Re: Re: [TheForge] Wood Stove for Shop heat

[craig.schaefer at verizon.net]

Even pellet stoves aren't a good idea at this point in time out west.  There is a pellet shortage.
Never did understand the pellet stove idea.  Tying your heating needs to a wood-product burning stove that needed electricity to burn a manufactured wood just didn't seem like a good use of materials......   

CraigS
Gresham, OR

>From: Jerry Frost <frosty at customcpu.com>
>Date: 2007/01/25 Thu PM 01:49:24 CST
>To: Sponsored by ABANA <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
>Subject: Re: [TheForge]  Wood Stove for Shop heat

>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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