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[4570Man]

I always thought it would be nice to have a hopper fed stove and a machine to chunck up wood into bits small enough to feed the stove without going to a full on boiler fed system.

I would always want my house to have a heating system where when away, I can just flip a switch and set a thermostat.

My dream stove would burn wood chipper chips easily obtainable for free and no work that’s auger fed from a hopper. Free heat and little work seems like a win win.

 

[goeduck]

But you understand that what I paid thousands of dollars for and the ONLY one I have experience with "is the BEST".

You have a wood boiler? If so please share. :thumbsup:

 

[Industrial Toys]

Making my own wood chips just about did me in on the weekend. And now, quite sick. Maybe from breathing in some funky white dust from half rotten elms!

I wood think that the moisure content of wood chips would be all over the map.

 

[4570Man]

Making my own wood chips just about did me in on the weekend. And now, quite sick. Maybe from breathing in some funky white dust from half rotten elms!

I wood think that the moisure content of wood chips would be all over the map.

That approach is probably more work than cutting firewood. I was thinking more along the lines of getting tree guys or powerline easement guys to bring them. For drying them I’ve got a pretty good size concrete area. I figured they’d dry in a couple days spread thin in the summer sun and then they could be piled back up and stored.

 

[Jstpssng]

I always thought it would be nice to have a hopper fed stove and a machine to chunck up wood into bits small enough to feed the stove without going to a full on boiler fed system.

I would always want my house to have a heating system where when away, I can just flip a switch and set a thermostat.

OTOH m neighbor up the road designed and built his house to take advantage of solar heat, and will leave town for a week in February without running heat.

 

[Jstpssng]

My dream stove would burn wood chipper chips easily obtainable for free and no work that’s auger fed from a hopper. Free heat and little work seems like a win win.

It would make more sense to dry the wood, then chip it.
I've often wondered how a coal burning stove would work on chips. Or you could get one of these...

Wood Chip Boiler | Biomass Series | Crown Royal Stoves
At 950,000 BTUs though, it's more than you want for heating your home.

 

[4570Man]

It would make more sense to dry the wood, then chip it.
I've often wondered how a coal burning stove would work on chips. Or you could get one of these...

Wood Chip Boiler | Biomass Series | Crown Royal Stoves
At 950,000 BTUs though, it's more than you want for heating your home.

Dry wood is much harder to chip and the bigger un chipped wood takes a lot longer to dry. Plus that would involve doing it yourself which would take away the appeal to the whole project. Any chipper that wouldn’t cost more than my lifetime gas bill couldn’t chip anything close to the tonnage per hour that I could split on firewood. Plus dragging brush is a lot of work.

 

[Jstpssng]

Dry wood is much harder to chip and the bigger un chipped wood takes a lot longer to dry. Plus that would involve doing it yourself which would take away the appeal to the whole project. Any chipper that wouldn’t cost more than my lifetime gas bill couldn’t chip anything close to the tonnage per hour that I could split on firewood. Plus dragging brush is a lot of work.

I would be chipping tops off my land. Anything over 3" I can sell for pulpwood or better.
You will get a much more uniform dryness than trying to do chips afterwards. That's a moot point anyways, until somebody starts producing a homeowner sized gasification chip boiler.

 

[Industrial Toys]

It would be the thing to do if you were an Arborist coming home with a truckload of chips every day. I don't like relying on others for FREE stuff. You get it, until someone offers five bucks a load. I know that happened to the Free Deep Fryer Grease crowd!

 

[4570Man]

It would probably be a lot cheaper and more practical to supplement a firewood burner with waste oil. I could get at least 500 gallons of that for free. I’m gonna disagree with more uniform drying before chipping. The first problem is wood left in the woods never really drys. It starts rotting from day one. The part of the top held off the ground will dry more than the parts on the ground. And the big parts will dry slower than the smaller parts. After it’s chipped drying time could be reduced to only a couple days on a hot day in the sun and everything is uniform size.