a real wood burning fireplace is possible
A few wood burning units are available for boats and small spaces. has anyone tried ?
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We have a mobile "pizza bus" which is a small school bus that was re purposed into a mobile pizza unit.
They have a wood burning pizza oven inside.
I followed it one winter day, they had all the windows down and smoke billowing out ALL the windows.
As funny as that looked, it is no joke when it comes to your safety.
I USE a purpose built wood furnace in my home through out the winter, wood heat applied in a SAFE manner is great, BUT, it is nothing to flippantly play with. Wood fires can easily exceed 1000 degrees in a short time, you have creosote fires which can easily melt single wall pipes. You have dust, ash, embers to deal with.
My wood furnace REQUIRES 24" clearance on the front, back, sides and top from any combustibles (and that is with a air jacket with forced air fan). It also requires a non combustible surface to sit on.
The you have another major danger to consider... Wood fired appliances require a good draft to work, this means you will need a CHIMNEY which is taller than a few feet. The chimney MUST be kept warm at all times while there is any embers or you will not wake up...
In such a small area like a RV I would think that is is highly impracticable to install, use, maintain a wood fired appliance SAFELY.
I realize that there is a few woodfired appliances marketed for RV/marine use, I for one would not consider such a application...
By the way, wood even if it "free" to get is not free. YOU must put considerable amount of work and money into it. I have at least two chainsaws ($800 at a min), chains and sprockets were out so those cost $30 for each saw every few years. Burned two gallons of fuel this year ($9 fuel and oil), a gallon of bar oil ($9) and a new log splitter this year ($1200, I am tired of wood mauls and noodling).
My wood furnace 25yrs cost me $1000, 35ft of triple wall pipe was $400, now days that same furnace is $1800 and triple wall pipe is $1000..
I spent two months felling, cutting, splitting 4.5 cords of wood.
I also used a tractor with front loader to move and haul wood up steep hills out of the woods to my storage area (that was an expensive purchase 5 yrs ago but well worth the savings on my back).
Then there is storage, nothing worse than having soggy, damp, soaked frozen, snowed on firewood. So, I bought a temporary "shelter" a few years ago for $200, it is now at the point I will need to replace and most likely build a 12x20 shelter ($5K or better)..
Burning "green" fresh cut firewood is a complete no-no, all your heat goes up the chimney, it is hard to start, hard to keep burning until it dries out, it smokes and smolders. So you need at a minimum of 6 months of decent warm weather to dry the wood..
While I do like my lower gas bills, it is not free...
They have a wood burning pizza oven inside.
I followed it one winter day, they had all the windows down and smoke billowing out ALL the windows.
As funny as that looked, it is no joke when it comes to your safety.
I USE a purpose built wood furnace in my home through out the winter, wood heat applied in a SAFE manner is great, BUT, it is nothing to flippantly play with. Wood fires can easily exceed 1000 degrees in a short time, you have creosote fires which can easily melt single wall pipes. You have dust, ash, embers to deal with.
My wood furnace REQUIRES 24" clearance on the front, back, sides and top from any combustibles (and that is with a air jacket with forced air fan). It also requires a non combustible surface to sit on.
The you have another major danger to consider... Wood fired appliances require a good draft to work, this means you will need a CHIMNEY which is taller than a few feet. The chimney MUST be kept warm at all times while there is any embers or you will not wake up...
In such a small area like a RV I would think that is is highly impracticable to install, use, maintain a wood fired appliance SAFELY.
I realize that there is a few woodfired appliances marketed for RV/marine use, I for one would not consider such a application...
By the way, wood even if it "free" to get is not free. YOU must put considerable amount of work and money into it. I have at least two chainsaws ($800 at a min), chains and sprockets were out so those cost $30 for each saw every few years. Burned two gallons of fuel this year ($9 fuel and oil), a gallon of bar oil ($9) and a new log splitter this year ($1200, I am tired of wood mauls and noodling).
My wood furnace 25yrs cost me $1000, 35ft of triple wall pipe was $400, now days that same furnace is $1800 and triple wall pipe is $1000..
I spent two months felling, cutting, splitting 4.5 cords of wood.
I also used a tractor with front loader to move and haul wood up steep hills out of the woods to my storage area (that was an expensive purchase 5 yrs ago but well worth the savings on my back).
Then there is storage, nothing worse than having soggy, damp, soaked frozen, snowed on firewood. So, I bought a temporary "shelter" a few years ago for $200, it is now at the point I will need to replace and most likely build a 12x20 shelter ($5K or better)..
Burning "green" fresh cut firewood is a complete no-no, all your heat goes up the chimney, it is hard to start, hard to keep burning until it dries out, it smokes and smolders. So you need at a minimum of 6 months of decent warm weather to dry the wood..
While I do like my lower gas bills, it is not free...
