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[GHarman]

BIGNASTY, Home heating thoughts. Heres a cleaner setup. It does require pumps. They can be operated by solar panels and backup batteries. Depends on how complicated or simple you want. My cousin in W. Va heats his house with a similar setup. Works great. Multi fuel possibilities and the ashes and wood dirt stays outside. Wish you WELL! I'd love to do that also. However, my Wife is a Bonefide City dude. Just keeping her here in the Front Range Mountains is a chore:-laf. GregH



Central Boiler - Outdoor Wood Furnace for Home Heating

 

[GHarman]

Off grid and backup power

BIGNASTY, dont know what your plans are or your technical savvy. Was thinking about a similar situation for worst case scenario. A array of solar panels hooked to a bank of marine deep cycle batteries and an inverter could supply you with the necessary electrical power. (in addition to a generator as backup).

The things that could benefit from this setup are power for your computer, well pump and lighting and clothes washer/dryer. In most cases, depending on the load, the generator may not have to be run at all.

My grandfathers place got water from a gravity feed system. No pump was required. GregH

 

[BIGNASTY]

elect power

Most of the elect. power will be from a 15 panel solar array with a wispier 200 1kw wind gen. As a secondary The batteries are from Trojan 125's 20 of them. And if that's not enough the propane standby gen. will help in case the sun won't shine and the wind is to high for the wind gen. that can happen in this part of MT. My father inlaw and bro in law have the same rig and have had no shortage of power. As for heat Im running the wood stoves again in MT there will be no shortage of fuel for them. I have built a wood splitter that run's off the PTO on the Ford 660 tractor. The splitter has the blade that I made from the removable edges of a cat scraper that I had welded to form an blade with a 3 ft long 6 in across hydraulic ram it will run thru trees that we have in So Calif like butter so I think it will take care of anything MT has to offer up. That along with a Husqvarna and a old Homelite chain saws Im sure that part of the project is taken care of. The wife has taken back what she has laughed about for year's about me over doing things I took the tractor and wood splitter up to MT and both the inlaws have been using it and said they want one. They have had many offers for it and I wont sell. Ill build them but the love ones LAUGH no more :-laf

 

[BIGNASTY]

BIGNASTY, Home heating thoughts. Heres a cleaner setup. It does require pumps. They can be operated by solar panels and backup batteries. Depends on how complicated or simple you want. My cousin in W. Va heats his house with a similar setup. Works great. Multi fuel possibilities and the ashes and wood dirt stays outside. Wish you WELL! I'd love to do that also. However, my Wife is a Bonefide City dude. Just keeping her here in the Front Range Mountains is a chore:-laf. GregH



Central Boiler - Outdoor Wood Furnace for Home Heating

I have seen those we were thinking of them but I kind of like the wood stove thing. They would be nice for the heat in the floor idea. I have to come up with some kind of heat for the REC. ROOM im going to have a basement and that's going to be my reloading / gun room . I dont know if you ever have seen the movie Tremors where Burt had his REC ROOM mine is the same thing but will have outside door to a permanent shooting bench with a 600 yd range. at the back door. ( Im mildly aroused already :-laf) so heat in the REC ROOM will have to be of the NO FLAME kind im sure you can see why. So this maybe a thought but I will have to see if the BOSS will give me more of an allowance.

 

[GHarman]

BIGNASTY, Sounds like you have a well thought out plan! Was talking to some construction friends recently. Sounds like the in floor heating tubes do break. The new method is back to the old times. Base board radiators. That way if you bust a tube, its accessable(more so than encased in concrete) and you dont need to bust up the floor. If you have underground runs from the boiler to the house? Run them in a larger diameter pipe. That way you can pull a damaged supply or return and insert a replacement. We used to do that with natural gas piping, under roads, driveways and walks. We could renew an existing leaking gas service to a house by digging a bell hole at the house and at the main. Cutting the service at both ends and inserting the plastic tube into the old steel pipe. Tie into the main and service riser and you bypassed a long trench in the lawn. Same process, different application, here. Yes, I like woodstoves too!

Love to hear more about your systems infrastructure!!

Yes I seen tremors! A 600 yard range! NOW I AM JEALOUSOo. :-laf! GregH