From the "back" deck, looking left.
For those who haven't been here our property is outlined below. It is about 400' by 500' and starts about 250' off the county road. Our house is the building in the middle of the property. The back of the house is towards our pond, and the road. Now that some leaves have fallen we can see the traffic on the county road.
I'm still quite pleased with our outdoor wood furnace/boiler. I don't know if I would install a new one ($10-15,000?), the payback can't be that great even if you have your own wood supply. It takes a LOT of labor to cut the wood. I estimate that it will take 10-12 cords to heat our house during an average winter. You also have the bother of filling it once or twice a day, depending on how cold it is. We can burn our propane furnace if we want, the switch over is automatic. Don't put wood in the wood furnace/boiler and once the water temp drops below 100 degrees it quits sending hot water to the coil inside the house. At that point the propane furnace will kick in. The outdoor furnace guy told me that if you set the thermostat so that you are heating with propane the wood furnace will "idle" (keep the water in the boiler hot) for a week, thus minimizing the concerns about the water freezing and damaging the boiler and piping.
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