I have 5500 SQ. FT. House with oil fired Energy Kinetics System 2000 running hot water through hydronic Baseray heaters in every room in the house. I heat it for $900 - 1,000 a year. My house is as warm as toast all through winter. I have 3 fireplaces that have never been used since the place was built 30 years ago. No complaints with this system at all.
What state though? Average winter temperatures make a difference. Here that many SQ. FT with an efficient system and efficient house I would expect to burn 3500 gallons on the lower side if you are keeping it at 73 degrees. Very impressive. But if you are in the South it's not as impressive.
@@GießenGusto It's 28 degrees here in PA right now. We've had as low as 9 this year. expecting single digits again in the coming week. Snow Sunday and Monday. Next question?
Great video! I heard your channel mentioned while watching another channel. Came over to check it out, and I have enjoyed watching several of your videos. Keep up the good work!
@@offthetrailsoutdoors Joe, over at Ohio Wood Burner, mentioned your channel. He gave a shout out to you, for covering the International Firewood Expo. Nice job on that too! You got a new subscriber, looking forward to checking out more videos. 👍
I have 2400sqft home super insulated with radiant barrier, 4 inches of closed cell foam on exterior walls. For the interior walls i have 6 inch rockwool bats and ceilings I have 10 inches of open cell spray foam. Its currently 19 degrees here F with wind chills near single digits. My home is heated using an old pot belly wood stove to a toasty 68 degrees. During the summer the house is cooled with EG4 Solar Mini Split systems. They can run all day for free using solar and use very little 110v power at night.
@Mainelyoffgrid it's not that hard and even if you don't have your own wood depending on where you are at I think you could buy a triaxle load of wood and heat all year much cheaper than oil or gas and I won't even mention electric
I wish you had gone into detail on the heat exchanger, the circulating water dosing, how the furnace regulates the burn to the desired water temperature etc. What facility do you have for being away from the property (in winter)? Supplementary boiler in the house? Also - is it 'renewable' unless you are growing the remaining trees and planting new at the rate you are consuming?
My dream to heat with wood. You would benefit hugely from thermal storage in your basement. A large well insulated hot water storage tank would almost guarantee that you could heat the house with a single hot continuous burn a day.
Heated with an outdoor boiler here in Mi for 4 years. Do the math and include your time as the most valuable commodity and heating with wood is more expensive than propane. Not to forget chainsaw, chains, gas, two stroke oil, bar oil, log splitter cost, gas for log splitter. I love living off the land but economically it just didn’t make sense for us anymore.
What about the resale value of the wood and the cost of the land and taxes on the land. These are all expenses associated with heating with wood that are not free.
At that temperature and a relatively same size house I think my Central Boiler 6048 is just about as efficient with a lot less work I burn 1 full wheel barrow in temps like that
I'm off grid (solar only) and have been considering a wood furnace (boiler). During much of the heating season with very dominate cloudy weather, I must depended on charging my batteries with a generator. Currently I heat with only with a wood stove. I'd like to know the power (wattage) consumed for blowers and pumps to support this system. Is it possible that you know this and could detail? Thank you
Just so you know! This makes sense for homesteaders, hobby farms or any “ from home working people” I don’t know the term?! If you work in any type of professional capacity outside your home, this really doesn’t work out well. There is a lot of time investment year round , initial cost is very high, you must have access to or own equipment to be able to harvest, transport and process firewood. If you like to stack stones down at the river you may enjoy this, you will be stacking firewood year round every day.
I have a 2300 sq ft house. I have geothermal to heat and cool my house. I do have a fireplace that I use when it gets really cold. I am all electric and it probably costs me around $600-700 in the winter to heat my home.
Wow, cool setup. It seems like insurance companies are pretty anal about how and where these outdoor furnaces are installed. Can't believe you have it under a roof?
