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[Rockarosa]

One O'clock in the afternoon about 15 degrees out. The high winds are making it hard  to keep a hot fire today. Had to go to my oil  boiler for a little bit and let the OWB catch up. Just came in and fire is looking good for now. Does the wind  hinder your furnace temps?

[coolidge]

Doesn't seem to bother mine, but that might change tonight.

[intensedrive]

I go through a ton of wood when its cold and windy.  For the most part because of my drafty house,  I don't think the furnace blower ever turned off last night and it has been the same all day.   It can cause abnormal burn or bridge.  Weather like this I realize the boiler is too small the draw for heat never stops.. just can't keep the water hot enough and the boiler can't catch up. 

[Bud Man]

I go through a ton of wood when its cold and windy.  For the most part because of my drafty house,  I don't think the furnace blower ever turned off last night and it has been the same all day.   It can cause abnormal burn or bridge.  Weather like this I realize the boiler is too small the draw for heat never stops.. just can't keep the water hot enough and the boiler can't catch up.

DITTO

[fireboss]

I went with the next size bigger boiler then what my house called for,  mine has no problem keeping up on these  cold nights!  now that I have my water flowing in the rite directing lol!

[agriffinjd]

I don't go through a ton of wood, but it's obviously more wood than on the warmer days.  I have a well-insulated and air-tight house too which helps.  I think a drafty house is the biggest contributor to increased wood usage on windy days.

My stove has firebricks in the bottom 1/3 or so.  When it's colder I make sure to shovel ash our more often to keep those firebricks exposed and the forced air to be able to blow in better.  I get better burns and more heat retention that way meaning less wood consumed throughout the day.  If I get lazy or busy and don't shovel the ash out and it piles up past the firebricks, I burn more wood.  I usually shovel ash out on the weekends, but do it during the week once or twice too when it's sub-zero.

[Roger2561]

My E-Classic 1400 has been able to keep up, so far.  I'm not filling it to the top for a 12 hour burn, yet.  At 6:00pm this evening when I put wood in it, the wind was howling, the thermostats in the house are set at 68 with most zones calling for heat, I noticed the water temp in the OWB was rising.  When the temps get lower than 20 below zero coupled with the wind, that's when it struggles to keep up, but the house never gets chilled.  When the 1400 has run it's life cycle, (this is my 6th season heating my house and DHW with the 1400) I'll be looking for a larger unit.  I may stick with CB but I'll definitely be looking at other manufacturers to see what's out there.  Roger 

[fireboss]

When ever my boiler doesn't boil any more I am going to get whatever slim is demoing at the time  ! I wish I could justify getting the g 400 rite now but nothing wrong with my 6048 I haven't paid for wood yet and always have plenty of it so I can't see switching out!  but when I do I will have that magic  bus at my house and plenty of cold ones on hand

[BIG AL]

The wind is howling here right now , temp is around 15. The g-200 is plugging along nice and the house is warm. might burn a little extra wood tonight but I will be going to bed with a happy wife. Our oil boiler would run all night to keep the house warm on nights like this.

[mlappin]

Pretty brisk out here right now and windy, think its 3 or 4, not sure of the wind.

Came home to a warning light blinking on the G400, not sure what my father did or didn’t do but water was down to 106 degrees.

We left yesterday morning a bit before 8am, went to the Indianapolis Site Fair grounds for the farm show and I helped man the Heatmaster booth for the day, that new show trailer is slick btw. left there and went to the Union Jack for supper, crashed at the motel, up for breakfast, then back to the show for a few hours before taking the wife to St. Vincents Heart Center. Echocardiogram, then spoke with the adult congenital heart defect specialist for a bit. And yes, the longer the specialty name the higher the co-pay. Left Indy about a quarter after three, stopped at Cracker Barrel for supper, got into South Bend around 7:30pm and f*ckin walmart still didn’t have her new scrips ready after 4 1/2 hours, took another twenty minutes, finally got out of that hell hole to come home t a house being heated by gas

Not sure what he did or didn’t do, but I’m guessing he forgot to fill it last night or this morning, filled it and before it could take off again the low temperature warning kicked in. I’m really guessing he forgot to fill it last night then it never took off this AM as it should have taken longer for the water to cool down. Solar differential controller in the shop is set for 150, any lower and the pump from the waste oil burner to the FPHX should shut off and the aqua stat in the basement is set at 140.

Anyways, got it going again and in an hour went from 106 to 158 which is where it’s been for the last twenty minutes, house is calling for heat and the shop is pulling almost 35 degrees out of the water and its only up to 125 now, I’m tired, gonna stuff the 400 full for the first time ever and goto bed. Would be nice if I had a wifi setup of some kind so I can monitor it from the iPhone so I could call a certain old man and ask whats going on when I notice the water temp keeps dropping. Makes me wonder what we’ll do the next time we spend three weeks in England visiting the wife’s family.

[slimjim]

Thanks for the vote of confidence fireboss, I know the Sussex county area pretty well as I used to deliver hardware to the area for a distributor up here, started in Mahwah and last stop was the north side of Trenton, 15 stops per day once a week.

[Rockarosa]

8 degrees last night, got a 9 and half hour burn time and  water was still at 170 Degrees. I've seen guys put 3 sections of fence up around their furnace. I t  would hide the furnace and cut the wind down. Project for next summer. I have a Cozeburn 250 probably too small, but this is my 10th winter with it and very few problems.

[hondaracer2oo4]

Loaded up at last night at 6pm for a 12 hour burn. Loaded one course of firewood above the bottom lip of the door. Temp was 5 degrees with sustained 10-15 mph with gusts. House at 70 untill 8pm and then 65 degrees until 730 am. Loaded up at 545 am with -4 degree temps and wind still blowing at 10-15 with three pieces left and a good coal bed. Loaded up for the day 2/3 of capacity(about half way up the door opening) wife just loaded at 430 and said 2 unburned pieces left and tons  of coals on the bottom. Last year when we had these temps during te day and -15 at night and I got about 30 hours on a full capacity load.

[coolidge]

Chilly

[Mr. Maple]

  Head out to Furnace at 9:00 at night to make sure fire will carry through to the morning. Burning dry basswood right now,so not really a high btu wood. 2  wheelbarrow loads though still does a 12-14 hour burn,one will do 6, even with the wind