Wood Heat

[Wrennie]

Its that time of year. The yard is covered in wood piles. Smoke is a constant in the chimney. And dust is a constant in the house!
We buy most of our wood. Not cheap, but easy on the workload of hauling, cutting, splitting.....
When friends cut, I ask for anything they dont want. We get most kindling from the neighbors tree line. They're just weekenders, dont burn much except for atmosphere. My trees consist of some big white pines and fruit trees. An occasional branch ends up in the wood pile. I only have .3 acre (yup thats a decimal point before the 3) The land near me is all state owned. Cant take "state" wood off of state property. Which sucks cause theres a bunch of ash a flood took down. I'd sneak it out but it is right in plain view and would require an ATV to drag it out of the stream bed. And its too HUGE to drag out by me self.

We have This Woodstove
I know some people have wood burning furnaces.

Do you heat with wood? What kind of stove/furnace/boiler do you have? Where do you get your wood from?
Right now a cord of wood, cut & split, goes for $175
We go through at least 8 cord a year.

[crazy1]

Wow!!!! For that price I sure hope it's a full cord and not a face cord.

We have an outside wood fueled boiler, a WoodMaster 4400. A dang good boiler to say the least. Keeps the house about 80 and heats the shroom barn as well. This one also heats the water as it comes into the hot water tank. So the water actually comes in at 150°F. Saves a ton on the propane.
I cut all of our wood, some from the clearing of the land last year. And some from the tree lines on dads fields.
Couldn't tell ya how many cords we go through. I'd guess about 6 or so.
This stove is air tight so it is a very efficient source of heat.

[Wrennie]

Ya' think thats bad. I was talking with Penny about wood. She's in Canada...ready?
$650 for a cord of wood!

[crazy1]

wrennie said:

Ya' think thats bad. I was talking with Penny about wood. She's in Canada...ready?
$650 for a cord of wood!

Oh my God that's freakin highway robbery right there. Dang I'm in the wrong business.

Canada has more wood than they know what to do with. Even at the exchange rate to US dollars, that's more than it costs to heat a small house with N gas.

[Wrennie]

Shes in a more city-ish area. Maybe thats something to do with it.

OMG! Look at this house! house

found this list at www.firewoodcenter.com/

Regional Cord Prices

Tallahassee, FL $160.
Appleton, WI $160
Central, IL $225
Lansburg, MI $116
Gettysburg, PA $125
Millinocket, ME $95
Boston, MA $185
Hinesburg, VT $165

Colchester, CT $125
Milwaukee, WI $180
Mansfield OH $120
LOWELL, MI $80
Sandusky OH $120
Calpine, CA $125
Burlington, WI $160
Holden, MA $240
Bennington, NH $175
Asheville, NC $145
Whistler B.C $275
Squamish B.C. $175

[Laura]

Being from WI..& my old hometown on the list... It would be so nice to have a wood burner..or stove...or fireplace for that matter..

[Wrennie]

First thing I did when I bought this house was put in the wood stove. Missed having a fireplace at the old house.

[Adeltia]

We need a fire place..(hubby)Adelita

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A cord of wood goes for 70 to 100 per around here, we also burn coal too. It's about 80 dollars a ton.
Most all the wood is oak and hickory........good stuff.

[Wrennie]

How long does a ton of coal last?

[douglas]

Shoot I get all mine free on the side of the road, got a basement wall full almost one end to another and a friend brings some over now and then already cut Had it opened up yesterday around 73 throughout the whole house, love that forced air

[douglas]

I wouldn't use coal if I were you because I heard about the poison fumes it produces, unless I'm wrong

[Wrennie]

So you have an indoor wood furnace Douglas?

[douglas]

Yes thanks to crazy1 who is a pal

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wrennie said:

How long does a ton of coal last?

It depends.........if you mix it with wood, i'd say about 2 months......straight coal, about 1 month.........it throws much more heat than wood.

[wvsnowflake]

we had a coal stove a warm morning ( My a** ) definately not a warm morning with a coal stove !!! then I got a baby bear definately a lot warmer!! I am not sure how much wood is in a true chord, but while I was at home and hubby was on the road I was giving 65.00 a truck load of stacked fire wood. ( stacked on the truck) On good days I would go with dad and and we would cut a load for him and then one for me... THat kept me in shape cause I split the wood while he used the chain saw.. ( I'm kinda afeared of a chain saw.... )

[mckenzygirl]

There's nothing like wood heat!
We use our own wood from our land, and we pick up pallets whenever we find a sign that says free!

