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[MattyNH]

My boiler is surrounded by trees, woods...Never a problem..Go for it!

[kc]

I got it formed up today and I will end up about 10' - 15' from the edge of the woods.   I trimmed back a bunch of the small stuff and there are a couple of other mid-sized trees I will probably trim too.   Tomorrow is pad day.   Back of the truck is loaded with concrete.   Still need to dig out a pex hole and gravel fill but I should be mixing and pouring by late morning.   One small step but it feels good to actually start work on something given so much thought.

Thanks again for the feedback!!!

kc

[Bull]

Congrats kc, you will love it

[willieG]

mixing concrete....stove is not hooked up but allready it is keeping you warm    

[kc]

Got her poured today so the first big step is done.    Now to figure out my pex and HEs and get the stove on the pad.   I am hopeful to get it fired up before old man winter get serious.   Doing much of this myself is pretty satisfying and it's great to get advice on a site like this.   I sure appreciate it...

kc

[moparevers]

I'm in the market, and leaning toward the Earth 365 too... so please let us know what stove you put on your new pad!

[kc]

I am torn between the 365 and 505.   Pretty much the same but the 505 has another foot of firebox and 80 gallons more in the water jacket.   I think the 365 would work but the extra capacity of the 505 may be nice too as I am considering up to 6 different heating applications...

[dwneast77]

I'm of the mind to buy heavy and use light vs buy light and use heavy.  The 365 may be sufficient for you.  I don't know the extent of your potential heat load but 75k extra BTU's and a little extra water can only be a good thing.  And a bigger firebox should extend burn time a little. 

[walkerdogman85]

I heat 1600 square feet and could have bought the h-2 but I bought the h-4 instead with this cooler weather I am easily getting 24 hours plus burn

[sw18x]

Crazy to hear you guys say your furnaces don't throw sparks... Just tonight I took the dog out for a leak and stood on the back porch admiring the stack on my Mahoning, cherry red and snorting flames like a dragon. Seriously, my unit isn't fancy but it puts out some heat. This is my second full season running it, and there are times it still scares me. With a full load of wood and recovering from the low end of a cycle, the stack gets so hot you can almost see through it. I used to stand out there watching to make sure the sparks didn't ignite anything, but now I find it easier to just turn a blind eye and walk away.

No woods nearby, by the way, just a pasture and barnyard...unless you include my wood, and the metal polebarn 8 feet away...

[dwneast77]

Wow sw18x!!   Kind of sounds like a lot of wasted heat.  I've seen that on occasion with my CB 2300 gasser, but only when I had the bypass damper open to top it off with wood and there was a roaring blaze going in there and the flames are going right up through the bypass damper.  But when I close the door and bypass damper it stops imediately.  Most gasser models are set up with the hottest flame occurring at the bottom of the stove and and heat exchangers to extract the heat while  the exhaust makes it's way up and out the chimney.  Commom stack temps range from 250 to 400 on average.  Portage and Main pushes the fact that you can put your hand inside the final exhaust point or over the stack without getting burned as they have the most elaborate heat exchanger system that I've seen never allowing the exhaust temp to be over around 300 degrees.

Don't get me wrong.  Sounds like it would be impressive to see your stove.  At least you know when you have a hot fire going.  If only you could harness the heat that is getting wasted.  Burning that hot, I bet you don't see very much smoke  out of if as I imagine it's burning the gases coming out of the wood.