Outdoor Wood Furnace Info
All-Purpose OWF Discussions => Fire Wood => Topic started by: Jwood on April 03, 2014, 01:45:06 PM
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I've burned plenty in an indoor wood stove no experience with it in an outdoor boiler, what are your thoughts?
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If it will burn inside, it will be better outside. Cause you don't have to haul it in.
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:thumbup: I like the way you think!
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Jwood, I am not positive but I am pretty sure that all the wood I cut and split last summer was sugar maple and it burnt very well this winter. I also did more this spring to complete a clean up of wind damaged trees from a July storm. They were large old trees and the three we split last summer gave us six cords. Not as good as oak but it was there and had to get cleaned up. That's when we made the decision to get the OWB, would have been a shame to let it go to waste.
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I was wondering because I just went out into the state land today where they logged and the public can go in after the logging companies until their permit is up then after that I can get a permit to get up to 10 cord of deadfall or already down trees, what I saw was almost sickening full birch trees left to rot, sugar maples just pushed over with a bulldozer I got a cord of wood out of a 50'x50' area and they logged at least 40 acres!
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Awesome! What state is that?
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Hard maple (sugar) is pretty good stuff. It's the soft maple that doesn't work very well. Michael less btu's and burns to ash with no coals.
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Minnesota
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I don't see much of the other maple trees around here just sugar maple, syrup making trees yum!
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Personally I would rather eat the Syrup, we call it syrple
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Personally I would rather eat the Syrup, we call it syrple
Thats a Maine accent ha!.. My x gf is from Kennebunk..You might see her brother at the Jackson store as he works there…But any ways.. At her family gatherings..The accents were unbelievable.. Never knew Maine had a accent until that
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It's against the law to burn Canadian Maple here in Canada
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Both woods burn fine for sure.. In fact I had a lot of black and paper birch this burning season..They burn up more quickly than oak..I would never turn those woods down!
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It's against the law to burn Canadian Maple here in Canada
Whys that?
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its on our flag
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Ya I wouldnt normally burn a perfectly good syrup producing tree but since they have them all bulldozed why waste them I guess! Now if we could stop getting snow maybe one day it will melt and I can get a utility locator out and see what's in my route for underground lines. Oh ya slimjim will Brian sell me logstor do you know? Or do they not deal with the piping?
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Of course, do you have his number and have you mentioned this forum and the long haired LIBERTARIAN.
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No I don't have his number actually, could I get that from you and will he recognize you as slimjim or......?
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You guys are a lot more fussy about what you burn than me and my brother in-law. We only have a couple of qualifications for what we burn they are as follows:
#1. It produce btu's of any quantity when it burns. (The more the better)
#2. It must fit through the door.
#3. It must be wood.
#4. It must be free!
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Haha good rules! I am grabbing the birch and maple simply because I have to take my truck way out in the woods down a muddy logging trail and I figure if I'm going to bring back a load of wood I might as well take all the hardwoods first before anyone else finds it ;D
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My grandfathers friend has had his heatmor for probably 10-15 years and he swears by beach. That would be all he would burn if he could get enough of it.
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Matty do you remember where I live, Iv'e probably taken money from him on the pool table above my shop
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Do you have Brians number slimjim or should I just call P&M's main number?
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Sorry Jwood, not ignoring you, yes use the 800-561-0700 number, if you use the local numbers it will cost you a small fortune.
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Haha sounds good slim.
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Beech is good, nice fine grain can be a bear to split by hand.
Sugar maple is good as well, some of the arborists around here call it rock maple.
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I just won the lotto so to speak, was talking to a local tree service company and told him I was going to install an outdoor boiler and he told me he will give me all the wood I want! He also burns wood but cuts trees daily and can't use close to all of it so now I guess I'm going to help him get it off his hands,now I know I will have to take the good wood and bad also but the bad can go to the bonfire guilt free while I drink beer!
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NICE!!!
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Things like that can brighten a guys day!
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as long as it is real wood and no additives...burn it...i have heated a whole winter of willow before. it takes more but if it is free all you are out is the time it takes to put it in the stove. i just put more in at each visit but normally i was still able to get by on 2 fillings a day
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as long as it is real wood and no additives...burn it...i have heated a whole winter of willow before. it takes more but if it is free all you are out is the time it takes to put it in the stove. i just put more in at each visit but normally i was still able to get by on 2 fillings a day
Its just like burning popular. Fill the stove a little more and get by with a 2 fillings a day..Never deny free wood!
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Oh I wouldnt dream of saying no to that deal like I said I prefer hardwood and will use that if I get it but I won't worry if I have to burn a little poplar either :thumbup: