Underground Bale Furnace Heats Home, Shop

Underground Bale Furnace Heats Home, Shop HAY & FORAGE HARVESTING Miscellaneous 25-2-7 To get away from their expensive electric heat bills, Clarence and Duane Klimack, Russell, Manitoba, built a big round bale burner completely from scratch. It was first featured in FARM SHOW's Vol. 22, No. 5. The father and son team burns about 40 5 by 6-ft. round bales of flax straw a month in the coldest weather to heat their shop and two houses. The furnace is buried in an earth berm next to a shed. It has a 6-ft. dia., 9-ft. tall firebox with 48 vertical pipes made out of 2-in. dia. sq. tubing spaced 2 in. apart around the outside. It has a 3-ft. deep ash pan underneath and a lid with two 8-in. dia. smoke stacks. The Klimacks feed bales into the furnaces with a tractor front-end loader, so they never have to touch the bales by hand. Water is pumped through the pipes surrounding the firebox and then pumped to an insulated holding tank until needed. Thermostatically-controlled pumps in the houses and shop pull water out as needed through underground pipes. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Clarence and Duane Klimack, Box 756, Russell, Manitoba Canada R0J 1W0 (ph 204 773-3148 or 2197).

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