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Old 02-04-2007, 08:29 AM
multibeard multibeard is offline
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Outdoor wood furnace around here!!

I don't know of that many pellets stoves around here. There was a guy that was drying cherry pits to sell commercially but it never went over. They will work in a pellet stoves.

Alot of people are going to outdoor wood furnaces (boilers)around here. The wood doesn't have to be that well cured to burn in them. Only need to be filled 1--2 times a day. Also get domestic hot water from them. The hot water from the boiler is fed to the house underground.

They have heat exchangers that go in forced air systems if you don't have hotwater heat. The only draw back is that many towns have out lawed there use due to the acrid smoke that they omit.

They also come in corn burning models. They one at a dairy farm has a pretty good sized corn storage bin sitting next to it that feeds the boiler.

Here is the website for one of many different outside wood furnaces
http://www.centralboiler.com/?src=msncb
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