PREPARE Your Wood Boiler For NEGATIVE Temperatures!

Hi everyone we are going to prepare our central boiler CL 6048 classic wood boiler! It is important to make sure you have a good coal bed and the BEST firewood you have to keep these boiler rolling!

[@jacksonbeverly3250]

Good to see u stoking that CB 6048, I’ve been burning nothing but big rounds in my cb5036 for 16 years

[@HomesteadJay]

Let it burn!

[@camper273]

Here in Germany it's just around freezing and we don't have snow we just have mush. Anyways nice Video! Greetings from Germany.

[@HomesteadJay]

Greetings!

[@gregj2647]

Thanks for the shoutout. It’s supposed to be -18 Friday morning here in east central Minnesota. Stay warm! 🥶🥶🥶

[@HomesteadJay]

Sounds great! You too! Thanks for the support!

[@elizabethcfox]

It's my first winter with a Heatmor in VT. Thanks for the tips!

[@HomesteadJay]

Anytime Eli!

[@codygreene3974]

Supposed to be 7 Friday night where I am in West Virginia, not as cold as where you are but still have to get my CL 5036 ready. Gonna spend the afternoon cleaning the ashes out and making sure there is enough rounds near by to keep it burning.

[@HomesteadJay]

Oh yes indeed! 7 degrees or -7 were still pretty close lol thanks for tuning in!

[@healyfamily4]

You will be staying warm in that freezing weather! We have a low of about 15 degrees tonight then a couple of weeks in the upper 40s lower 50s. I have some locust that is high quality burning for the cold spells.

[@HomesteadJay]

Locust sounds like some good wood Rich! Thanks for tuning in!

[@brucelarrow7897]

Up here in derby the temps are changing on the original plans for tommorow

[@timthompson6338]

We've been getting our butts kicked with the cold weather since last weekend. I am burning all my premium oak firewood right now. Next week we'll be back in the 30's and 40's so back to the other wood to burn hahahaha. Stay safe my friend

[@HomesteadJay]

Indeed my friend! Hopefully we will break the 30's again and loosen up on wood usage hahah

[@richarddabkowski2896]

Also in New England, interested to see how the G4000 does with this cold snap. First year with it, so we'll see how it goes. Also, once that wheelbarrow officially dies I would recommend getting a gorilla cart -- I'll never go back to an actual wheel barrow

[@HomesteadJay]

Ive seen those! I just fixed this into a log cart lol no more plastic!

[@Barton_Motors_Ltd]

Couldn’t agree more. I’m finally into my nice dry rounds The Heatmor will be eating them up all night. -22C here in southern Ontario Stay warm!

[@HomesteadJay]

Rock on! This is the time of the year where firewood shines!

[@Barton_Motors_Ltd]

@@HomesteadJay love it. Our carbon tax just got tripled by our wonderful government. Natural gas guys are now paying $500/month in town for heat. Love our boilers!

[@HomesteadJay]

@@Barton_Motors_Ltd Long live firewood! I love the freedome involved!

[@Big_Renfrew]

-29 C here west of Ottawa

[@Treestofirewood]

It’s amazing how the different types of species and sizes of the wood make such a difference. Little preparation goes a long way.

[@HomesteadJay]

It truly is so cool! I had some same size shagbark hickory logs a few years ago and man those suckers burned forever! These big maple will last too but man that hickory I had last year were awesome!

[@Treestofirewood]

@@HomesteadJay hickory is great wood. Oak hickory locust and ash are some of the best I have found.

[@truckdriver7721]

Yep. Been looking forward to the cold temps to see how my wood stove will do. Still have 10 to 12 cord left in my wood shed. When full. It will hold almost 20 cords. 😁😁 I say. Ole man winter bring on the cold. I'm ready. 😆😅😂🤣

[@HomesteadJay]

Very cool! Im sure you are ready indeed! Stay warm my friend!

[@truckdriver7721]

@@HomesteadJay you as well.

[@skylerfraess3362]

-38°C in Saskatchewan today. I have the wood stove ripping today. Awesome video!

[@HomesteadJay]

WOW! Yes indeed keep that stove rocking!

[@skylerfraess3362]

Same to you haha stay warm

[@Duasmusic1]

Maybe an idea for a futur video is to show/messure the outgoing temperature of the boiler in relation to the incoming temperature in the house during the day/night? Still doing great!

[@HomesteadJay]

That would be neat indeed!

[@joshdebruine7419]

Thanks for the shoutout Jay! We have a wood stove in the house and are thinking about an outdoor boiler. I love getting ready for the season or prepping for a cold snap. Keep up the good work sir.