[GrannyG]

We heat with wood. We also have butane for a back-up and occassionally need to use it if the house is really cold. I prefer Oak, but we also use Mesquite and Pecan. My neighbors Pine Tree drops pinecones which I use for starter. A cord of oak will run $125-150 around here. We are lucky to have a big stack from when our town burned. They sent in crews of prisoners to cut and stack the burned trees and the public could have it free for hauling off, so many of us managed to get about a year's supply of wood. It still has burned places on it, and it is dirty, but it burns great and warms the house. We also cut pallets up and have used them.

[douglas]

Pallets work great for burning. I use the platform pieces for kindling splitting them into small pieces

[abirdseyeview]

On 11/4 Wrennie said:

"Ya' think thats bad. I was talking with Penny about wood. She's in Canada...ready?
$650 for a cord of wood!"

Blow me down! I need to cut more and put a sign out in the yard

We heat with a wood furnace with forced air. Good heat.
We use about 12 - 13 pick-up loads per season. But at those prices I could well bring in more from the woods. Whooeee! Maw, we is setting on a durn gold mine.

[Penny]

Yeppers, that why alot of people up here swicthed from wood to gas, we did, we had too, i couldnt keep paying that for Apple Wood to heat the house with, although i do miss the smell, i sure as heck dont miss the price!!

[lucy]

We have electric heat. But I would love a fireplace. When I lived with Mom and Dad we had a fireplace and a wood/coal burner. We cut our own wood. We got a permit to cut on Gov land. We truly enjoyed getting our own wood. My Mom Dad Me and my nephew (who was raised as my brother) would go out and get it.
I miss those times.

[abirdseyeview]

Lucy said:

"I miss those times."

I don't know that I miss that, in fact I go out every year and cull wood from about 180 acres. I don't think I'd miss it, but given the price of heat these days, I appreciate having it there. It is hard work just the same. If I had an easier way, No, I wouldn't misit abit.

[biita]

Here in Norway we buy 50 bags of split wood, 60 liter per bag, all birch wood. we have a wood stove oven, and a fireplace. we just mostly use the wood stove. We pay 2500 NOK (norwegian crowns) $452. this will take all thru winter and into the spring an we usually still have wood to start the next winter with, until we order more. the only other heat soarce we have is an electric heater attacked to the kitchen wall. we mostly rely on the woodstove for heat, an it heats the whole house.

[crazy1]

palets are a great source for good hardwood kindleing.

I just cut a truck load of standing dead Red Elm. Man that stuff burns long and hot.

just checked the burner and it's still going well after 14hrs.

[douglas]

With these temps I got mine going too, too bad palets don't last long

[oh2fly]

Our main source of heat is a Lopi wood stove. It heats the whole house. My art studio is the whole upstairs. I have a heat pump/A/C unit. It barely runs to keep the area at 68 degrees. We go through 6-9 cords of wood. My son also heats with a Lopi stove and he uses my stash of wood. I pay $75.00 for fir $100 for maple, oak and madrone(the best) I built a 3 bay 15 cord wood shed. It gets good cross wind action to dry. I accidentally got a pic yesterday while trying to get all 5 labs in a shot at the same time. I lucked into a real deal on wood, too. My friend's brother works construction and when they clear a development of trees, they don't have anywhere to get rid of them without paying. I got a whole dump truck load of oak for free. You can see it stacked in the far back in the pic. 4 cords of oak sells here for $1,000. dry and seasoned ;D

[notherdigger]

Boy are you lucky Oh2fly. We pay 160 for fur generally, for good fir that is. And that's getting an honest cord. Someof the people round here won't want to do business with you if you want to measure it. But great to hear you lucked into the good deal on oak and such, good for you. And oak here is 180 and up by the way.

[abirdseyeview]

Boy, I need to get cutting!

[lucy]

abirdseyeview said:

Lucy said:

"I miss those times."

I don't know that I miss that, in fact I go out every year and cull wood from about 180 acres. I don't think I'd miss it, but given the price of heat these days, I appreciate having it there. It is hard work just the same. If I had an easier way, No, I wouldn't misit abit.

I Miss anything I got to do with my Daddy and he made getting wood interesting. He taught us the different types of trees and plants. We would take a picnic along sometimes. Play games like who could get the most acorns in a cup and etc.