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sure is nice sitting by the wood stove when its 12 below how many of you guys burn wood ? my furnace hasn't kicked on yet this season but it probably will tonight.going to be the coldest night this winter I mean(fall)
 
I have a Big Jack furnace in the basement. I started it the first of December and it will run to the last part of march. Sure feels nice to have the steady heat in my old large uninsulated farmhouse. Right now its -8 and its burning oak with the draft wheel on the door open one turn. Its about 74 in the house. When it drops to -20 or so the wheel is cranked all the way open and it needs feeding every 4 hours. The oil burner never runs, good thing to as it would burn 8 to 12 gallons of fuel oil a day with these temps.

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Its takes about 12 loads to last the winter.

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DONT CARE HOW EFFICENT OR BTU'S THEY CLAIM CAN NOT BEAT THE HEAT OF A WOOD FURNACE FOR KEEPING A HOUSE TOASTY ''I HOPE U MEAN 10 FACE CORD AND NOT 10 FULL CORD OF WOOD, THAT WOULD BE 30 FACE CORD RIGHT ???? I HAVE ALWAYS WONDERED HOW MUCH RADIANT HEAT IS LOST BUY THEM OUTDOOR WOOD BURNERS ,, STAND NEXT TO A OUTDOOR WOOD BURNER
'NOW THINK OF ALL THAT WARMTH FILLING YOUR BASEMENT AND HEATING THE FLOORS/
 
Hey there:
Yup, we had a small Ben Franklin type,a
few years back. This big old house we
live in now(with hot water heat), don't
have any way to distribute the heat.
I sure do miss that ol wood burner
it ALWAYS kept the place "warm"!!!
Bob
God Bless
 
I love my outdoor boiler,but I sure miss the woodstove in the house, well most of the time, I miss teh right now heat and to belly up to the stove when coming in from teh cold,, but I dont miss teh mess in teh house , the dust and hauling all teh wood in the house,,

I started mine the week of halloween, and has run since,, and it doesnt cost me anyting except time and a few gallons of gas for the saws, Glad I aint buying fuel..

I go through about 25 cord [face cord] ,, and as far as heat loss through the outdoor furnace, I dont have any heat coming off mine , only when I open the door to load her,,although in mid january if it is really cold you can see where the pipes go thrugh the ground, and I am 6 feet down,, if I ever did it again I woul;d build a box and insulate the pipes in the box, maybe that expanding foam,,

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Since 1971 been burning wood. Put in a new gas furnace in 1990, and on the third tank of LP, (500 gallon) tank is totaly full yet.

In the past I was called stupid, but now I'm considered smarter. I can store a year and a half's wood in the basment where it is warm.

I enjoy the timber, and I'm set up real good for cutting wood. I grab the large branch or smaller log with the loader forks and hold it over the sixteen foot trailer. When the saw makes a cut the chunk drops into the trailer. I always put the large end of the log towards the back of the trailer. At home I back up to the chute / wood splitter. I drop the hydrolic lift pan to trailer level, and roll the large chunks onto the lift pan. Once it is split the splitter pushes the split firewood into the basement chute, and wood is handled very little.

We have lots of timber, and it is a dirty shame how much wood goes to waste.
 
Yep...Just about 10 cord last season, (big house) we start burning in early October & finish up around mid May!.. 300 gallons of propane will last us 2 years!


MN Scott

We also have the 'Big Jack' IMHO it's one of the best burners around!
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when we bought our place, the central heating was a little coal stove in the center of each room and a wood burner in the dining room and living room. It doesn't get that cold here (around freezing) so they did OK. We went through 4 years like that. The coal was nice because we both work and could dump a bucket in twice a day and do OK. The rooms with the stoves would get cold and we'd have to wait on them to warm up and always had the dirt of starting a fire, so switched them out for a couple of nice oil heaters after the 1st year. I had to run new water lines when we bought the house because te existing was galvanized pipe and the water was nasty, so also hung and plumber radiators in each room and set everything up for a boiler when we could afford it. Gotta love ebay.........
We burn wood/coal now when we WANT to. I am thinking about replacing the boiler with a wood burner or maybe a pellet burner (self feeding).

Dave
 
My main heat is with wood. When I built my house in the 70's electric heat was the thing to do. Big mistake. I installed a antique wood stove called a Round Oak. I have used it since about 1975. I have put many cords of wood through that stove since. Cat's love it. Stan
 
We have a free-standing wood stove with a glass door in the great room. Heats abou half the house. The bedroom wing stays a bit cooler, but it's great for sleeping. Keep thermostat set at 62 for the propane furnace. Burn around three cords and a tank of propane over the winter. I have the wood and enjoy the cutting and savings.

Larry in Michigan
 
I burn wood, in an add-on furnace, also oil. Since I am gone at work so long (12 hours a day with the commute) I use oil as the main heat, but supplement with wood on weekends and when it gets real cold as there is nothing like wood heat when it goes below zero. Plusd I can get my own wood.
 
I'm in the same boat at JDNut, I have a woodburner in the basement, fed into the cold air return with a shroud. I work and am not home for 10+ hours each day, so I fire it up when I get home. That and the fireplace keeps us toasty. We have Natural gas for our main heat.
 
Maple hill farm
They make an insulation kit for those wood furnaces one of two either you can put the lines in a pvc pipe with insulation on the outside or the one with the pipe and insulation altogether in what looks like a plastic drain tile for the field. I can't see where mine run and they are only about 30-36 inches deep.
 
