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?
Sure you can, check local wood costs, then see if it is practical. I would certainly look into it.
What can I say, cost of living. I live on acreage but cannot cut myslf and son is not old enough yet.
I will have to look up rocket stoves. I really enjoy the back to the land technology. Love Backwoods Home magazine and Countyside Journal
I have heard that people love their Ashley. I love wood heat and smell at any time anyplace.
Nothing better than a toasty wood stove and a nightcap when the wind is howling and it’s 5 degrees out.
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What a great tag. I envy you being able to harvest your wood. I have never burned hickory, I hear it is a good heat. Nothing in this world beats a hot stove on a cold night blustery night and a nice warm drink.
How does the heat physically get into the duct system? Or does the stove just radiate heat up from the basement through the flooring? My sub-flooring is actually insulated. I would have to put a woodstove in the basement where the propane burning furnace is along with the ductwork. I have only 2 small basement windows about maybe 18 inches wide by maybe 10 inches high. Can the piping get out through that? Would I have to add a chimney also? It would have to go up 2 stories.
I have only 2 small basement windows about 18” by 10”. Would I have to take one of those out? I read that stove piping can’t go through windows or masonry. Perhaps part of the steel chimney is attached through the window?
If you know anyone that works for the utilities ask them about what they do with old poles. Also ask business's dealing with heavy equipment if they have pallets for free.. Not the skinny one's but the 4 X 4 one's...
You could get a wood furnace for the basement, or you could get a woodstove to put on the living floor and let it radiate.
Ussually during the installation a hole is made in an outside wall. You might want to get some stove guys in to give you some different options, or go to a stove shop and look at several applications.
Hearthstone Phoenix w/ the secondary burn function. I had a Vermont Castings w/ a catalyst, never again. The best part about winter, beside the snow, and the long nights with your woman and a whiskey.
and the long nights with your woman
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You can’t have long nights with my woman
I am not Lebanese.
What do you burn in your part of Alaska?
You sly dog.
Yea, I didn’t know how that would sound over the internet, but you get the point.
Primarily birch, and then some spruce and other misc trees the wind blows down I’ll cut to burn. I’ve found spruce to be not as bad a firewood as advertised, the trick is getting it completely seasoned. If properly split and stacked in holzhausens I’ve found birch will season real well over one spring and summer, but spruce I let sit 2 full summers. I can tell spruce is properly seasoned by the smell as it should have absolutely no odor to it. Seasoned spruce will burn hot and fast. So I often use it to quickly reheat early in the morning and when I get home in the evenings. I then add the birch for a longer burn times.
I use the wood stove as a supplemental/emergency heat. My primary heat is a gas fired boiler that supplies an in floor hydronic heat system. I basically only burn if the temperature is consistently below 20 degrees. I go through about 4 cords a winter (November through March).
We saw a PBS special, "Man in the Wilderness". He burned spruce or something in his handmade log cabin. He must of used tons.
Yep, spruce grow like weeds up here.
One could always build a fireplace using oil shale stone, and then burn the house down like some eary settlers did in CO, WY and UT.
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