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Thumb Country Stuff
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People would watch Thumb Country Stuff to see what happens in the life of a chubby country boy in the Thumb of Michigan.
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Chapter 2, The comments of boiler economics
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Chapter 2, The comments of boiler economics
The economic reality of a wood boiler.
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The economic reality of a wood boiler.
It's cold, but everything is going well.
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It's cold, but everything is going well.
Frosty Sunday, farming season is over, what's next?
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Frosty Sunday, farming season is over, what's next?
Getting ready to bring the girls home for winter.
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Getting ready to bring the girls home for winter.
Adding a windbreaker to the winter shelter
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Adding a windbreaker to the winter shelter
A bumpy start to the 24/25 burn season.
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A bumpy start to the 24/25 burn season.
Added corner braces to the winter pasture fence.
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Added corner braces to the winter pasture fence.
Knocking the dust off the plasma table
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Knocking the dust off the plasma table
Second day of cleaning seed with the All-Crop 60
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Second day of cleaning seed with the All-Crop 60
So you're looking for some property to hunt-
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So you're looking for some property to hunt-
Great idea!!!
Thanks it works good until into the teens. I put a heater in with a timer. Set it for 11pm to 9 am.
That trolley system is awesome. It was the first video I saw of yours, in fact, I think it was the first video you posted.
I think you were my first comment, I remember the face!😁 Thanks for hanging in there with me!
Whats the protocol for vacations? Lets say you leave for a week or two, how do you maintain the heat in your home and not have your pipes freeze in the boiler as well? Thanks for the content!
We still have the propane furnace. I use it for a couple of weeks in the fall to make sure it works if I need it. The water circulation would keep it from freezing. If i pack the boiler completely full, it will last for a long weekend. Thank you for asking.
@thumbcountrystuff4215 so if the water keeps circulating and the boiler is off for 1 or 2 weeks, the circulation and propane based heat from inside the home will prevent the freezing? I would have never guessed that would have been sufficient.
@VK-ds2dw Well, that's what I'm told... I haven't tested the theory yet!
I cant find an ash barrel thatll last more than a year or two. Sad
I've had mine for around 6 years. I think i got it at Ace Hardware.
George heller has south poll cattle in northern Minnesota and even sold a bull up to Canada
OK thanks
Thank you, that’s a great setup. Do you like your gasification? I ended up going traditional. Does you shed stay warm with just some residual heat from boiler?
I've never had a traditional boiler, so i can't really compare.
Sorry, I wasn't finished. I truly think the extra burn as the smoke leaves the fire box harnesses fuel that would be lost. Yes, the shed stays about 20 degrees warmer than the outside temperature. There's 2 layers of bubble wrap insulation but not really sealed up tight. Thanks again!
Where is your coat 😆
I had my mid-winter hoodie on! 🎅
I'm glad that freeze up is here and the four inches of snow so I can pull my jet sled (by hand) and go to the woods and bring firewood home.
I'm itching to get out too.
I like your setup that you have, I just purchased a boiler, would you mind doing a walkthrough of your setup. I would really like to build something to keep my boiler out of the elements
Yes, I will do that. Thanks for asking!
I just posted a tour. I hope it helps. If you need more details just ask. There are several older videos to check out as well. Thanks again!
If I had a new house with SIP's panels a wood boiler would not be my choice. Like him a we live in a old farmhouse ona farm with dead locust and dead elm trees and some hedge. Seems like there is always a tree that needs cut. A wood boiler is a lifestyle it gives outstanding endless supply of hot water and moist heat coming out of the heat registers. Ive had one for 16 years and probably saved $20,000 over that 16 years. I stay active getting the wood up making use of trees that wood just rot. The ashes makes my tomatos grow 9 ft tall. Its not for all but it does fit our lifestyle and there is satisfaction inkeeping dead trees cleaned up and security of knowing what your cost of heating your house is,
Well said. Most of us boiler owners agree. Thanks for the nice comments and for watching!
Hi, energy engineer here! The electric energy that Wind and Solar produce during their lifetime is far greater than the one used in the manufacturing of components and plant installation. The parameter is called Energy pay back time (EPBT). EPBT is site dependent but in general is around 2 years for solar and 1 year for wind. Cheers!
Thanks for the info and for watching!
How long do they last in bad weather? Media stitched together: "Your friendly microwave weather radar!" *Points at Operational defense by weather control 2030 Microwaves* Heh..
@@MrQuick999 What?
@ No carbonic acid rain.. Non-chemical source for heat errors in atmosphere + Microwave radars constantly dumping energy into the atmosphere. Do the math..
That trolly rail to bring the wood into the boiler room is next level awesome. I've said it a million times, you're going to work somewhere to heat your house and when you heat with wood that time belongs to you, been saying that for decades.
