Who heats their house with wood?

[Mosh]

I figure with fuel prices the way they are, there would be alot of folks heating with wood.

We run a woodburner..
I Burn about 3 cords per season.
I run a Stihl 290 saw, and Tammy and I split by hand.. using a 7lb maul.
About half of the wood comes from the side woods we have.

Normally we would run about 1000 gallons of propane to heat for the year.
With the woodburning, and a few electric space heaters, we get thru the season on about 300 gallons of propane.

The furnace only runs in the early AM,and when we leave the house for more than 4 hours.
With propane at about 2.80 per gallon, I figure the wood burner saves us about, 2K per season.
So who is self reliant?

The nice thing is, we have a wood stove, that we can cook on, if the power goes out.
So do you use wood? How much area do you heat, and how much wood do you burn?

[Jason Hall]

Mosh, we heat with wood also, and our furnace never runs. I had some trouble In the beginning (about 6 years ago) with our pipe's freezing, but cured that with lots of Insulation. Once ours Is going for the year, It rairly goes out. I have an old McCulough that treats me right. I rebuilt an engine In a tree service guys truck, so he bring's me log's, I LOVE OAK!!!!! I just blew the engine to pieces on my OLD log splitter, I actually got hit In the leg by a piece of the case when the rod let go LOL.

[dcreel]

We use the fireplace that has a blower that blows heated air through about 50% of the house. We use it in addition to gas heat. Works great. On high it will run you out of the house.

[Tri-ZNate]

About the only time the wood stove doesnt run is in the a.m. and the oil burner may turn on. We have used motor oil dripping on the fire (piped into the top of the stove with a slow speed pump) to put out more heat. Works great. Last year we didnt burn wood and went through 300 gallons of fuel, I'm hoping to not use over my 150 gallon tank. House is roughly 2000 ft/sq

[Gearheadtom]

My parents (who I still live with) have a kitchen wood stove at one end of the house, and they also used an oil furnace at the same time. We usualy burn about 2 cords of wood a year.

[1985BigRed250ES]

we use wood for heat only. our fireplace has an insert that has a fan on it that blows warm air through out the house. our house is approx 1350sq/ft

[fabiodriven]

I heated my old house through four winters on wood and through those four years we only used 3/4 of a tank of oil. I burned roughly 5 cord a year. I just bought a new house (by myself) and had my stove installed within the first two weeks. I've been burning off and on for those two weeks, and I'm burning right now. I have a Stihl MS250 but I need a bigger saw. I have a 22 ton log splitter. I have never once paid for wood.

[harryredtrike]

i heat my outbuilding with wood,in a wood burner i made at work.

[SeaBass8]

I heat my down stairs with a pellet stove. I'll burn like 80 to 90 bags a year.

[hublake]

I have heated my place with wood for the past 10 years. My natural gas bill last year was around $350.00. I use about 4-5 face cords a year mainly grey backs.(Oak). A number of years ago gypsey moths went through this area and killed alot of oak. Grey backs are what we call oak that has been standing and has lost of of its bark. Hard as rock and just as dry. Do not have to let it dry.

[daniel_250r]

our tenants pay 1500 a month no joke to heat our house with electric heaters they just won't move out

[smokinwrench]

I heat our house with wood pellets for the most part. Burn about 2 tons per year.

[brapp]

i heat my entire house with wood but also have electric baseboard in the bedrooms and main rooms and usualy keeps the house pretty cozy. and i burn mabey 5-6 pickuploads a year.

[Yamada]

25 cords of wood here. We need 60 cords of woods for my house, my uncle's house and my grandma's house. A couple years ago we had to make 80 cords of woods because we were selling woods for my aunt.

[rdlsz24]

We have a fireplace in our living room that my wife likes to play with. To me it feels like more warm air goes out the chimney than makes it into the house lol. We have a gas furnace for the real heating duties.

Rob