Simple Wood Fired Water Heater in Off Grid Cabin

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We have been using this wood fired water heater for many years in this off grid cabin. This is a continuous flow water heater. It is plumbed just like a conventional water heater. The name on it is Hotpro. Also AquaFire. When heated the tank holds enough hot water to do the dishes and two showers. If the fire is kept going, it can do more. It does not take much wood to heat the water. I like to use small wood scraps.
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@Kevin.L_ 5 месяцев назад

I vote for a part 2.

@pjseiber2774 5 месяцев назад

I'd prefer to see part 3 first😂

@andysmith8544 5 месяцев назад

Growing up we had a water pre-heater that ran a water line through a wood stove, and into a pre-heated water tank that fed the electric water heater. It had a pressure release valve for safety and would occasionally dump hot water out on the cellar floor next to a water drain. All homemade, prompted by the early 70's energy crisis and the sudden spike in the cost of electricity.

@WilsonForestLands 5 месяцев назад

It’s good they put a pressure release in it. I have heard stories of people trying to make water heaters and they don’t realize they are making a bomb.

@calebdoner 4 месяца назад

Off grid cabin tour please!!!!! I would love to see how you have your different systems set up.

@DanielAtkinsFirewood 5 месяцев назад

For an off grid cabin or in case power goes out, this would be neat.

@WilsonForestLands 5 месяцев назад

Yep it works well in this cabin. No one lives here but it’s good for when someone is here once in a while.

@edwinlikeshistractor8521 5 месяцев назад

Shiny boots. Truely a different look. A look at alternative ways of getting a hot water shower is always welcome.

@WilsonForestLands 5 месяцев назад

Those boots are no longer shiny. There are reasons why I can’t have nice things. 😁

@Neilson-ve9si 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for the time and great content, Micheal

@Pamela.B Месяц назад

Thanks for sharing! ❤ Was very informative, humorous & entertaining (as I watched it at 2X speed :)

@tims6232 5 месяцев назад

From home inspectors like me across the nation.....Thank you for defining the proper terminology of that tank thingy that make hot water for us all! 😊

@WilsonForestLands 5 месяцев назад

Tank thingy that makes hot water. I like that one. 😁

@dennisworkmansr.714 5 месяцев назад

We all have these "hot water tank thingy's"@@WilsonForestLands

@tims6232 5 месяцев назад

@@WilsonForestLands real curious what is your take on Oregon CAFO and the groundwater being legislated as public domain? Also I for one would love to see videos of your gardening setup/practices in general or specific. Love your videos Michael, keep up the good work brother 👍

@benjamincresswell3713 5 месяцев назад

Ah your mother wears army boots. Are saying you can't have a cold water heater? A heater that makes water hot is a hot water heater. If you tried to make a compound word out of it like hotwater heater it wouldn't make sense. But to have a heater that produces hot water can certainly be called hot water heater as well as a heater that produces warm water can be called a warm water heater.

@hobbyfarmer62 5 месяцев назад

First of you are correct it is a water heater. That is one of the coolest off grid units I have ever seen, yes with the boom in off grid living surprised someone doesn't make one. If I was a few years younger would give real thought to making some.

@WilsonForestLands 5 месяцев назад

Yeah I would think with some good marketing something like this would sell well in the off grid community.

@zactillett9820 5 месяцев назад

This is becoming one of the vest channels on youtube. Also lehman makes one i believe still.

@topher174 5 месяцев назад

Of course youtube will not allow posted links. Acorn Metal Products in Australia sells them.

@VIVA4EVER2001 5 месяцев назад

When I was a lad we had an old cast iron bath outside which we filled with water (cold) then we lit a bonfire underneath it, it was great, you should try it at your place. The good thing is you can use big logs.

@WilsonForestLands 5 месяцев назад

If you look at my previous video, right next to the grill is just what you describe. A cast iron bath we build a fire under. 😁

@billyrayvalentine9360 5 месяцев назад

"just throw em over the bank" you just recreated one of the ending scenes of The Big Lebowski

@Jesus4444me 5 месяцев назад

The best movie!

@WilsonForestLands 5 месяцев назад

What is funny is I ended up watching that movie a couple days after I shot the video. I forgot all about that part in my video until I edited it the day after I saw the movie. I had one of those laughing moments.

@VicsYard 5 месяцев назад

We have a wood boiler manufacturer near me in upstate NY. “Thermo-Control” I have experience with them. Kinda like an outdoor wood boiler but for inside.

@user-nr5xn8rc6v 5 месяцев назад

This is great,nothing beats boiling water on the stove. LoL

@goatstead814 5 месяцев назад

Cool water heater, we use to have a line running through the coal furnace into a dummy tank that the electric heater would draw from. Basically free hot water during the winter. Cool idea but the fire box is so small it would need constant attention. Have a good one

@dennisworkmansr.714 5 месяцев назад

A little bit different context with your video, I like it. BTW all my life and I'm 82 I have always called it a hot water heater and yes I am fully aware of your explanation but what difference does it make, Hot water or water?. anyway i do like your videos, and don't pay any attention to this old man's comments. Keep it up Mike.......uhhh Michael.