I call it ambitiously lazy. Work hard now, so you can take it easy later. Thanks for the nice comments and for watching!
I’m glad you touched on the carbon cycle. It can be a 20-30yr cycle with a tree but burning oil or coal is releasing carbon from thousands of years ago. So china burning coal in their factories to make solar panels and whatever else is more of an issue than us cleaning up dead trees along the fence row somewhere
Good points. Thank you
The main problem is people listen to the left wing lunatic tree huggers that think wood smoke is so bad along with our diesel vehicles and equipment so they put so much emissions crap on them that they ruin it. The problem is I have common sense and see right through the bullshit. For instance if they were so concerned about polluting our air then why do we not have the absolute best wild land firefighting division of the EPA that the world has ever seen. One major fire that happens every year by the way has to pollute the environment 10 times what our vehicles and our furnaces do for god sakes. People really need to get a grip on reality and they would realize that burning wood ain’t so bad after all. You’re wood trolly is awesome by the way, take care
Well managed woodlots and forest land are not as much of a fire hazard as overgrowth and brushy areas. Even if you need a controlled burn. As far as diesel emissions, way too often, I have to let my tractor run for no reason while it's "regenerating".
Once you look into solar you won't want it. The technology isn't thier yet
Definitely not rushing... Thanks
That is a great setup you have. I have been heating with wood and coal now for 41 years. Watching from Almont.
We're practically neighbors! Thanks for watching!
Cool video
Thanks for watching!
When you own a few hundred acres of farmland in central Michigan there is always trees to trim or cut so it only takes a a few more cuts and it’s ready for the stove
Yes. You have to do it anyway...
Nice!
Thanks for watching! I love your piano playing! Keep them coming!
@ thank you! Will do! 😁
Yeah, I think the Western world has lost touch with what the word “free” really means. Everything comes at the expense of something else. Many of us have chosen to make investments of money and time to reduce our Heating expense. That doesn’t make it free. It comes down to how each individual values time, money, and activities. I love using my wood working equipment, saving cost on heating and the work related to wood gathering and have been saving thousands a year for 15 years in heating costs. I think a day will come when I’ll value other things more and spend my time and resources differently.
As I get older, my interests change. Those interests relate to my energy level and pain tolerance. Thanks for the nice comments.
That's exactly what I was thinking. I value my time & 4 grand a year savings isn't enough to usurp it.
Woods a byproduct for me doing saw work in the shop, I don’t have a boiler system, Im a fitter welder by trade and I have a lot of hydronic experience and I couldn’t currently afford the hydronic retrofit to the house or shop but I’ve had massive luck with a DX wood furnace in the shop, I do appreciate the remote boiler principle to keep the wood mess remote
The mess and bugs are the biggest reasons for me. Thanks for watching!
I put mine inside an old grain bin. The shed is definitely more aesthetically pleasing.😊
Probably not as fireproof. It's good to reuse that stuff.
I like this! Check out the conveyor I use for mine
That's really cool!
I ran my Central Boiler for 13 years. I bought the corn option and used it for 3 years, I finally gave up on the corn burning and switched to wood since the corn system only worked "kinda". I had to buy the wood and when the price of it got so high I could heat with propane for the same money I quit using the boiler. I went thru 3 pumps and 2 temp controllers in 13 years. I finally bought a good water pump and it was running fine when I stopped using the boiler. It had been running for 7 years. I only ran the boiler during the heating season. I live in southern Michigan. Hope this helps.
Thanks for the nice comments and for watching!
I think it’s about lifestyle… If sitting on the couch is more your style, heating with wood is probably not for you.😅
I agree. You really have to enjoy it.
@ for some, firewood is a lot of work and for others it’s just a Tuesday.
@foty3rothers859 I like that. "Just a Tuesday "
🤔 How much insulation do you have. I hear with passive homes, with 2' thick insulated walls, slab and roof, you can heat a house with a hairdryer. I over insulated my 🏠 and also put insulation board on both sides of the framing to insulate the framing. I plan on building a rocket stove mass heater where my basement steps are, but right now, my gas furnace turns on once every 8 hours because the temperature drops 1 degrees. 😊
I would love that much insulation. My house is over 100 years old. There was no insulation at all when I bought it. I insulated the attic the 2nd year and other walls with spray foam during remodeling projects. We are about 50% insulated.
It was 12 degrees last night but no wind, so it was pleasant. However, when it is windy, it's easy to tell what direction it's from. Thanks for watching!
