Do This EVERYTIME You Load Your OUTDOOR WOOD BOILER!

[@daviddrennan5293]

Yes ! Boiler videos been waiting for these Jay .............

[@HomesteadJay]

Rock on!

[@RCAFpolarexpress]

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[@HomesteadJay]

Wow, thanks! Hope all is well Dave! Enjoy your wood stove!

[@tractordan933]

You are right about stirring your coals , but you should also push them back at least eight inches. I see your inner door baffle is warped pretty bad, keeping the fire back some will help with that. I am in my eighteen season with a CB 6048 so I am not just blowing smoke, well maybe a little, you get what I mean. Good luck with your OWB.

[@HomesteadJay]

Oh I trust your feed back. The door baffle has been warped since we got here in 2014 lol the previous owner must have overheated it haha

[@Andyrob323]

Just cleaned did my first ash clean out for the year this evening. I built a box that sits on a metal can with 1/2x1/2 hardware cloth. Ash falls through, nails get caught and larger coals get caught to be tossed back in!

[@HomesteadJay]

I built something similiar last year just no box/base. I am gonna re visit it again now that its heating season! Pure filtered ash is very handy too!

[@Andyrob323]

@@HomesteadJay for sure! I used it in the garden last year, this year it’s going in the hay field (after cooling, of course) to see if it can raise my PH a little

[@jackseamon7064]

Nice videos. Thanks for sharing. I like to see these kinds of videos where someone has something working good but takes the chance to make it better and does so successfully. I appreciate the work it takes to make it happen. Great luck!

[@HomesteadJay]

Anytime! Glad to help. Theres no hollywood here just trying to share my experiences with folks to make life easier

[@CatCrazyFamily]

Thanks for sharing J appreciate it!

[@HomesteadJay]

No problem 👍

[@shayn4220]

I miss the rake when u talk to Bruce again ask if he can get those rakes I miss mine it fell apart

[@HomesteadJay]

Ill ask next time I see him. Passing through that area later this week ill see if hes in!

[@shayn4220]

@@HomesteadJay awesome thank u

[@Treestofirewood]

I want to see you stick the biggest round/log you can lift into the boiler and see what kind of burn time you can get with just that one log.

[@HomesteadJay]

I found it lol I was hiking with my son and there was a co dominant pine and one half broke off it seems like its been down for while. Its way out in the bush but its worth it to go get and try haha its about 18 wide and split in half. Looks dry too its pretty grey haha id need the bobcat to get that through the door LOL

[@Treestofirewood]

@@HomesteadJay do it… I’d be really curious to see the burn time on that and to see how the boiler responds to the heat load if it burns well enough to keep up. Put some more load on that bad boy and build a huge enclosed shop with a huge lean too for wood storage and splitting.

[@HomesteadJay]

Now were talking! I got a bunch of ideas for boiler videos. I have a pine thats been down for 2 years off the ground. Curious to see burn times with whole sections, half splits, and full splits. I did it last year but it would be cool to do again.@@Treestofirewood

[@Treestofirewood]

@@HomesteadJay oh for sure. That’s actually a good idea for us both to do. Especially with the different style boilers.

[@HomesteadJay]

indeed it would. How deep is your firebox? I can run 4 feet lol anything past the back "wall" is wasted right out the chimney@@Treestofirewood

[@brandonhoad9033]

Corn hook, for ear corn. Any chance of a out in the woods getting wood vid coming .

[@HomesteadJay]

Ill let ya in on some inside baseball. Next video were gonna process some of that wood we have left over. I want to get all that cut and split. I may order a grapple load to have on hand. Deff getting out in the woods soon, letting the ground firm up a bit first!

[@Cb2homesteader]

Just bought a house with a wood boiler. Small issue as of late tho. I am getting a build up of this black sticky tar like substance on my damper. So much so that it gets stuck and the thermostat can’t get it open some times. What caused this? How can I clean it and how do I prevent it…!? Any help is greatly appreciated thx in advance. Great page btw love the content:)

[@HomesteadJay]

That is called creosote. Its a product of burning green ( not seasoned wood). Soft/pulp woods will do that more than hard woods, I.E. your Pine, hemlock, spruce, red pine, doug fir, evergreen, etc... Best thing to clean with is a wire brush of some sort on a drill. Some dawn or diesel will help soften it up. You want basically metal on metal between the damper and door. DONT use a grinder. Only wire brush on a drill or if your ambitious you can use a hand wire brush or paint scraper :) Depending on your wood supply you will have to manage creosote depending on what you burn. If you burn only seasoned hardwoods you wont get much OR if you have to burn less than perfect pine wood youll have to clean more frequently. Any more ?'s just ask! Leave a NEW comment on another video cause sometimes if you reply again to this comment I may not see it.

[@tyharland1906]

Can you jam pack that thing full top to bottom front to back? Or does the efficiency go to zero?

[@HomesteadJay]

Waste of time. Fire needs somewhere to go right? Well when you load it to the gills, the fire goes literally out the back and up the chimney like a rocket ship. As cool as it looks at night LOL its not worth it. Ive tried packing it and then not packing it with a same amount of wood and it is more efficient with a 1/3 load close to the door. I run either 24" inch wood or 32 unsplit. I wont go bigger. If you took a 4ft log id rather have that cut into 3 sections and stacked close to the door rather than tossed in as is! Im gonna cover this in the future!

[@tyharland1906]

@@HomesteadJay someone will find that to be useful knowledge, especially the natural draft boiler owners. I've got a forced air heatmor and I stuff in every twig I can, except for in the warmer months when the run cycles are only a few times a day. Good video and explanation.

[@jimmieburleigh9549]

Once you got a got coal bed like you showed could you pack it tight from top to bottom back to front. Would that give you a couple days especially if you had to be away ??

[@HomesteadJay]

Hey Jimmie, thanks for tuning in again! Packing it full is a waste of wood in my opinion, ive tried it, doesnt seem to be more efficient in my opinion. However, thats your best chance if you had to be away for a day or two. When i packed it full the flames were way in the back basically going up the chimney. The closer the fire is to the door the better. The inside firebox is rippled to transfer the most heat. Ill go over more of this is coming videos!

[@jimmieburleigh9549]

@@HomesteadJay thanks bud

[@joeyork9891]

Marky mark burning wood.

[@HomesteadJay]

:)

[@feegureeetout]

If you take more than one step to do a repetitious process,(loading logs), you are taking to many. You should get something with at least a load or two of logs right next to the door. Your back is young now, but i can assure you, it will appreciate less "bend over" cycles down the road.😁 i have a system i made posted to my yiutube account. Its specific for my situation, but there are a lot of similar possibilities of non engine powered systems for loading easier. A tractor with loading features simply isnt in my budget anyway.

[@HomesteadJay]

We are working on something like that!

[@shayn4220]

The boiler comes with two tools the long rake and the long hoe kind of tool they both rotted out on me

[@HomesteadJay]

The rake snapped but now that I can "weld" i can fix it lol I still have both parts.

[@itsyurb0ylayy4]

Can I use this same method for my wood burning stove. I have a epa one that it gives me coals

[@HomesteadJay]

Yes moving the coals around is not gonna hurt anything. Give it a shot!