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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Wood usage

« on: June 16, 2008, 02:00:10 PM »

When we bought out house we were told that we would use 500gal of oil a year. With the OWB we use about 10-12cord.

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: What temp do you run your boiler at?

« on: June 16, 2008, 01:57:27 PM »

I run 165 on off at 175. Any hotter and I use more wood.

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Site Suggestions / Re: Manufacturer List

« on: April 18, 2008, 12:39:55 AM »

There are so many it would be a big fourm if everyone had a sub-fourm.  I say just have the "big" names in there own fourm.

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: How to determine how many BTU I need

« on: April 18, 2008, 12:25:08 AM »

It's hard to say. The BTU of a unit does not have anything to do with how large a house/shop it could heat. My CB 4436 is rated at 250K BTU but it could not heat a 5K sqft house. Well it might but woould need wood added every four hours. How many sqfeet are you wanting to heat? What units are you looking at?

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Fire Wood / Re: The Best Wood

« on: March 28, 2008, 06:34:34 AM »

Free and/or cheap wood seem to burn the best. So that is what I burn. 

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Fire Wood / Re: keeping it in the round

« on: March 28, 2008, 06:32:47 AM »

If the wood is larger than 10inches I will split it once. I think it helps it to dry quicker.

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Fire Wood / Re: outside wood boilers--How much wood so far ?

« on: March 28, 2008, 06:31:06 AM »

I seem to go through about 10 cord a year and I am about there now. I also burn pallets so its hard to get a good number when burning them, so 10 cord is a good guess. 

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Central Boiler / Re: very happy so far

« on: March 28, 2008, 06:23:38 AM »

Well I hope you get it installed soon or youwill need to wait till next year.