wood burners

[Squaredy]

8 hours ago, Muddy42 said:

 

Sounds amazing! Id love to have one of those. Maybe when I downsize houses.

 

I think this fear of slumbering, or cold water cooling the boiler, low stove efficiency etc is way too narrow a frame of reference.  Your experience shows you can burn the stove hot and clean. Plus you are saving on heating oil/gas/electric. 

 

It is good.  But don’t underestimate how much firewood it burns.  Probably getting on for a ton of properly dry firewood per month when it is cold.  So don’t even think about it unless you have the energy, space and time to process a whole lot of firewood.  If you have to buy it in you will save no money.

[Squaredy]

10 hours ago, Muddy42 said:

 

Sounds amazing! Id love to have one of those. Maybe when I downsize houses.

 

I think this fear of slumbering, or cold water cooling the boiler, low stove efficiency etc is way too narrow a frame of reference.  Your experience shows you can burn the stove hot and clean. Plus you are saving on heating oil/gas/electric. 

 

Here it is this evening.

[david lawrence]

It also Grills sausages judging by pic👍

[Squaredy]

14 minutes ago, david lawrence said:

It also Grills sausages judging by pic👍

It sure does.  I do love a hot dog.

[Muddy42]

14 hours ago, Squaredy said:

It is good.  But don’t underestimate how much firewood it burns.  Probably getting on for a ton of properly dry firewood per month when it is cold.  So don’t even think about it unless you have the energy, space and time to process a whole lot of firewood.  If you have to buy it in you will save no money.

 

Looks amazing.  I burn way more than that already. I mostly store in lengths and then have a few days with a log processor each summer.  

[openspaceman]

16 hours ago, Squaredy said:

It is good.  But don’t underestimate how much firewood it burns.  Probably getting on for a ton of properly dry firewood per month when it is cold.  So don’t even think about it unless you have the energy, space and time to process a whole lot of firewood.  If you have to buy it in you will save no money.

Yes it's amazing how much wood even this little house gets through and no  backboiler.  I expect I get through 30kg of dry wood on a cold day.

 

I would like a small version of this:

First AllGen Biomass Installations in Germany and Sweden - Microgen

WWW.MICROGEN-ENGINE.COM

to supplement my solar power in the winter.

[Muddy42]

1 hour ago, openspaceman said:

Yes it's amazing how much wood even this little house gets through and no  backboiler.  I expect I get through 30kg of dry wood on a cold day.

 

I would like a small version of this:

First AllGen Biomass Installations in Germany and Sweden - Microgen

WWW.MICROGEN-ENGINE.COM

to supplement my solar power in the winter.

 

Yes I've often wondered about CHP.  Are these things properly serviceable to an enthusiastic DIY-er?  One of things I like about simpler burners like ecoangus is you can take the whole thing apart - turbulators, fans, firebricks, pump etc.