wood fired water boiler

B. Tice

I have quite a bit of experience with these.I have seen alot of different makes.But HS Tarm is THE way to go. Period.

Wethead7

wooded fired boiler

I have several customers wanting solid fuel hydronic boilers. The problem is I have not found any product That I am happy with. I would prefer indoor pressurized units. Does anybody have any ideas.

By the way we are north west of Kansas City slightly

Mike

Mark Hunt

HS TARM


Gasification boiler.

If you are going to do it. Do it right.

Mark H.



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Floyd_2

Check out Harmon

www.harmanstoves.com
They make a great wood/coal boiler for indoors.
Punch in your zip and get a dealer close to you.

hr

You are wise

to go with pressurized, in my opinion. Stay away from the "tin" drum types. Tarm seems very prevelent, not sure about code listings required in your area, however.

I see Buderus has a couple wood fired in their catalog again. Probably a well built cast iron product.

There are some made in Canada also, Kerr rings a bell, maybe others can drop some names.

Try a web search for wood fired boilers.

Make sure you, or the installer, understands piping, controls, and the importance of buffer/ storage for a headache free installation.

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Lloyd Nichols, Tarm USA Inc

Check out Tarm boilers

at www.woodboilers.com or give me a call at 1-800-782-9927. We are very serious about professional grade, wood-fired hydronic heating systems.

Lloyd Nichols

EDDIE GRIERSON_2

Tarm

Used the Tarm a couple of times. I have been pleased so far. I have used them with four way valves and buffer tank. I would recommend having a dump circuit to get rid of excess heat. Good Luck!

J.C.A.

I saw.....

quite a few Buderus wood/coal boilers sitting on the shelves in the factory warehouse just this morning . The instructor says they're not moving too fast so maybe you can strike a good deal with them . Looks like a nice , cast iron unit with the usual blue jacket . Chris

1-800-BUDERUS.

greg_7

I have gone over a Buderus unit. They are very nice cast iron hand-fired units with a shaker grate. As a matter of fact they are sort of a throwback to the later model American Standard, etc anthracite boilers of the 1940s.

I would expect that Buderus unit would melt a house with a pile of red hot Anthracite on the grate. Wood? I'm not as sure.

Wood is a lot of work for the heat. It doesn't have the BTUs of coal or gas or oil. Hence much more stoking and attention. necessary.

Everytime I drive by one of those outdoor boxes I pity the poor fool who stokes it.

My choice would be anthacite (hard) coal. KC might not have any dealers though.

There are a many units available. But an automatic boiler is the way to go. Harmon, Keystoker, EFM, A.H.S. and Axeman Anderson all make autonmatic stoker-fed hard coal units.

I have used an Axeman-Anderson for two years and it has been great.


What about corn? There are corn fueled boilers availible. Corn burns hot.

Tarm is very nice, but wood is a lot of work for the money and probably more polluting. The owner will be married to the boiler.

joel_14

Tarm

Rules, best I've seen there are quite afew around here been chugging away for 20+years.