We have the same size home, checking my annual LP bill 💵, I spend $1,500 per year give or take $200. So if you're purchasing $1,000.00 of track wood 🪵 once a year, how does it make economic sense to cut the other wood you need, drag it to your wood yard, cut it, split it, stack it, then tend your wood burner 2-3 times per day, and maintain it? No problem with what you're doing, it's good exercise and nothing wrong with that. I'm wondering what happens should you need to be elsewhere for a few days, or you hurt your back, who tends the burner , then what? No problem with what you're doing, but let's be honest, it is NOT free to you. There's a cost to your time and efforts.
21 oct 2024 - A hot water tank is one example of thermal energy storage, where energy is stored as heat rather than electricity. Although it might not seem ...
I burn inside in an air tight. I have been wanting one of these but its a massive investment. The boiler, the lines, install, forced air unit/central air unit of some sort inside the home. Then the amount of wood you burn almost doubles. I'm too cheap, think I will continue bringing dirty firewood into the house.
That electric bill seems pretty high. Here in europe the average household pays around 140-200 a month for gas and electric. I understand a bigger house uses more energy, but 300 a month on electric alone? Oh dear
I see an old fashion Woodburner that by the way works quite inefficently. This really only works when you have wood you can harvest yourself. But it still is work you have to calculate in Money. Your own Workhour costs you money too. By the way, here in Europe where i reside, such systems are forbidden due to poor efficiency. The way they burn wood is a waste of ressources. There is a special science behind excellent woodburners, and they are totally different from this old tech in the video!
That’s a full air-tight boiler, running off computer draft controls. I really doubt you have anything more efficient. It is misleading to represent this as free heat for sure. We heat our cabin with a modern air tight stove, mostly using wood from our forest. Tons of work a couple of times a year….
@@regmcguire5582 Typical opinion from people who use the imperial system...lol! You simply don´t know what´s on the world-market. Such a burner needs to be a gasburner, and by the way, needs to have a water based heat storage of about 10k liters or similar. That´sb required from a wood based heating system here in Europa. A burner that´s not a gasburner is not allowed to go in Service here, because they are 1. not clean burning, and 2. a waste of ressources! And I can see with my eyes that this burner doesn´t work efficient! And, be aware, one of my last projects before retirement, was planning a wood-based powerplant for steam, and hot water for heating for an entire little town in the Austrian Alps in Styria. So, you can assume that I know how to heat with wood pretty well! lol...I see and hear if a wood burner works correctly. Just by using my eyes and ears...With a RUclips video it´s harder so i just can rely on my eyes, because I don´t hear close enough what´s going on inside the burner. Creating heat and steam and energy (Also electric energy) was part of my profession. The Burner in this video is just a cheap solution that lacks a lot of science development that happened the last 40 years.- As I said: Old fashioned and not very efficient! Another thing i must mention: Those big pieces of wood are not that good either. But, because there is no heat storage system included, it doesn't matter that much. BUT: The best piece of wood for gaining heat is a size of 2 ínch by 2 inch, and a length that fits about 75% to 80% of the burning chamber. This guarantees that the best amount of surface is gasing out of the wood pieces. It is the gas that produces warmth, not the wood itself. The wood itself is only the "tank", the storage for the wood gas. not more. And to use wet wood for burning is just a crime! A crime against your own bank account, your own lifetime! You burn wood to heat your wood- and nothing else! This is a giant waste of resources! Here in europe, we have codes that are watched over by the administration 1 and two times a year. And when they see an oven like this in the video, they can possibly shut it down and order to repair the system. Because here only a defective system works like this burner! So we must fix it, and only when it works correctly again, it´s allowed to go back into service! OK, I cannot explain the whole technology about woodburning here, because this goes too far. In fact, you have to study not only just 1 book before you have the knowledge to create a central heating system. There is quite a lot of stuff to study beforehand...That said: I am capable to install a heating system, where the burner sits in the kitchen, or the bathroom... And the rooms keep being tidy, no smoke and nothing stinks. I can even create this with a nice fireplace where you can see a proper fire behind qa large glass-window... Romantic, but efficient, and clean! Not such a horrible stinking soaking black fireplace like in this video here!
