bsearcey
ArboristSite Operative
I've pretty much finished my HH except for some touchup on the roof. I really like the look, but it was definitly harder to build than standard stacking especially when it got over my head. Interesting enough the thing is so stable I was able to stand on it while working the top. Things would have gone alot faster if I had someone to hand wood up to me. Anyway like everyone else has said I seriously doubt any faster drying times with it, I just wanted to stack one for the experience. But man that thing just keep eating wood. I thought I had more than enough wood to make it, but I actually had to take some wood not intended for the HH to help finish it off. I'm going to take some measurments on the the finished stack to try and get as close as possible the FT^3, but just off the top of my head numbers gave me about 300ft^3 (not accounting for airspaces).
While I was stacking I began to think about the updraft idea and thought...what if you put a piece of 2" pvc pipe up the middle and connect a blower to the bottom of the pvc to push air through it constantly. This should help facilitate the drying. Then you get into using power, which while I doubt it would use a whole lot, it still kind of defeats the purpose. Unless you had it running off of solar power, but then you don't get air flow at night. While I was stacking and pondering this and other useless and random things I kept hearing my heat pump kick on to cool my house down . Then I had the proverbial light bulb over the head moment and thought...man when this thing turns on it blows a lot of air out of the top of the unit. Could I put some sort of box or shroud over it and pipe that air into the perforated center tube of an HH stack or two to help speed up the drying process. Well I know I could do it, but would it be worth it? That's my question to anyone who cares to answer. Also, knowing next to nothing about heatpumps would putting a box or shroud over the top affect the unit in a negative way?
Thanks guys.
I'll post a pic tonight of the HH.
While I was stacking I began to think about the updraft idea and thought...what if you put a piece of 2" pvc pipe up the middle and connect a blower to the bottom of the pvc to push air through it constantly. This should help facilitate the drying. Then you get into using power, which while I doubt it would use a whole lot, it still kind of defeats the purpose. Unless you had it running off of solar power, but then you don't get air flow at night. While I was stacking and pondering this and other useless and random things I kept hearing my heat pump kick on to cool my house down . Then I had the proverbial light bulb over the head moment and thought...man when this thing turns on it blows a lot of air out of the top of the unit. Could I put some sort of box or shroud over it and pipe that air into the perforated center tube of an HH stack or two to help speed up the drying process. Well I know I could do it, but would it be worth it? That's my question to anyone who cares to answer. Also, knowing next to nothing about heatpumps would putting a box or shroud over the top affect the unit in a negative way?
Thanks guys.
I'll post a pic tonight of the HH.