Who heats their house with wood?

**3 or die** · 10-12-2009, 05:46 PM

100% wood here. I have a wood stove in he basement that is plumbed into the ac duct work. I sell 400 cords a year so the scrap heats my home for free.

**Rm250RF900R** · 10-12-2009, 06:24 PM

We got 2 wood pellet stoves and the rest is gas.

**Banage** · 10-12-2009, 08:31 PM

#6 I wish i had a stove in my house. We have a pig in our cabin and its all we use. We leave a window open it gets so hot.....even in -30 if there is little to no wind

**Bryan Raffa** · 10-12-2009, 08:50 PM

Originally Posted by daniel_250r

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

WTF!!!

yes we burn wood to off set the Oil burner.. witch got overhauled this year..so were sittin pretty ,, new chainsaw, 22 face cord of tops from last year .. just sitting....ready to cut

when you come over for the ice races.. bring a hand full through the door on the way in.

**jensenracing77** · 10-12-2009, 09:54 PM

i use wood for back up heat. i work on ATVs as a side job and make enough to pay the heat bill. i charge $30 per hour so if i cut a full season of wood and had 100 hours in it, it would have cost me $3000. this way i spend 100 hours with ATVs and pay $1000 for the heat bill and have $2000 left over.

**litebulblsc** · 10-12-2009, 10:58 PM

We burn wood to help lower the gas bill. Not sure what a cord is, but we go through quite a bit of wood in the winter.

**The Goat** · 10-12-2009, 11:05 PM

cord 4 tall 16 long

cord of ash goes quick

cord of oak...not so much

If I gotta split wood though, nothing beats splitting ash. Saws go right through it, 24in blocks aren't even that heavy, and the splitter doesn't even cough when pushing it along.

**litebulblsc** · 10-13-2009, 10:56 AM

I split ash by hand. Not worth wasting gas on. Save the gas for the oak and other hard woods.

And if the the cord measurements are in feet, then I guess we only go through about 5 or 6 cords a winter.

**johnny's X** · 10-13-2009, 11:08 AM

We go through 15 cord of wood a year. We heat with propaine so we try not to use it to much. The furnace will kick on in the early morning after the stove has burnt down. Much warmer heat with wood and even throughout the house.

**hublake** · 10-13-2009, 11:08 AM

Originally Posted by litebulblsc

We burn wood to help lower the gas bill. Not sure what a cord is, but we go through quite a bit of wood in the winter.

A pulp wood cord is 4' high, 4' wide, and 8' long. Most people when talking about using a cord for fire wood are talking about a pile of wood 4' high x 8' wide and the length about 16"-18" in length. In our neck of the woods we call that a face cord.

**Mosh** · 10-13-2009, 11:27 AM

Good to see, more folks boycotting these rediculous fuel prices.
Sad news, Is wood has gotten high priced too.I wanted to pick up 1 more load, just in case.
Normally if I buy some, it is 25$ per full size pick-up truck load..
I called a guy yesterday, and he wanted 75$ for a truck load..
I was like "no thanks".
So, gonna drag the utility to the back 40 this weekend with the saw..

Some of you burn alot of wood.

We just installed a new burner.
Quite larger than the old wood stove, and I have a feeling, I will be wearing shorts in January..

**SeaBass8** · 10-13-2009, 12:08 PM

Cord wood around here (MA) is ridiculous. Last year I called to check price. It went from 200$ to 300$ in one year and it was even seasoned. I said no thanks.

I just can't pay 300$ a cord for the fire place when 90% of the heat goes up the chimney.

I do have an old Prize Herald wood stove that I plan to install in my dinning room.

**DeePa** · 10-13-2009, 12:12 PM

i just pay the gas bill every month...reffing 3-4 hockey games to pay that bill per month sure does beat the hassle of a wood stove and all that goes along with it. Turn the thermostat up and done like dinner.

we used to have one back in the day, but now we have a gas fireplace that gives the living room a nice atmosphere

**Yamada** · 10-13-2009, 12:36 PM

Originally Posted by hublake

A pulp wood cord is 4' high, 4' wide, and 8' long. Most people when talking about using a cord for fire wood are talking about a pile of wood 4' high x 8' wide and the length about 16"-18" in length. In our neck of the woods we call that a face cord.

You are right. I always forget to say that it is a face cord for the heating wood.

**DixiePlowboy** · 10-13-2009, 12:37 PM

We use wood (oak and hickory) in our fireplace insert w/blower to cut down on our electric and gas bill. Most of my friends and immediate family do the same.

I used my old Stihl 041 that I got for my 12th birthday up until a couple years ago, and my dad has a new 22-ton splitter that I use to make short work of big-to-little chores.

I grew up in my great-grandparents old homeplace using wood and coal.

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