@@bernhardmichaelfux308 So, by your own admission you haven't seen this system or one like it. But, by watching a video you feel qualified to respond in a lengthy email. The wood in the boiler heats liquid in a heat exchanger above the boiler. That liquid (antifreeze/glycol, etc) is piped over to the house underground, below the frost line, so it loses very little heat. It is then passed through heat exchangers in the house with fans, which blow the heat into the areas where they are located. Or, just simply through radiators or even through a plenum in a standard furnace, all work well. A computer watches internal temperatures and boiler temperatures, and adjust the draft in the air-tight boiler as required. I have a friend who very efficiently heats a large modern home with exactly this system. The big pieces are perfect, since the draft is always being adjusted as required automatically, and they burn longer than small pieces. So, it is in fact a very efficient central heating system using wood as heat. Why do you assume he is using wet wood? It is outside in a shed with airflow- if he leaves it there for a few months in the summer it will be at the required moisture to burn. This system is extremely common in rural US and Canada, works well, and as noted just requires a wood supply.
@@regmcguire5582 In fact, I can see with my eyes that the burning process is inefficient! By the video! And i know exactly how this boiler works! and how it is constructed. Is a system we had here in Europa 50 years ago! I don´t just feel qualified. I am indeed! And, as you wrote: The draft is variable, and regulated! This is the first thing that qualifies this kind of burner as inefficient! Woodburning must be done by a maximum of draft. Always on 100%. The heat that´s not needed in the House has to be stored for later. This is how it goes right!
“It’s free!” Except for the cost of the land. And the cost of your labor to cut down the trees, haul them in, cut them to length, split them, the cost of any machinery and equipment to make that tree felling and log cutting to happen, the cost of your labor to clean out the furnace and reload it, the cost of your labor to check it at midday, the cost of your labor to check it at night. That’s not “free”.
This is a nice setup and for a small percentage of our population it is fine but the reality is these boilers consume two to three times more wood than an efficient stand alone wood stove properly installed in a house. If you’re young, have endless supply of wood and do not mind tending to these wood gulping monsters then go for it. It’s good exercise and a very warm heat when properly installed, but it does cost a lot to install and maintain.
nothing is free for sure. even you are not including the property taxes, gas and maintenance on the saw, splitter and the furnace. for someone to say anything is free like energy, and materials is someone fooling themselves. its the way to go, for sure, and your self-sufficient but certainly not free. too many people claim to be off grid when they rely on utilities just like everybody else. i guess off grid, self-sufficient and free mean different things to different people. kinda like politics now, there is no such thing as the truth. there are tons of you tube videos where you can see power lines, propane tanks, and all kinds of machinery on a supposedly self- sufficient off grid homes.
I have 5500 SQ. FT. House with oil fired Energy Kinetics System 2000 running hot water through hydronic Baseray heaters in every room in the house. I heat it for $900 - 1,000 a year. My house is as warm as toast all through winter. I have 3 fireplaces that have never been used since the place was built 30 years ago. No complaints with this system at all.
That sounds like a winner there!
$1000 per year? I spend $600 a month to heat my house in winter!!
@@MountainTopElectronics Entirely the reason why I didn't rush to get away from a heat oil system!
What state though? Average winter temperatures make a difference. Here that many SQ. FT with an efficient system and efficient house I would expect to burn 3500 gallons on the lower side if you are keeping it at 73 degrees. Very impressive. But if you are in the South it's not as impressive.
@@GießenGusto It's 28 degrees here in PA right now. We've had as low as 9 this year. expecting single digits again in the coming week. Snow Sunday and Monday. Next question?
Great video! I heard your channel mentioned while watching another channel. Came over to check it out, and I have enjoyed watching several of your videos. Keep up the good work!
Awesome, which channel? Subscribe and keep on the lookout for more!
@@offthetrailsoutdoors Joe, over at Ohio Wood Burner, mentioned your channel. He gave a shout out to you, for covering the International Firewood Expo. Nice job on that too! You got a new subscriber, looking forward to checking out more videos. 👍
@ awesome . Yes I do remember him doing that!
