Dale . a lot of that wood ash would be good to put in and around your gardens in the fall . Lee
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 06:08:17PM -0500, Dale Leavens wrote: > Lee, > > It takes a lot of water for a system like that and you need to mix it with > antifreeze to keep it from bursting the pipes. That too adds to the cost. The > other thing I don't like about those systems is that you have to babysit > them. You don't dare allow them to go out and risk freezing all that water. > One bloody great ice cube. > > We have a load of bush around here and quite a few people have those big wood > burning furnaces. Costs a lot of time and money cutting and hauling and > stacking and feeding those things then there is the ash. In the fall and > spring when they aren't burning hard they make buckets of creosote and that > is filthy stuff to dispose of. I am pretty sure they don't dispose of it in > an environmentally friendly way either. > > > If I was Han Solo I'd probably pet my wookie > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Lee A. Stone > To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 10:49 AM > Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Radiant floor heating. > > > > > also for those who live out inthe woods a little you might have a > hot water heat system inside the home in the floors or radiators > and as well down the drive way if one was using a outdoor wood > furnace. We have one such cousin who builds and sells log homes. He > has enough heat running thru his pip0es to keep the long driveway > snow / ice free as well as enough hot water to heat the place and > enough left over for a hot tub. However that is a set up which costs > just for the furnace some $5,000 and who has the ongoing wood supply > to feed such a outside furnace. Lee > > -- > You will be audited by the Internal Revenue Service. > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > -- You will be audited by the Internal Revenue Service.
