Posted on 03/18/2014 5:25:45 AM PDT by thackney
We have an outdoor wood burning furnace. Burn about 8 to 10 cords a year.
So, how does this work in cities when the EPA decrees “no-burn” days? Do the people simply freeze to death to please the bureaucrats? Pay the fines to keep warm? Inquiring minds want to know....
Me too(propane) and theEPA/ Government hates us.On the wood its about 50 50 buy and do my own.280 a cord this year split.
No tax on any of it except the gas for the saw and splitter.Gas that screws up both pieces of equip.
Cost me about 1000 total to heat for a winter.Wood I buy and prop.
Growing up, my family home switched to wood as the primary just as soon as my brother and I got old enough to help cut & split wood.
We had an oil burner with forced air circulation in the house. The wood burner went in series with that air circulation. A temp control draft somewhat managed the heat of the fire.
We used it as the 99% of our heat for 8 years. After I went away to college, they used the oil burner more and the wood less.
Already have in the NE. There are rules governing wood burning stoves and furnaces.
Here, it’s either wood, oil, or electric. If not for man, there’d be a tree every square foot.
My wood cookstove hasn’t been cold since last Fall.
Main source?? Somehow I doubt that.
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In my small circle, I know at least 3 families who only use wood to heat their homes & even more who use it fairly extensively to offset heating costs. It’s a lot of work to get fire wood in before winter, but their energy in finding, splitting, etc. is a lot cheaper than buying energy (oil, gas, electric). Of course now the EPA is trying to screw everybody over with their stove regs. Registering/confiscating guns is a ‘fighting’ issue and messing with people’s wood stoves will likely be as well from the chatter I’m hearing.
Do you have a question on the graphs?
Mine goes 24/7 starting late Oct...Lot of work messy and dirty.Dont vacuum or dust all winter as its a loosing battle.Woods down stairs/cellar garage and out by the barn, stoves on the 1st floor....Couple trips a day.
Would like to put the Vermont Castings in the cellar but its a field stone foundation and don’t ant to disturb those rocks for a flue.
“I think you might be right. Firewood as a main source of heat is a tough proposition; keeping a wood fire going day and night is not at all an easy thing to do.”
Those outdoor wood burners only need to be filled once a day if that. They have some that will run for a week!
My brother today (in NE Ohio) heats is home with wood, about 90~95%, the rest fuel oil. He has done that for at least 10 years.
They already have.
What variety of wood do you buy ?
My Yankee brother has two wood pellet stoves in his house with hoppers that feed pellets into the fire slowly. He only has to feed the hoppers once or twice a day from a 50 pound bag of pellets. This IS how he heats his house.
Down here in the South, I use a electric heat pump for my house, but on those few days it is cold I always fire up the stove, too.
If I could only burn wood to generate air conditioning, now that would be awesome! I have acres of trees to chose from.
Again, you’d be surprised what people are willing to do (get up to feed the woodstove, etc) when it comes to a substantial savings. And some folks simply do not have the cash to spend. It’s been a cold winter, even down here in the South. My electric bill for the late Dec-late Jan was almost $900! Easily over $1,000 if I hadn’t burned wood over the coldest nights.
The eco nazis are more and more successful in sending humanity back to the stone age.
Once the Greenies get the government to restrain and/or outlaw wood as a heat source what is left for people in rural areas and small towns?
Can't buy coal anymore, oil prohibitively expensive, burning of wood banned????
Move to the Ghetto.
AGENDA 21
It's already happened, even here in Maine, there was legislative action against outdoor wood boilers. They lumped them all together, the smoking ones and the clean burn ones. Finally hammered it out banning just the dirty ones.
Among other things, California has something going on banning use of fireplaces/stoves.
If I could only burn wood to generate air conditioning, now that would be awesome! I have acres of trees to chose from.
You could....see wood gasification. (some assembly required)
We bought a small-ish wood stove 14 yrs. ago; and have used it to supplement our central electric heat. This winter has been a bugger; so have used it more than we have in milder winters. - There’s a lot of wood out here, some of which blows over in storms; but it is still quite a big JOB to cut it up, split it, and stack it.
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