Homemade Wood stove Secondary Combustion

[danalancasto]

There are more trees in the US today than there were 70 years ago, and our tree growth outgrows our cutting and production by 31% a year so to anyone complaining otherwise, please unplug your keyboards.

I'm a sawmiller, cabinet maker, and soon to be tree farm grower.

[AMULET72]

@danalancasto i think those figures are even higher here in europe for managed forests. i'm not too sure if i really buy into alot of the doom and gloom around CO2 and global warming. i believe something is happening for sure but is it as bad as we are being told? i really dont know who to believe. but in the mean time.....i'll be burning wood and turf.

[chainlinkdreams]

Talladega nights FTW!!!

[frankt04]

I'm pretty sure it was 4th grade that we learned that co2 is food for trees. My god people are stupid...

[firewoodguy2009]

what the fuck

[waltersd71]

just watched how its made on tv a dual combution produces .24 onces of emissions an hour compared to .5 ounces of single combustion

[jimbob3514]

Nice fire... could i burn frogs teeth in one of these??

[rdn0301]

lol... Talladega nights playing in the background.

[mythril4]

Pipe your chimneys into the citys, let get these city folk addicted to fire places...JK No really though, fireplaces are none polluting, people just think they are because of their ignorence. There really is a difference between good and bad smoke. Ash and soot, interestingly used to make charcol for air cleaners. The ash in a charcol mixture has the unique abbility to absorb bad toxins. Can you guess what fireplace smoke mostly is?

[definca]

Burning gas adds tons of carbon the the air. wood burning is net zero because it cleans the air as a tree. Also who wants to be in chains to the utility company. Wood burning is beautiful, gas is a joke. I would like to the the chimney outside this stove it looks like its not burning at high efficiency

[kenfo0]

@definca Who cares if something emits CO2? Anyone who believes the fraud of MMGW needs to stop breathing immediately... for the good of the cause.

[novaboi72]

is it Talladega nights? lol

[Rockinghorseshart]

Was the background noise intentional or purely coincidental? (listen to 0.23secs, fire, fire ....etc)

[Positrack1]

What the hell were you watching on TV?! :)

The stove does look like it burns very well.

[40markava]

I ive in NYC and can scronge easy five cords a year. I keep a saw in my trunk and keep my eyes open. The trees at the curb go down after storms and the park dept comes and sends them to the land fill!  What a waste! If I didnt burn wood I would be ordering Heating oil. So this discarded wood is displacing fossel fuel! my neighbors say they never smell smoke due to my EPA cert. stove and good seasoned wood!

[mongoose135]

In upstate NY, they are making it illegal to use wood to heat your house. Can you believe that? Because the smoke can go into your neighbors airspace and hurt their breathing.

[cdimmm]

Well then they better make automobiles illegal also.

[thothbilliardsinc]

HAHA I'm amused with people saying that it's dirty and your polluting. Did you know that 1/3 of Canada is covered with Borel Forest. The Borel Forest is supposed to burn every 100 years or so. That is a lot of natural wood smoke! Currently we put out all the forest fires we can natural or not. That makes for unusually old forests. Wood stoves are just fine. I say if you live away from the city and don't mind the extra work, go for it. It's the cheapest thing around.

[sanydman247]

@thothbilliardsinc pff i only cut down dead trees to live with in my needs.But as the years go by more and more people build houses and cut down live trees to live with in their selfless so called needs. In just a few years all the trees around here will be gone forever....... except mine :( on the 10 acres i have

[educationforu]

Careful. Wood smoke produces particulate matter much smaller and deadlier than second hand tobacco smoke. what about solar or wind power? Technology has come a long way since the days of the cave people!

[WorldStove]

well done

[oldsleds64]

haha, listening to the Talladegha Nights commercial, huh? Nice man, nice stove too!

[DanielJaegerFilms]

This is Homemade?

[nitrogeb]

what's the secondary combustion?

[ruiferreira89]

A hot fire with little oxygen produces CO instead of CO2 (CO has one less atom of oxygen per molecule). CO is thus flammable and if you feed some oxygen into the smoke, CO will burn to CO2 in what is known as a secondary combustion. The same principle has been used during WWII to make gas that was filtered, cooled, mixed with air and burnt in engines that were made to work with (then rationed) gasoline.

[nitrogeb]

oh,i know that... but i am italian and i don't know a lot of english verbs....

[ruiferreira89]

I'm Portuguese, so that's ok by me. Most english speakers wouldn't care to learn any of our languages, so...

[nitrogeb]

yes... we must learn their language....or we 'll be out..

[jakeheataolcom]

ha 25 (help me Jesus)

[glen196969]

any chance of plans? I have in the works, a 2" pipe with an elbow in my flew. the 2" pipe will renter the stove under the flame to be burned again. I will T off and cap inside. a few holes should cause a draw I hope.

[manulonch]

Can you maybe make pictures of drawings of your system ??

[Gungedin]

Well, I added rails along the rear of the firebox to bring preheated secondary combustion air to the tubes above the firebox. I'm very familiar with the Vigilant you have. I've contemplated messing with one of them. If you disassembled and insulated the rear chamber with refractory, and added a bit more secondary air I bet you could get an unbelievable secondary combustion system.

[OxenHandler]

Yeah, congratulations. How did you do it? I have an early pre catalytic Vigilant from Vermont Castings. It's a huge cast iron box. No secondary burn. I want to do to it what you've done.

[JonSpink]

it looks really good, does it do gasification? where did you get the plans for it?

[Gungedin]

It does burn smoke free about 30 minutes after a reload. Where did I state otherwise?

[ROCKSOLID19]

Its not burning efficiently enough. It shouldnt make any smoke at all after 30 minutes or so, yes its homemade. Better than paying an energy bill to those corrupt bastards who run energy firms.

[educationforu]

You are creating pollutants. Better to purchase clean energy. I do. Acting like a frustrated child isn't the solution to high energy costs. Why is it necessarily bad that energy costs are high? We should use less.

[SkodaMart]

Secondary combustion burns the smoke, a modern wood burning stove is more efficient than a gas fire!

[HomeDistiller]

not really true at all... gas is much cleaner than any wood fire secondary burning or not.. but i have never seen a home wood fire that is more efficient than gas (your saying you use 10-15kg of gas a day? thats about how much a small efficient wood fire set to a slow burn will use)

[SkodaMart]

Wood is a renewable source of energy, gas is not.....Go figure! The guys burning wood on super efficient woodstoves will be the ones who have the last laugh! Unless you fancy curling up in front of a small nuclear reactor?

[HomeDistiller]

well your kinda wrong bio-gas will be easier to produce and cheaper to move around than wood so i think gas will out live wood fires

[HoofSupport]

WTF do you think secondary combustion is?? Its BIOGAS burning from BIOMATTER.....

[HomeDistiller]

i fail to see how that relates as exacting the gas (biogas as you put it) from wood via heat is not combustion, what i am saying its easier to make bio-gas at the source then pipe it around (as the infrastructure is already in place) then to transport tons of wood around the place, gas is instant and as efficient when you light it as it is 2 hours of burning time. you dont need to wait for the stove to heat up to burn the fuel efficiently

[kenfo0]

@HoofSupport I'm not sure smoke is "bio-gas".