I like winter, but I'm glad I'm in a zone where 17 below Fahrenheit isn't just "a little chilly."

Very informative video thanks a lot

I lived up in Quebec all my life and moved to the Maritimes about twelve years ago . When I was home I built a boiler system like this I had acquired some stainless steel I never finished it but still have it! it is about 80 % finished I have ben watching the rocket stove designs and thought how easily I could turn it into a rocket stove and use the water jacket as a riser for the tower in the stove! I guess you would have to see It to understand what I could do with it.

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@stevioAda

5 жыл бұрын

Why do you have a wood burner outside?

@acreageliving

4 жыл бұрын

@@stevioAda to heat our house and garage, one fire heats both, and its all controlled by a thermostat and even heat throughout the house. In the house, you would never know is heated by wood!

Great video we are on the market for a boiler this year we like the portage and main 👍🇦🇺

@acreageliving

4 жыл бұрын

It’s been a great boiler!

That's a good burn time. I've never really timed it but I suspect I get about 8 hours out of about 1/4 - perhaps 1/3 that amount of wood.

What type boiler u have and it’s rating and cost I’m still in research and pricing mode one more year before I install one and type of heaters u use thanks

Hi Guys, I have an Orlan super 40 which burns about 20 lbs. of dry wood/ hour.!! No doubt it was designed to do that. Specs. say 40kW heat output, I think it is a little less but could be proved wrong. I generally load about 80 lbs. of wood, a full firebox and it burns for 4 hours and is totally gone, white ash in the bottom. Looking at heat content of dry wood, 7000-8000 Btu's / Lb. the figures compute. So, if you need to calculate your burn time you need to know your heat demand and that you wood is dry. I have 2000 litres of heat storage to keep us warm while there is no fire. Also, I have found that running the water temperature at 180+ F results in a better burn than lower temps. I had a Cold KIller outdoor wood eater for several years , the firebox held a wheel barrow load of wood and burned up overnight!!! If I were to do it again I would buy a bigger model even though manufacturer calculations suggested Model 25 would be fine.

@acreageliving

4 жыл бұрын

wow Richard, you must go through a lot of wood! The new gassification outdoor boilers have really cut back on the wood usage!

Insulate those lines ASAP. Don't go cheap either unless you can do the work yourself. Lines have 5 3/4 inches of insulation around them. I can get days of burn time off the amount you put in your boiler not just hours. Besides your smoke stack, the water lines will be the biggest heat loss you will occur. My boiler is a wood master 3300.

if you filler up with large pcs of wood should burn longer

I'm lucky to get 6-8 hours burn time.. I have a Nature's Comfort NCB-175. I use a combo of dry and green and a variety of different types. I heat a 110 year old house that is about 2500 sq ft. I usually have my water temp set to about 170 and the house set around 74. Not sure why such short burn times, but I think I am going to call someone to check out my insulation. The insulation in my attic is almost new and still looks as if it was just laid out last month.

@acreageliving

6 жыл бұрын

djhubba I would make sure your firebox has no air leaks. Important your door seal is actually sealing and that your damper closes when the fan isn't running. Take a look at your thermostat on the boiler when the boiler has been up to temperature for a few hours. If it's well above your cut off, most likely leaking air! Of course air feeding your boiler will burn the wood faster. Do you split your wood?

@djhubba

6 жыл бұрын

Hello.. Yep there are no air leaks. I've had this wood boiler for 2 winters now and the seal on the door is still good and the damper closes as it should. The temp also matches almost perfectly with what I have set. The wood is split also. Not sure why it burns so much. The salesman that sold me the unit is sure I need better insulation in the house and I'm pretty sure he's correct.

@acreageliving

6 жыл бұрын

djhubba I don't split my wood, split wood burns faster, higher btus for a shorter amount of time. I burn full round logs, I think it makes a huge difference plus less work lol. 8-10" round usually. That's the only good thing about burning jack pine like I do, most good sized trees aren't so big that I am not forced to split them. I get more creosote, but I find it easy to clean. The fire still burns as hot as I want it too. The 10 minutes it takes to clean the boiler once a week, is worth it. Insufficient insulation will of course play a factor too. You have a furnace in the house? Is it mostly always running? Hopefully you can figure it out, that has got to be a lot of firewood to get through the winter!

