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Homeowner Forum / Rural Living / October 2008Speaking of heating with wood
Who has outdoor wood furnaces and what kind ? We're in the market for one. Randy On Oct 2, 1:00 pm, rjmac...@yahoo.com wrote: > Who has outdoor wood furnaces and what kind ? > We're in the market for one. > > Randy Be sure to check the zoning laws in your location. More and more places are banning OWBs. Harry K > Be sure to check the zoning laws in your location. More and more > places are banning OWBs. > > Harry K Thanks. No zoning issues here. No zoning laws at all. Randy >> Be sure to check the zoning laws in your location. More and more >> places are banning OWBs. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Randy Still would be a good idea to consider distance from nearest neighbor, prevailing wind, etc. We've had some folks in our vicinity engaging in legal action which can be costly even when you "win". The owner of the outdoor woodburner is a bit of a character -- uses it to provide domestic hot water year 'round and burns more than wood in it. Also allows it to smolder. And did I mention that it's in a little hollow so the smoke just naturally drifts up to the neighbor who is a little way up the hill? They've been at each others throats for at least 6 years that I know of -- I fully expect it to end in the criminal courts.  SignatureYou know what an El Cid Princess is, right? drive a big SUV way too fast, don't care about running over animals, tail gate you and blow the horn if you don't get out of the way. They are more important than the rest of us and cannot be bothered with life's inconveniences. Good idea. Nearest neighbor is about 1/4 mile away. Not worried about him being bothered by the smoke as he's on his way to prison for an extended stay. And we're looking forward to that. Next closest neighbor is about a mile away. Randy > Still would be a good idea to consider distance from nearest > neighbor, prevailing wind, etc. We've had some folks in our [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > the way. They are more important than the rest of us and > cannot be bothered with life's inconveniences. In article <d945d61d-e211-49e2-bf4b- 722aefd0373c@d45g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>, rjmacres@yahoo.com (rjmacres@yahoo.com) says... > Good idea. Nearest neighbor is about 1/4 mile away. Not worried > about him being bothered by the smoke as he's on his way to prison > for an extended stay. And we're looking forward to that. > Next closest neighbor is about a mile away. From what I have read, it is hard to get a good burn with a cheap outdoor water heater. They use a water jacket around the firebox rather than a heat exchanger in the stack, so the wood doesn't burn hot enough, and blows a lot of fuel out the chimney. Complaints about them have been too much smoke and too much wood. SignatureFor email, replace firstnamelastinitial with my first name and last initial. > In article <d945d61d-e211-49e2-bf4b- > 722aefd0373c@d45g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>, rjmacres@yahoo.com [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > and blows a lot of fuel out the chimney. Complaints about them have > been too much smoke and too much wood. Yesterday afternoon I was walking down an alley in a smallish village nearby and caught a whif of something that smelled like when I accidentally got a model airplane too close to a flame. Looked over and sure enough it was an outdoor wood burning furnace. SignatureOptimism, cheerfulness, an embrace of magical thinking and the avoidance of the painful truth is the formula for victory at the polls. On Fri, 03 Oct 2008 03:42:13 -0700, rjmacres wrote: >> Be sure to check the zoning laws in your location. More and more >> places are banning OWBs. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Randy No general zoning laws here (yet) either. But several municipalities have ordinances restricting the outdoor furnaces. There aren't that many locally, but there is one I go by about every 10 days. It's in a river valley and it can produce a very impressive ground-hugging smog layer. So, I think a lot depends on your location. >Who has outdoor wood furnaces and what kind ? >We're in the market for one. > >Randy I cant tell you what kind to buy or not to buy, but I'll mention this. I know a guy who bought a used one. It did not leak water, no holes in the burner, or anything like that. Yet, that thing ate wood faster than any other stove I have ever known. He was heating a doublewide trailer house. He was going thru almost a full pickup truck of wood every day. Maybe that stove was just extremely inefficient, or the heat exchanger was poor, and I know his trailer was not the best insulated. Yet, that's just an outrageous amount of wood. This makes me question whether all those outdoor stoves are inefficient. Is there too much heat loss in the exchanger? I should mention he had that furnace right next to the house, and even built a shed over it. Halfway thru the winter he started to pipe the heat from the shed thru a large pipe into a window on the house using a furnace blower. His house was warm, if not hot (80deg), but that was just too much wood. Heck, when I heated a small house (about the size of a double wide trailer), I could heat for 2 weeks on a pickup load, using a small indoor wood-furnace with a blower. |
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