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east texas

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hotwater
« on: December 02, 2011, 05:07:33 PM »

this is my summertime water heater, i can shut off the electric one and use this to have scaldin hot water! its cheep and easy! it dont do too good in the winter with cloudy days, but im lookin fer another tank to set up on some blocks, that i could throw a couple sticks of pine under fer the winter heatin! they say an electric water heater is 20 %  of yer electric bill, ive never figured it out, but with out power,i can still have hot water!

     
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Re: hotwater
« Reply #1 on: December 02, 2011, 05:49:32 PM »

Gud idea  )J%
The fire under nuther tank is a really gud idea  :-*
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« Reply #2 on: December 03, 2011, 05:12:03 AM »

I like that idea ET.
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east texas

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« Reply #3 on: December 06, 2011, 07:41:27 AM »

thanx guy, its cheap easy and it works!
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Re: hotwater
« Reply #4 on: February 14, 2012, 07:06:38 AM »

I love this idea, I'm just trying to figure out how to hurricane proof it.
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« Reply #5 on: February 14, 2012, 08:03:23 AM »

That is 2 words that DO NOT go together Jerry, you know hurricane and proof. I built beach house for years and we built em tough, only to have the returning surge wash the pilings out and the houses either pitched over or sunk straight down! Oh yea Mike your stuff is cool too!  ):=
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Re: hotwater
« Reply #6 on: February 14, 2012, 10:55:56 AM »

git yurself an old gas water heater and rip the tank out of it. It will have a tube goin all the way up through the middle for the flue and that is the base for your woodfired water heater. All you need to do then is wrap the bottom with some fairly thick metal or even the bottom of a larger water tank that you cut and made a door in and made a grate for. Presto, you got a woodfired water heater! the tube lets the water heat up fast as the flames an smoke travel up the center of the tank. Make damn sure you got a pop off valve in workin condition or you will melt all the damn PVC water lines within 40 feet of the tank. Don't ask me how I know this... ;)
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Re: hotwater
« Reply #7 on: February 14, 2012, 08:24:23 PM »

this is my summertime water heater, i can shut off the electric one and use this to have scaldin hot water! its cheep and easy! it dont do too good in the winter with cloudy days, but im lookin fer another tank to set up on some blocks, that i could throw a couple sticks of pine under fer the winter heatin! they say an electric water heater is 20 %  of yer electric bill, ive never figured it out, but with out power,i can still have hot water!  built one in the 70's from scrap and about $8.00 in fittings and covered it polyethylene sheet, got 110-120 f. water.

     
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Re: hotwater
« Reply #8 on: June 02, 2012, 08:43:03 PM »

I have a cabin on a remote lake in central British Columbia, Canada.
No power, though we have propane lighting in the cabin, and a combination wood/propane stove for cooking and heating.
For our shower, we use those Solar Shower bags. They work great!
Too great, if you leave them in the Sun too long. Then, you have to cool the shower water with a bit of cold lake water.
Same principle as yours, but yours is a much larger scale.
I'm still thinking of getting a metal garbage can, putting an H-shaped propane burner from a barbecue under it, and heating water that way. Also thinking of making the H-shaped burner quickly removable, inside a larger barrel that can double as a firebox.
We have a separate water tower for gravity fed water to the sink. Gas pump fills the 40-gallon tank directly from the lake. We drink straight from the lake. Everyone does. Never had a problem with purity.
Yours looks like a great system.
It's amazing how quickly water will heat in a black container. Met a family camping years ago that had a black plastic 5-gallon bucket they'd fill with water, then hoist up over a limb with block and tackle. This gave them hot water for washing dishes and hands. A length of garden hose led to the little table they used.
Good system. Not so good in the morning, after it's cooled at night. Perhaps an insulated jacket around the bucket after sundown would have saved some of the warmth for morning. I don't know.
One thing people tend to forget, though: water is very heavy. A gallon of water weighs about 8 pounds.
You fill a 55-gallon drum with water, and you've got 440 pounds to wrestle with. That's why we used a 40-gallon tank in our water tower. Filling directly from the lake is easy, and 40 gallons lasts the two of us a few days.
And occasionally we get "protein" at the tap: a tiny freshwater shrimp!  ;)
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« Reply #9 on: June 04, 2012, 04:38:05 PM »

I pull water from a spring that runs out of a cave beside my house, havent sucked anything live up yet but Im sure we get a bit of crawdad poo! I plan to do something like Indy was talkin about, and heat the cabin with radiators this winter instead of the woodstove inside....and I have scalded myself with water from a blue water jug in the sun I cant imagine how hot it would get being black.
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