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I have 2-3 weeks, and I will be out for this year. It's just about right for me. I haven't had a fire during the day for a month or so just at night. I don't know about you, but I'm getting tired of wood, and wood stoves for this year. Probably going to have a gas stove installed in a few years. Not getting any younger. but for now it's wood. Stan
 
We have so many dead ash trees around here the only way to run out of wood is for the trees to rot before I can get to them.
 
So any of you guys burn Rail Road ties,they were heavy stinky wood, my mom,hated it when dad would bring them into the house,i always wandered how much creasote was stuck in the chimney!
 
Couldn't have been much creosote in the chimney or else you wouldn't be here to tell about it. At the very least you'd have a few tales of epic chimney fires.

...and yes I'm sick of wood. Still have a few sticks in the second row in the woodshed, plus the end stacks of both the first and second rows. Back row is still stacked to the roof. I should be able to get to fairly warm weather without touching the back row at all.
 
I built the initial 1440 sq. ft. of my house in a 36x40 box dimension deliberately so that my Earth brand wood stove could heat the whole house....no hallways. That was 1979. Up until 2 years ago it did its job eloquently. As the population exploded around here wood got harder and harder to find at a decent price as I don't have wooded property and have to to wooded areas and find it. Also at 78 I was tired of the wood hassle. So I capped off the vent, removed the woodie and installed a Propane, Blue Flame heater and that was that. I just realized that I'm getting to be less of the man that I used to be and it was time to start looking at life differently.
 
I don't how or why I remember this...

An episode of Petticoat Junction, something was said about they could tell the train crew was burning old crossties because the train was making more smoke than usual!

The things that stick in a child's mind!
 
Lots of wood here. Between deadfalls from the never ending drought and many uprooted trees from the Mono winds last year we will have wood for years to come. PG&E tree contractor cut up a big leaner last year, all we had to do is split it. We have been burning small stuff from the winds, up to 10 inches or so. Haven't even split any yet.

All Golden Cup oaks, aka Iron wood. It is a live oak that grows tall and big, up to 24 inches or more. Great burning wood, makes lots of heat. We keep the big ol' Hearthstone going 24/7, heats the whole house.
 
In good shape here on wood. I've got plenty to harvest off the land, for as long as I need it, but without time to do it, this year I bought a 5 cord truck load. Logs cut one year before, just processed before loading, delivered just before Christmas. not exactly seasoned, but with this old Ashley HFR 25 stove, and enough room nearby to single stack almost 2/3 of a cord, I was able to dry it down perfectly. It's a nice mix of hardwoods, burns long, lot of coals. I haven't even burnt half of that load yet. I don't burn during the day during the week, unless extreme cold, then I'll keep it fired up. The sun heats the house nicely where I am when not cloudy but I do keep it cranked up most other times. For what I paid, I could not hustle out that much, that quickly. I've got some logs to haul in and process, nice hardwood too. So with those and what is left over, it will cover next years supply. With the size of this house and the amount of heat it produces, this stove keeps the place nice. I'd like to add one upstairs as oil/hot water is the main source of heat, gas will cost quite a bit to get up this road, not sure I'd want to deal with LPG. At some point age/health might keep me from handling wood, still strong and healthy thankfully, but will have to make the choice then.
 
Yes tired of it! Heating a 2200sf house an 900sf shop in Wi, propane back up.
Getting wood ready for next year, expect propane to be high next winter....
 
Lots of wood, I expect to sell 5-6 cords this summer, and we're staying in AZ a week longer, it's been a nasty winter in MN. We will only burn wood in MN for a month or so. I have some more blowdown Ash to process in MN, maybe 5-6 cords to sell the next year.
 
A few years ago we had a heat pump installed. Perks of having inlaws that run a HVAC company! First time in my life I didn't reply solely on wood, also first time having AC! Still have the wood stove for back up and because I love wood heat. I still have to keep cut/split wood, but surely not as much. I don't mind cutting firewood, however I don't miss it much either
 
Ran out mid winter, have drug 2 cords home from kind neighbours huge burn piles to get us through. First year with a boiler heating the whole house, much warmer but also used more wood to get the heat.

Luckily endless supply of wood on our property. May look at an outdoor boiler eventually, something that will take whole logs.
 
After heating with wood all my life I took out the woodstove and replaced it with a propane burner. Wish I'd kept the woodstove and added an auxillary propane heater. It would take a LOT of propane to heat like the woodstove did.
 
I should make it to warm weather keeping the shop cat warm with the boiler, but there won't be much left for seed come summer wood-getting. The house is mostly propane, but the wood stove warmed it up during our cold spells. I'll have used about 2-1/2 cords, mostly Mountain Maple. steve
 
We bought our house in 12-84. It cost me $1,200 in propane to heat the remainder of the winter. Installed a Treemont wood stove the following summer. Heated with it for 10 years until they brought natural gas down the road. Converted the furnace, dryer and water heater and never looked back. Sold the Treemont for 1/2 what I paid for it.
 
(quoted from post at 08:28:45 03/14/22) After heating with wood all my life I took out the woodstove and replaced it with a propane burner. Wish I'd kept the woodstove and added an auxillary propane heater. It would take a LOT of propane to heat like the woodstove did.
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I don't understand all this about how wood heat is so great.

This last winter was MISERABLE. I'm exhausted from months of lack of sleep. My toes and fingertips STILL hurt from the cold in the house.

The stove would not throw any heat. It would go out with the setting of the sun and I'd fight with it all night to keep it lit.

We discussed it here I believe, and I never found a solution.

Oh it would burn scary hot if you left the bypass damper open. I was afraid of burning the house down. You could hear the flames in the chimney. You had to be careful to not let it burn long like that or the bypass damper would seize up and you couldn't get it closed. Had several scary moments where I had to cut off the intake air and watch it while it creaked and rumbled until it cooled off enough for the damper door to drop.

I'm not spending another winter here if I have to burn wood. The alternative though is oil, which I figured out will cost an average of $3000 a month. $4 a gallon, 1 gallon per cycle, 24 cycles per day. It was running every hour when I had it turned up, and between the last two fill-ups I let it run exactly 6 times, and the fuel delivery guy knocked on the door to ask why he could only get 6.8 gallons into the tanks. I told him I couldn't afford the oil so I turned off the furnace and I've been freezing my nads off for the last 3 months...

Screw wood heat if you ask me.
 
Had a coal stoker feeding steam boiler when we bought the house. Then oil for years. Oil became expensive for the big old house. Have a geo heat pump and air to air heat pump with propane back up now and have never had a more economical set up. Yes used a wood stove for a while in the house and shop but probably sold more wood than i burned in those days. Too old now to do anything but run the thermostats.
 
I burned wood for the first 20 years I had the new shop. It was nice quick and even heat. I was young and able at that time but in my part of the nearly baren plains of Iowa I had to travel quite a ways to get the wood. I did not have the luxury of going out back in the trees for more firewood. I got to figuring up what it cost me to get the wood and process it and it turned out propane would cost me about the same or less as traveling all over the county to get firewood. So out went the wood burner and the hanging gas furnace has done it all since then. I also gained more space in the shop without the wood burner in there. If I had acres of hardwood outside my back door it would be a different story.
 
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