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SHAVER FORCED AIR
OUTDOOR WOOD FURNACE
ThermoWind
1000
is Rated
to Heat up to 3500 sq. ft.
(no water to freeze)
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Shaver has done it again! Backed by our 38 years of experience,
we have developed a FORCED-AIR Furnace that doesn't need water!
This furnace can go outside and does not
have to be bolted to the house or go in the basement like every other model out
there!
Heat is carried to your home through insulated 12" pipes,
buried underground.
No more worries about frozen water.
NO CHEMICALS or annual water tests! No pumps!
Mainly for
those people with cabins or homes that are left unattended.
Also perfect for folks who have power failures often (you
would need a generator to get heat but there is no worry about frozen water,
etc)
NOW there is no need to put the furnace right next to
the house or in the basement with our insulated underground pipe!
Eliminate the threat of fire by having the furnace
away from the house, just like with our outdoor wood fired WATER furnace.
No carrying wood into the house, along with the bugs,
bark and trash.
No smoke indoors either!
These air pipes are only 12" in diameter so a
standard
backhoe with a 24" bucket can easily dig a trench
for the pipes to lay side-by-side.
We are the only manufacturer that is doing this!
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Air
& Water Tight
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Foamed
Walls
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Easy
to Install
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Quiet
and Efficient
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PVC
FREE
ONLY
$3497!
ThermoWind
2000
is Rated
to Heat up to 5500 sq. ft.
Has
a bigger 2000 CFM blower and a bigger firebox (42" vs. 28"
deep)
it's 50% bigger
and is
only $4250!
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Shaver has been building furnaces since 1972!
Our furnaces have stood the test of time.
SHAVER Forced-Air Outdoor Wood Furnaces are WELL BUILT to
save you money
by producing heat efficiently with a minimum of waste, expense, or unnecessary
effort.
Although our forced air furnaces are a new line, they are built using the same
materials,
familiar design
and proven techniques that we have been using for 38 years.
Perfect for folks with cabins or homes that are unattended.
Will not heat your domestic
hot water.
No worries about water
freezing ever again! No water tests! No pumps!


Two buried 12" pipes carry the heat to the house
and the cooler return air comes back.
The FIRST in the industry!
We custom build every furnace for
you,
so when you order, you can
specify YOUR choice of
20 great colors
and over 8000 Color combinations!
ALL FURNACES purchased come
with the
COLD WEATHER PACKAGE!
Now with even MORE INSULATION!
R50 in the roof!
R21.6 in the walls!
More than a house!! We
now use SOLARGUARD TOO! It's
a state-of-the-art insulation that
fights heat loss three ways;
radiation, conduction and convection heat losses.
Check it out at: http://www.silvercote.com/solarguard_reflective_insulation.php
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Fed up with High Oil and Energy
prices?
Smoke in your house? Bugs, trash, bark from
carrying wood in?
GO GREEN!
Heat your whole house with a
clean, efficient
Forced-Air OUTDOOR WOOD FURNACE!
No more $3.00+ Oil or high dollar
Propane or lugging wood
into the house!
No smoke in your house anymore! No bugs either! NO mess!
This furnace doesn't burn up the oxygen in your house
or suck cold air in from outside!
Save your lungs and help prevent allergies too.
WOOD is still cheap! ...AND
PLENTIFUL!
and large unsplit logs - like this furnace uses -
are the cheapest of all!
Have Clean Heat, Clean Air, Clean Floors
and walls too!
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NOW with a
20
YEAR PARTS and LABOR WARRANTY!*
Includes
an On-Site Warranty!!
5-Years is 100% paid for.
Who else offers that,
who has been around 38 years?
NOBODY!
A lot of warranties only cover parts
(not labor)!
OR
You have to ship the furnace back to the factory - at your expense.
Kind of negates the warranty, doesn't it?
Ours covers Parts AND Labor for TWENTY YEARS!*
and it's coverage On-Site - NO SHIPPING!
| Why buy a Shaver Outdoor
Furnace? |
SHAVER |
The others |
| We make it simple without a lot of expensive
electronics to break |
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| We make it user serviceable. Anyone can maintain
our furnace! |
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| No filling with water every week - or EVER! |
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| We make our firebox to last! Ours is thicker! 3/8"
inch vs. 1/8 to 1/4. |
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| We give accurate BTU ratings using an established scientific formula.
