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Central Boiler / Re: Unplug taco pump in off season?
« on: March 15, 2024, 11:26:06 AM »
I unplug mine… when I remember to.  I’ve been burning 16 years and I’ll bet half of them have been plugged in year round.

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Fire Wood / I got some free firewood
« on: December 18, 2023, 04:17:45 PM »
Today they just finished dropping off their final delivery of 25 dump truck loads of free wood. It's Cottonwood, but it'll still burn!



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General Discussion / Re: An Ealy start to heating season
« on: September 23, 2022, 07:27:38 AM »
Wow, I don’t even have my woodshed full yet… I better get crackin!

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Wood Shed Location
« on: June 15, 2022, 01:50:01 PM »
I have a woodshed covering my woodpile and it is butted up to the front of my Central Boiler 6048.  I haven't heard of any draft issues that I thought I needed to worry about, and I've never had a problem.  The shed is about 22.5' long and 24' wide, and butts right up to the front of my stove, so my wood, and I... stay nice and dry all winter long.  I even have lights and an outlet out there.  It's a kit from Menards and is just like their "cart corrals" they have in their parking lot.  Not permanent, just staked into the ground.



It's enclosed on three sides with steel, but the back just has a tarp on it.  It's actually one of those billboard tarps so it'll last a while.  I use a 27' piece of old well pipe to roll it up and hang it on a couple of bars coming out the back when I'm filling the shed. I also store my trailer back there.



You might be able to tell that the wood shed is split into two sections. I have old garage door panels fashioned up as a "wall" to separate the two sides. I use about half the shed during a season, or one full side.  I stack it tight and go 7' high.  The side the stove is on holds about 12.1 cords of wood, and the other side holds about 14.7 cords of wood. (The door swings inward and there's a 4' cement slab in front of the stove so that takes up some room on that side)

I can't imaging any type of drafting issues that would need to be dealt with, but maybe that's specific to your stove.  I had to have my stove in the front corner of the building because its right on the edge of a slope going downhill, so I had to either move my stove (not a great idea) or move the building over when I was building it.  I chose the latter.  I'm very very happy with this setup right now but If I had to do it over again, I suppose I might have the stove still outside (so it doesn't take up any space inside the woodshed) but in the center- front of the shed, rather than in the corner.  That way I'd have the exact same amount of storage space on both sides and I wouldn't have to walk further to get firewood every other year like I do now.
 
Of course if I put the stove in the center-front of the woodshed, my patio wouldn't be as nice and open as it is so....

If I were you, I'd either build one 10X20 room and have the stove outside of it, but in the center-front,  or because of building permits, build two 10x10 rooms basically touching each other, essentially creating a 10x20 room.  If you have one room at the back of the stove, that's not going to be fun loading the stove on the years that you pull from that room.

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Fire Wood / Firewood full dates
« on: September 29, 2021, 08:17:17 AM »
I decided to start a searchable thread as way to keep track of when I get my woodshed full each year.  I think I'd like to know when I get my woodshed full every year.  More of a way to record those dates for me, but feel free to use it to record yours here if you wish.  I did the same thing with my "First and Last Fires" thread here: https://outdoorwoodfurnaceinfo.com/forum/index.php?topic=923.msg6569#msg6569

Anyways, here's my first entry

2021
9/28/21

2022
10/26/22


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Home Made / Re: Homemade "Tank-in-Tank" OWB-Ozarks Hillbilly Edition
« on: February 15, 2021, 06:43:07 AM »
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What's with all the satellite dishes?

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Because of how long they last, not many people buy an OWB and end up replacing it with a different model so it's going to be hard to find someone that has an opinion on more than one brand.  And even if you do, you'd be taking the word of one specific person that may or may not have had good or bad luck with their specific stove, so that opinion may be skewed.

I feel your pain.  I dont know if there is a place to find qualified, non biased, opinions about different brands.

I think what I would do I try to find the brands or models with the least amount of issues/problems, then do your research and see which brands have the features you want.

Good luck.

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Central Boiler / Re: 5036 boiler has corrosion
« on: November 07, 2020, 07:59:05 AM »
Well I found that my door sealing area at the bottom corners has rusted quit a bit where the rope gasket seals Ive seen moister there in the summer months, was wondering if anyone else may have had this same problem. As to the summer months we run ours all year because we also heat our hot water. We have been running our boiler on a nonstop basis for over 11 years.:(
Post a pic please.  I'd like to see where it is.  I have a 6048 that I've been using for 13 years and haven't had any problems there.  My brother has the same as I for at least 18 years and no problems there.  He has had some leaks, but not there.

Neither one of us burn wood in the summer though.

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Fire Wood / Seasoned firewood?
« on: June 26, 2020, 10:38:36 AM »
What do you consider wood that is ready to burn efficiently?  Wood that has been cut, split, stacked and covered for one summer?
Two summers? 
Three summers?

Let's say as a general rule, with most types of wood.

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Site Suggestions / What happened to the site?
« on: March 27, 2020, 07:57:02 PM »
Thought it was gone for good, anyone know what happened?

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Me too. Stay healthy everyone.

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Fire Wood / Re: HOLY FIREWOOD BATMAN!
« on: March 03, 2020, 02:16:13 PM »
That's 3 1/2 weeks of firewood you didn't have to cut and split!
You bet!  And it burned better and longer than anything else I have stacked up!

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Fire Wood / Re: HOLY FIREWOOD BATMAN!
« on: March 03, 2020, 05:52:43 AM »
Used up the last of it last night.  It lasted 3-1/2 weeks.  most days were 1 fill a day, at night.
Again, this is mostly a record for me, but feel free to comment.

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Boiler & Garage Up in Flames
« on: February 18, 2020, 05:16:08 PM »
Sorry to hear about your misfortune.  Hopefully the insurance company will work with you.
Good luck.

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Fire Wood / HOLY FIREWOOD BATMAN!
« on: February 13, 2020, 09:55:10 AM »
I have a friend who remodels churches and builds new church pews. A few years ago he asked if I wanted his scrap lumber to burn, he would even deliver it.
Of course I said yes.

On Friday February 7th he brought a load out. One snowmobile trailer full and one pickup bed full of church pew backs, seats, and the little racks that hold the hymnals on the back of the pews.  On Monday he brought out another load with more backs and the ends of the pews.  He had them all cut up to about 2-3' long so I didn't have to cut hardly anything. 

I helped him unload it outside, near the back of my wood shed and hoped I would figure out an easy way to move it inside my wood shed since there was still a pile of firewood in the back of the shed, and I didn't want to have to move that just to bring in this lumber.  I want to burn this lumber first before it gets snowed on.

Most of the wood he brought was all flat pieces about 2' square and about 1" thick. I could toss it over the firewood pile, but that would make a huge mess, and if I had someone helping me, I could easily hit them. Then I remembered I have 3 of those 12' long aluminum roller conveyors that hook together. I brought one over and set it on top of the firewood pile on one end, and on a wheelbarrow on the other end and it worked great!  Not one piece ever fell off the conveyor early, and I would stack them up to four high.

I'm posting this so that maybe it'll give someone an idea on moving wood, but mostly so that I have an idea of how long it took me to go through this lumber. I think I loaded the stove 3 times since then with regular firewood, and now am strictly using the pews.  I fill the stove 1-2 times a day with about 15 flat pieces and it even lasts all night. Temps in the 20's and below.

I've also asked that next time he gets a load, to save me one good church pew about 4-8' long for our basement.  My in laws have one and it's kind of neat.

(The last pic is random scrap lumber, and hymnal baskets.)

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