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    Wood Chunkers

    Red Oak has capillaries that run the length of the tree. You can take an 6 foot length of red oak and make bubbles in a bucket, just like a straw....
    Post by: sgschwend, Feb 20, 2010 in forum: The Wood Shed
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    What my thermal storage did today...

    Jim, I assume you mean me. I am in a SIP home, that was a fun project to build (so I would say yes to super insulated, mainly no air pockets so very...
    Post by: sgschwend, Feb 20, 2010 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Wood Chunkers

    Take a look at www.chomper.com this is a firewood processor that shears the logs instead of cross cutting. I am building a wood processor for my...
    Post by: sgschwend, Feb 20, 2010 in forum: The Wood Shed
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    What my thermal storage did today...

    When I bed my boiler I look at my tank data and then load the amount of wood just to finish raising the storage. I like hitting it within 5 degrees....
    Post by: sgschwend, Feb 19, 2010 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    secondary burn questions on gasification boilers

    FYI I don't know what the practical flame temperature of wood is (I wish I did), it is quite a bit less than 2000F: Here is one reference:...
    Post by: sgschwend, Feb 19, 2010 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Exponential . . .you've got potential

    You have a good guess there. Folks who want to analyze this stuff will look at three heat transfer mechanisms and come up with some sort of model...
    Post by: sgschwend, Feb 17, 2010 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    OK need some of you South of 49 to clear this up

    Must be a typo, or the reference is to combustion efficiency, which has little value to any and all users. We want heat transfer efficiency, in a...
    Post by: sgschwend, Feb 17, 2010 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Heat Load

    A quick look and your numbers look correct. To use electric data, I would find what your average heating load doing so as accurately as possible,...
    Post by: sgschwend, Feb 16, 2010 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Storage will . . . and Storage will not . . .

    Jim I think you would need to know the peak combustion temperature or effective combustion temperature too, the flue temperature is one of the...
    Post by: sgschwend, Feb 16, 2010 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Storage will . . . and Storage will not . . .

    Yep, Jimbo you are correct, storage is not likely going to help him. As far as any reply to his message, I did not see anyone who encourage that...
    Post by: sgschwend, Feb 13, 2010 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Heat loss calc VS fuel usage history

    I tried your calculation and come up with slightly different numbers but basically the same: I used 138,700 Btu/gallon home heating oil time 8 hours...
    Post by: sgschwend, Feb 13, 2010 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Storage will . . . and Storage will not . . .

    Storage may be a wash or a loss unless your boiler's heat exchanger is improved by a different type of fire. To know this some system level...
    Post by: sgschwend, Feb 13, 2010 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Wood Chunkers

    I talked to my brother who runs a tree service. He tells me their might be two ways to make chunks with machines that are readily available. One...
    Post by: sgschwend, Feb 12, 2010 in forum: The Wood Shed
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    Updated GreenWood learning curve

    Deere10, you are referring to the usage map? My 2 cents is to look at you load side. Where are all those BTUs going? Not sure what wood you are...
    Post by: sgschwend, Feb 12, 2010 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    MAJOR PROBLEMS

    Ask them what statistics they are using to drive this decision? Then ask them to identify the failure mechanism that caused the loss (such as...
    Post by: sgschwend, Feb 10, 2010 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    wood drying kiln

    Solar would be better, go to Woodweb.com and search there. You will find a design to follow, and also references to university studies with...
    Post by: sgschwend, Feb 10, 2010 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    data logger

    As we say on the left coast, Van Nuys. OK for a little kibitz? What are you using for your hot water input line/defuser? The 1/4 almost looks...
    Post by: sgschwend, Feb 9, 2010 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Wood Chunkers

    Red Oak breaths white oak does not, I would think the white oak would season slowly (there are many kinds of oak). I only found very old and...
    Post by: sgschwend, Feb 7, 2010 in forum: The Wood Shed
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    Need Suggestions on a New Wood Furnace Installation

    I purchased a used Yukon dual fuel but never installed it. The fuel box was a little small for me, and it was a furnace and I decided a water boiler...
    Post by: sgschwend, Feb 6, 2010 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Anyone using one of the "Variable Setpoint" circulators?

    Sound good, are you going to up your difference now to see what it does?
    Post by: sgschwend, Feb 6, 2010 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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