They say what sounds good. |
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| We have a 2-light motion detector light on the front |
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| We have a fan not a dismal damper to fuel the fire
with oxygen. More complete burning! |
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Some |
| Our fan is in the back, behind a door, where you
can't get shocked AND it blows the air through the grate into
the bottom of the fire LIKE A BLACKSMITH'S FORGE - NOT into the side of the fire! Fires burn
from the bottom up, right? |
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| We have been building fine energy efficient furnaces for
38 years! |
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| Our grate uses 3/4" Bar Stock! |
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Our most popular color -
Evergreen with Black trim
Perfect for folks who have power failures often
or those people with cabins or homes that are unattended.
NO risk of water freezing! No fire risk either!
Why buy an outdoor wood furnace?
- No logs to
carry in means no messy ashes and bugs in the house!
- One of the selling points of
an outdoor furnace is the convenience of locating it near
the
wood fuel source so you don't have to cart wood all around.
- Safety
- The chance of carbon monoxide
build-up in your home is eliminated.
- Eliminate
allergies by getting the smoke outside!
- The chance of a gas explosion
from your furnace in your home is eliminated.
- Indoor pollutants of harmful
gases and fumes are eliminated too.
- Eliminates the chance of
chimney and flu fires from your furnace.
- If you live in
a suburban or rural area near a source of cheap wood, you
could heat your
home for the entire season for the cost of one month's
electric heat bill.
- An outdoor furnace requires
less tending.
- No inside
oxygen is used to fuel the heat like other wood or gas
burning units.
- Does not cause respiratory problems like burning wood indoors.
- Wood is cheaper than buying it for a fireplace. Instead of
12-18' wood split,
you can put 30" pieces in this one and full rounds.
That makes buying wood even cheaper.
- Burning
wood, a total renewable resource, is less expensive than
other fuels.
- The cost of
electric, gas, oil, or propane can be very erratic. The low
cost of wood remains constant - or FREE!.
- The furnace
hooks up to any existing gas pack, heat pump or forced air system.
Most people
pay for their furnace in 2 years or less!
Imagine getting a 50% return on your money!
Where else can you get that? An outdoor furnace is the BEST
INVESTMENT!
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You've found the BEST!
Our standard firebox is 50% thicker
than most of the competition
and is 3/8" thick.
Many are only .125'' - .1875"
Our closest competitor is only
1/4" thick (.250)
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Lights come shipped inside the firebox,
so they don't get broken in shipping.
A water furnace is shown here for color.
Get the Bugs, Dirt, Wood
and Smoke outside.
Your lungs will love you!
Many people are getting
lower
rates because
they are getting the fire and
related hazard, out of the house! |
Extra large, waist high loading door.
No more bending over, straining your back
to load wood! Lever action safety latch!
A PROVEN design - since 1972!
We feel we build the safest furnace
(nothing electrical outside). We have the BEST PRICES and a Very
Friendly Staff to help you every step of the way.

These furnaces now come with a
double flood light on the front, for
ease and safety of loading the wood
at
night.
Not only that, it's a MOTION
LIGHT!
No switches. No forgetting to
turn it off.
If it's dark outside and you go
near the furnace, it turns on!
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New, nicer looking furnace - NO
SILICONE
Now with nice neat looking butyl tape and grommets
Think the
door isn't big
enough?
A 15" round log, 30" long, will weigh
112lb - more than
most people can
ever lift!
Trust me, the door
is more
than big enough for anything
you can lift into the
furnace AND the
thick door frame
will
take a pounding as you throw them in! |
18" x 18" - The TOUGHEST
door you'll ever find with TWO 1/4" solid steel plates separated
by a 3" air shield AND insulation. This plate keeps the hot air in and
deflects it off the door. With very little metal to transfer
heat to the door it does an excellent job of insulating the
door.
There is fiberglass insulation BETWEEN the plates now!
Very heavy duty hinges! OURS won't fall
off!
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1/4" thick flue - will not get damaged by throwing
wood in
The
chimney is low on the firebox and exits about 1 foot from the
bottom, so that the smoke - or more importantly, the gas and heat - is
trapped so that it doesn't quickly escape out the flue. That
would be a big loss of efficiency.
This way the air has to cool off to find its way down and out the chimney. This is also a better idea since you don't have hard-to-clean baffles getting a
creosote buildup on them.
Having
the chimney come down low
and stops
the heat, gases and smoke from rushing right out the
chimney
AND creates a HUGE Secondary burn chamber
to
burn off all the gases from the wood - a HUGE source of energy!
When wood starts to burn it's the gas that burns first!
Another
advantage is that the chimney exits through the air chamber, further
heating it up - for free!
Nothing does better!