@rawdawg2716

5 жыл бұрын

6-8 hrs might be about right for the size of your burner. I have a Tennessee Outdoors Hoss 600 burner and I'm up in Michigan heating a 2900sq ft home built in the 1880's. I get around 12hrs out of mine and at about 14hrs you have nothing left but couple red coals. That being said I have R60 insulation in my attic but I'm sure the walls are barely insulated and my basement is drafty. I also only have 1 cold air return in the home.

@jamesshanks2614

5 жыл бұрын

Do you know if the water lines from the owb to the house are insulated and if they are with what? While it would be expensive I would dig up your underground lines and if they aren't insulated replace them as they will cost you a lot of lost energy aka wood. Good friend of mine was using over 20 cords of wood to heat his house and garage last winter. We dug up his water lines in July and they weren't insulated at all just buried. Cost him over $9000 to replace them with the correct pex one inch lines with spray in foam insulation in a 4 inch back plastic line. Now he gets over 16 hours of burn time before having to refill the firebox. His outside boiler is a portage and main gasification model that was installed three years ago by the previous owner. Never said a word about no insulation on the underground lines. While the correct underground lines are expensive they are well worth it. So far he's used just over 3 cords of wood massive difference from last year. Remember you can pay now or pay later by doing it right the first time. His wife wasn't sure it was worth it when the bill was estimated at $8 to $10 k for the underground lines which are only buried 24 inches down from the surface. Now she agrees it was worth every penny. Cheers!

What is the best insulated lines to get probably 100 ft away from barn and about the same or a little shorter to house

@acreageliving

6 жыл бұрын

Robert Kozlowski logstor, rhea(don’t quote me on this spelling) or thermopex is all good. It’s the lines that are spray foamed. Do not buy the stuff that is wrapped in foam wrap. You will be digging it up as soon as ground water enters the casing. I use logstor, it’s expensive but I will only have to install it once and get virtually no heat loss only buried 2 feet at most. Thermopex is probably the easiest of the three to work with, but logstor outter casing is a bit stronger

@acreageliving

6 жыл бұрын

Robert Kozlowski I am 90 feet from my garage, cost me $1000 for the line. Doing the house this summer. House is only 60 feet so be a bit cheaper. But it makes all the difference in the world!

That is a good boiler most wouldn't come close to that burn time

@acreageliving

7 жыл бұрын

Yes i love this boiler. It replaced a Wood Doctor. Its for sale if anyone wants it lol.

@johnp6541

7 жыл бұрын

hi, actually just bought a wood doctor 8000 , can you tell me whats the difference between the two boilers , and what performance to expect from it , any bad , good about wood doctor,thanks

@acreageliving

7 жыл бұрын

A.L.L. Firewood did you buy it used?

@johnp6541

7 жыл бұрын

yes , its a 2007 model ,paid 1400,prety good shape not much rust on it , working to install it , wondering what to espect , any advice would help not much experience with owb ,propaine to expensive need to do something to cut bills

@acreageliving

7 жыл бұрын

A.L.L. Firewood my advice would be to buy the good underground piping to connect from the boiler to your house. I bought the pipe that has two one inch pex lines, surrounded by spray foam and enclosed in a 4-5 inch black tubing. I forget the brand name off the top of my head but it has made a huge difference in how much wood I burn and even heating. The main problem I had with the wood doctor is it rusted out on the inside channels that run across in the burn chamber on the top. Was probably over 50 pin holes in it. Also make sure the outside roof is well sealed. Mine wasn't and where water could drip on the boiler, rusted holes right through. My wood doctor was already installed at the house when I bought the place so I couldn't save it, was too late. Burned a lot of wood, leaked a lot of water. Other than that it functioned well haha. It will burn anything though, I never ever split my wood, just used whole logs about 33 inches long, 6-12 inches in diameter. The people who lived here never even had insulated lines, just buried them in the ground as is. So when I upgraded my boiler I replaced my lines to the garage, doing the house now. I am sure the wood doctor would be fine if it has no rust and properly insulated lines. I really hate how the inside of the boiler is designed though. Hard to clean top burn chamber clean of creosote with all those channels, and those channel end up leaking like a sive all the way across. Right on the welds. My new boiler inside the burn chamber is all brick and cement lined on the bottom and the top in the chamber is round and smooth, so easy to clean.

I would build a frame around the water tank and fill it with a giant block of sprayfoam insulation....

@dynocompe

6 жыл бұрын

you dont want spray foam around a metal water tank, it will trap the moisture and make it rust out

@brikkijim

4 жыл бұрын

@@dynocompe fiberglass or Rockwool is the way to go. Good pick up on moisture. Airflow keeps everything dry.

