Stoves for burning branch loggings

[Rob_the_Sparky]

How small are we talking?  I use very small stuff to light my 5kW at home (e.g. 10mm diameter and 200mm long) that I collect from garden prunings.  Great for fire lighting but it burns very fast and occasionally I have used too much of it and the temperatures get rather high.  Once had to open the door to calm it down.  Not sure I'd want to try to run it regularly on this stuff due to this but not tried.  It would also be a pain to handle in any quantity, which is what I'm guessing you are getting at above.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

The available / suitable units (or rather the lack thereof) might give rise to a change of approach?  

 

What about a large external gasification & thermal store (maybe under floor heating if still in the build process or rads if UFH not suitable) combined with a couple of smaller internal wood burning stoves for atmosphere & some redundancy or zoning?  Fringe benefits of avoiding more arduous building regs, operating, cleaning & maintenance of a larger unit within the food service area.

 

Great to hear of people embracing these concepts and utilising that which is too often thought of as "waste." 

 

   

[david lawrence]

I tried an old coke hod as well as buckets

 

not a success for me as hod tapered towards the top

so mini logs unwilling to come out

[david lawrence]

Mini dogs enjoy minilogsmini logs

 

also bucket loading system

[buffalo606]

On 13/12/2018 at 07:12, Big J said:

 

Any suggestions much appreciated

Could your mate bag the minis up in small burnable net bags? easier to feed bags to a stove rather than hurling loose bucket loads at the open stove from the middle of the room

[Billhook]

On 14/12/2018 at 17:18, david lawrence said:

I tried an old coke hod as well as buckets

 

not a success for me as hod tapered towards the top

so mini logs unwilling to come out

We have a Clearview Vision 500   (about 6kw)in the office and an Aarrow Stratford boiler stove  (4.5kw room,24kw boiler) for the house and fill them with tubular shaped scuttles rather than the tapering coal scuttles which tend to bung.

It is quite easy to swing a load in from the side.

I have adapted a wheelie bin with a hinged flap at the bottom which makes the scuttle easy to fill.

[Luckyeleven]

Tato sacks and lob the whole lot in?

 

[Stere]

 Pimps & Faggots & Benders ?

 

 

So make some pimps....

[Stubby]

3 hours ago, Stere said:

 Pimps & Faggots & Benders ?

 

 

So make some pimps....

Me old mate Alan Waters . ?

[Big J]

Sorry for the lack of an earlier response - busy day!

 

We're going to store the branch loggings in vented 1 cube bags in a poly tunnel. They should dry well in that environment. 

 

Beyond that, I think a top loading stove is the way forward, but haven't seen the perfect one yet.