[@HomesteadJay]

Indeed! Its always fun to prepare for cold weather!

[@TheFoo182]

Awesome video! -20F tomorrow here in upstate NY! I'll have my CL5648 ready. Thanks!

[@HomesteadJay]

Same here in NH! Stay warm neighbor!

[@cjm3508]

It is the first year that I am doing it and I am glad I did it right. Thank you for confirming what I thought and I love the contact in the video. Please keep up the good work.

[@HomesteadJay]

Glad you are up to speed! Happy to help!

[@bigstu118]

Great vid

[@HomesteadJay]

Thanks Stuart!

[@f150bft]

I've only seen negative temps in my area a few times. We did see single digits at Christmas time.

[@HomesteadJay]

This is first time below about 10 degrees so far so we have been spoiled!

[@Glock2201]

I actually do not mind mixing some dry pine in even when it gets that cold. For years pine might have been the only wood I had and had no problems with it going 12 hours plus even on the cold nights. Sometimes I think having the pine mixed in actually brings the water up to temp quicker than if it was all hardwood.

[@HomesteadJay]

You are 100% right. The pine will burn hotter and faster than the hard woods and the machine will have a faster recovery time using pine for sure. No question there. Just an issue of burning all coals up cause pine doesn’t leave squat for coals lol

[@Glock2201]

@@HomesteadJay No it does not. I find the biggest difference between hardwood and softwood is that hardwood makes way more coals to keep the water up to temp. The burn times are usually very similar. I guess one of the reasons I don't mind burning softwood when it is cold is that it struggles to get 24 hour burn time no matter what wood you use but in normal temps I can get 24 hour burn times fairly easily mixing about 50/50.

[@NorthForkHollow]

Man, thinking about cold temps like that makes me glad that my boiler is inside. I can load mine in my undies! LOL.

[@HomesteadJay]

Thats one thing I am jealous of LOL

[@ryanbender5573]

I like burning black locust but it burns down to straight ash. Never get any good coals out of it. Same with birch. Need to find me some oak.

[@HomesteadJay]

I havent had locust but I LOVE birch! its the state tree and burns awesome! Oak is great and hopefully we get the rest of that tree!

[@brookdorflinger9070]

I call those all nights nice!!

[@HomesteadJay]

Slow cookers indeed!

[@SmittyP79]

Heat master stoves have very easy ash removal tray.

[@HomesteadJay]

Yes Ive seen that before! Pretty cool stuff!

[@traviscover7002]

I like your new video this was a really nice fire you have going you did a good my outdoor wood stove is doing really good God bless too you guys love your video buddy 🔥 🪵

[@HomesteadJay]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@J.R.Y.558]

Jay. How long do you go between clean outs? It looked like you filled a 20 gallon trash can? 0° last night in northern Michigan, but +40 by Tuesday

[@HomesteadJay]

It depends what I burn! if I burn a lot of branch wood/green wood it seems to pile up faster than if I just burn seasoned hardwood lol!

[@jimmieburleigh9549]

Got your ducks in a row

[@HomesteadJay]

Trying!

[@KevinGrinnan]

Where do you get all of your wood four your boiler

[@HomesteadJay]

From tree jobs. I run a tree removal company but before I did that I got a lot from sawmills (cut offs) and free wood from other tree services and local market place

[@shayn4220]

The Artic cold is coming to conneticut

[@HomesteadJay]

-17 is the lowest I saw so far brother! Load it up!

[@shayn4220]

@@HomesteadJay o she’s going to be stuffed to the gills

[@larrycoleman2225]

Good information for those cold, cold nights. You should get you some 1/2 x 1 wire and bend you up a screen box so you can save all those coals when you do your clean-out. I made mine to straddle the top of my wheel barrow so it makes it easy to drop the shovel fulls of ash/coals in and then toss the coals back in the stove that are walnut sized and bigger. Nice being able to save and use all the good coals and get the powdery ash completely removed during the cleanout.

[@HomesteadJay]

I usually do screen it after it cools down! I use the clean ash for ice and garden uses and I toss the coals back in! Ill do another video on this!

[@joshguard9834]

I have split rounds bigger than your slow cookers. Burns the same…

[@HomesteadJay]

Yes if its the same size it would make sense!

[@timhamilton1569]

I don't really agree with needing the big logs they're not split I have had no problem when it gets that cold running all split wood

[@HomesteadJay]

Depends on the heat demand and the machine you have but I like the fat rounds for really cold nights but it all works!