I've done quiet a bit of research on boilers this past year. I was looking at outside types and inside types.
The thing with most conventional outside boilers is that they're terribly inefficient, to the point where if you were buying wood there would be little to no gain over oil. They love to claim that you can run green wood in them, which you can, but here's the thing, you waste a TON of your heat drying out that green firewood before it will burn. Burning dry firewood means faster, hotter combustion. They also smoke like a bugger, to the point that at least here in Maine, they're trying to regulate them. This comes down to efficiency again. The way they're designed is they have pipes that run right through the firebox to warm the water. This does heat the water quickly but it also keeps the temp in the firebox down which again hurts the combustion and causes smoke. Think of smoke as lost energy.
Anyway, after talking to a lot of dealers you hear that most that don't Central Boiler brand boilers dislike them. Yes, they're usually the least expensive but as one guy put it they're the ones that gave every other outside boiler manufacture a bad name.
If you want to do it right look for one of the newer clean burning boiler, something with gasification or one of the other technologies. Then you will want to look into some heat storage device. Pretty much a big insulated tank. This way you take advantage of storing the heat that's built up when the fire is burning hot, not wasting it and having to cycle the boiler constantly.
It's not cheap but in the long run it's probably the best way you can go. IF you are cutting your own wood then you can make it pay for it's self after a while.
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