Never free
Thanks for watching
😅I have had a Central Boiler unit for 10 years. I start it up on November 1st and continue burning wood until the central air is needed. I go thru approximately 5-6 full cords of wood in a winter. Usually takes me about 4 days to cut, split and fill the wood shed. I'm 71 years young and have burned wood most of my adult life. Burning wood keeps me in great physical shape and helps keep me sane in an insane world. I also raise beef cattle and do the field work on my farm. Wouldn't have it any other way.
Thanks for the nice comments and thanks for watching.
At the end of the day, it's really no different than just working a side gig, and paying for fuel. However, it's a different kind of side gig that doesn't have strict hours, nonsensical policies, or a BS hr department. And none of the savings are taxed. A good side gig, in my opinion.
And it's a break from the normal grind. Thanks!
Congrats on having a video pop on UA-cam. Hope it helps build your channel, subscribe folks.
Me too! Thank you!
Sounds like a perfect gizmo to get away from a bitching wife. 👍
I'm in the same boat. I could be watching TV or having fun with the chainsaw and the wood splitter. I lose weight. Make myself healthier and it's good for me. Investing in yourself at the same time as saving money.
Truly a win-win!
Bet you go thru alot of trees a year.
I do. When there was a lot of dead ash trees laying around it was easy. Now it's getting harder to find dead or diseased trees. But that's half the fun!
4k a year translates to 350ish a month. That is not really too bad and living in town the water and natural gas runs me 150 a month. Electric I suppose is a push.
If I had natural gas, I suppose I wouldn't rely so much on wood. I think geothermal is a good form of electric heat. That's also a large initial investment. I guess what I hate most about heating costs is that it's gone forever.
@thumbcountrystuff4215 Wood helps you get your exercise as well..just don't hurt yourself. My wife grew up burning in a stove that sits in the living room. Bedrooms were cold but that's what night clothes, socks,and blankets are for.
@nilsalmgren4492 Good snuggling temperature.
I've burnt wood for space heating most of my 73 years. My first and current Central boiler was brought into the fold in 2004. Then came the wood sheds and now I am pretty much setup. Aging will play an important in my ability to keep up with the demands of harvesting the logs and processing but its a lifestyle that I love and you do great favours to the bush by maintaining it. Watching the trees grow healthy over the years is most rewarding while removing those that are damaged or diseased or crowding. It is a wonderful life!
That sounds familiar. I started burning wood after the Emerald Ash Borer came through. I asked the neighbor if I could cut a few trails through his woods for the deer. He was happy to let me do it. After 9 years of cleaning and natural recovery, it's no a beautiful woods. So there's much more to it than just firewood. Thanks for pointing that out!
@@thumbcountrystuff4215 Ah yes the pesky ash borer! Those guys stopped by two years ago and are determined to stick around. Talk about trying to keep up with the damage they do......Luckily most of my ash trees are growing in old fields so I decided to reclaim the fields back to their former glory.
Wood is almost never free. You are always burning the value of the wood. Even if someone gave it to you. Its always worth money because you could sell it. Put it this way would you consider burning your cash on hand in your boiler free heat. Wood is cash in hand that your burning and that must always be considered.
Well said. Thanks!
Exactly, you could sell all that firewood and buy propane and go fishing all winter haha. I burn about 12 face cord a year plus probably 5 in the maple syrup evaporator. I do it because it's slow on the farm in the winter and I need to clear pastures.
It is fun and rewarding to some. I am one of those who think so also.
That's true that's why I hand split and sell 20 face cord a year. We have natural gas and newer house here in Ontario so it's not worth burning myself. Everyone's situation is unique to each their own as well. But I find too often people fool themselves into thinking the wood they harvest is free fuel.
Thanks for the video ! First time watching your channel, good information on wood boiler! I have a wood stove, enjoy the wood heat ! 😊
Thanks for watching and the nice comments!
I love firewood but with a wood stove. Not boilers. Back up propane....
We're on the same mindset! Thanks for watching!
I have a wood pellet stove and loved it UNTIL this year. I turned 73, and dammit I can't lift those 40 lb bags anymore.
My father in law just turned 90. He farmed until last year. He had to split bags of corn into 3 pails to fill the planter. So don't give up on the pellets!
Some places like Quebec are banning wood, oil and gas burning heating systems including fireplaces.
That's nuts!
They are banning eating meat too. Breathing will be next....
Canada is being ruined by crazy stupid liberals in the big cities. You guys have to get Trudeau out of there. Huge abundance of natural resources in Canada and the greenies don’t want to use it.
What is your time worth, how many hours do you spend cutting wood? You do have to figure your time and effort into the cost as well
I spend about 100 hours a year filling the woodshed. I do it in unproductive time. The time I use would be wasted watching TV (or UA-cam)
@@thumbcountrystuff4215 - bingo
Great not supporting fossil fuel
True green energy.
