Anyone on here have the EPA certified wood boilers if so what brand and let me know your experiences good or bad. Do they really burn that much less wood as advertised? Like I said good and the bad thanks

I hear they burn less but are alot more headaches. I have a CB CL40 and will never give it up.

Nobody has any experience with one?

Central Boiler 750 edge HD stainless that I am currently running. ive also ran the Central Boiler Eclassic 2400 and the CB 6048's. This by far is my favourite furnace. Easy to use, and yes they burn much less wood. Very efficient. But you should have your wood split and seasoned. I am a dealer for Central Boiler and I run a new furnace every 3 or 4 years and sell them as demos so I can keep up to date with different /new products.. I heat a large home, shop and all my domestic hot water.

Hartman thanks for the info. I currently have a conventional CB 5036 and she loves to eat wood but I sold my house and it went with it. I have yet to talk to someone around me (other then dealers of different brands) that owns a gasifier and sure would like too. Take no offense to this Hartman but I’m hoping to hear perspective from others who own one that is not a dealer. I’m not looking to be sold on a certain brand just want to know if they truly burn less and if anyone has had any issues. I have seen some and there is a lot more to them then the old conventional wood boilers.

I was looking at a gasifier a few years ago and ended up with a 5036. The dealer had one of the gasifiers going on his shop and said it was much more efficient but much more finicky and as Hartman said the wood had to be split and good and seasoned then stored out of the weather. I just pile mine in the yard so we agreed it wasn't a good option for me and I stuck with the classic.

You can get around the regulations, the last I heard, by buying a commerical class incinerator. I have 2 or 3, they hold a skidsteer bucket full of wood. I'm no longer interested in it. When you consider the time to get the wood, or if you have to pay for it, labor of cleaning it. They use electricity, the fan. A geothermal system will usually operate cheaper.

I was heating a 30,000 gallon indoor pool, a 50X 75 non insulated building and a house with the ones I have. It seems you are going to lose heat from the transmission distance. We were buying 18wheeler truck loads to keep the thing going. Everyone I talk to say the outdoor woodburners waste too much wood.

I am heating around 2700 sq ft on about 9 cord of mostly pine. I only clean mine at the first nice weather around xmas and then when I am done in the spring.

What unit do you have?

A CL 40 Central Boiler. 1995 version. Works great and I really only clean it twice a season. The first time does not need it when I do it but we normally get a decent day around New Year so I do it then. I shut mine down around April 25th or so. And right now there is not very much ash in it and it has been almost 2 months.

Go with Heatmor,great stove and simple operation.

I've visited people with gasifier furnaces. They do burn less wood, But you have to split and keep it dry. If you don't, bad things can happen. Our family runs an old school furnace that burns oodles of wood.

I burn the old type of boiler the trees need to eat too!

Here in Mi has to be EPA phase II certified since 2015 when buying new for a house. So old styles are not an option. Far as splitting wood not an issue as it’s all smaller stuff.

Most of the wood we burn is from big trees.

Lots of big here too but lots of tops after logging jobs much smaller so don’t need splitting. Big stuff I split even with my old boiler as it more more efficient when dryer. I like my old boiler but it’s gone now with house.

Our family makes wood together. My brothers do the cutting. I do splitting and stacking.