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Equipment / Re: dump trailer
« on: December 01, 2013, 06:36:53 PM »
Here is my Titan after this afternoon's wood cutting excursion. First time out this fall, and I ran out of gas (me, not the saw) before I got it totally full. Was in the 50's here today, too hot to cut wood but next weekend the bottom is suppose to fall out around here, lows in the single digits but I am set up now. Great trailer!
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Home Made / Re: Homemade "Tank-in-Tank" OWB-Ozarks Hillbilly Edition
« on: December 01, 2013, 08:19:52 AM »
No "show me" for that Missouri fellow. Looks great.
I can't believe what is thrown away on construction sites these days.
I can't believe what is thrown away on construction sites these days.
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Equipment / Re: Fire/ash rake
« on: November 30, 2013, 10:24:58 PM »
If you want to make one, I took the head off one of the wood handled ones and replaced it with a 6-foot piece of 3/4" rigid steel electric conduit. I smashed the end on the rake head in a bench vice, then took a large pin punch and crimped the end of the conduit over the rake head. have been using it over a year and it is still not come lose. No welding on this version, but I have welded a steel handle on a rake head too w/good results.
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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: designing my system... education and experiences are welcomed and appreciated
« on: November 30, 2013, 09:16:53 PM »
My run from my OWB to my house furnace heat exchanger is about 225' one way, or 450' round trip for the boiler water. I am using 1" Pex-AL-Pex and decided on it because it has a larger nominal ID than standard 1" pex. I am on my 2nd year of heating and use a Grundfos UPS26-99FC pump running on medium speed most of the heating season and runs 24/7 when the stove is lit. I have not had any problem with heating my house, main floor is 1800 sq ft, full unfinished basement and a 2nd story of about 900 sq ft. I made my own pipe, 5-wrap inside a 4-inch corrugated tile line. I bought the pex mail order from a company in NewYork at I think $0.92/ft (2 ea 300-foot rolls and 1 ea 100-roll). I have a 30 plate heat exchanger in the house loop for hot water and a 2nd loop from the OWB that heats my external shop (24' x 60'). somewhere I have a line diagram of my design, but can't put my fingers on it right now for some reason? I changed computers, so it might still be on the old one!
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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: mixing valve?
« on: November 30, 2013, 08:53:51 PM »
Most all shower valves mix a volume of hot and cold water at your shower and does not monitor temps. If your OWB increased in temp, you could see a raise in temp without changing the lever or knobs on your faucet. I don't see how it could raise that fast, but really don't want to chance a scald so I installed the mixing valve. Attached is a picture of the octopus I built. The silver braided lines are what was added for the OWB and the copper are what was on the original hot water heater.
I have an electric demand heater (summer use) and a 30 plate exchanger hooked to the OWB for winter use. I added an OWB bypass this fall and use a mixing valve on the OWB. Last year I ran the OWB heated water thru the electric with it on, it is designed to be a supplemental heater too and would only come on when the water entering it was too cold. This year I turned the breakers off to the electric one and its basically just serves as a pipe in the winter.
My electric heater's control board adjusts the temp in the summer, so I don't run hot water from it thru the mixing valve. My mixing valve is a Honeywell and they make two grades and one is for applications for uses such a showers where humans are at the end of the pipe. That grade of mixing valve is more expensive, I presume for tighter quality control (and to pay the liability lawyers!). The one I installed it the more expensive model. With kids, the peace of mind of potentially not scalding them was worth the $100 bucks it cost.
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I have an electric demand heater (summer use) and a 30 plate exchanger hooked to the OWB for winter use. I added an OWB bypass this fall and use a mixing valve on the OWB. Last year I ran the OWB heated water thru the electric with it on, it is designed to be a supplemental heater too and would only come on when the water entering it was too cold. This year I turned the breakers off to the electric one and its basically just serves as a pipe in the winter.
My electric heater's control board adjusts the temp in the summer, so I don't run hot water from it thru the mixing valve. My mixing valve is a Honeywell and they make two grades and one is for applications for uses such a showers where humans are at the end of the pipe. That grade of mixing valve is more expensive, I presume for tighter quality control (and to pay the liability lawyers!). The one I installed it the more expensive model. With kids, the peace of mind of potentially not scalding them was worth the $100 bucks it cost.
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Shaver Furnace / Re: Sagging Shaver Door
« on: November 30, 2013, 08:02:13 PM »
My attempt at attaching a couple of photos of the door.
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Equipment / Re: dump trailer
« on: November 29, 2013, 07:16:53 AM »
I live about 30 miles down the road from both the Travalong and Titan Trailer manufacturing plants. Both make great trailers. I have a Titan 14-footer, mainly because of the man that developed that company, a true gentleman cowboy and go-getter and a life long friend of our family. He passed away last year and the world lost a great man when Dave left us.
The Titan trailer has a scissor lift and never any problem dumping a trailer load of wood and I cut a lot of heavy Osage Orange, hedge, bodart, or what ever other name it has. I did have had a loader operator put WAY too much sand on it once and it did not dump it, but was over the rating on the trailer too. Its a heavy trailer, 4200# empty but a great wood wagon and you should have a 3/4 ton or bigger truck if you are going to fill it full. A word of warning, it will flat wear you out if you try and fill it with firewood, but it is easy to unload!
Titan makes a 10-footer that I have seen and that looks slick and more along the line of a 1/2 ton truck companion but don't have any experience with it. The sides are much lower to the ground too which makes getting the firewood from the ground to the trailer much easier.
The Titan trailer has a scissor lift and never any problem dumping a trailer load of wood and I cut a lot of heavy Osage Orange, hedge, bodart, or what ever other name it has. I did have had a loader operator put WAY too much sand on it once and it did not dump it, but was over the rating on the trailer too. Its a heavy trailer, 4200# empty but a great wood wagon and you should have a 3/4 ton or bigger truck if you are going to fill it full. A word of warning, it will flat wear you out if you try and fill it with firewood, but it is easy to unload!
Titan makes a 10-footer that I have seen and that looks slick and more along the line of a 1/2 ton truck companion but don't have any experience with it. The sides are much lower to the ground too which makes getting the firewood from the ground to the trailer much easier.
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Shaver Furnace / Sagging Shaver Door
« on: November 29, 2013, 06:38:29 AM »
My shaver door hinges were only two 5/16 bolts. I think my main reason for the door gasket coming apart was the north/south movement of the door when opening it at least a couple of times a day. I found a solution, I took a single piece of solid steel rod longer than the distance between the hinges, drilled out the holes 1/32 larger than the rod in the stove hinges and slid the rod thru both hinges. Really made the door function much better. I can post a picture if anyone needs to see the fix.
I am new to the forum and am starting my 2nd season heating with this Shaver but have been reading on it for over a year now. I see all of the negative posts about Shaver but so far so good for me.
I learned a bunch of tips last year from this site with my install. thanks!
I am new to the forum and am starting my 2nd season heating with this Shaver but have been reading on it for over a year now. I see all of the negative posts about Shaver but so far so good for me.
I learned a bunch of tips last year from this site with my install. thanks!
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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Thanksgiving
« on: November 29, 2013, 06:25:17 AM »
Good food, family, and friends yesterday. Now its time to fire up the saw and work some of those turkey day calories off! 