There's nothing better than warming the hands over a wood stove. Also, there's nothing worse than the smell of scorching gloves laid on the stove to dry. Mom used to get on my case for laying my wet gloves, sometimes laced with a little manure, on the wood stove to get a quick drying before I went back outside to finish chores.

When I was a kid we had the Round Oak stove in the basement and a cook stove in the kitchen, along with the oil burning heater in the dining room. I was the only boy in the family so I had the assignment of carrying the wood down to the basement and the ashes back up. Then the cobs had to be supplied for the cook stove.

I still live in the same house but the wood burning stoves are long gone and will never be back. I do heat the shop with wood and have for 25 years so burning wood is not completely gone here, it's just gone from the house. I live in a fairly 'wood deprived' area here on the Iowa plains so going down the hill to get a winter's supply isn't as easy, unless I burn cottonwood or rotten soft maple from abondoned farm groves. Jim
 
Was making a joke, but that truck is loaded right. If you look at it, the tire aren't puchin and it's leveled out, not saggin in the rear. May even be a 3/4 ton.
 
ave burned wood since my first house in '96. Parents burned wood from '67-04. Ussually we can keep the furnace off, but this year seems to be different, wood is well seasoned and doesnt last through the night, and when I turn the furnace to 55 and the wife has to get up for work and get out of the shower in 55 degree bathroom, well, I hear about it. We burn all red oak and some birch. Have a wood add on furnace but it has it's own blower, doesnt utilze the furnace blower. My big problem is getting the heat to make it to the farthest room, my bedroom, it's always 8-10 degrees colder, just dont have the oomph to blow the heat that far.
 
Truck is a 3/4 ton. When it had the original box on it we had a set of stock racks on it and we would heap the wood up over the stock racks. I only haul the wood less than a mile on gravel roads so there is no saftey concern. Its a Chevy so its made for work, its been hauling and pulling huge loads its whole life and it has'nt broken anything yet.
 
Dave, I run the heat down to 55 at night also.
Installed a 1500 wat electric heater on a timer in the bathroom. Comes on a 0630. Toasty warm in there at 0700 for am shower. Costs about a dime a day.

Gordo
 
Dave, I run the heat down to 55 at night also.
Installed a 1500 wat electric heater on a timer in the bathroom. Comes on a 0630. Toasty warm in there at 0700 for am shower. Costs about a dime a day.

Gordo
 
That truck's not fully loaded - I see he still has room for the saw in the back. I have to put my saw in the cab so it won't slide off. He's probably not getting off the farm, and the truck is obviously paid for and served him well. :)

Paul
 
I live in a log house(28 x 52) with a walk out basement. I built my own stove in the basement to warm the house while worling on it. It did the job so well that I never changed. We have a lp heater as back up but it hasn't been used yet. It was -19 this morning and it is 72 in this back room and 78 up in the loft. I have no duct work just a large cast iron grate in the floor above the stove. I need no electricy for heat or cooking. I also have a propane refriderator hooked up ready to go if the juice goes off for a long time. I never had to use it yet.
 
In Nashville, TN. I have a smaller fireplace insert that can keep one end of the house with upstairs liveable. Most years I have gotten by burning just what I could find along streets waiting for the chipper trucks but this year I ran short and had to buy a long bed and a half of oak for $70. Or I couldda got a mini PU not full load for $65....
20 some years ago up in the KY boonies; I had a King wood stove I burned slab wood in from a sawmill. A neighbor built me a cement block chimney and but one block right in the wall. I could have the pipe red hot but only did that trick when I could watch it...
 
Thanks, mine has that insulation over it, It was the type that came with the pipe, it is just white foam, and teh two pipes sit inside of it, I wont dig it back up , those pipes are spensive,, but if I did ever have to do it again, I would do it differently, find a better insulation for around the pipes,
pat
 
11:45 in Georgia,Sunny skies,no clouds, Temp. is 73 with a expected high of 78. I tip my hat to you for having the fortitude to exist in those conditions and the expense of staying warm. We have a few cold days but nothing extreme. Keep the cold but send us some rain, thats what we need !!
 
I have a Central Boiler outdoor furnace it has the big door which is nice for loading pallets/crates I am back to back with a company that disposes of them 20' from my burner. Plus they give me the money they would spend on a dumpster works out nice.
 
They pay you for what they would spend on a dumpster.Thats a good deal,all I've been able to do is get free wood.Noone has paid me to take from them yet,but,I'll work on it.
 
It does sound good and is but you have to remember I still have to cut them down some. It took some time to learn to avoid the nails with the chainsaw (and the bottom of my feet).
 
We don't get the harsh winters you guys see in the midwest and north, but here in the FL panhandle, there's nothing like sitting in front of a warm fire on a cold rainy night. We heat the house with a "Dove" brand wood heater. It's an awesome design that is very efficient and has lasted many years. Unfortunately, I believe the company went out of business as I've not been able to find any info on the web....
 
I got a big cast iron yotul wood stove to heat the house, old one from the house does duty in the shop now.
You can't beat wood heat.
 
Have an outdoor wood boiler and also have a forced air wood furnace in the basement. I don't use the one in the basement very often, but I've had both going since Sunday afternoon. I like it pretty warm in the house, and with both going it never gets below 72 in the house even though the windchill has been between -30 and -40 the past few days.
 
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