Posted on 10/20/2011 4:03:34 PM PDT by Chickensoup
Just bought a new old woodstove for my ground floor. A Vermont Castings big one. Have a Big Jotul on the first floor. Planning on burning two and a half to three cord this year. Have an extra cord for margin.
So, what kind a wood stove do you use?
So, what kind a wood stove do you use?
this new stove is a bit of a basket case and will be sent out to have that lousy green enamel removed so it can be painted black like God meant all stoves to be.
Hearthstones really hold the heat a long time.
Can’t beat good old fashioned GAS heat.
Ten cords! good grief, you should build your house IN the woodlot and just set fire to a tree each week!
Jotul F 600 Firelight CB
Warms my whole cape style house 1500 sq feet all winter, 4 chord of hardwood.I have been burning wood ever since the first oil crisis in the 1970s.
Every time I throw in a chunk of hardwood I say: “ Screw you Arabs!”
My wood costs me about $600.00 per year.
Can’t beat good old fashioned GAS heat\
Convernient, warm, but it doesn’t build CHARACTER!
Used only about 30 gallons of oil last winter. (only for when we’re gone for a couple of days and can’t tend the fires).
my jotul is a firelight. Seventeen years old, great stove. I love it. Beautiful to watch. Have it serviced each year.
I pay about 200 a cord, dried this year, paid in advance.
Screw you Arabs!”
That’s the Spirit! I like it. Now if I can just find a way for the children to have that sort of drive as they lug in the wood!
Vermont Castings is a good one; a REAL airtight that burns efficiently. I had two in a remote, country rent house once (only heat source) and used it constantly in the winter. It takes some learning to use it effectively, but the payoff is worth it.
If this is an old one, make sure the gaskets are sound and that too much creosote hasn’t built up in the baffles of the secondary combustion unit. Also, read up on how to use it. Worth the effort.
We’re paying 2-230.00 a cord here. Dry, split.
It suppliments my oil furnace.
I live in an engineer's dream or nightmare .. depending on what hat I put on in the morning.
I put two mobile homes together in an "L" shape and a 16' X 32' addition in the "crook of the elbow"
The wood burner is at the point where the three come together.
Had a lot of fun dreamin' the damned thing up and building it to be leakproof and etcetera's.
I forgot about entropy ... and my own older age.
Plan to it is a 2003. Looks like it needs a rehab.
Wish I could use gas, but with no sense of smell, it'd be a real liability for me. I had a gassy house once and a friend had to let me know the danger.
Do they sell natural gas detectors?
Plan to it is a 2003. Looks like it needs a rehab.
they absolutely have gas detectors.
We go through about 3 1/2 cords of wood between December 1st through about Feb 15th or so, depending on how cold it gets. (The colder it is outside, the more you burn to stay warm inside.)
Absent the tons of snow we got last winter, temperature wise it was pretty mild. We had a few facecords left over that we'll burn this year.
These things really only pay for themselves or have benefit if you get the wood for free (we do.) Family owns tons of property in the Upper Penninsula of Michigan. We harvest the dead trees/trees that fall over during the year, cut them and let them dry for at least a season before we bring the wood home to burn.
We have an F-250 Super-Duty Diesel that is more than capable of pulling all that wood home in one trip.
I’m not aware of any detectors for natural gas. There are ones for carbon monoxide, smoke and heat - that’s all I can find.
Wood stoves are a really bad idea. The metal ones last a lot longer and are much safer.
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