want more
Thanks for this video
Pretty cool system 👍
We use good old firewood here to warm our house and cattle barn.
Nothing wrong with it 🙂 you heat cattle barn? 🤔
Thanks for the explanation video!! That didn’t take you long to post 😂
Nice. I'd like to ask how do you control moisture or how dry should be the material before chipping. Have you ever had a problem with moist wood chips? What would you recomend for keeping wood chips enough dry. Thank you.
Don't know the numbers but we usually cut wood during winter and chop it next autumn, leaving it do dry through the summer. We also put a tarp over. We store chips under a roof with some air flow. We once had some moist wood chips that got some mold on but it wasnt a large amount so we throw them on top of the heap and added a little of them everytime we filled the storage room.
THANK YOU, NOW I KNOW, I USE WOOD CHIPS FROM TREE SERVICES, THEY DUMP THEM AT MY PLACE, I USE THEM FOR BEDDING
WE HAVE AN OUTDOOR FURNACE I AM SURE I COULD DO THE SAMETHING
It should burn well 😀👍
Wood chips need to be made out of dry wood or they aren’t going to burn. Tree service chips will decompose on you because the moisture content is way above 12
@@wilscooley3083 yes if they get wet you are correct most of these loads have been standing dead, I put them under cover on good days I back bladed them kept moving till they dried under cover I throw a couple of scoop shovels in with the firewood works ok
outdoor furnace they work with wet or dry
Good job !
How do you dry wood chips, just store it covered?
Can you tell me what furnace model do you use?
We make them from dry wood, usually sits at least half a year before we chip it. Then we store them under roof with some airflow. We have KWB Multifire furnace.
Interesting. Do you only burn hard wood trees? We use wood to heat our house but it's all cut into logs. Would be nice to be able to burn chips like that since the tops of the trees usually go unused. Thanks for sharing.
No, everything we've got that wouldn't be used otherwise. Yep, that's one of the reasons we bought this furnace 😀 thanks for watching 👍
The furnace must be very efficient if that’s all the ash you get. Does it heat a water boiler? Thanks, very interesting.
It is, I believe its just wood pellets that are more efficient 🤔 yes 😉
Hi, First of all, great video, thank you. I'm interested in making a similar setup. Can you provide some info/plans/manufacturer on your furnace? It looks like it's lined with kiln bricks. Is it fan-forced? I'm also interested in how the ash is removed into that side box.
Thanks 🙂 manufacturer is Austrian KWB. I think so. Ash is removed with two augers at the bottom.
Nice farm
I’ve been watching your channel for a year or more, however I only recently subscribed. I admire the size & efficiency of your farm/dairy. Do you ever use Corn Grain in your furnace/boiler? Our Wood Pellet Boilers/Stoves here in the US cane burn many types of fuel in that same size but mostly burn Corn Grain or Wood Pellets, depending on the price Corn is cheaper then wood pellets & for some wanting to be self sufficient easier to grow corn the large hardwoods.
Thank you for subscribing 🙂 no we only burn wood. Interesting, I didn't know that 🤔👍
@@farmerspov4709 yes 1 Pound Hardwood Pellets = 8,250 BTU’s 1 Pound Corn Grain = 8,000 BTU’s, both dried to 12% or less so depending upon price or your access to commodity Corn often is cheaper. Many farm shops in our Midwest USA farm area heated with hot water boiler or furnace with grain corn automatic from a grain bin. Cheap Glean fuel corn is.
@@blakegibson2654 corn really is versatile crop 😀
Lol we got the same system. In our house its a bit Bigger than yours but the workingprincipal is the same as shown her ofcourse its from an diffrent brand the oven but the way its working its simular to this one
Nice 😉
Is this a common set up for heating in Slovenia?
Not very common I think, its an expensive investment so people are sticking to log furnaces...
Kako veliko hišo ogrevaš? Kakšna je bila investicija? Če bi delal še enkrat bi še vedno izbral sekance? In zakaj? Sprašujem zase ker bom tudi jaz naredil ogrevanje na sekance in me malo zanima. Hvala
350 m2, s 25 kW pečjo. Mislim, da okrog 18K €. Še enkrat ja, nam pride zelo prav ker lahko ves les, ki ga ne porabimo drugače, zmeljemo v sekance (veje, grmovje, suhe smreke).
Fantastic video!!! Thank you so much for making it. Is this type of system quite common in your area? I assume so, judging by the fact that there is a custom wood chipping business near by.
Yes there are some, there are also some companies and schools that use wood chip heating 😉
Nice
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How many trailer loads would you burn each year?
About 3
Super video. Ogrevate samo hišo s tem?
Tako je.
Any fertiliser value in the Ash? 🤔 Brilliant video 💪🏻 🏴
I think it has a small amount of potassium and phosphorus 🤔
@@farmerspov4709 chuck it in the slurry pit and leave stir in. Surely do some good 😁
We put it on our manure heap 😉
I've heard ash with urine reacts to provide excellent fertilizer. Worth googling for the facts 👍
Does the chip pile turn into compost?
Not if they are dry and stay dry 🤔
Do you need to dry them first?
Yes, or at least make them from dry wood.
@@farmerspov4709 iv got about 2 tons but no idea how to dry them!
@@njipods well it would be best to spread them out a little somwhere with lots of air 🤔
oh no a KWB....
Bad experience? 🤔
@@farmerspov4709 yep every single time i see one (i am a Chimney Sweeper)
Oh, right, I think you already told me that 😅
@@farmerspov4709 yep :)
Lepo lepo, mi pa kurimo na drva 😃
Samo da greje 😀