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Fire Wood / Re: What kind of tree is this??
« on: March 06, 2018, 08:03:26 PM »
I agree definitely hickory, no wonder you liked the way it burned. My favorite..

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Hardy / Ashes in air inlet
« on: December 28, 2017, 04:24:58 PM »
I've been meaning to ask about this for a while. The only complaint I have with my H4 is the ashes build up in the firebox and block the air.   The i beam is in the way.   Makes it hard to keep open   the H2 i had was over to the side and easy.  Do I have the grates in wrong or do I need to get the cutting torch out next spring and cut a big chunk out of the center I beam grate support?

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Honest Officer, it ain't me
« on: December 27, 2016, 07:26:59 AM »
My brother in law lives about 1/2 mile from me and has an H-2, his house is in a valley and when his boiler fan kicks on he smokes up the whole valley.  He burns only seasoned wood and keeps it covered and dry.
My son-in-law lives in our old house at the upper end of the valley but still not on a hill and burns whatever, hardly smokes at all. He is using our old H-2.

We live on top of a hill and have virtually no smoke at all from our H-4. Most of the time I only see the heat signature above the flue.
Can't figure out why his smokes so much, not that anybody cares together. we all own about 500 acres.
His also makes charcoal cant figure that either, I end up with powdery ashes, he has chunks of charcoal..

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Just too warm still
« on: November 15, 2016, 07:35:35 AM »
Still pretty warm here in southeast Mo.   
My Hardy may be entirely different than your boiler, but for this kind of weather I have learned to put the worst wood I can find in it along with good solid wood.  By that I mean the pithy super dry stuff that is next to rotten. It will lay there and smolder and when the fan kicks on it will keep the better wood going.


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Fire Wood / Re: Silver Maple
« on: October 27, 2016, 10:04:17 AM »
If it has to be split it will take you longer to split than it does to burn imho :)

I cut and hauled a couple loads about 10 years ago of large blocks and ended up loading them back up in the truck and rolling them into a washout in the field.


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Hardy / Re: looking at a lightly used H-4
« on: February 22, 2016, 09:48:08 AM »
You got a great buy, I had an H2 for about 15 years, moved to a new house and put in a H-4 3 years ago.  I use one pump to heat our house and the other to heat a 1500 square foot shop building.

I personally like having the domestic hot water heated as Hardy designed it.  The big deal is keeping the boiler close to the house and very well insulated pipes.  I have hot water going into the water heater that is hotter than the water heater even heats it within 5 seconds more or less.  And I don't have a pump running 24-7. 

I know there are arguments both ways on the pump running all the time, I just feel better if its not :)

You should not need much help hooking it up,  The folks on here will probably give you more info than you can stand....
Anything I can tell you, please ask.
I installed my H2 twice by myself and the H4 for its first and hopefully final install...







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I have never burned spruce and don't know what kind of pine you have.  But what I call softwood in this part of Mo. I won't even haul home.  Gum, sycamore maple and willow.

I am pretty sure it takes me longer to cut it up than it does to burn it... It is only slightly better than cardboard :)

I think you will burn less than half as much wood if you switch to seasoned oak and hickory. I also like ash and elm is ok.

Just my opinion.




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Fire Wood / Re: Enough Wood?
« on: March 31, 2015, 11:41:18 AM »
No planting here yet,,,,,,,,,,,, just got 5 inches,,,,,,, and still coming down.
We gotta add where we live to our profiles.


Is that a small horse or a big dog looking over your deck rail???? :pic:





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Equipment / Re: Makita 4-Stroke Chain Saws
« on: February 03, 2015, 02:12:21 PM »
I have a Dolmar 5100s and like it a lot, fast cutting saw.


I see one feature on the MM4, I think is a bad idea.   Tool less... chain tensioner, seen some of those on Stihl and not impressed.

It is just not that hard to loosen two nuts and turn a screw... In my humble opinion it is something to break.

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The first thing I do at 5:00  in the morning is fill up the boiler, walk and feed the dog. Take a shower go to work by 6.

At night I wear an old carhart hoodie with with a sock cap. If I get too much smoke on me, my wife tells me I stink, so I take another shower.

My smoky smell seems to settle in my hair.

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General Discussion / Re: Finally pulled the trigger.
« on: December 04, 2014, 01:26:32 PM »
No feed mills around here. Was paying 13 bucks a bag last year.

Wow, that could get expensive.

I just bought 100 bushels of corn from a farmer straight out grain bin for $4.00 a bushel.   Bushel of corn is about 56 pounds, just in case you don't know already.

I had to take it in big bulk bags and was almost too much for my tractors fel.

Mine is for cow feed though, I do put some out for the deer right behind the house.

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Fire Wood / Re: leaning tree
« on: October 30, 2014, 11:58:19 AM »
I just noticed the post, kind of late...   Do a search on cutting heavy leaner trees, and barber chair like mentioned before.

Leaning trees can be real dangerous.  It is usually recommended to do a plunge cut to relieve the center of the tree. then notch it, then fell it by cutting backwards out of the plunge cut.
I did a terrible job of trying to explain. ???

Anyway I like to got my head took off several years ago by a leaning tree splitting and shooting right back inches from my head. 

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Hardy / Re: cracked water tank
« on: September 04, 2014, 02:29:13 PM »
It looks like that H2 got extremely hot, from the bluing of the lower parts.  It seems strange, because that is in the ash pit area.


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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Ok, I'm out...
« on: April 08, 2014, 07:02:42 AM »
Me too..

I am down to burning dogwood.  It is pretty good firewood.  For some reason I had a die off of dogwoods in about five acres of woods that are in the cow pasture a couple of years ago.   I don't know if the cows stomping around in there killed them or what.

It is about hard as a rock and holds fire well.  Hated to see them die though, they were pretty in the spring.  Some of them were six inch or bigger trees.

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Cherry wood
« on: April 03, 2014, 06:06:14 AM »
I bet I don't care how big his feet are.

I think farmboygreat meant the trees probably aren't 150' tall since chinese elm usually only gets 50 or 60' tall....

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