[TheForge] Wood Stove for Shop heat

[Jerry Frost]

From: "Rick Korinek" <rickkorinek at verizon.net>


> Jerry,
> I'm in an area where there are a lot of outside wood 
> burners.  Most are
> constantly spewing out a think, acrid smoke that 
> seems a long way from clean
> or efficient.  I assume that this is due to 2 
> factors--first the combustion
> chamber is surrounded by the water jacket, keeping 
> the combustion temp down
> and second, the stove is dampered down for much of 
> the time.
>
> If you know of cleaner burning outdoor boilers, 
> please provide some
> manufacture's names as I would like to consider 
> heating my shop with an
> outdoor unit, but want to be a good neighbor. 
> Thanks,
>
> Rick Korinek
> Island City Forge
> Minocqua, WI
>


I don't have any personal knowledge, I just ran into a 
lot of sites when researching a new wood stove last 
spring.

Wood heat isn't a good option if there's any 
concentration of people, pellet stoves being a possible 
exception. There are a lot of factors involved in wood 
burners and it's hard to get all of them right all the 
time so there's always going to be some smoke, 
sometimes lots. There's also the increase in house 
fires which external wood burners eliminate. The last 
is probably the ONLY significant advantage they pose.

While looking yesterday I did see a couple stoker type 
corn stoves, they might be an option for midwesterners.

Frosty
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