How many cords of wood do you go through in one winter?

@acreageliving

4 жыл бұрын

around 11 cords, but remember where i live, its very cold to most!

also if you use hardwood it gives off more heat than what you get from jack pine. You must be in the west!

@acreageliving

7 жыл бұрын

yes i wish i could burn hardwoods. My main options are pine,spruce or poplar. Right by my acreage is mostly pine, so thats what i get. its a lot less limbing then spruce, lol and a big spruce that isnt in someones front yard is hard to find around here lol

You are pushing the burn time to the max.

@acreageliving

4 жыл бұрын

Oh gawd no, I have now replaced the line to the house with logstor and use half the wood!

Sorry but I do not want to go outside at -50 in a blizzard to put wood into a stove I could very well have in my house! 😊

@acreageliving

6 жыл бұрын

if you live where it gets -50, you are not going to be scared to go outside in a little cold, and when you get $1000 a month heating bills in those temps you will be begging for a wood boiler!

@lindanwfirefighter4973

6 жыл бұрын

Acreage Living why so hostile? No I don’t like going outside when it’s cold. No I don’t like boilers. To each their own. I didn’t belittle you for your living style. Perhaps your having a bad day.

@acreageliving

6 жыл бұрын

sorry was not trying to come across as hostile! I live where we get -40 temps for a month, and the majority of people heat using electric furnaces, their bills are $1500 during those times, $1000 a month during normal winter months. To save a thousand dollars a month I will gladly go outside once in the morning and once before bed :) I am usually outside most of the day anyways. We have no natural gas up here, and I live in the bush. I save $6000 a year easily.

@acreageliving

6 жыл бұрын

wood stove in your house requires wood in your house, smoke damage to the walls, and m one boiler fire heats my shop and house, and will be heating my garage. Wood in your house brings in critters and insects. I dont see anywhere that I was belittling you, sorry you got offended

@lindanwfirefighter4973

6 жыл бұрын

Acreage Living it’s ok. Sorry if my original comment seemed a slight. Indeed we do get smoke in the house . Necessitating washing the walls every so many years. We are off grid so only wood heat for us but your right. My neighbours that rely on electric heat pays $1600 a month for a tiny house so I couldn’t imagine heating that way.

I HAD WOOD STOVES IN THE HOUSE FOR YEARS. INSURANCE COMPANIES WILL NOT INSURE HOMES WITH INDOOR WOODSTOVES AND THE FEW THAT DO RATE YOU FOR THEM. I WAS FORCED TO OUTDOOR BOILER

@acreageliving

5 жыл бұрын

bear9923 I have the opposite experience, easy to insure home with stove inside the house, harder to get insurance with an outdoor boiler! Go figure!

holy hell I'm sticking with my soapstone wood stove. thats a massive fire box and a massive amount of wood to burn. i get 12 hr burn times with not even a quarter of that wood.

@acreageliving

5 жыл бұрын

Dan Smith what type of wood you burn? Makes a big difference and remember this one fire heats my large garage, hot water for the house and radiant floor heating in the house. It is more wood of course, but the mess is outside, the one fire heats Everything

@durock0011

5 жыл бұрын

Mostly maple some birch. Occasionally some locust.

@durock0011

5 жыл бұрын

My stove heats my 1800 sq ft home easily. It’s rated up to 2500sq ft. I did look into getting a wood boiler but the dealer who sold them made a stronger case for the wood stove I had in storage. He made it very clear that they are a lot less efficient and I’m looking at 40-50% more wood for the same amount of heat. I do understand the mess but I just keep up on it with a shop vac. Not a big deal to me. Just amazed on how much wood you must go through.

@acreageliving

5 жыл бұрын

Dan Smith this is pine it’s a softwood, your wood species alone will burn hotter and longer than my pine. So you’re already ahead. This year I fixed my set up, got proper lines to the house and proper heating exchangers, I expect to use half the amount of wood I am using! I will make a new video this winter! And keep in mind this video was shot on a very very cold night in Northern Canada. This scenario shown is with the stove getting a full workout all night

@acreageliving

5 жыл бұрын

Dan Smith about 8 cords - 10 cords I will go through for wood! We will see I am excited to find out. I had a 70 degree diff in water temp before the new set up, the difference is going to be massive

Why do you call it a wood boiler? It's not a boiler unless you boil the water in it.

@acreageliving

3 жыл бұрын

reliancehomecomfort.com/boiler-vs-furnace/

If you want, you can always learn how to make it yourself from woodprix woodworking plans.