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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: exhaust hood ,to remove smoke while feeding stove
« on: August 13, 2014, 06:31:04 PM »danit @%^$#.... I'm fishing in the wrong pond ...no bites yet .....
http://www.hearth.com/talk/forums/the-boiler-room-wood-boilers-and-furnaces.13/
Try this forum , the set up you are looking for are common over there !
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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Heating Domestic Water Doubles Wood Usage?
« on: August 08, 2014, 06:22:24 AM »You need 8.3 BTU for every degree you raise the water temperature. You should be able to heat about 150 gallons of water from 60 to 120 degrees while dropping the storage tank temp 7 degrees.
Ran a small experiment this morning.
Our heat storage tank holds 1,260 us gallons the hot water tap was run at a flow rate of 1.3 us gallons per hour for 1 hour and in that hour the storage temperature of the tank dropped from 168 degrees to 161 degrees,roughly a consumption of 80 BTU'S per hour for 80 gallons of hot water or 1,000 BTU,S for one gallon of hot water!
Actual heat rise of the water was 45 to 161/168 degrees so using your numbers 80 gallons was a good result!
In our system 1 LBS of wood gives roughly 6 gallons of hot water or 166lbs for 1,000 gallons.
The wheel barrow load in the picture is roughly 166lbs.
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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Heating Domestic Water Doubles Wood Usage?
« on: August 01, 2014, 12:34:23 PM »
Ran a small experiment this morning.
Our heat storage tank holds 1,260 us gallons the hot water tap was run at a flow rate of 1.3 us gallons per hour for 1 hour and in that hour the storage temperature of the tank dropped from 168 degrees to 161 degrees,roughly a consumption of 80,000 BTU'S per hour for 80 gallons of hot water or 1,000 BTU,S for one gallon of hot water!
Our heat storage tank holds 1,260 us gallons the hot water tap was run at a flow rate of 1.3 us gallons per hour for 1 hour and in that hour the storage temperature of the tank dropped from 168 degrees to 161 degrees,roughly a consumption of 80,000 BTU'S per hour for 80 gallons of hot water or 1,000 BTU,S for one gallon of hot water!
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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Heating Domestic Water Doubles Wood Usage?
« on: July 31, 2014, 05:49:02 PM »Doubling of your wood consumption for the added DHW could be possible especially for a clean family of 7 . For most of the last 30 years our yearly wood consumption has been 4 1/2 cords per year. In the late 80's we took in a destitute family of 10 bringing the total of people living in the house to 17 for 4 months one winter.For that amount of people living in the house I insisted on daily baths and clean cloths for everyone every day ,with the dishwasher running almost continuously . That year our wood consumption was 7 1/2 cords.
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Fire Wood / Re: Name that wood
« on: July 30, 2014, 08:50:31 PM »Thanks for posting the videos!..That really neat how you have a winch on that..That splitter homemade?
There were 24 made near Trail, BC. That's just North of Spokane Wash., but they were built over 30 years ago.
It was expensive around $ 4,000 in 1984 dollars but time has proven that it was a good buy!
Allan
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Fire Wood / Re: Name that wood
« on: July 27, 2014, 09:47:40 PM »
A few videos.
http://youtu.be/ih8vfQg8Myk Wood splitter yarder
http://youtu.be/ezoeM6hcKlA Wood splitter and Log dog Part 1
http://youtu.be/k3o9_JHOvKA Wood splitter and Log dog Part 2
http://youtu.be/ecAVcmBEhm0 Wood splitter and Log dog Part 3
http://youtu.be/SH6dRzGUTzI Wood splitter and Log dog Part 4
http://youtu.be/ih8vfQg8Myk Wood splitter yarder
http://youtu.be/ezoeM6hcKlA Wood splitter and Log dog Part 1
http://youtu.be/k3o9_JHOvKA Wood splitter and Log dog Part 2
http://youtu.be/ecAVcmBEhm0 Wood splitter and Log dog Part 3
http://youtu.be/SH6dRzGUTzI Wood splitter and Log dog Part 4
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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: California going up in smoke?
« on: July 27, 2014, 04:33:58 PM »I would guess 95% of folks will try and get around the regulations, so that puts me in the other 5%.
Clean burning technology has been around since the early 80s but for most, it would appear to be very expensive.
I heat 3400 sq ft and DHW years round on 4 1/2 cords of Douglas fir. Four years ago, we had new neighbour move in across the street. Anyway, last spring when he saw us putting wood into the woodshed, he came over and asked "what did we do with the wood, did we sell it?" and I said no. He thought that was kind of strange because he'd never seen smoke come out of our chimney. The ultimate compliment!
We heat with a 30+ year old Jetstream and 1260 gallons of unpressurized storage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jetstream_furnace
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Fire Wood / Re: Name that wood
« on: July 25, 2014, 05:53:46 PM »
http://www.nuts-about-pecans.com/pecan-leaf.html
This web site says Pecan.
