Burnin' Wood
How many posters on this site heat with wood? Anybody cook with wood?
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yep and used to[;)][:D] 0 -
I have a fireplace. I use it more for the "feelings" than the heat. Even getting up in the middle of the night, the fire gives me a sense of security and serenity. On the weekends, we bring the kids down and sleep in front of the fire on the floor. 0 -
Kinda wood. I have been using combination wood pellets/corn for three years.its a great heat. cost me about half that I was using burning with propane.I plan a addition for next tear and I'm going to put a coil of tubing through the chimney of the heater and use the heat that I'm losing up the chimney to heat the floor in the addition. before I got the pellet stove I used a wood stove/ propane this is a whole lot better. 0 -
Used to burn wood all winter. 12-15 pickup loads. Switched to propane logs about 7 yrs. ago. Now, propane has doubled so it's back to wood. Thinking about getting a stove that burns wood or coal. I have a single axle dump truck that can haul 8 ton and I can get good coal in Keystone, WVa. for $75 a ton. About a three hr. round trip. 0 -
Yes, on the really cold nights. 0 -
I've heated solely with wood for the past 30yrs., but added an elec.
furnace this year so we're not tied down all winter.
Installed a wood furnace in this house when i built it in 91', and
kind of miss not having the smaller stove to back up against.
When i first moved here about 30yrs ago we cooked with wood too.
I can heat this 2,700ft. house on less than $300. w/wood, and it would
likely be triple (or more) that with gas or elec..0 -
wood is my main source of heat followed by coal and then electric 0 -
yep..hardwoods only here..Preferably oak/hickory families,.[:D] it is one of three types of heat here..electric/propane/wood..[8D]..Loko
[so far been a easy year on the wood pile]0 -
Since buying this place 2 1/2 years ago thats all I use! No gas, just electrical base bord heaters, the first year ran me 700$ amonth
to heat this place!Bought a good cast iron fire place and a cord of wood lasts me thru the winter and runs me 200$0 -
Yep, 6-6&1/2 cords a year, and about 30 gallons of diesel for the furnace to take the mind numbing cold out of the back bedrooms in the coldest weather. Fire runs around the clock commonly 4-8 weeks without it ever going out. 0 -
I'm off the grid, so heat with wood. I have a small propane wall heater which keeps the place from freezing if I want to leave for a few days and a propane kitchen stove. I sell some firewood yearly and have a regular customer who buys 14" pieces for her old wood cookstove, which she uses occasionally for cooking and supplemental heat. I have an outdoor firepit which I use for grilling whenever the mood strikes me. 0 -
Natural gas and wood here. Use the wood mostly because we like it better.
Cook with wood? My Grandfather cooked on a wood stove and heated with coal until he moved from the old home place in the early 80's. I love cooking on a wood fire outdoors. We live in town and often have a fire in the backyard for the heck of it at night using an old 24" farm tractor rim as a fire ring. My kids friends think that is the coolest thing in the world be have a "campfire" in the back yard.
I have often thought of building a grill type device with an oven that can burn wood to do some cooking on. Nothing beats a good pot of Pinto beans or deer stew cooked on a wood fire or a good breakfast.0 -
100% wood here in northern Michigan
Oak,Maple or what ever I get my hands on
Have an outdoor wood boiler
cheap way to keep the homestead cozy0 -
Use my fireplace alot. Soon as the temp drops below 60 degrees.
Use the woodburning stove upstairs also.0 -
Heat with a large "Woodchuck" wood furnace, have oil back-up. We burn mostly Hard Sugar Maple here in Vermont. 0 -
I use wood for heat and I have cooked on it during power outages or while camping[:)] 0 -
I am heating the house with the Waterford wood stove right now. It is burning good North Carolina locust, the best firewood in the world. It is about 25 per cent better than oak.
I built a stone fireplace when I built this log house. This fireplace is entirely within the house, that is, the back wall of the fireplace is 7 feet inside the house. I did this to make the most of fireplace heat.
The other night I burned the fireplace for five hours. At 10 pm I let it go out. I was running no other heat that night.
The temp was 32 degrees that night. When I got up at 6 am the house was 68 degrees, because of all the heat coming off of that big stack of rocks.
The fireplace will continue to give off heat for 24 hours after the fire has gone out.0 -
Wood is #1 for me.
Coal and electric for backup.
So far this year it has been 100% wood.0 -
My parents always used alot of wood.
But with my trailer, wood wasn't an option, BUT next year I will have an outside wood boiler to run both my heat and hot water. I already have about 6-7 cord of 4 foot length down.
Oh Yeah!0 -
Naaaaaaa. Still burnin the AC here.No cool weather in the forecast till first of the year.[V] 0 -
Wood with propain backup.
I prefer dead elm.0 -
I use wood heat only. I love the smell of burning Hickory. 0 -
Forced air heat off a 120Kbtu wood burning furnace, backed by a 95Kbtu propane furnace. Thinking about adding a propane boiler and water coil in the woodburner so I can some baseboard runs also. 0 -
95% wood in a 4 year old Jotul stove(Norwegian) good northern Illinois hardwoods(white oak, hickory ,black locust , and the greatest of all.... OSAGE ORANGE I save $600 a year not counting a stolen Husquavarna saw, I broken tuck window, lots of time and gas.......... heck I'm really not saving much but love the fire! 0 -
Use wood here,with passive solar, propane backup when we're gone for a few days.Just got a new U S stove "Hotblast". The old one burned out after 28 years. 0 -
Propane fireplace, Vermont Castings wood stove, and Heat Pump. Burn the wood about half the time. Used to heat totally with wood but changed one stove out for gas fireplace, got to be too much work for my bad back. Wood heat is the best. Burn about 1-2 cords a year now. Last winter it was so warm didn't even burn one cord. 0 -
Hickory: So the locust grows in Illinois?
That is the best firewood I have ever seen.
Now, you say Osage Orange is better?
What size is the Osage Orange? Is it hard to split?
It doesn't grow here in the NC mountains.
There is a blight killing all the locust trees around here. I have all I can burn right now, several times a year a dead locust tree will fall across my driveway. That is ok because it doesn't rot.
But, in five years or so, locust will be all gone around here. Sad.0 -
Just replaced the wood stove with a top of the line pellet stove...The wood stove put out better heat! But I'm glad I don't have to cut wood anymore.. 0 -
free standing wood stove,I think they call it a soap stove,keeps the whole house warm but I do have propane for a backup if needed, 0 -
...Wood heat only..blackjack oak all the way. Have a gas central unit but went to all wood 3 years ago and the central has not been turned on since. Matter of fact just had a another half cord delivered and stacked about 2 hours ago.
...Before natural gas went up, wood saved about 60%+ on the gas heating bill; now it's about a 40% savings...I'll take that all day...[^]
..One of the bonuses is to use the swing arm on the firebox and swing the dutch oven over the fire/coals and cook stews to bisquits/soups/roasts..you name it, mmmmMMMM [:p]
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