Who heats with a woodstove?

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I'm in my second season - a Drolet Escape 1400-I insert in my fireplace, drafting out a 6 inch flexible stainless steal pipe running through the masonry chimney. It's got a blower on it too. Even dries the laundry. It's awesome, and I'm never short on wood - mostly white and chestnut oak, but I have the occasional hickory, ash, and maple too...

What about you?
 
Go madrone, one of our tip top firewoods here! I'm stocked up on it, and sell most of the rest.

I have to be careful not to melt to the couch in the evenings.

Our first winter in our house, no wood stove, no dry wood. Second winter, after the install, my wife wasn't wearing a fleece vest and winter hat in the house, and our electric bill dropped to almost nothing, by comparison. I wear shorts in the evening, sometimes socks.

LOVE it.

Oh, and you get to be a pyro, too. Fire was a major technological leap in human history, that I think still subconsciously is in our brain.

Hadn't really though about laundry drying. Our electric dryer is running right now. It would add humidity to the dry heat. We'll probably start that.
 
Mostly chestnut oak - 15 years ...
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yep, nice stove here it's a Dovre (french stove manufacturer) It has glas doors so we can enjoy every flame that come's out off my own cut down and splitted wood.

Makes you appreciate your own work even more. I burn almost everything. Pine, Oak, Popular, Birch, Beech, Cedar, Sequoia and all the other. Just whatever I have to take away on the job ;-)

I'm collecting wood for myself, my father and mother and my sister so there's a lot of firewood to handle through the year. Splitting with 2 different electrick woodsplitters. I used to have a engine woodsplitter but it drove me mad working in that horrible noise all day.

I just love to watch my last years job-wood burn away in the night. Hard to beat that one.

stay warm & climb safe

wouter
 
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how would you guys rate the pellet stove? i personally like wood but everyone is saying pellet> i want to get one this season.

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Starlet,

I've got friends that use pellet stoves. Here's some stuff I was told (you may already know):
They are cleaner than wood stoves.
They're just as warm.
You have to <u>buy</u> pellets. You can get 'free' firewood but no one is giving away pellets.
It takes a LOT of pellets and you have to store them by the pallet load.
It's probably a toss-up as to which is better environmentally.
All the models I know about require electricity to run. Power goes out so does the stove. You CAN hand feed them but what a PITA!

If the power goes out with a wood stove ... throw on a couple of logs, light some candles, open a bottle of single-malt and hope the power don't come back on.
 
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All the models I know about require electricity to run. Power goes out so does the stove. You CAN hand feed them but what a PITA!

If the power goes out with a wood stove ... throw on a couple of logs, light some candles, open a bottle of single-malt and hope the power don't come back on.

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We have a pellet stove in our house, but do not use it as a main heat source. It was installed by my father-inlaw, and he is not always the best carpenter. Its a long story on how it ended up in our living room, but basically I do not feel comfortable leaving it on over night or whenever we leave the house!

It does give off alot of heat, and depending on how hot you want it determines how many pellets it takes. If I had to guess how many pellets it took, I would say it would be about 1.5 bags in a 24 hour period (we never leave it run that long so I dont really know).

I didnt even think about if the electricity goes out. I would be sipping on the single malt to keep warm!
 
Back home we have been heating with wood for pretty much all the years we have lived there. Furnace is in the basement and fire place is on the first floor.
 
Mine is a Vermont Castings Intrepid II. It's not in the house for fun, it's our only heat source. Our central heating is shut down completely.
We use about nine or ten cubic yards of the best of the best. Oak, beech and birch.
I love the wintertime when the stove is in use. What more can you possibly want than to cook on your own wood.
I don't need to be careful with the log size. 16 Inch is a piece of cake in the top loading stove.

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I've got an Appalachian 4N1XL something or other and my wife is a pyro.

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She keeps it over 70F ALL THE TIME, and she cooks alot too, so it's not uncommon for us to have a window open in January LOL. I have trouble keeping up with her appetite for firewood. She runs the stove, though, so I just need to split and stack the wood, and she does the rest. How many guys can say THAT???

-Tom
 
I wish i had a woodstove. We still rent but are looking to buy and that is one of my top priorities. Im sitting on about 40 cords of wood at my woodlot so its a nobrainer.
 
Go figure - a bunch of tree people would also be woodstove geeks...

Most of the time, if I start telling someone about my stove and get all giddy talking about BTU's, CFM's, and firebox capacity, their eyes glaze over and they start looking at their watch.

But not TreeBuzzers!!!
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Been really happy with the little $300 electric splitter. Too slow for commercial but I must of split 40 cords with it in 3 years and it handled almost all the nasty knotty stuff. No exhaust, noise, maintainance, storage, or purchase cost issues.

I burn cottonwood, aspen, spruce, balsalm, birch, and nice hardwood when I get it. Better than dumping it is what I think. It's debris disposal. If it gets too hot I just open a window or two. Got a huge woodstove for the shop that takes 4 foot lengths.

It's amazing how much work it is to heat with wood even if it's delivered for free already bucked. I can see it not being for everyone and gas or pellet is still an economical option. I do it for eviormental reasons mainly. I could burn local wood or gas from who knows where.

***The best deal if your serious about wood heat is the Pioneer Maid Cookstove built by the Amish in Ontario. No website no phone you have to write them a letter to order. Firebox and flume all stainless six feet of stainless top. Airtight firebox that takes 20" pieces. Water jacket, warming oven. Nice looking and only $2000 seems like a insane deal for handmade quality.
 
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