Just Bought a New Old Woodstove. What kind of woodstove do YOU use. How's your woodpile?

10.20.11 | chickensoup

[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?

[Chickensoup]

search natural gas detector on google. I think you will be surprised.

[Candor7]

We get it for about 180 a chord, usually right after its cut, but it dries because we get it in May or June.I used to buck up and split my own logs, 12 cord every two years, but its too much now , the kids used to help and are gone.

I used to buy 12 cord in log length for $500.00.We live in North East Vermont.

[nascarnation]

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[JohnKinAK]

I’m up here in Alaska and I replaced an old stove with a new Lopi Endeavor 3 years ago. It’s has been a very efficient stove.

http://www.lopistoves.com/product_guide/detail.aspx?id=209

[Chickensoup]

Nice woodstove and a real worker stove.

I have land, but no way to get wood. It is less for me to buy cordwood than pay for oil.

I actually buy about 900 gallons of oil to heat our water.

[palmer]

You are lucky, those are good stoves. I have an England stove made here in VIrginia. It is sheet steel so not quite a durable as yours and not as much heat mass (although that can be supplemented. Some newer stoves like mine are designed to burn more completely (they preheat the intake air and burn the smoke). I have about 5 cords but 2 are fresh oak. I burn about 3 a winter.

[dialup]

Jotul Firelight
3 cords, cut our own
+1 screw the Arabs

[Chickensoup]

Sounds like you are dreaming up a home for the ages, at least your ages.

Good for you.

I hear you about the age thing

[MIchaelTArchangel]

I’m in the process of moving from Massholeachusetts to Texas and plan to leave my wood stove behind.

I also plan to leave my wood pile (and whatever is in it) to the person who purchase the house.

[Chickensoup]

seems to be a bit of Arab-screwing here tonight.

Wood makes us independent. At some point I am going to put in a wood fired hot water heater coil for winter time, and a propane on demand for summer time.

[Chickensoup]

I’m in the process of moving from Massholeachusetts to Texas and plan to leave my wood stove behind.

I also plan to leave my wood pile (and whatever is in it) to the person who purchase the house.
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You seem happy about this...

[palmer]

That sounds like a lot of oil for hot water. I pay about $30-40 / month for electric (a bit more in summer with A/C). That electric includes the hot water but also water and pumping sewage up 80 feet of elevation, plus lights. You might want to look into an efficient electric water heater. I have an extra tankless, yours if you want it (I just replaced my tank instead).

Forgot to give my wood price: 135-150 a cord. The better wood, solid oak from big trees, was 135, but I gave him 150.

[ArmedConservative]

Two wood burning inserts ...

Osburn on the first floor and a Napolean on the second floor.

3k sq ft house and we burn ~ 4 to 5 cords per year.

I can get log length wood delivered for under $100 cord. I am currently working on cutting and splitting next winters supply.

[smokingfrog]

I used to have a Vestal wood stove, but I gave it to my brother in Oklahoma. Wife used to work for a landscaping/tree company, so we got mostly free wood too. What a deal.

(Wife decided she didn’t want the stove any more when we did some remodeling.)

[Chickensoup]

we have high electicity prices up here. in 1994 a forty gallon tank cost 120 a month for a family of four.

[Chickensoup]

in 1994 a forty gallon tank cost 120 per month for a family of four. That is when I moved to oil off the burner.

[APatientMan]

We’re up the same way you are. In the Kingdom.

Since we sold our house a couple of years ago we’re not buying wood anymore.

Helped a friend put in 5 cords last weekend. He backs it up with oil.

I used to do the same with our house. About 5 cord going into winter with oil back-up that also heated our water.

Doesn’t seem that long ago that we were paying 80 or 100 a cord. Times have changed.

[Avery Iota Kracker]

Wish I knew how to post a picture of the works of a brilliant woodworker who made wood stoves. Hilarious.

[NoNAIS]

Avalon Olympic Wood Insert. Too big, but someday we plan to expand the floor plan.

Cut from our own pickings or purchase locally for $65 per cord dry Oak pre-split, delivered and stacked. That teen is not at OWS I can tell ya’.

City folks come we keep it @75F. Otherwise 70F is great. Burns through the night if properly packed.

Local town has free wood chunk circles. Lots from bad weather this year.

You might buy “The Book of Heat” by William Busha and Stephen Morris. Lots of good information there.

[mongo141]

An L.Lange & co made in Svendborg, Denmark some time before WW I. sits in the middle of my 24X40 foot shop and keeps the place toasty all day after a below 0 night on a load of scrap wood has a built in damper but uses a 5 inch flue pipe. Hard to find anymore.