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I have been noticing that my outdoor wood furnace blower has been running almost constantly.....at least every time I check it its on. Anyway my question is does anyone have any thoughts as to why this might be? It ran great all winter and we had an unusual March with warm temps where it sat...

Definitely Black Locust

Those are some impressive stacks. I was pretty close on my guess. I thought 30' x 6' x 20"

Just curious whitespider....what are the dimensions of those stacks of wood you have? They sure do look nice!

I have a forced air system as well and also use the water to air heat exchanger. So far I am really pleased with the systems performance. We will see when it get really cold though.

Thanks for the advice......free heat is much mcuh warmer!

Fairly new to the whole OWB system but in my experience in the past with wood is exactly what you are saying. The green wood you are forced to burn definitely dries while it sits inside the closed OWB or any furnace for that matter. Think about the stack of wood inside the house by your...

Portage and Main

Took some more advice last night ....before bed I added a nice size maple to the already burning pine.....this morning when I checked the fire there was a nice bed of coals from the bottom half of the log with about 1/2 of it still intact. Really like the mixing idea with the softwood, punky...

well I lowered my temp to 160 last night and everything seemed to work as planned. Fire was rippin this morning when I checked. Added 2 pine 1/2's and a beech stick for good measure. I think I just checked it yesterday in the smoldering stage when the blower had been off for a while. Trial and...

I was figuring on burning pine and hemlock I have in the warmer months and saving the locust and maple I have for when its colder. Hopefully you are right and it is just in a smoldering stage. Supposed to drop into upper 30's in a few of the upcoming nights. I never I thought I would say this...

Thanks for the input.....I think I might try lowering my temp. a little this evening and see how that works out.

Just fired up yesterday. With daytime temperatures in the low to mid 50's and nights low to mid 40's. Was wondering if anyone had any recommendations on boiler temp. to keep the fire going. Last night when I fired it up I set it at 165 and this morning it was about out...just smoldering...