<<And a quick FYI, wood ignites at 356 degrees Fahrenheit.>> actually, wood will ignite as low as 300 degrees and as high as almost 600 degrees depending on the moisture content and amount of decay present. Ask any fireman engineer. Storing wood within the safe distance to combustibles is tempting fate. Despite any logical fallacy justifications you choose to justify an action. Rotating the stock will likely keep the dryest wood from ever becoming a problem but despite your protestations and admonitions it is not inherently safe. What's most NOT SAFE in your setup is NOT the safe distance to the stove compromise but the safe distance to your stove pipe. Double wall or not. That's gonna glow pretty red in a runaway fire in the stove while you are asleep. Or if the double wall on the pipe pop off., or even just part way off. SHould that ever happen. I'm not a gambler. I like your setup though. Although I'd like to see more of those bricks getting warmed up even more by the stove .
My most beautiful heat-pumping wood burner is in the northwest corner of my 20 x 20 vaulted ceilinged back room---all of 950 sq. ft. to heat so as long as I stoke him he puts out--sometimes it's just too hot---ps. stargazer you are the only one so far that has a serious amount of wood ready to go---I'm the same with stack A and stack B---who wants to go outside all the time--I wait till the storm has passed and restock then....having trouble locating picture so I 'll poke and hope....
Ahh, I knew one of the Safety Police couldn't help themselves! Well, before I give out a cookie, I will say this. While the numbers which were rounded off given by you are accurate (wood can ignite between 300 and 580 degrees), I don't see anywhere where I may have mentioned the temperature of the heat shields even being above 200 degrees. And, BTW, the wall behind the stove gets to a whopping maximum of 110 degrees (rounded off to the next higher number of course) Now, I do have the double wall WELDED stove pipe, and the only way it would ever be able to come lose from it's position is if it were in a total melt down. And since the pipe is welded, it's not going to pop off. If I need to service that pipe, I have to move the stove out several inches to be able to separate the pipes. And finally, I can't have a runaway fire simply because I don't load my stove to the gills. Plus, once the heating season is under way, the damper is only open a maximum of one eight of an inch which is cruise mode. And no, I don't fiddle with it during the initial firing. I use the door to allow however much air to get the fire going. The better the flame, the more I close the door. Once the stove top temperature reaches between 450 and 500 degrees, the door is closed. While the temperature may continue to rise (sometimes but not always) it has never went over 625 degrees before it settles back down. If your into letting your stove overfire, I would definitely say you are not burning responsibly and will likely burn your house down. So without further ado, here's your long awaited cookie.
Those two stacks in the racks yield 1/3rd of a cord. Then add the full cord on the porch, 2 racks, one 10 feet long and the other 14 feet long stacked 4 feet in height. Then another 3 cord along side the deck which also functions as a wind break. Another 2 cord outside the wood shed, a cord in the garage, and about 7 cord stacked in the wood shed just to start the season. The majority of it split by hand with about half the Norway Spruce that needed to be noodled. No hydraulics for me! I only burn a cord and a half to a maximum of two cord per season. BTW, good luck in your endeavors, but as always proceed with caution.
Afraid all my fires are just for my pleasure. A 5 kw log burner in the living room . Just to sit and stare at while having a jd or Stella . I made a log burner from a old compressor to fit in the sauna I built in the shed I wanted real steam not heat from light bulbs.fruity cider goes down well in hear And a 24 inch stainless steel fire pit for the garden . Ace for cooking toast on while having a But any alcohol works well when friends are round All guilty pleasures but I can have a fire 365 days a year hail rain sleet snow or sun and iv a excuse to light a fire
I have a Kozy Heat 231 in the basement of my ranch walk out house. It is right across from an open stairway so lots of heat gets upstairs. When I'm home and able to reload it will heat the whole house, 3800 sqft. In the morning and when I'm at work the furnaces will kick in a little until I can reload and get the fire hot again.
50' away from the edge of the attached garage which is 50' long. load it up in the fall and more than enough for the heating season. Stuffed over 18 cord in there this year and used about 10 last year. No dirt, smoke or bugs crawling out of wood and everything stays dry, including me. That's 13 foot high to the peak by the way. Only thing I'd change would be a bigger building but then again, what building is EVER big enough?
My stove is located in our family room that used to be a 2.5 car garage. We have about 2300 sq ft on a slab with "above average" insulation and windows, and the IS does a great job keeping things comfortable. We set a box fan from another room blowing the air into the family room (seems counterintuitive I know), and the heat is distributed in a "loop", as the family room has 2 entry points.
I use either a cart or a conveyor table and stack it the 8 foot I can reach After that I just use the wood to make ramps or a sloped walkway to get the taller stuff. Labor intensive but beats watching video games. I just wanted to get wood cleared out of barns or standing dead that was on a dead line as it would save double handling. Sometimes you do what you gotta do.
Correct answer is hell NO! what do I win? Last 10 years whenever I build something I double it still to small! 3.5 car garage with bonus room above 30 by 40 barn with hay storage above (no animals or hay in it) 2250 square foot house all packed full! if ya build it.. they will fill it!
I have 1 stove out were it does the most good right now. It is a Woodland model 24 that was built in the late 70's when the energy crunch was really going on. I worked for Sampson mfg. and built these stoves for a time back then. They were really good stoves back then and were part of the "air tight" craze. This little stove heated a big drafty farm house for many a year and after that I used it to heat a 30x40 green house. Now it is just yard art out by the ditch on my gravel road since I aint gonna give it away. Now, Black Sabbath on the other hand (Oslo 500), lives in the basement of our 24x48 single story house out in the flat lands of Iowa. I dont get to concerned about moving air around since the heat seems to just radiate to the first floor just fine and we actually get to hot some times even when the temps drop to below zero for days at a time like they often do round these parts. Iffn we do get cold we just sleep a little closer to the crack you might say. Now, once spring hits and we are out in our 7000 square feet of vegetable gardens to try to be as self sufficient as we can be, well, I still need my pyromaniac fix so,
If you don't want to hear from the critics, why did you poke them so hard? I like your setup but I am no expert on criticizing wood burning.
We have a 20 kw Boru (Irish made) boiler stove installed in the original hearth. We're in a three bedroom farmhouse that's about 150 years old and not the best insulated so we loose a good bit. The stove does the job down to to the low single digits (celsius). The oil boiler (behind this gable wall) is still plumbed in so we can switch that on from as needed. It's used little enough that we only add a 20 liter jug of kerosene a couple of times over the winter. We burn 95% sitka spruce because it's what we have the most of with a bit of sycamore and ash when it comes to hand. Although we're at 51°N, it's not terribly cold, it's been 10°C for the last 24 hours, for instance. At worst, we have a few sub-freezing days each winter.
Thanks VT. That's the original fireplace and was completely rendered over when we took over the place. There was just a small insert with a back boiler. I have to credit my wife for the repointing of the stonework. I put in the small rise when we put this stove in.
FWIW, our stove is in the living room, east wall. It heats our 1500 sq. ft. ranch just fine. Right after install, before we put any furniture back.