@WilsonForestLands 5 месяцев назад

The fact that it doesn’t make any difference is what makes it fun to make an unnecessarily long drawn out argument about the whole subject. 😂

@dennisworkmansr.714 5 месяцев назад

Yes and you are absolutely right, but you will always have your you know what i can't think of the name. @@WilsonForestLands...Trolls is the word I was trying to say.

@benjamincresswell3713 5 месяцев назад

Hi Mike, I agree. First of all everyone knows exactly what you're talking about and second, what if do like I do and not let the water get hot? I only run mine until the water gets warm. So I believe I can call it a warm eater heater. If you took a shower at my house you'd crank the scald guard water valve all the way over to hot but will only come out warm. If the heater is actually running it may become a little too hot unless you like it hot. I don't and don't call it a warm water heater eventhough that's exactly what it produces. I still call it a hot water heater, but mostly because it's not a hot air heater. O F'n K?

@birddogfarms6981 5 месяцев назад

Good video, Wilson

@nathanclaytor4083 5 месяцев назад

Well said and good stuff. First time here. 👍⚡️

@CraigArndt 5 месяцев назад

Cool video!!!

@user-uh5eu5bb1b 5 месяцев назад

Like you said, cold water in, hot water out. I'm thinking it's actually a cold water heater.

@WilsonForestLands 5 месяцев назад

Yep cold water heater makes more sense.

@bigDbigDbigD 2 месяца назад

I love this channel. 😁

@andymauthe5508 5 месяцев назад

Maybe you already answered this, but what kind of water system do you have feeding your cabin? Since it’s off grid, I’m assuming it’s not an electric pump. Are you sourcing the water from a spring or creek? Does it run by gravity to the cabin? I have a rural cabin here in Pennsylvania with a drilled water well and electric pump. But I also have a year round spring that I’m going to develop so that I have another source of water. At any rate, nice place and I like your channel and content! Keep it coming.

@makmak151515 5 месяцев назад

When I was a kid my grandmother had her woo

@johnbruno1936 5 месяцев назад

Ive actually seen guys recycle broken gas/electric water heateŕs into those kinds of water heaters.

@edwardenglish6919 5 месяцев назад

I have a portable water heater that sits on top of my wood burning stove. It only hold about 2 quarts of water but just enough for a couple of cups of tea.

@318ishonk Месяц назад

I know for a fact there was a water heater conference end of the nineties where the elders of the boilers decreed no longer to discriminate between hot and cold water and heat all of them, even heavy water (should it be present). since then it's called water heater.

@brianjonker510 5 месяцев назад

This is a dandy hot water heater.

@indianacornbread6407 5 месяцев назад

That's funny. My wife always says she has to "un-thaw" the meat....lol

@williamemerson1799 5 месяцев назад

Lehmans has one. A complaint was that it's a massive creosote generator.

@geezerindawoods 5 месяцев назад

can not find it...gotta link??

@williamemerson1799 5 месяцев назад

@@geezerindawoods Tried to post it but for whatever reason it wouldn't post. If you do a search for wood fired water heaters, you'll find a Leahmans Ad. You may have to scroll down a bit.

@geezerindawoods 5 месяцев назад

@@williamemerson1799 Thanks!!

@WilsonForestLands 5 месяцев назад

I disabled links comments to prevent comment spam. Which is unfortunate because now people can’t put useful links in.

@williamemerson1799 5 месяцев назад

@@WilsonForestLands Got it.

@gorrister2977 3 месяца назад

Im Austria we call them Boiler, which is also silly, because you don't want boiling water come out there.

@oNeGiAnTLiE 5 месяцев назад

I like the “ water heater” Kinda like a hole that can not be “ pre- drilled”

@digger0429 5 месяцев назад

Wood water heater cool

@La-darnoire 5 месяцев назад

Well, we have a wood-fired boiler stove. It supplies sufficient hot water for all our needs (yes, all right, it's linked to a home-made solar thermal system as well, but if it's been cloudy all day we just need to light the fire...)

@toolman0083 5 месяцев назад

“Water Heater”👍🏻

@plainairbarnettsoutdoors 5 месяцев назад

Same as so many other products, "...don't make them like they used to"

@Wheelloader__ 5 месяцев назад

Hot water heater 😁

@jimputnam2044 5 месяцев назад

Heater of hot water ?

@wayneweis653 5 месяцев назад

I might be a Wilson.

@joeyrector1015 5 месяцев назад

Yeah. Mom making you clean up the yard. You must have done something to get into trouble

@WilsonForestLands 5 месяцев назад

She actually doesn’t have anything to do with that place but you are right I’m probably in trouble anyway.

@joeyrector1015 5 месяцев назад

@@WilsonForestLands right. That's the way it is with me too lol

@saltrock9642 4 месяца назад

Fun show. How about this one….hosepipe.

