Re: My heat system

Posted by jdemaris on October 21, 2010 at 06:20:36 from (67.142.130.15):

In Reply to: Re: Not me . . . yet posted by LOU from Wi. on October 20, 2010 at 18:25:42:

Lou, I've never been able to keep track of how much we burn. I never stack my wood neatly and therefore can't measure. Our main wood burner is a huge Myers Woodchuck furnace. I built an insulated room around it and have it attached to our house. I can stack approx. three full cords of wood around it. If wet and green, it starts to "kiln-dry" in there before we have to use it. My best guess is we burn around 10-12 full cords of wood (4X4X8) - which comes to about 30-36 "face cords."

The big Myers Woodchuck furnace (forced hot air) is hooked to an 80 gallon water storage tank and has heat-coils. Water travels by thermo-siphon like an old farm tractor. So it makes all our hot water once it's fired up. It is also hooked to a Canadian chimney instead of the USA version, because the best Canadian chimneys are more burnout-proof. Hot air ducks go underground to get to the rest of the house. I used flexible insulated duct run through plastic culvert pipe.

We also have a smaller woodstove that heats by convection. We use it during modertate temps when it's not really cold enough for the big furnace.

Also have a wood cook stove and Rumford "heating" fireplace that my wife likes to use, now and then.

Also have oil backup and I have four tanks (1100 gallons) on hand.

Also have a 500 gallon propane tank and propane heat as yet another backup. House and shop have the non-electric, non-hard-vented heaters made by Procom. 28K BTU each. They are amazing units.
We bought our own new tank, and the idea was - the propane guy would always gives us the lowest bulk rate if he could fill whenever he was in the area. Now, I'm not so sure he's really giving us a good rate. He comes and fills once or twice a year. We use propane for our hot water when the wood fire isn't going.

Here's our 1820 farm house when I first stuck a big addition on it, but had did not add the wood furnace room yet. You can see where snow is a problem when it builds up.

Here's after I build the new wood furnace room with the Canadian chimney.

Summer . .

Winter . . .

Myers Farm Equipment Woodchuck furnace, Hot air piped underground. Heats all our hot water also.

80 gallon hot-water storage tank, hooked in series with a propane tank-heater. Water runs by good-old thermosiphon.

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• Re: My heat system LOU from Wi. 17:00:45 10/21/10 (0)

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