Are You Kiddin' Me?--New --The Outdoor Furnace

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Feeling the Heat
Mar 18, 2008
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Upstate N.Y.--45 min. to the Canadian border, eh!
What's wrong with that furnace? Can't you just 'see' the quality ? :bug:

Just looking at the pictures- I would leave it outside too, that way- it will be easier for the fire department to extingush, and the scrap collector won't have to get it out of the basement. But running it could be a problem with the blower buired in the snow. :mad:

Buyer Beware.
 
Wildsourdough said:
What's wrong with that furnace? Can't you just 'see' the quality ? :bug:

Just looking at the pictures- I would leave it outside too, that way- it will be easier for the fire department to extingush, and the scrap collector won't have to get it out of the basement. But running it could be a problem with the blower buired in the snow. :mad:

Buyer Beware.
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maybe your supposed to run it outside of the snow season? duh!
 
some place I saw a pic of a schoolbus being used as a home with a wood add on furnace piped into it with flexable duct into a window. there was dogs chained around it I guess to keep unauthorised people from filling it. I was worried about the thing getting holes in it as there was yellow snow all along the sides. But then again as a kid all we had was a kerosene heater in the living room and had snow coming thru the windows upstairs and every one crowd around it in the morning turning back and forth to warm up both sides. Boy I'm liking my eko-80 more and more thinking of that.
leaddog
 
Wow. I thought our Empyre 650 looked hokey (it looks like an ice fishing hut with a door that's too small). At least it (the Empyre) looks like an outbuilding... that wood boiler in the link looks... well it looks like I built it. Hungover. No, that's not a good thing. ;)
 
MADE OFF said:
Here we go again slamming a product we know nothing about!
Since when did woodburning become a fashion statement ??? Ohhhhhh,,,,,, I forgot, most here are right coasters. Sorry ! %-P
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Whatever coast we're on, or not, an outdoor forced hot air wood furnace has to be one of the least innovative and least promising ideas I've ever heard of

I formerly had a forced hot air wood furnace in the cellar- it was OK, and wonderfully well made, though not real efficient on translating wood into heat.

I can only begin to imagine how much more inefficient it'd be if the ductwork had to go through the great outdoors between the firebox and the house!
 
Hmm. Don't see any EPA or other code compliance mentioned. The Specs page has no specifications. Woah! $4000 for a glorified barrel stove? That's twice what any other wood furnace would cost. Forgive me for being snobby, Lee, but I'll hold out for an EKO, thank you very much.......

Chris
 
MADE OFF said:
Here we go again slamming a product we know nothing about!
Since when did woodburning become a fashion statement ??? Ohhhhhh,,,,,, I forgot, most here are right coasters. Sorry ! %-P
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Righhhhht. It's not at all obvious that this product will be a great unit for heating greenhouses in Arizona in the summertime... Maybe it will work on my house in Burnaby (Vancouver BC) since it's definitely a left coast device <grin>...
 
hehehe Guess I got everyones panties wadded up in a bunch!!!
I wasn't talking about EPA approval,efficiency,price,heat transfer efficiency,etc. I was refering to visual appeal.
Not everyone has fat coin,baseboard or radiant floor, a basement to place a furnace, or the desire to have Better Homes and Gardens do a front page story about their home and heat source.
pybyer- I have 16' of outside insulated duct running through 15" poly sluice. Yes it does work. Is it 100% efficient? Probably not but there is 10" of snow on it as I type.
Here is a similar unit with a ton of testimonials.
http://www.outsidewoodheater.com/index.html
Most of these units are out back and out of site as I'm sure this one will be placed in the same manner.
I really could care less what someone elses heat source looks like or if it's EPA approved and am thankful for all the non EPA units still in service today saving fossil fuels and making my trip to the pump a little less painfull.

Ohhh... and I do have to ask since we are talking about designer heating units,,,,,,,,, are those wadded up panties Hanes or Victoria Secret ?????????? :p
 
MADE OFF said:
hehehe Guess I got everyones panties wadded up in a bunch!!!
I wasn't talking about EPA approval,efficiency,price,heat transfer efficiency,etc. I was refering to visual appeal.
Not everyone has fat coin,baseboard or radiant floor, a basement to place a furnace, or the desire to have Better Homes and Gardens do a front page story about their home and heat source.
pybyer- I have 16' of outside insulated duct running through 15" poly sluice. Yes it does work. Is it 100% efficient? Probably not but there is 10" of snow on it as I type.
Here is a similar unit with a ton of testimonials.
http://www.outsidewoodheater.com/index.html
Most of these units are out back and out of site as I'm sure this one will be placed in the same manner.
I really could care less what someone elses heat source looks like or if it's EPA approved and am thankful for all the non EPA units still in service today saving fossil fuels and makig my trip to the pump a little less painfull.

Ohhh... and I do have to ask since we are talking about designer heating units,,,,,,,,, are those wadded up panties Hanes or Victoria Secret ?????????? :p
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I don't think there's anything wrong with older type units- and my old locally made warm air wood unit would win no beauty contest except from people who think massive iron firebox & ashpit doors and unpainted galvanized plenums are cool) ( I really liked the thing, from the standpoint that it was absolute no-nonsense) It now belongs to a neighbor of mine who works at home in the winter, and has unlimited wood, and the unit will probably outlive me, because it is built like a locomotive. But it only made heat if I was home to feed it wood, or willing to feed it in the middle of the night.

So-- if people are looking at spending thousands of dollars, which is what we are talking here for _any_ of these units, and unless you are at home to stoke frequently, and also unless you have unlimited free wood and unlimited time to process it, then why not try to spend your beaucoup bucks of purchasing a new unit on some kind of unit that will give you a lot more heat, and much more even heat, with less wood?
 
Blah Ho Vick said:
hehehe Guess I got everyones panties wadded up in a bunch!!!
I wasn't talking about EPA approval,efficiency,price,heat transfer efficiency,etc. I was refering to visual appeal.
Not everyone has fat coin,baseboard or radiant floor, a basement to place a furnace, or the desire to have Better Homes and Gardens do a front page story about their home and heat source.
pybyer- I have 16' of outside insulated duct running through 15" poly sluice. Yes it does work. Is it 100% efficient? Probably not but there is 10" of snow on it as I type.
Here is a similar unit with a ton of testimonials.
http://www.outsidewoodheater.com/index.html
Most of these units are out back and out of site as I'm sure this one will be placed in the same manner.
I really could care less what someone elses heat source looks like or if it's EPA approved and am thankful for all the non EPA units still in service today saving fossil fuels and making my trip to the pump a little less painfull.

Ohhh... and I do have to ask since we are talking about designer heating units,,,,,,,,, are those wadded up panties Hanes or Victoria Secret ?????????? :p
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theres snow in guantomano bay?
 
One big problem (at least in ME) an outdoor furnace must be 25' min from the house. Even underground and insulated heat duct is gonna be a big pain in the wood bill and an installation nightmare.
 
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