What is a long wood duel fuel furnace

[critterluv]

There is on for sale in our local shopper, anyone know what it is? is it one of those outside stoves? Thanks for any info

[agmantoo]

I had an outside "water" stove that had a huge reservoir from which hot water was circulated to the house as a source of extracting heat. It was a dual source heater in that it burned wood (very long lengths) when someone was home to feed it. When it was not fed it could be put on auto and the alternate source, fuel oil, supplied the heat source. The stove had a 10 years life and rusted through. Personally I will never own another stove that has the heat storage and the fire box built together. I would think they are referencing something like the stove mentioned above.

[Cotton Picker]

Originally Posted by critterluv

There is on for sale in our local shopper, anyone know what it is? is it one of those outside stoves? Thanks for any info

My former in-laws had one. They had it set up an attached garage. It had a door about 12" square where you could feed the wood into it. The firebox was deep, therefore the "Longwood" reference. Theirs had an attached propane burner, so it could be used as either or, wood/propane. My estimation is a fuel oil burner would also adapt to it as well.

I liked it because of the versatility of using short or long lengths of wood. As anyone who has burned wood knows, it's difficult to get every stick the right length with a short firebox. I also liked the option of the propane burner. In the spring and fall when the weather wasn't cold enough for a 24/7 fire, I would stack some wood in the firebox and set the thermostat. The propane would fire up when the thermostat would call for heat and ignite the wood, (no need for kindling.) When the house temp would rise above the thermostat setting the propane would cease. By that time the wood was lit and the house would be heated by wood from there.

They used theirs for over twenty years (until they sold the place) with, as far as I know, no problems.

[critterluv]

Thanks everyone, My FIL is wanting to find a stove he can put on the back patio (fully enclosed) and pump heat into the house. Ill let him know to go look at it and see if it will work for him.

[MELOC]

i have an eshland wood/oil boiler in the basement. if the chimney had not gone bad, i would happy and warm right now. it was installed in the mid 1980's and it still works fine. it has a fairly long firebox and oil back-up. it also has a coil for domestic hot water.