post a pic of your wood burner in use...
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Notice my home-made coals sifter? When all the wood burns down to ashes, I sort out the coals and use them to start the next fire. Less waste, fewer trips with the ash bucket. That's about 15 years old, and doesn't look like it will ever wear out.
Toasty toes!
Most? of the wood burners here seem to be non-capacitive. Apologize if I use the wrong term, I'm not native English. In the TV they show also documentary from
Alaska and there also most of the fire places are sheetmetal or cast iron,
non-capacitive. With that I mean that you have to burn constantly wood to keep
the heat up. Or have I misunderstood?
We use capacitive burners, one of my burners is 80cm diameter (32") and 220cm
tall (almost 90") and the flue gas go first up and then turn around and come down
and finally exit below the grate. The burner is made at site with fire resitant and normal bricks and weight a lot. I burn birch and the whole thing gets hot and it
stays like that for about a day. It has been quite cold here, below -20C.
Juha
Finland
Alaska and there also most of the fire places are sheetmetal or cast iron,
non-capacitive. With that I mean that you have to burn constantly wood to keep
the heat up. Or have I misunderstood?
We use capacitive burners, one of my burners is 80cm diameter (32") and 220cm
tall (almost 90") and the flue gas go first up and then turn around and come down
and finally exit below the grate. The burner is made at site with fire resitant and normal bricks and weight a lot. I burn birch and the whole thing gets hot and it
stays like that for about a day. It has been quite cold here, below -20C.
Juha
Finland
Wow that is cool looking!
Yarz
ArboristSite Operative
That is an interesting term to describe that - but it makes sense to me.
Based on the ones I have seen/used, you are correct. The majority have to keep burning wood.
Does the extra flue length on yours make it difficult to clean?
It looks neat!
House: Old stove was Jotul 8, new stove is Pacific Energy Summit Classic(brown enamel)
. Shop is local made steel stove.
That’s a crazy looking thing! Looks like a big water heater with a window. Sounds like a cool design!
MikeRock
ArboristSite Member
I think 'Thermal Mass' is the term to look at. Lots of mass to heat and it takes a long time to give it up.
That is just amazing!
And look at how close all those flammables are.- Towels and wicker right up against it. The EPA would chit green!
Quadrafire
Every Brittney deserves a woodstove mine loves ours
SawmillMan
Just Cutting Up
doug hajer
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what breed is the dog?
Quadrafire
The outside surface don't get too hot to touch and it has 3 hatches in the bottom from where it can be cleaned. The flue channels don't need to be cleaned. This construction
is originally designed to heat up army barracks. Here is some photos how it look inside, I was the goofer who cut all the bricks according to Masons instructions. An 70y old guy who definitely knew what he was doing. He did also a stove in the house, it was a real pleasure to see how an old craftsman worked.
is originally designed to heat up army barracks. Here is some photos how it look inside, I was the goofer who cut all the bricks according to Masons instructions. An 70y old guy who definitely knew what he was doing. He did also a stove in the house, it was a real pleasure to see how an old craftsman worked.
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from your description of the flue gasses - principle of a rocket stove- batch heater, using thermal mass to store heat and slowly release same. a style of stove here in steel is called the liberator with similar flue path but lacks the amount of mass of yours.
Taken a few minutes ago. Jotul F600 CB showing the secondary combustion system in the top of the stove. Those are stainless steel tubes with holes that deliver pre heated air that travels through a convoluted passageway cast into the stove. I get about a pint of dry flakes per year when chimney cleaning. Going on 20 years with no repairs not even a door gasket replaced. 
Well I guess you have had a few fires in that baby,
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