[TheForge] Wood Stove for Shop heat

[Jim Beard]

Pellet stoves can burn a lot of different types of material though..
I've heard of people using things like walnut or filbert shells.  A
good option if you happen to live on or near an orchard I guess.  My
parents had a wood stove for a long time, then switched to a pellet
stove.  After about 4 years of the pellet stove they switched back to
the wood stove.  The pellet stove was too hot for the house!  Not only
that but it is such a pain to turn on and off, that you more or less
want to turn it on once for the season.  I remember in the winters
when we would have the sliding glass door in the living room cracked
open to let some of the heat out!

Jim
Eugene, OR

On 1/25/07, craig.schaefer at verizon.net <craig.schaefer at verizon.net> wrote:
> 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.
> >
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