burn wood chips ?

[bythamboy]

does anybody use wood chip , after fermenting , for domestic use , if so which boiler / burner would you recommend ?

[cornish wood burner]

Your biggest problem with wood chip will be the feed system. Small boilers normally run on pellets which are more expensive but easier to feed. What size boiler do you need?

[MATTMOSS]

Does anyone burn wood chips on a wood burning stove?

I've got access to some w30 g30 chip and thinking I might give it a try to see if a shovel full will keep the fire smouldering over night on a low burn?

Or whether it would just smother the fire out?

[Will Heal]

I think a sprinkling would work but any more you'll put fire out

[briquette_seller]

Does anyone burn wood chips on a wood burning stove?

I've got access to some w30 g30 chip and thinking I might give it a try to see if a shovel full will keep the fire smouldering over night on a low burn?

Or whether it would just smother the fire out?

 

Not really recommend.

You get a build of of gases and when they ignite cause an explosion, usually blowing your stove doors off.

[MATTMOSS]

Not really recommend.

You get a build of of gases and when they ignite cause an explosion, usually blowing your stove doors off.

 

Oh right! Maybe I'll give that a miss.

[cornish wood burner]

Not really recommend.

You get a build of of gases and when they ignite cause an explosion, usually blowing your stove doors off.

A large wood chip boiler slumbers by feeding a small amount of chip every 1/2 hour or so. No fans running but a big boiler and small amount of chip. Normally a small amount of smoke is seen from the flue when in slumber mode so some natural draught is occurring. I suspect some air flow would be needed otherwise you could have a situation described by the briquette seller. Always having a flame to burn off the gases is safest.

[Gary Prentice]

Not really recommend.

You get a build of of gases and when they ignite cause an explosion, usually blowing your stove doors off.

 

Oh right! Maybe I'll give that a miss.

 

No, give it a go. You shouldn't believe everything you read on the internet!

[briquette_seller]

No, give it a go. You shouldn't believe everything you read on the internet!

 

Seeing is believing right enough.

Maybe sit to one side of the stove, just incase.......

[cornish wood burner]

No, give it a go. You shouldn't believe everything you read on the internet!

 

If you have no draught and no flame the wood gases will be driven off by the heat then if a flame appears you will get an explosion using whatever oxygen is left in the boiler/stove/flue. The wood boiler at the Eden project blew its stack off amongst other things and was offline for a considerable time.

In the early days an inexperienced operator relit our boiler and fed too much chip in, smothered the flame and when a flame appeared that lit the gases there was a damaging explosion.

This is fact so be careful.

 

Do not totally starve the fire of air and maintain a flame is the safe way.