These
are some of the reasons that our water furnace qualifies for the $1500
TAX REBATE using the exact same design! (The
forced-air furnace does not qualify for the tax rebate. However the price is
only $3500 - the same price as out water furnace after the rebate!) This
also means that you will burn less wood than with others who don't qualify for
the rebate and therefore you will use more wood with the other - being less than
75% efficient. That's proof, not just rhetoric.
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Over 50% thicker!
.380"
Thick Steel Firebox (3/8") - WILL NOT burn through - EVER! Will not crack or split like
stainless steel!
We have never had a
firebox failure, crack, split, rust-through or leak in 38 years of making the
3/8" thick firebox. After all, it is 50% thicker (or more) than most of the
competition!
Compare Firebox thickness
to another popular furnace at only .125" and another at .1875" thick.
We have an ash
pan! Some other makes
don't even have an ash pan!! That makes it HARD to clean out! You
have to let the fire die down or move the burning wood aside
to scoop out hot ashes. OUCH!
Only one factory seam in
tube so it doesn't
weaken the structure, break or warp. It is made of a
solid piece of tubular steel (drill casing)! It is X-rayed before it is shipped.
It WILL NOT RUST through in a lifetime! Will not
get stress cracks
like
Stainless Steel!
We have furnaces 30 years old and
more, still in use today!

The
removable grate is made out of
3/4" inch
bar stock. Now THAT's thick!
We have NEVER had
one burn through!
(Most
others are 3/8 - 1/2")
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The blower in the back is a great aid
in getting
a fire started. It also recovers
the air temperature much quicker,
and
burns the wood up more completely
because oxygen is being fed to
the
bottom of the flame -
like blacksmith
feeds his fire!
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more efficient than a smoky air-restricted fire. The forced
draft will burn hotter and therefore cleaner. Secondary
gases burn at 1200 degrees and with our furnace, they are trapped in the firebox so
that they are available to be burnt off without escaping out
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< View through ash pan door and you can see the air blower inlet (seen in back of this picture). The air blower determines how hot the fire
burns and therefore how hot the air in the furnace gets. A thermostat on the
back of the furnace tells the blower when to turn on and off (and has a solenoid
activated door), so it doesn't run all the time and waste wood.
This is a LOT more efficient than a manual
damper will ever be!
The air blows into the bottom of the fire,
through the grate - like a blacksmith's forge. That's better than blowing in from the front - into the side of
the fire, as all others do (if they even have a fan).
You get more complete
burning from a fire where the oxygen is fed through the bottom
as opposed to blowing over the fire from the side, like others
that have that big box on the door!
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Actual photo of a fire inside our firebox,
only minutes after reloading with wood!
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Firebox size is 36" wide x 28"
deep
x 27"
high (due to ash pan in bottom).
All
sizes O.D.
The air chamber totally surrounds the
firebox, top, bottom, sides, front and back.
The chimney is also surrounded
by air.
The ash receptacle (and hot coals)
are surrounded
with air too!
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Forced air fan for home and forced air fan for furnace with solenoid activated
damper.
The fans and thermostat
included,
have a one-year
warranty.
1500 CFM blower on left
above.
2000 CFM on the ThermoWind 2000
You get a solenoid activated
damper too!
All parts
are available everywhere.
There are NO proprietary parts
or circuit
boards!
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NOW there is no need to put the furnace right next to
the house!!
Eliminate the threat of fire by having the furnace
away from the house just like with our outdoor wood fired WATER furnace.
We are the only manufacturer that is doing this!
Perfect for folks who have power failures often or
those people with cabins or homes that are unattended.
The two connectors in the back hook up to the
blue pipes which are buried in the ground.
These pipes are only 12" in diameter so a
standard
backhoe with a 24" bucket can easily dig a trench
for the pipes to lay side-by-side.
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Ideal for new construction, as you can
see here
but you would just need two pipes running to the house
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The
ash "pan" area is approx. 16" wide x 32" long and
is 8" deep. It is a non-removable ash pan because it is
easily cleaned at the front, through the
door
with a small
shovel or hoe.
WARNING! Some
other makers don't even have an ash pan! You have to let the
fire die out or shove the hot burning logs aside - then clean it
out while the firebox is 700 plus degrees - and then restart the fire in the dead of
winter! Who wants to do that?
Air surrounds the front and back of the firebox and the ash pan as well, extracting all the
heat from
the red hot coals.
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There is an air handler/blower
that feeds air into the firebox, below the grate, to feed oxygen
to the fire. It is thermostatically controlled and solenoid activated for
greater efficiency, to keep the air temperature in
the furnace between certain parameters.
This is far better than an
inefficient manual draft opening.