I have 2400sqft home super insulated with radiant barrier, 4 inches of closed cell foam on exterior walls. For the interior walls i have 6 inch rockwool bats and ceilings I have 10 inches of open cell spray foam. Its currently 19 degrees here F with wind chills near single digits. My home is heated using an old pot belly wood stove to a toasty 68 degrees. During the summer the house is cooled with EG4 Solar Mini Split systems. They can run all day for free using solar and use very little 110v power at night.
That’s awesome
Nicely done!!! Love these things💪
That’s a lot for the support!
@offthetrailsoutdoors you got it!!🤜🤛
That thing is a beast!!! I would love to move to a wood boiler. Great video! Subscribed
Thank you sir
@Mainelyoffgrid it's not that hard and even if you don't have your own wood depending on where you are at I think you could buy a triaxle load of wood and heat all year much cheaper than oil or gas and I won't even mention electric
Great winter exercise! Your house is at 73 F. However, you are outside to take care the burner😂
Good exercise and nice to get fresh air
So what does the chainsaw run on, the truck to get it there run on and how many hours does to take to gather transport and stack your free energy.
Haha. We all know nothing is free
Chainsaws use so little gas that attempting to use the cost to fuel them as an argument is beyond ridiculous
Love the content! You are the best,...
Thanks
I wish you had gone into detail on the heat exchanger, the circulating water dosing, how the furnace regulates the burn to the desired water temperature etc. What facility do you have for being away from the property (in winter)? Supplementary boiler in the house?
Also - is it 'renewable' unless you are growing the remaining trees and planting new at the rate you are consuming?
Great suggestion!
My dream to heat with wood. You would benefit hugely from thermal storage in your basement. A large well insulated hot water storage tank would almost guarantee that you could heat the house with a single hot continuous burn a day.
Great thought !
Allways enjoy your videos! Keep up the hard work brother!
Thank you for the support. Please subscribe for more!
wonder if you could use oil or coal.
Not in this unit
@ off the trails outdoors can your boiler burn coal ? If so anthracite coal provides more heat and for longer periods
It cannot unfortunately
Are the trees growing back quicker than you are cutting them down ?
Nature is growing them every day
Heated with an outdoor boiler here in Mi for 4 years.
Do the math and include your time as the most valuable commodity and heating with wood is more expensive than propane. Not to forget chainsaw, chains, gas, two stroke oil, bar oil, log splitter cost, gas for log splitter.
I love living off the land but economically it just didn’t make sense for us anymore.
I’m not claiming that this is the cheapest way to heat, but it is the most satisfying!
plus, how much is that outdoor boiler?
What about the resale value of the wood and the cost of the land and taxes on the land. These are all expenses associated with heating with wood that are not free.
Hallo. Sind das vergaserkessel? Habt Ihr einen pufferspeicher. Sind die Leitungen dick gedämmt? Wenn nicht ist das reine Energievergeudung!!!🤔🤔🤔🇩🇪
Negative
For your replumbing, mount your circulators vertically. They are not supposed to be mounted horizontal.
Awesome . Thank you. I’ve noticed that on others
How do you clean the boiler?
Clean out the ash and any creosote buildup
At that temperature and a relatively same size house I think my Central Boiler 6048 is just about as efficient with a lot less work I burn 1 full wheel barrow in temps like that
Interesting
I'm off grid (solar only) and have been considering a wood furnace (boiler). During much of the heating season with very dominate cloudy weather, I must depended on charging my batteries with a generator. Currently I heat with only with a wood stove. I'd like to know the power (wattage) consumed for blowers and pumps to support this system. Is it possible that you know this and could detail? Thank you
I will look into this , I have been thinking about this for myself as well! Subscribe and I have some follow up videos .
Do you plumb any hot water into your hot water heater tank?
I do not , I did in the past , it’s not worth it for me
Make your house air tight and double the insulation. That will reduce your heating and cooling needs by 75%.
True story!
