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Wood Doctor / Does Anyone Know if There is an Optimumn tempeture to set for the wood doctor
« on: November 13, 2012, 05:30:50 PM »
Hello,
Looking for some info on increasing my efficiency of burning and just wondering if anyone had discovered a temp. that was optimum for the wood doctor old school without gasification. i believe the size is the 14000
patrick
Looking for some info on increasing my efficiency of burning and just wondering if anyone had discovered a temp. that was optimum for the wood doctor old school without gasification. i believe the size is the 14000
patrick
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Fire Wood / brazed Plates... how many do you need?
« on: October 28, 2012, 07:26:34 PM »
Hey guys, How many brazed plates do you need for a family of 4. any thoughts.. 10 or 20 of them?
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Fire Wood / Re: air conditioning using the same heat exchanger
« on: October 22, 2012, 05:58:59 PM »
I have an inline water temp gauge from home depot water entering was 90 degrees-ish high 80's
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Fire Wood / Re: air conditioning using the same heat exchanger
« on: September 02, 2012, 06:55:17 PM »
UPDATE:
after more tests this summer (kind of a hot one huh?) I have concluded that the system described above works, sort of. We were able to get the water temp. down that was going through the heat exchanger in the air ducts. We discovered using old cast iron radiators was not a good idea. the "flow" of water just doesn't cooperate with my theory. So we changed it to round coils of copper from amazon home brewing beer kit. 3800 square foot house needs 1600 inches of copper or 160 ft or so. great results. it worked hooking up the dehumidifer that is already connected to the system with some simple rewiring to work when the fan is working. I need to create a "manifold" for a summer and winter configurations. it turns out we were trying to cool the water in the wood boiler... man i am an idiot.
after more tests this summer (kind of a hot one huh?) I have concluded that the system described above works, sort of. We were able to get the water temp. down that was going through the heat exchanger in the air ducts. We discovered using old cast iron radiators was not a good idea. the "flow" of water just doesn't cooperate with my theory. So we changed it to round coils of copper from amazon home brewing beer kit. 3800 square foot house needs 1600 inches of copper or 160 ft or so. great results. it worked hooking up the dehumidifer that is already connected to the system with some simple rewiring to work when the fan is working. I need to create a "manifold" for a summer and winter configurations. it turns out we were trying to cool the water in the wood boiler... man i am an idiot.
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Fire Wood / Re: What would you do?
« on: April 12, 2012, 08:23:51 PM »
I just cut and stacked ash and white oak off of my 9 acre property. 45 trees average height about 120 ft. it netted about 68 cords (true cords) take the junk wood and put it on pallets off the ground put two two by fours holding it up in the center like a lean to and tarp it now. it will be really dry by oct and burn it til xmas then burn the good stuff... do the same in reverse for late feb march and april.
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Fire Wood / Re: TYPE of CHAIN SAWS USED
« on: April 12, 2012, 08:19:08 PM »
husky 355 20" bar
husky 572 26" bar
go with a dealer that has a good reputation. it helps in getting your equipment repaired. EVERYTHING breaks. I just cut all of the trees that have fallen in storms over the last 4 years. Most were leaning against another tree. Dangerous stuff if you don't know what you are doing. My huskies and husky splitter cut and split and stacked true 4x4x8 foot set on pallets for a total of 68 cords of wood ash and white oak. Not one issue with either chain saw or 22 ton vertical/horizontal splitter.
husky 572 26" bar
go with a dealer that has a good reputation. it helps in getting your equipment repaired. EVERYTHING breaks. I just cut all of the trees that have fallen in storms over the last 4 years. Most were leaning against another tree. Dangerous stuff if you don't know what you are doing. My huskies and husky splitter cut and split and stacked true 4x4x8 foot set on pallets for a total of 68 cords of wood ash and white oak. Not one issue with either chain saw or 22 ton vertical/horizontal splitter.
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General Discussion / Re: Check out this wood burner...pretty sweet!
« on: February 26, 2012, 07:43:17 PM »
S.O.B someone stole my van and turned it into a woodboiler.... DAMN !!!!!
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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Wood consumption thread
« on: February 10, 2012, 08:18:29 PM »
I have a 4000 square ft house and 3500 sq ft garage. Wood Boilers are awesome. My heating bills 3 years ago were 2200 bucks a month for the house and garage. The thing was it was set at 75 and we could only get this uninsulated house up to 63 degrees. Turns out there is no insulation in the walls or floors. We bought this house off of people who left for florida in october. So, we were completely fooled by the $500 month heating bills. which we figured out that were leaving the heat set at 45 not to let the pipes freeze. So, first winter my cord count was 20 cords from october 1 to may 1. 2nd year with new windows cord count went down to 15 cords. Third year isn't over yet but i am at 9 cords but i added radiant floor heat which was perhaps the most amazing thing I have ever done. Thank you wood boiler you are awesome!
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Wood Doctor / Re: What Really Happened at Wood Doctor by the President - Arthur Turple
« on: February 10, 2012, 06:36:30 PM »
Aurthur,
I have the WD14000. What problems should i look out for to see if there are any problems with mine. I am in year 3 of my purchase?
pat
I have the WD14000. What problems should i look out for to see if there are any problems with mine. I am in year 3 of my purchase?
pat
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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Pennsylvania proposes regulations for outside wood furnaces
« on: December 25, 2011, 07:19:05 PM »
hey guys, i got mine in under the epa wire and grandfathered in the law so there is nothing they can do to me. However my highly educated neighbors who are not afraid to admit to anyone there wall of diploma's between the two of them. Tried everything to get the county and state to shut me down. Soooo that didn't work. Nothing that my over educated neighbors can do. so now he hired a bobcat and pushed his lawn trash and debris into my stream. Good thing for I phones. now the EPA and DEP is all over his ass for dumping into a stream. the fines are in the 10's of thousands. I still laugh about it to myself when i see him outside raking leaves. by the way he is 750 ft from my stove. I LOVE living close to super educated professional students. THEY IS SOME REAL SMART ONES AROUND HERE.
