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37chief

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Well I used my wood stove for the first time since last winter. As usual I don't have my wood split. I usually just split it as I use it. this wood hauling into the house is getting to be a big pain in the rear end. I thought it was a good idea when I was forty years old, but now I am 73. It's not much easier. I installed ceiling electric heat in the 70's when I had my house built. I can't go back to electric heat if I wanted because I used most of the circuits for my lathe, mill and compressor. Here is my stove that supplies 95 % of my house heat. The bathrooms have electric heat. What do you use mostly for heat? Stan
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Stan ,Nice stove!You don't see many like that one anymore.We had one that looked exactly like that years ago,I wish I had it now.Take it easy on the wood splitting and your back,and enjoy that nice stove and feel good heat when it gets cold.Don't backup too close ouch.lol
 
Totally electric baseboard, 2000 square feet, plus garage, shop. Fixed bill $143 month. You would have to pay me to burn wood. I learned as a kid, cutting wood I no fun.
 
I have heat pump for central air and heat, wood stove in the basement for around 2400 occupied feet. I can get warm with the wood and does keep my bill down which is pretty similar to yours year round, getting the wood and getting it in the basement is a lot of work, thought about adding a propane unit in the basement but I guess I will go on with the wood a little longer.I do like your stove, I have a wood king like a furniture piece and its not much. Also my flu is not tall enough.
 
I thought you hurt your shoulder a couple of days ago, you are talking about splitting wood, how is shoulder?
 
Heat pump, here in the Pacific Northwest, where our hydropower is still only about 5 cents a kilowatt, even when we have to pay a 10% surcharge for "renewable" energy (wind and solar are renewable per POTUS, but not hydro. Hydro is not renewable? Really? The water just flows downstream, and we make juice out of it. It just doesn't fit the political agenda, so they "declared" it non-renewable). We also have a wood stove, but only use it when temp gets in low 20's or below, which is not very often anymore.
Is that stove a Round Oak brand?
 
Last summer my grandsons and I took the Chimney and oil furnace out of the house. 2014 I installed a new 200 amp circuit breaker panel and now we have electric baseboards in every room. Installed a new water heater and all new plumbing in the house. Still have to do a little more insulating in the ceiling of the cellar, Probably buy the boys breakfast at the local diner and finish it off Saturday morning. I'll be glad when that's done so I can go back to playing with tractors. Ive got Im floor heat in the shop and a small gas heater hung from the ceiling so I can spend days out there in the winter. The floor heat in the shop is heated with a small electric water heater.
 
I use a Vermont Castings stove to heat the house. It has a burn time of 14 hours when running full tilt. We've got a heat pump but it goes weeks without kicking on. I probably heat the house on 10 pieces of wood a day. More if they are split obviously. We don't spend much time around zero, though.
 
Wood pellet stove in the basement family room. Baseboard electric in all the house. It keeps thefamily room very warm. After cutting and splitting firewood for 35 years, Never again. I just bought 15 forty # bags of pellets for $3.49 so I guessed my run time cost 35 to 50 cents. I am in the Black hills of SD and my pellets come from the Spearfish saw mill. There are differences in quality of pellets. Mine have very little ash and start easily so must have low moisture.
 
Depends on how your house is laid out but I have a door to the outside next to my woodstove and it has a dedicated purpose. During the winter I have a bin covered with translucent corrugated panels and steel mesh to protect the plastic panels that goes against the customized storm door. The bin holds enough wood for a couple weeks. I open the inner door, grab firewood, turn and put it in the stove. Helps considerably, and the wood is out in the cold where if there are bugs they stay dormant.
 
In floor heat with electric boiler. We like it a lot. Split wood for heat in old house, for 45years....that was enough. Wife still misses her cook stove that was in her kitchen. No she didn't always cook on it but it gave off nice heat in the morning.
 

I'm thinking of installing a ground source heat pump. I had one in our last house and it was the cheapest heat we have ever had. I have a outside wood boiler now and like it but it's getting to be a pain getting enough wood cut. I also have a propane furnace that we use for chill chaser before it's time to start the boiler.
 
Pellet stove for main heat since '03, with gas heater in the back bedroom. Ceiling fans help with circulation, but hard to push heat down the long hallway to bedroom. Buy 50 bags at a time, just have them set a pallet full on the truck. Can back up to enclosed porch to unload, so cuts handling. House was built as a log cabin, summer lakeshore place, with 3 additions. Definitely not energy efficient. Burn about 200 bags a season, @ 4.00-4.25 a bag, so don't feel too bad. Previous occupant put in a gas furnace, found a bargain someplace, but it is way too big. Hot blast, then cool way down before it cuts in again.
Growing up on the farm, we were about the only people in neighborhood that burned wood, so Dad got it free for the taking. Stoker coal or oil cost cash, growing boys working after school & Saturdays didn't. Chain saws & power splitters hadn't been invented yet, working with the buzz saw, splitting by hand, throwing chunks through cellar window, fire go out overnight, & then carry the tub of ashes up the steps made me promise never to depend on wood again. During my working life I was happy to write a check to the gas company.