Iam sorry did u say the hot water goes in the top of the rad ? So cold water goes out the bottom?
Hot water passes through radiators in the forced air system. Blows that air through the home
Just so you know! This makes sense for homesteaders, hobby farms or any “ from home working people” I don’t know the term?! If you work in any type of professional capacity outside your home, this really doesn’t work out well. There is a lot of time investment year round , initial cost is very high, you must have access to or own equipment to be able to harvest, transport and process firewood. If you like to stack stones down at the river you may enjoy this, you will be stacking firewood year round every day.
I have a professional , shirt and tie job. In the winter month I do not travel much. I’m able to keep the house warm.
@@offthetrailsoutdoors I process firewood for my conventional air tight. The work is extremely rewarding.
What part of the States or Canada do you live?
@@jamesmcdonnell5617 The other Canada…Vermont.
Do you replant the hardwood you saw down and burn?
The forest regenerates
I have a 2300 sq ft house. I have geothermal to heat and cool my house. I do have a fireplace that I use when it gets really cold. I am all electric and it probably costs me around $600-700 in the winter to heat my home.
Sounds like you are set for winter!
@offthetrailsoutdoors I and my parents cut wood on the weekends when we have time
@ I love it
I would load that thing with all large pieces. Nice vid. 👍
Burns better with smalls
Wow, cool setup. It seems like insurance companies are pretty anal about how and where these outdoor furnaces are installed. Can't believe you have it under a roof?
No issues!
So you take down 3 trees per week or so?
No
What are you talking about?
you did not explain how run/control the fire! You must restrict air a lot. Also, why did you lower the water temperature and what controls this?
I'll go into more details here in a later video
Sweet!!!! How many cords of wood do you go through in a day? Also in a month?
7-8 cords , mid October to mid april
Looks like you’re burning a lot of wood per day. How many cords of wood per heating season
Not as much as I used to . 7-8 cords a year
Not as much as I used to . 7-8 cords a year
so did you dig a line set under ground to feed the hot water to the house?
yes
Fill mine about 1400hrs each day, go back out about 0700-0800 next day..all good. Like you 2,000sq ft at 75degrees and 78 at shower time.
That’s awesome
We have the same size home, checking my annual LP bill 💵, I spend $1,500 per year give or take $200. So if you're purchasing $1,000.00 of track wood 🪵 once a year, how does it make economic sense to cut the other wood you need, drag it to your wood yard, cut it, split it, stack it, then tend your wood burner 2-3 times per day, and maintain it? No problem with what you're doing, it's good exercise and nothing wrong with that. I'm wondering what happens should you need to be elsewhere for a few days, or you hurt your back, who tends the burner , then what?
No problem with what you're doing, but let's be honest, it is NOT free to you. There's a cost to your time and efforts.
There’s always a cost .
21 oct 2024 - A hot water tank is one example of thermal energy storage, where energy is stored as heat rather than electricity. Although it might not seem ...
I burn inside in an air tight. I have been wanting one of these but its a massive investment. The boiler, the lines, install, forced air unit/central air unit of some sort inside the home. Then the amount of wood you burn almost doubles.
I'm too cheap, think I will continue bringing dirty firewood into the house.
Understandable
@@offthetrailsoutdoors Or, maybe I am just jealous!
Petrol, chain oil, power to regulate the burner, wear and tare. Not free.
Very true
Да... Вам бы наши -40 на месяц🙂 Есть же котлы на щепе, засыпаешь сезонный бункер или силос и отапливаешься весь сезон. Харгаснер, Фролинг, Герц.
We have the old school central boiler house stays at 74 all winter long hottest water around 😂
I used to have a classic 5036, I enjoy it, happen burning . 🔥
That electric bill seems pretty high. Here in europe the average household pays around 140-200 a month for gas and electric. I understand a bigger house uses more energy, but 300 a month on electric alone? Oh dear
It’s not for everyone
I use Pellet stove
Those work good.
