Outdoor Wood Furnace Info
Outdoor Furnaces - Manufacturers with NON EPA-Certified Models Only => Tennessee Outdoor Furnaces => Topic started by: joe joe 1971 on December 12, 2013, 03:55:40 PM
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just filled my hoss 300 sf up with water/chemicals today got the fire warming up the water now so far so good hope it stays that way :)
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Welcome to the site. Let us know how it goes.
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wheres the pictures ?
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Guy I know bought a conventional hoss and he said it shoots flames out the chimney while in a burn cycle. Anyone else experiance this?
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sometimes my stove will look like a blow torch for the first few cycles on a fresh fill up.It has a 3ft stack and will glow deep orange 10 or so inches out of the top,like a blow torch.I wonder if its creosote burning or its just sucking the flame 6 or seven ft up.Is that common for anyone else.
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I would say it is a fan issue moving too much CFM.
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Ever wonder how much heat loss you have? I added a secondary heat exchanger to my old wood doctor and gained 10 degrees on my return water temps before going back to the boiler on stack heat alone, looks funky but it worked.
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Have slowed my fan down because of that flame problem and I installed a 4 foot stack because of concerns in the spring with dry weather.
Slim did your secondary HX look like this?
http://bestsolarboilers.com/aquastack/ (http://bestsolarboilers.com/aquastack/)
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No I built my own, it was originally going to be the worlds biggest water bong to clean the smoke but it was so hot it steamed the water off and appeared worse than the smoke
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yeah i see it all the time, looks like a roman candle for about 3 mins after a fill up , if there is a good fire going and a good bed of coals I will see this during a fill up , , i've been meaning to get a video of it , everything i've heard it cleans out the creosote so i haven't been concerned, my boiler is next to a creek and not close to any buildings so fire isnt a concern , was worried about my woodpile a time or 2
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hello hoss friends finally / maybe here is a pic or 2 if it post the pics
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got a few more things to do like a shed get some grass growing where I dug up the ground for the lines and a gravel walk way to my hoss I have busted my butt more than once on the slick ground :bash:
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I went by the place in shelbyville, Tn where they make thees units a few weeks ago. They walked me through the shop and showed the OWF being built and all the process. Looks like a beast of a unit. That is what got me to this website. Now I have learned so much that I realize i don't know SH!T about OWF. I plan on getting a OWF sometime this year. They seem like great people at the shop.
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I WENT AND LOOKED AT THE HOSS BOILERS THIS PAST WEEKEND AT A NEW DEALER THAT IS SELLING THEM CLOSE TO ME
THEY LOOK TO BE VERY WELL BUILT, BUT AS HE IS A NEW DEALER AND NOT EVEN USING ONE YET I DIDN'T GET TO SEE ONE IN ACTION
I WAS CONSIDERING ONE BUT I PRETTY MUCH LIVE IN A FIELD AND THE WAY YOU GUYS ARE TALKING ABOUT THE FLAMES AND AMBERS COMING OUT OF THE STACK IT SOUNDS LIKE IT MIGHT NOT BE A GOOD CHOICE FOR ME AND IT WOULD SEEM WITH ALL THE HEAT GOING OUT THE STACK THAT IT IS NOT THAT EFFICIENT ESPECIALLY WHEN THE MODEL NAME IS H.E.
HAVE ANY OF YOU GUYS THAT ARE USING ONE FOUND A WAY TO STOP THE FLAME THROWING? LIKE I SAID BEFORE I LIKE THE UNITS ESPECIALLY THE LARGE DOOR
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rclay1981 not that it matters, in fact I kind of like it as I can't see for crap but your caps lock is on. ANY wood boiler in your environment has a fire danger involved and you should take that into consideration when placing and setting it up, if there are flames shooting out of the stack, you are certainly losing a lot of valuable heat as well!
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I understand that their is a fire hazard involved being that wood is burning I have been burning wood to heat my home for the last 5 years. By the way I'm reading and understanding this they have flames shooting out the stack every fill up. Do all the boilers do this? I understand this part of burning wood but if their are boilers that don't do this on a regular basis i would be more interest in one of them
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There are tons of boilers that do not shoot flames out of the stack, one of the questions that you SHOULD be asking is what are the stack temps at the breach of the boiler, the higher the stack temp the lower the efficiency and higher the chances of stray sparks coming from the stack, our gasser units are at 260 degrees and our conventional's are around 550, neither will shoot sparks or flames from the stack, they can as any boiler loose sparks from the fill door when loading or stray coals when cleaning so there is always that danger with any OWB. My suggestion is do your research and compare models, pricing and design, best of luck in your search!!
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Thanks Slim
also going to look at the p&m's next week end
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mine only send a few sparks out and only when I burn hedge, non issue on mine
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DOES ANYBODY WITH A H.E. HOSS KNOW WHAT THEIR STACK TEMPS ARE?
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Thanks for taking a look !
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These Tennessee stoves are a piece of junk.
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VICTOR HAVE YOU HAD ONE OR KNOW SOME ONE THAT HAS HAD PROBLEMS WITH THEM
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Yes. It shoots flames out the top because too much cfm on the fan. Just bad engineering and the pumps they sell with the stove stink as well.
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Victor deep , HORSEFEATHERS !! if you don't have one how can you call it a piece of junk and bad engineering ?
I have one , it does shoot some flames out the top when there is a good fire going and you add wood to it , there is also a cut off for the fan to turn it off while loading and to turn it back on to prevent that from happening , if you stop and think about it this occurs when you open the door to load wood and are introducing a lot of extra oxygen into the fire, you close the door it has to burn it off and does so in a minute or so .
look on their website and you see the new ones have a chimney cap , mine does not , this design has been in place 2 years now.your comments have no logic or basis to them and are just comments out your ass , mine came with three Wilo pumps and I've been running them 2 years and no issue,
bottom line is these things are like auto preferences , every one has there favorite and bash the others ,
the thing the irritates me is the man is asking questions to help him make a informed decision and your comments have no merit or factual basis to them but rather personal opinions , you know what they say about personal opinions and assholes
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I really like my stove it is well built, and your right victor is a dipcrap to comment since he don't even own one
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You couldn't give me one of those.