On Northern Vancouver Island, Hemlock is one of our main sources for firewood. The bark has a more open grain than the bark in your picture.
This web site says Pecan.
On Northern Vancouver Island, Hemlock is one of our main sources for firewood. The bark has a more open grain than the bark in your picture.
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Fire Wood / Re: Tragedy
« on: July 25, 2014, 06:26:48 AM »
[ "A tree-clearing accident has killed the director of a southwestern Indiana Christian youth camp.
The Daviess County Sheriff's Department says 60-year-old David Ira-Mitchel Bean died Monday at Camp Illiana, about 50 miles northeast of Evansville.
It says Bean and another camp staffer had cut a large, dead tree at its base and were attempting to pull it down when a rope connecting the tree and a front-end loader snapped, causing the tree to sway and a large limb to fall and strike Bean in the head."]Quote
The above description of the accident and from many aspects, it was avoidable and PPE may have made a big difference!
In the West Coast Logging Industry Dead Standing Trees have acquired the nickname and rightly so, of Widow Maker!
In the small logging towns where I spent my working years, the death of a co- worker was felt by every one and I'm very sure is just as hurtful and grievous to those associated with this Church Group.
Country Boy John - thank you for bring this accident to our attention. The wise will take heed!
The Daviess County Sheriff's Department says 60-year-old David Ira-Mitchel Bean died Monday at Camp Illiana, about 50 miles northeast of Evansville.
It says Bean and another camp staffer had cut a large, dead tree at its base and were attempting to pull it down when a rope connecting the tree and a front-end loader snapped, causing the tree to sway and a large limb to fall and strike Bean in the head."]Quote
The above description of the accident and from many aspects, it was avoidable and PPE may have made a big difference!
In the West Coast Logging Industry Dead Standing Trees have acquired the nickname and rightly so, of Widow Maker!
In the small logging towns where I spent my working years, the death of a co- worker was felt by every one and I'm very sure is just as hurtful and grievous to those associated with this Church Group.
Country Boy John - thank you for bring this accident to our attention. The wise will take heed!
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Equipment / Re: That was scary!!!!
« on: July 24, 2014, 08:42:15 PM »So over the Xmas week had several rounds of relatives thru the house and staying over, and had one VERY nervouse aunt who said that she smelled gas or LP out side. Well after everyone left and I had time to recover from a hangover or two I had to get to the bottum of this problem.
Called out the gas man to check for leaks, DING DING DING, we had a winner - no not a line or fitting leaking; the control valve for the LP back up generator had frozen (temps in MN the last 2 weeks averaged -10) and was leaking. So I had to break out the heat gun (electric, not gas) and thaw out the valve and cook out all the moisture.
Now I know this doesn't sound all that scary, OK gas leaks are danagerous not going to lie; I forget to mention OWB is less than 15' from generatorTHANK GOD I DIDN'T BLOW UP on one of the hundred times I have run out to fill the OWB in the last month.
If the LP control valve you're talking about is the regulator, this can be a common problem.
I live on the West Coast of Canada, Northern Vancouver Island. Our winters are a very damp climate with temperatures that just hover around freezing. There is a simple solution to the freezing problem; put a bucket or some similar covering over the regulator. This will prevent the regulator from freezing!
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Fire Wood / Re: Tragedy
« on: July 23, 2014, 09:46:24 AM »
Very troubled to hear of this type of loss!
Spent my working life in the Woods (Canadian West Coast) and now retired. Started using a chainsaw at the age of 12 cutting firewood on the farm, but under the direction of my stepbrother - an experienced West Coast Faller. As personal protection gear has become available, I have made use of it and Good quality fallers pants are a must!
A little understood concept is that a short bar is More dangerous than the longer bar. In a kick back, the short bar can strike you in the face or worse yet the neck; the longer bar in the legs.
Spent my working life in the Woods (Canadian West Coast) and now retired. Started using a chainsaw at the age of 12 cutting firewood on the farm, but under the direction of my stepbrother - an experienced West Coast Faller. As personal protection gear has become available, I have made use of it and Good quality fallers pants are a must!
A little understood concept is that a short bar is More dangerous than the longer bar. In a kick back, the short bar can strike you in the face or worse yet the neck; the longer bar in the legs.
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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / New to site
« on: July 15, 2014, 10:08:22 PM »
Not an OWf owner but have heated with hot water for nearly 40 years, (pre-gasification) the last 30 with a Jetstream with 1,000 gallons of storage. I live on Northern Vancouver island, which gives you a long shoulder type heating season with very little serious winter type heating weather.
The success that I have had has others interested but for insurance reasons, these people are looking to the OWB but I really do not have much understanding as to what would make Optimizer 250 function successfully in this environment.
Allan
The success that I have had has others interested but for insurance reasons, these people are looking to the OWB but I really do not have much understanding as to what would make Optimizer 250 function successfully in this environment.
Allan
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