Colder here. What's your temp? What ya burnin?

JCMC how often in these temps do you have to fill the OWB?I am thinking of getting one for our new house being built next year but then also kicking the idea of Ad on wood furnace in basement (saves going out to fill)
Btw am in Southwestern Ontario Canada approx 3 hours north of Buffalo and heating house at moment with poplar during the day and Maple at night. -2 tonite F and tomorrow night -7F

 

14F real feel 7F currently 72F inside with a few pine splits and a bunch of small maple branches keeping the stove going before the overnight reload.

I see a dip in the hot tub in my future.

 

Eastern Nebraska falling to -10 tonight with windchill of -25-30. burning ash all night.

 

I load my OWB once a day around 4 or 5pm unless it stays below zero for a few days then I usually throw a few extra splits in the morning. I find that dry wood burns much longer and heats better than unseasoned wood. I have a forced hot air wood furnace in the basement that never gets used anymore the OWB keeps all the mess outdoors. I burn between 8 and 10 full cords depending on the winter.

 

JCMC Many thanks I hear so many different things some say twice a day some say once like you till it gets extra cold I do like the idea of mess out doors for sure and ability of heating more than one building at the same time also.
I am torn between a Portage&Main unit and the Central Boiler units as both ..

 

Are both of those units gasifier units?

 

I know you said you dont care but cant you just buy a reolacement door with glass? Did they change the hinge layout?

 

It is 2 degrees out. Burning some Lodge Pole pine and some Elm.

 

-5 falling to -10 im at work so I have push button temp adjustment ;-) lol but wiffy has ours loaded up with ash and its 80 where she's chilling watching tv

 

Headed for -2 tonight with -20 wind chill. Full load of hedge and black locust. Stove set to nuclear.

 

Gasifier.. Neather of the units I am thinking of buying are as in Ontario we do not need those units,plus the cost difference is close to 5000.00 and the regular units are supposed to be better if one has to burn moist wood and that is direct from both companies.

 

Currently hanging in there at -28 C feels -36 C, or -18 F feels -32 F. Trying not to overdrive the stove and coal up too bad. Oil burner assistance, and I dread to know how much she's been sipping...

 

-3 now, going down to -5. It's cold out. I'm working the quadrafire on elm and beech.

 

They are more expensive. But the gassers are much more efficient. Burning moist wood is less efficient in any wood burning appliance. (Think firefighters put fire out with moisture.)
If you can figure out a way to get on a schedule so that your firewood has been cut, split, and stacked outside for at least six months (longer than that is better), you will be better off.

I’m not trying to knock the boilers. If that is what works for your budget than go for it. But if you can figure out a way to do a gasser, and with insulated water storage in your basement or other building now, you can use 40-50% less wood. If planning on burning wood for 20 years or more, that’s a lot of firewood/Work/time saved.

Just putting it out there for you to think about.

 

Just hit the big goose egg here, no wind though. -5F predicted, but I'm bettin colder. Oak & Ash burning in the furnace now. One reload before bed. Gonna be single digits & teens here for the next few weeks according to the guessers, so here we go. Let er rip.