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Our
furnace is so strong and well-made,
that the
chimney alone is strong enough
to carry even the 2000 lb. weight of
our biggest forced-air furnace!
We move them like
this every day!
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Exterior is
made of Heavy Duty Siding - 29 gauge structural quality, full-hard
steel. 10 layers of protective coating. It has a
Lifetime film integrity Warranty for
walls and roof and a 30-year
warranty against fade and chalk. 10 year edge rust warranty
against acid rain. 20
colors
to best
suit your surroundings! Mix and match the roof, sides and corners.
There are legs on the bottom with the siding surrounding the bottom to
ground level.
Concrete pad is recommended but not necessary.
Use railroad ties, solid concrete blocks or ??
The chimney is made out of
1/4" thick, solid steel pipe and is surrounded by air. It tops out at about
90" feet above ground. You can EASILY add standard 6" stove pipe extension(s)
with our adapter. |
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Super easy access!!
Some other
manufacturers have
to
have the whole hull removed
by 2-3 people!!
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Extra
Large rear access hinged door. All electrical items are in back, safely behind
the door/lid!
Easy
pipe (air) and electrical hookups (simple 110V wiring).
No special tools needed.
The
easiest furnace for the self-installer to put in!
We
help you every step of the way!
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Many people can pay for their furnace in
2 tears or less of propane bills!
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Start with a small piece of wood.
:o) Seriously, you
can use these bigger, cheaper pieces or smaller ones - whatever
you can easily handle. The bigger
ones (rounds) require less cutting and splitting so they cost less -
about 80-90 a cord in most areas.
ANY wood is
cheaper than oil, gas and electricity! One person said that they
have never used their propane heater after propane prices
tripled!
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Whole rounds burn longer and
cleaner and
it's SO NICE not having to split the wood!!
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Shove the logs in on top of each other.
Use the poker
(provided) for safety to push them in.
That big poker
comes with the furnace - for FREE!
Thought there wasn't a fire?
Think again!
Within a couple of minutes -
literally -
this fire was roaring!
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We
use state-of-the-art Solar
Guard insulation all around!
Solar Guard is only 1/4" thick but combines a thermal
break, reflective insulation and an insulating layer of R11.6!
It has backing on both sides and is aluminum foil backed on one
side. We then insulate on top of that with R11 vinyl-backed fiberglass in the
walls and ceiling!
TRIPLE
INSULATED (R50) ON TOP - like a passive Solar house. You cannot feel the heat when you touch
the siding!
That
gives you R22.6 in the walls and now R50 in the ceiling!
FREE in
Northern U.S. states and in Canada and Alaska.
http://www.silvercote.com/solarguard_reflective_insulation.php
http://www.silvercote.com/PDF/solarguardspec.pdf
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We will build YOUR furnace in any of 20 exciting
colors
or any combination thereof!
LOTS of Different colors and ALL come with motion lights! Water furnaces shown
here to show assortment of colors.
Ocean Blue with White; White and Red; Ivory with Brown; Green with Black; White
with Black; Ivory with Green
Other EXAMPLES:
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This green is supposed to
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Not all colors are available
at all times.
We can also build your furnace
so that you can apply regular siding, brick,
faux (cultured) stone or almost anything else.
We can also build them without
siding for a savings of $300,
for those who want to put them in an outbuilding .
Questions
about stainless steel answered
Do you build with stainless steel?
Hi!
No, we don't build
stainless for several really good reasons.
Our furnaces last longer than stainless with MANY of our water furnaces still
in use after 30 years plus!!
1. Mild steel transfers heat better than stainless does.
2. Stainless is a great sales feature, but little else, since
most companies use cheap stainless, like a car's exhaust system.
There are many grades of stainless out there.
3. Since stainless is so expensive, the fireboxes are made
really thin. Some are no thicker than the metal in a 55 gallon
barrel or the thickness of a trailer fender!! That's why you see
so many split and broken apart.
Our firebox is almost 4/10th of an inch thick, as opposed to .200 in
many furnaces. They never rust through.
We just replaced a H_rdy a week or so ago and there are many
leaking Ce___al Boilers and H_rdys on eBay for sale, that are
leaking.
4. Stainless is more prone to stress cracks, so why use it?
5. Unless the stainless is retreated after welding, you've lost
all of it's properties through the heating of the metal. And
it's being welded to mild steel anyway, so what's the use?
Like I said, it's a great sales feature but our super thick mild
steel furnace heats better, doesn't crack and split - and last
longer!
If stainless was better, we'd surely be using it after 38 years
of experience.
Best regards,
Ben
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