The old big Johnson is almost a decade old. Won't be long till she burns out. Saving up for a new one. But was doing some reading on outdoor gasification units. Would I really see that big of a difference I hear people claiming using 2/3 what they used to some even having usage. Any experience here?
I don't have a OWB but the "gasification" technology makes a big difference in all the other forms of wood heaters so it should apply to OWB too...and from what I have read from actual users here and on others sites, it does. Adding hot water storage makes for a pretty slick system too...
It's closed. So is it worth the upgrade price in your opinion? Like I said I'll have to replace the owb anyways in near futur
Simple Smoke is fuel, you burn it with gasification units. Another big factor is you absolutely need to burn dry wood. I weighed one piece of green oak. It was 13" diameter and 17" long, it weighed 59 lbs. Dried it in my boiler room for 6 months and it weighed 34 lbs. So for every chunk like that getting tossed in has 3 gallons of water that needs to be cooked off.
Welcome aboard goosegunner Don't know if it applies to Blackop555 or not, but some burners around here with OWBs just don't get that part of burning wood! Now this would be easy to turn into an OWB bashing thread. I have one myself (the first I've had was back in 93) and wouldn't trade the advantages of it. Still, around these parts, every fall starting in Sep but primarily in Oct, you'll see lots of people scrambling to get their firewood! And there are a lot more indoor stoves around these parts than OWBs. The wood is just as wet for them!