@snbwalter357 5 месяцев назад

OK lots of questions here. Are there air openings to get a good draft ? What kind of pumping system do you use to get the water into the tank and then into the cabin ? What kind of chimney and how do you clean it? Looks like something to consider for my cabin. Thanks

@WilsonForestLands 5 месяцев назад

Air comes in through the bottom around where the ashtray is. If there is an adjustment I haven’t noticed it and it doesn’t seem to need one. It’s a gravity feed water system through a pipe from the creek up the hill. The chimney is a straight 4 inch pipe through the roof. With proper insulation apparatus of course. I have never cleaned the chimney, not sure if any other family has. Something I will have to find out.

@snbwalter357 5 месяцев назад

Thank you !@@WilsonForestLands

@richardabernathy6242 5 месяцев назад

I looked at some. I was curious. They're pricey, but it looks like they have something similar

@Alsintheshop 5 месяцев назад

A company named Harvia makes an 80 Liter “WATER HEATER”😉

@___PK__ 5 месяцев назад

It doesn't look like it will die any time soon. Could probably weld one from a normal water heater & square tubing. Can part 2 show flushing it out and refilling/ getting air out? Might have gross water at the bottom!

@WilsonForestLands 5 месяцев назад

I probably won’t be back there until this summer. I’m not sure if any of the family has flushed it out. It might be a good idea. Never had to deal with getting air out.

@hendrickswart4122 5 месяцев назад

It could be that they last so long that the producers ran out of buisnesses? 😂

@WilsonForestLands 5 месяцев назад

Could be, I hadn’t thought of that. 😂

@southernadirondackoutdoors 5 месяцев назад

I'm thinking that would create creosote at a pretty good rate, how often does the flue have to be cleaned?

@WilsonForestLands 5 месяцев назад

I am not sure if anyone has ever cleaned it.

@benjamincresswell3713 5 месяцев назад

A hot water heater is a water heater that heats water up hot. It could be a warm water heater if it heats water to warm, but it doesn't have to start with warm water. A cold water heater can't heat water to cold, but it can certainly heat cold water up until it's hot. At my house ever since I was a kid I've had hot running water that comes from a hot water heater. It's not a cold water heater.

@Ekkletos 2 месяца назад

If it is abandoned who is filling the Hot Water Heater😊 ashtray with ash?

@blacksmokejoe5827 5 месяцев назад

@WilsonForestlands I have intrest in the water heater is this a single flue ? I like to find more about it..

@WilsonForestLands 5 месяцев назад

The flu is just a 4 inch pipe going through the roof. With proper insulating apparatus where it goes through the roof of course.

@blacksmokejoe5827 5 месяцев назад

Would it be to much to ask to get some measurements of the od, Id,height fire box size and doors size ash pan. Thankyou

@WilsonForestLands 5 месяцев назад

I am back at my place now and won’t be back there until probably Summer. I could do it then if I remember. If you are still watching the channel and I start doing ranch videos, feel free to give me a reminder.

@cabininthewoods7326 5 месяцев назад

Looking at both those water heaters I'm getting sick right now. I bought a brand new house in 2018 and about 3 weeks ago my water heater went It, it looked the same as when I moved into this house when it was Brand new. Im one person in this home, oh God that was a shitty brand!!!

@user-ik4fd9ny4b 5 месяцев назад

Built-in obsolesiense.

@WilsonForestLands 5 месяцев назад

I know someone who is having problems with their water heater and it’s even newer than yours.

@rochrich1223 5 месяцев назад

What would be worse than saying "hot water heater" would be saying "a wood water heater". After all, couldn't you chop up a wood hot water heater and burn it in a wood fired water heater?

@MrDmmeeks 5 месяцев назад

Most people interchange the term water heater and hot water tank. As a result the names have blended to hot water heater. Drives me nuts. Akin to someone saying de thaw. To de thaw is to freeze. Most will say I took x out of the freezer to dethaw. You take something out to defrost.

@Bushman9 5 месяцев назад

Cripes, half way through I thought it was homemade. Hmmm… that’s got me thinking…

@questioner1596 5 месяцев назад

"Hot water tank" and "water heater"... I think someone started to say the first, got lost mid-sentence, and ended saying the second.

@ronniewolfe1634 5 месяцев назад

I told an ex I had more wood then I knew what to do with or her ... she took it totally wrong tho...

@tree_carcass_mangler 5 месяцев назад

"Water heater." I also vote for part 2. Maybe let us know how long the water stays warm after you stop feeding it wood (just your best estimate, of course).

@FLPhotoCatcher 5 месяцев назад

And how many gallons of water it holds. If I were to make them, I'd make them larger - maybe large enough to hold 100 gallons of water.

@WilsonForestLands 5 месяцев назад

I am not sure how many gallons. It might say it on that plaque. I probably won’t be back there until summer, I will try to remember to look at that. Hard to read it on the video shot I have of it.