The only problem with pellets is that if you happen to be broke at any given time you can't go out in the woods and "cut" pellets...😂
@@ffemtx4 true
My garage has cinderblock walls. I’d luv to punch a hole in them to install shop furnace. I have bedrooms above. Can’t go up
That would be nice of you could.
free? wood is very expensive from where im from
Here it can be expensive if you cannot source your wood.
but u will run out so ?
No
Throw some cans in there,keeps the creo down
...big time
Making a video on this now, have done this before! Thx
I see an old fashion Woodburner that by the way works quite inefficently. This really only works when you have wood you can harvest yourself. But it still is work you have to calculate in Money. Your own Workhour costs you money too.
By the way, here in Europe where i reside, such systems are forbidden due to poor efficiency. The way they burn wood is a waste of ressources. There is a special science behind excellent woodburners, and they are totally different from this old tech in the video!
That’s a full air-tight boiler, running off computer draft controls. I really doubt you have anything more efficient. It is misleading to represent this as free heat for sure. We heat our cabin with a modern air tight stove, mostly using wood from our forest. Tons of work a couple of times a year….
@@regmcguire5582 Typical opinion from people who use the imperial system...lol! You simply don´t know what´s on the world-market. Such a burner needs to be a gasburner, and by the way, needs to have a water based heat storage of about 10k liters or similar. That´sb required from a wood based heating system here in Europa. A burner that´s not a gasburner is not allowed to go in Service here, because they are 1. not clean burning, and 2. a waste of ressources! And I can see with my eyes that this burner doesn´t work efficient! And, be aware, one of my last projects before retirement, was planning a wood-based powerplant for steam, and hot water for heating for an entire little town in the Austrian Alps in Styria. So, you can assume that I know how to heat with wood pretty well! lol...I see and hear if a wood burner works correctly. Just by using my eyes and ears...With a RUclips video it´s harder so i just can rely on my eyes, because I don´t hear close enough what´s going on inside the burner. Creating heat and steam and energy (Also electric energy) was part of my profession. The Burner in this video is just a cheap solution that lacks a lot of science development that happened the last 40 years.- As I said: Old fashioned and not very efficient! Another thing i must mention: Those big pieces of wood are not that good either. But, because there is no heat storage system included, it doesn't matter that much. BUT: The best piece of wood for gaining heat is a size of 2 ínch by 2 inch, and a length that fits about 75% to 80% of the burning chamber. This guarantees that the best amount of surface is gasing out of the wood pieces. It is the gas that produces warmth, not the wood itself. The wood itself is only the "tank", the storage for the wood gas. not more. And to use wet wood for burning is just a crime! A crime against your own bank account, your own lifetime! You burn wood to heat your wood- and nothing else! This is a giant waste of resources! Here in europe, we have codes that are watched over by the administration 1 and two times a year. And when they see an oven like this in the video, they can possibly shut it down and order to repair the system. Because here only a defective system works like this burner! So we must fix it, and only when it works correctly again, it´s allowed to go back into service! OK, I cannot explain the whole technology about woodburning here, because this goes too far. In fact, you have to study not only just 1 book before you have the knowledge to create a central heating system. There is quite a lot of stuff to study beforehand...That said: I am capable to install a heating system, where the burner sits in the kitchen, or the bathroom... And the rooms keep being tidy, no smoke and nothing stinks. I can even create this with a nice fireplace where you can see a proper fire behind qa large glass-window... Romantic, but efficient, and clean! Not such a horrible stinking soaking black fireplace like in this video here!
I respectfully disagree
@@bernhardmichaelfux308 So, by your own admission you haven't seen this system or one like it. But, by watching a video you feel qualified to respond in a lengthy email. The wood in the boiler heats liquid in a heat exchanger above the boiler. That liquid (antifreeze/glycol, etc) is piped over to the house underground, below the frost line, so it loses very little heat. It is then passed through heat exchangers in the house with fans, which blow the heat into the areas where they are located. Or, just simply through radiators or even through a plenum in a standard furnace, all work well. A computer watches internal temperatures and boiler temperatures, and adjust the draft in the air-tight boiler as required. I have a friend who very efficiently heats a large modern home with exactly this system. The big pieces are perfect, since the draft is always being adjusted as required automatically, and they burn longer than small pieces. So, it is in fact a very efficient central heating system using wood as heat. Why do you assume he is using wet wood? It is outside in a shed with airflow- if he leaves it there for a few months in the summer it will be at the required moisture to burn. This system is extremely common in rural US and Canada, works well, and as noted just requires a wood supply.
