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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Well, if I run across an article or adv. sometime, I'll post, now that I 
understand better that for which you are looking.  Goof luck....bobford


--- On Thu, 10/23/08, Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com> wrote:

> From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Wood-fired water heating
> To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Thursday, October 23, 2008, 4:20 PM
> On Oct 23, 2008, at 3:00 PM, bob ford wrote:
> 
> > Gene, I found these (6) listed in countryside.  I have
> no idea if  
> > one or more will have what you need. .....bobford
> >
> > http://centralboiler.com/
> >
> > http://charmaster.com/
> >
> > http://hardyheater.com/
> >
> > http://www.greenwoodusa.com/index.php
> >
> > http://lamppakuuma.com/
> >
> > http://heatmor.com/
> 
> Bob, thank you for making that effort. These are all big
> home-heating  
> units intended to be installed outside the home and are
> very expensive  
> to a homesteader mindset. They send heat to the house via
> water in  
> insulated pipes. I bought plans to build one--it may have
> been called  
> Hhasa or something like that--several decades ago. Should I
> decide on  
> that design I would build it and save thousands.
> 
> Years ago a builder friend built a house for a lady who
> wanted hot  
> water heated by wood. I looked at the unit and it was not
> much bigger  
> than a typical electric- or gas-fired water heater that all
> urban  
> houses use. Looked like a skinny upright cast iron heating
> stove.  
> That's what I am looking for.
> 
> The thing about the big units, other than the
> multiple-thousand-dollar  
> price, is that they are designed for winter. They will heat
> a house  
> plus provide domestic hot water. But hot water is needed
> year round.  
> To keep throwing wood into these big units would be pretty
> inefficient  
> from about April through October at Heartwood.