This was the third year that we lived without natural gas in our home, along with those pesky gas bills. I built this heater from recycled material.
Inside of the stove are 60 feet of 1" schedule 80 steel coils.
Here is our new wood box I built last year,
And the Dutch door that we fill the box through in the winter. Sure saves heat leaving the house every time you need an arm full of wood.
Behind the stone wall is the rest of the unit, pipes, pumps and storage tanks.
The unit burns a very hot fire and stores the heat in the tank. We draw the heat from the tank by the setting on the thermostat. Our domestic hot water is also heated by this stove through a stainless steel exchanger. Last year we burned 4 cords of wood to heat our 1800 sq foot house, our water and we cook on the stove also.
Gathering wood is work but I tell you this, we would have it no other way. No gas bills and loving it. Joseph.