@@thumbcountrystuff4215 - ya no. Trucking, steel making, chainsaws. alternative energy.
Drill baby drill. Dig baby dig!
@36handy OK, renewable. I like your idea too though.
We've considered purchasing a Central Boiler a time or two, but despite asking several owners of them, none can tell us how many cords they use a year. They all cut their own wood and don't keep track it seems. But it's an important factor in order to compare to propane and if you had to buy all your wood. BTW we heat 3,000 sq ft here and our propane cost for our hot water boiler system is over $6,000 per year in NW Indiana.
I live in far, northern Wisconsin. I burn 4-5 cords of very low quality wood per season. 1100 sq ft not so efficient log cabin and basement. My wood comes from my land and is primarily storm damaged, Aspen, pine, a few snapped off Maple. Along with 3" and smaller upper limbs from other trees I cut. I sell hardwood, firewood so I have lots of upper limbs along with some knots that are cut out of oak and sugar maple. We get many days in the teens and a good number of nights down to -20°. If I leave home for more than 2 nights I fill the boiler with hardwood. It will last a little over 3 days. With the poor quality wood, it lasts about a day and a half sometimes 2. I hope this helps
I use about 15 full cords in a season. I would guess my house and shop total is about 4000 square feet. I have about 300 feet of line buried and I'm sure I lose some there.
@@thumbcountrystuff4215 what brand boiler do you have?
@ST-xx9rt I have a central boiler classic edge 750. I have no complaints at all. I have no doubt that it will last for at least the remainder of the 25 year warranty.
@@thumbcountrystuff4215 I have a 14 yo.Central boiler, CL6068. It's sized for running "two units" I used to heat my log cabin and a 16x80 trailer house. Now it's just the cabin and periodic heating of an 80 yo. Uninsulated garage where I work on my crap. I made a modine style heater out of, two pick up radiators, and a box fan. Works surprisingly well, although I need to turn it on the night before if I'm going to be in there for a whole day. I have mine set to heat the water to 150°. The cabin has radiant heat in the floor with tempering valves so I found no need to run the boiler, Any hotter. That may save me a fair amount of wood. I think it's a wonderful unit and being that I burn wood that I normally would leave in the woods to rot, All it costs is the electricity to run the pumps and enough chainsaw gas to chunk up the trees. And my time. Keeps me out of the tavern so it's good thing
I heat 3,400 square feet with about 100 million BTU a winter. Something that big would be impractical for heating our home here in Alaska.
Curious- how are you heating now?
@ Happy New Year! We are heating with oil using 2 Toyo 15,000 BTU heaters. We use about 600 gallons a winter.I also burn a little over a cord of wood in a Vermont Castings Aspen. I am putting a gas hydronic system in as gas was run down our road last year. I fire the wood stove up when it gets around zero. It is -10 now and last winter we saw some mornings with it -45. It is a duplex that we live in one half and I’m just finishing the drywall in the other half. It’s an out of pocket thing. Both halves have basements with south facing entrances. The foundation has 4” of blue board to the footings. We live in gravel that can be sold so we have great drainage, a glacier moraine. The walls are double stud with R-40 closed cell foam and the ceiling is R-59 with R-38 batts over R-21 batts of fiber glass. We are in a small south facing hill with the horizon to the east 15-20 miles away and to the west 35-100 miles away. We have close to 200 square feet of glass on the south wall. We also over look a wetlands the locals call “moose alley “. I just saw two in it before I sat down with my coffee.
Some state building codes don't allow you to have a wood stove as your primary heat source. I can always turn the heat on even though I heat with wood.
Leave it to government thinking...
That is when you either move or vote out the silliness.
Let's face it, today's government is a total turd and there is always some underground motive to minimize individualism and independence from the system.
Bought a wood heater installed it in my heat bill went down about half
Good investment!
How much was the heater?
@36handy honestly, I can't remember. $12k sticks in my head. I installed it myself... I will look it up for a future video.
Most insurance companies won’t insure you now if have a wood stove.I say screw them and take my chances
Suprising but mine was fine with it. But it's 200 feet from the house and 100ft from the barn.
I made the decision to go with a geothermal heat pump about 15 years ago. Glad I did!!
My parents have that. They like to as well.
While everyone here that has commented has their own opinion, and their opinions are not wrong,especially to them, what I think is missing is the satisfaction of heating with wood and just enjoying doing something that makes one feel more independent. When one feels more independent, you can not put a price on that, no matter what it is.
That's huge. Thanks!
Battery storage only if you’re off the grid otherwise it more than pays for itself, mine has.
Off grid sounds good.
@@thumbcountrystuff4215 Off grid if you're lucky!