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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: I want to share what i have learned
« on: December 25, 2011, 07:05:33 PM »
wow, thanks. Great website thanks for that tip
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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: I want to share what i have learned
« on: December 25, 2011, 05:52:06 PM »
In my 3.5 years I have learned that rounds last longer, split wood burns too quick. I find myself out there 2 times a day filling the thing up where as when I burn 4 or 5 large 20" rounds I can get 2 days out of it. Split seasoned "mixed hard wood" that you buy by the truckload is 12 hours at a time. I personally try to keep my wood to a 30-40 lb weight. it makes it easier throwing them into the back. I have a 5 ft long boiler with a 30" door. I hope this help. Hey does anyone have a good chart on which wood works better or a seasoning schedule ?
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Fire Wood / Re: air conditioning using the same heat exchanger
« on: December 12, 2011, 08:10:13 PM »
I actually did this. I have had a OWB for 2 years and year number one i was sitting outside phila sweating my proverbial you know what off and thought, hmmm i wonder if it would work. So i took out my calculator and figured that using cast iron radiator off of craigs list for free. I needed for my 3900 square foot house I would need 2000 inches of 1/2" pipe for the water entering at 100 degrees F to be reduced to 58dg F ( I have a fresh water spring that moves 3 gallons per minute. it is about 18inches wide and 6 inches deep.
So I dug a little pit in the brook, then I went and got rubber in a can spray (as seen on tv). Then used swimming pool paint. (that didn't work) So then i went with roofing tar from home depot. I put it everywhere then put the spray rubber on top of that to contain anything from messing with the water quality of my spring. So far It works.
Since I installed my pump close to my Forced air exchanger. I use that set up but I installed inside the house several just in case ball valves in case i wanted to add some extra hot water radiator baseboard heat in my basement. So, it cuts off the water from the stove and connects to my 3/4" pex which runs to my stream for the stove. I just placed some black 3/4"inch next to it, hooked it up with the extra valve that I had installed originally and there is a shut off valve in front of the extra valves.
OKAY got that... now here is the tricky part. IT FREAKIN WORKED. however, a small problem arose. It does not get rid of the humidity. Living outside philadelphia/wilmington, DE area it gets sticky here. so, i used my calculator to figure out with my size house that you need to run a 150 qt per 24 hour dehumidifier all the time. Since to buy one of those was about 3500 bucks i said no thanks. however i used 2-72 qt dehumidifiers in the house. Well, i got it to work by august 30th of this past year and bam... cold sept no real heat wave... so it worked and my humidity was around 48 percent for the house which acutally keep the house cool without running the central Air on days more than 80 but never really had bad humidity after that. So, all i know is the first test i did was that I let the OWB run at 90-95 dg F for a week and my house was 75 degrees with 82 percent humidity... That's what spurred on my next set of tests that i reveled here. So, I hope the calculations help you guys. oh copper was better than cast iron you needed less that 2000 inches. But i was looking for a cheap test, so i went craigs list FREE way and used cast iron. So i would show a picture but thing is buried in my stream. it is 2ft tall and 9 loops stacked on top of one another x 2 radiators. So imagine 2 radiators against a wall that are connected by a small nipple then dropped "laying down" into a 3 foot hole in a stream. The water flows on average 3-4 GPM across the fins showing. Above the radiator it is 58 degrees (water temp) and 50 ft down stream the temp is 70. So it does work
So I dug a little pit in the brook, then I went and got rubber in a can spray (as seen on tv). Then used swimming pool paint. (that didn't work) So then i went with roofing tar from home depot. I put it everywhere then put the spray rubber on top of that to contain anything from messing with the water quality of my spring. So far It works.
Since I installed my pump close to my Forced air exchanger. I use that set up but I installed inside the house several just in case ball valves in case i wanted to add some extra hot water radiator baseboard heat in my basement. So, it cuts off the water from the stove and connects to my 3/4" pex which runs to my stream for the stove. I just placed some black 3/4"inch next to it, hooked it up with the extra valve that I had installed originally and there is a shut off valve in front of the extra valves.
OKAY got that... now here is the tricky part. IT FREAKIN WORKED. however, a small problem arose. It does not get rid of the humidity. Living outside philadelphia/wilmington, DE area it gets sticky here. so, i used my calculator to figure out with my size house that you need to run a 150 qt per 24 hour dehumidifier all the time. Since to buy one of those was about 3500 bucks i said no thanks. however i used 2-72 qt dehumidifiers in the house. Well, i got it to work by august 30th of this past year and bam... cold sept no real heat wave... so it worked and my humidity was around 48 percent for the house which acutally keep the house cool without running the central Air on days more than 80 but never really had bad humidity after that. So, all i know is the first test i did was that I let the OWB run at 90-95 dg F for a week and my house was 75 degrees with 82 percent humidity... That's what spurred on my next set of tests that i reveled here. So, I hope the calculations help you guys. oh copper was better than cast iron you needed less that 2000 inches. But i was looking for a cheap test, so i went craigs list FREE way and used cast iron. So i would show a picture but thing is buried in my stream. it is 2ft tall and 9 loops stacked on top of one another x 2 radiators. So imagine 2 radiators against a wall that are connected by a small nipple then dropped "laying down" into a 3 foot hole in a stream. The water flows on average 3-4 GPM across the fins showing. Above the radiator it is 58 degrees (water temp) and 50 ft down stream the temp is 70. So it does work
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