Willie
 
I also use wood heat, I have wood boiler in my basement in tandem with my oil boiler. It heats the water just like the oil boiler does. I also have a wood stove insert in my fire place in my kitchen.
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I sure did hurt my shoulder a few days ago. The shoulder doesn't seam to be changing any. Still the same. My wood pile is next to my splitter. I could never split wood by hand. I just roll a log on and use the hydraulic lever with my bad arm. I throw the pieces with my good arm to the pile. Use the good arm to bring in the wood. Some one has to do it. Sure wouldn't see my wife out there splitting wood. Stan
 
I have one like it. Works pretty good and takes almost no time away from TV. We changed all light bulbs. New refrigerator. Washer and drier. Heat pump water heater. Electric bill is no higher in winter than it was when we heated with LP.
 
37Chief- I always enjoy pics of your stove. I think it's the purdiest one I have ever seen.

Thanks
 
Just finished installing a new AC/heat pump system. This is my first heat pump, going to be interesting to see what the electric bill does this winter. Haven't needed the heat yet, still running the AC here in north TX.
 
Used to heat with wood, really happy with a ground source heat pump. They don't depend on warm outside air to work. mine has no backup heat, it all comes from the ground, and of course the ground is hot this time of year from the heat pump putting A/C heat into the ground all summer.
 
We have burnt wood for 50 years with LP gas as back up. Two years ago I installed baseboard electric heat and like how it keeps house at a constant heat in every room. I see the day coming that I won't be able cut and handle wood and will be able to use the gas or electric. Now that I have a generator I don't have to depend on wood to keep house warm in a power outage.
 
Thanks, I have had that stove close to 40 years, and burned a lot of wood through it all those years. It is a Round Oak brand probably made in the teens. I had to put in a SS liner on the inside, as the metal was burning through. I don't know why the picture is so bad. Stan
 
I live outside all winter so i mostly use physical exertion to keep warm. But when I come inside at night the gas furnace has the house warm. I'd put gas logs in that heater.
 
The original Round Oak factory was in Dowagiac, MI, about 25 miles from our place. The local paper just had an article stating the old factory is about to be torn down after being slightly used for decades. Three or four story building about two blocks long, right on the railroad tracks. There still is a Round Oak saloon next door, though!
 
Nice Round Oak model C. I have an A and a C. I think the C was the best looking one that they made. Some one moved the top 90 degrees. Originally they came with the doors on the right side. I will try to attach a picture of my A.
 
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We heat with about 95% wood. I have a direct vent propane unit in one storage room and we ahve a ratty, busted oil furnance that need replacing. What I really want is an outdoor wood boiler. Forced hit air stinks. The $$ for the OWB are all that stopping me.
 
Same here Geo. We have had Electric Baseboard heat in the old farm house for 46 years. In 46 years we have replaced one thermostat and one baseboard heater in the bathroom. No other repairs needed.

I put geo thermal in the new house in 2000. Even more efficient than the base board. I like them both.

We tried wood for a while in the old farm house. When we took the wood heater back out it was a great day.

No more bugs. No more smoke smell. No more wood mess in the house. And I slept much better with a constant temperature and no worriers of a house fire.

Gary
 
My stove has the decorative item on the top also. When I use my stove I put a kettle of water on top to keep things from drying out, the stove really puts out the heat. Stan
 
Nice looking ornate stove. When I was a kid we had a Round Oak brand stove that looked a lot like yours.
 
Yes they do! If I keep the room were the stove is at 80 the rest of the house is at 70 or so. Round Oak stoves were the most popular stoves at the turn of the century,and that is the reason why.
 
My wife watched me run the splitter and while I wasn't looking, took a crack at it. No discussion, no "how does that work", nothing.... Stuck her hand in a log that refused to come apart and released the wedge. She was stuck in there for a bit until she got the splitter to reverse and free her hand. Never made a sound. We go through this every once in a while. I appreciate that she tries to help, but her pride keeps her from asking how things work. Garage door, motorcycle, wall receptacle, etc. There is a long list of things that she has damaged or have damaged her. I make sure she is okay and pick up the pieces.


Aaron
 
My house came with a pellet stove in it, and a fuel oil pig in the basement. I want to upgrade the furnace to propane, but for now the pellet stove is my main source once it gets cold. I've got a little trouble shooting to do on it now and a few parts to replace on it, but still cheaper than fuel oil. Just bought 5 tons on Monday. This should be a mild winter, so maybe I'll only burn through 4 tons this winter.... Maybe. I make sure to have 6 tons at the start of the season, and try to have a full tank in the basement. If it gets too cold, I turn up the furnace to help the stove.

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
(quoted from post at 15:19:36 11/05/15) Totally electric baseboard, 2000 square feet, plus garage, shop. Fixed bill $143 month. You would have to pay me to burn wood. I learned as a kid, cutting wood I no fun.
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Hey that's your opinion lol I love it, I'm only 18 already own a f150 and single axle trailer, 1 saw 2 wedges a sledge and 3 mauls I got a stihl ms 362 on the Christmas list as well and will burn wood in my own house.

Of course in 40 years my opinion may be subject to change as well
Lol
 
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