@@regmcguire5582 In fact, I can see with my eyes that the burning process is inefficient! By the video! And i know exactly how this boiler works! and how it is constructed. Is a system we had here in Europa 50 years ago! I don´t just feel qualified. I am indeed!
And, as you wrote: The draft is variable, and regulated! This is the first thing that qualifies this kind of burner as inefficient! Woodburning must be done by a maximum of draft. Always on 100%. The heat that´s not needed in the House has to be stored for later. This is how it goes right!
Your labor and time have a value and cost. Add up your hours cutting chopping and loading. Say 500 hours a winter. X $50 an hour = your cost
Agree
“It’s free!”
Except for the cost of the land. And the cost of your labor to cut down the trees, haul them in, cut them to length, split them, the cost of any machinery and equipment to make that tree felling and log cutting to happen, the cost of your labor to clean out the furnace and reload it, the cost of your labor to check it at midday, the cost of your labor to check it at night.
That’s not “free”.
I was minding, nothing in this world is free!
Where's the burgers man hell I will even settle for a hotdog?
That sounds good right now!
What do they say, burning wood heats you three times? Cut it, haul it, burn it!
Yup
Wood heat isnt free.
No isn’t not
This is a nice setup and for a small percentage of our population it is fine but the reality is these boilers consume two to three times more wood than an efficient stand alone wood stove properly installed in a house. If you’re young, have endless supply of wood and do not mind tending to these wood gulping monsters then go for it. It’s good exercise and a very warm heat when properly installed, but it does cost a lot to install and maintain.
Large initial cost to get started , money will be recovered a few years after
That"s a lot for electric and a load of wood
Not really
@@offthetrailsoutdoors Yeah it is.
Looks like a lot of work
Labor of love
That's neat but sure requires lots of wood 😊😊😊
Labor of LOVE
$200-$230 per month? That's not any different from our nat gas furnace, probably more and we live in a snowbelt. Not sure what you're bragging about?
Not bragging
why does this look like a cremator
Hahaha. Very similar actually
@ you could probably throw a body into one of these huh
too much work ill pay the bill
I hear ya! For now , I enjoy it. It’s like a gym membership. There will come a day when I’m get there. Not yet. Thanks for watching
It’s not that bad, better than sitting on the couch doing nothing.
😂👍🏻
nothing is free for sure. even you are not including the property taxes, gas and maintenance on the saw, splitter and the furnace. for someone to say anything is free like energy, and materials is someone fooling themselves.
its the way to go, for sure, and your self-sufficient but certainly not free.
too many people claim to be off grid when they rely on utilities just like everybody else. i guess off grid, self-sufficient and free mean different things to different people.
kinda like politics now, there is no such thing as the truth. there are tons of you tube videos where you can see power lines, propane tanks, and all kinds of machinery on a supposedly self- sufficient off grid homes.
Great way to heat for some people
@@offthetrailsoutdoors fact is its a lot of work but i love wood heat.
Interesting. Too bad you have to get cold in order to get warm.
I hear you!
thats alot of forest going up in smoke sorry
Not really
Well it's " free "until you run out of trees
Won’t happen
If everyone heated with wood you couldn’t see the sun.
Not for everyone
Neat, but not for everyone. Not for me.
If you like to lose your facial hair, don't follow this guy's lead on how to open up a door😢
Have never burnt any bud
@@offthetrailsoutdoors Yet...😂
Apparently, his labour isn't worth anything.
Labor of love, and more money in his pocket all winter. It sounds better than paying a corporate giant my hard earned money.
It’s my gym membership! Haha