Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[4570Man]

Agree totally on the visual value of fire on humans. But people keep talking bout the "HEAT" specifically. Nicer? the dust, ashes and dirt? Sorry, that isn't about the heat either.

I like to burn wood, but a central heating system in this house, would be "NICE" without the 500 degrees at the stove and cold areas in other rooms and places.

The hot heat is what makes the wood stove nice. And then I can go to the cooler area when I’m not cold anymore.

 

[Jstpssng]

Don't get me wrong. I burn wood, but how is that "HEAT" nicer? I do know, when you get up in the middle of the night and the stove door touches your naked arm, it's nots so nice a!

It's steady heat, whereas that from baseboard or hot air fluctuates as the furnace turns on and off. There's also the recreational value, I enjoy putting up wood. It also give me a chance to weed out my woodlot.

 

[Gordon Gould]

In our place wood heat is nicer vs baseboard because the wood stove is in the basement and all the floors are a nice even warm temperature making the entire house comfortable from the floor up. With baseboard the external walls are heated and the heat rises up the walls where the radiators are. To me the wood is much more comfortable. It is slower responding though. You have to think and plan ahead depending on the weather with wood.

gg

 

[hunt4570]

I think that's one of the NG storys I heard about. That's some good yellow birch firewood, bet you wish you had one of those trailers with a log log loader.

I cant remember who posted the cost of heating with firewood list a couple years ago, I think he said it's a list from the 70s but still funny and probably true in someways, so in case there are some here that forgot the cost, here it is again...........
Save $$$?
Heat with Wood

First year costs:

2 stoves and installation $1385.
Removal of hot water baseboard and boiler $238.
Search for reputable wood dealer N/A $76.
Chain saw $210.
Ax, wedges, maul, cant hook, etc. $119.
Old truck (junk after 1st load) $595.
Newer truck $8645.
Tire chains $88.
Replace truck's rear window (twice) $310.
Fine for cutting wrong trees $500.
5-acre woodlot $4995.
Splitting machine $950.
14 cases of beer $126.
6 fifths ginger brandy $38.
Fine for littering $250.
Towing charge (brook to road) $50.
Gas, oil, files, Band-aids $97.
Doctor's fee (sawdust in eye) $45.
Medical cost for broken toe (dropped log) $128.
Safety shoes $35.
Attempt to fix burned hole in carpet $76.
New living room carpet $699.
Paint living room $110.
Taxes on woodlot $44.
Woodlot boundary dispute settlement $465.
Roof repair after chimney fire $840.
Fine for assaulting fireman $50.
Extension ladder $55.
Chimney brush $22.
Medical fee for broken leg (fell off roof) $478.
Chimney cleaning service $90.
Replace coffee table (chopped up and burned while too drunk to bring firewood up from cellar) $79.
Divorce settlement $14,500.
EXPENSES $36,388

Sale of hot water boiler system $125.
Fuel oil savings $376.
CREDITS $501.

NET COST OF FIRST YEAR WOOD BURNING OPERATION; $35,887.

OUTSTANDING list!! Got to be from the 70s with those prices! But chimney sweep? Really?

So 5 years ago we bought this place, old farm house on 100 acres. Built in 1956, we bought it from the original owner, how many one owner houses that old are out there? Anyway, we tore down part of the house (the part with the fireplace) added an addition and did not replace the fireplace. Stupid!! Was getting lazy and just wanted to set the thermostat and go. Year before last we paid $1200 for propane for Dec,Jan, Feb alone!! So I did my research and installed a wood stove, installed it myself and it was about $2500 (your list above got me thinking about all this). We didn't install it till September and didn't have a real good supply of wood, in fact we ran out about the time winter did and some of that wood was pretty green. BUT we spent ZERO ZIP NADA on propane last year!! YAY!! This year I believe I have a good supply of nice dry wood and should do as well or better!

But 2 stoves installed for $1385, and a chainsaw for $210?? gotta be an old list! But VERY entertaining! Thanks.

 

[hunt4570]

OK, every one is discussing furnaces/wood stoves and heat.. My favorite set up was when I was in Missouri. I installed whats called a Longwood stove, had someone do all the ductwork for me as that's not part of my skillset. So the Longwood is Kind of a dual fuel furnace, down in the basement, hooked to the ductwork, controlled by a thermostat. Its fire box is 5 feel long with a roller at the bottom of the door for rolling in logs up to 5 feet long. It has a kerosene burner/injector that will ignite said logs and once they get going the kerosene kicks off and lets the logs burn. A damper controls rate of burn as per what the thermostat is set at. A couple three logs and it will go all day and night sometimes.. if it runs out of wood, it will kick the kerosene back on and still give you heat! Pretty cool set up!

 

[heavy hammer]

I have two stoves in my around 4000 sq foot house and my home heat fuel bill the last three years has been about $200 a year. Just to keep my two little girls rooms warm on the far end of the house over the garage. The heat from the wood stoves is a very nice spread out heat. One of my stoves is in the basement so our main living area the first floor is always warm and comfortable. The second stove is a insert on the first floor that has a blower and pushes the heat through out the main living area. As well as the heat coming up the stairs from the basement one as well. My wife and two little girls love it nothing better than one a cold or a damp rainy day having a fire in the stove to keep warm from. There may be some colder areas far from the stoves, like I stated my daughters bedrooms over the garage. But I still can keep their rooms in the high sixties to low seventies with out the furnace running but my lovely wife worries about her girls getting cold so it is just easier to spend a little to run the furnace when needed.

 

[Rustyiron]

$1200 in 3 months in SC! That surprises me, or at the very least is in conflict with my thoughts of what you experience for winter temps.
Yeah Hunt, I'll take one of each on Old Path's list at those prices.:laughing:

 

[hunt4570]

$1200 in 3 months in SC! That surprises me, or at the very least is in conflict with my thoughts of what you experience for winter temps.
Yeah Hunt, I'll take one of each on Old Path's list at those prices.:laughing:

It WAS a cold winter that year but.. propane here was going for $4 a gallon. I talked to a guy I know out in Missouri he was paying $1.50 a gallon at the exact same time! AND this old house has trouble staying warm, or cool for that matter. I have not figured out why as of yet. I blew a foot of insulation in the attic and bricked the entire outside when we did the addition and it didn't seem to help a whole lot, don't know why!

And yes, I wish we still had those prices! The last chainsaw I bought was 5 years ago and it was $750!

 

[fruitcakesa]

After a decades of using 2 woodstoves [cookstove in kitchen, barrel stove in L.R.] with no back up heating, we bit the bullet 15 years ago and had a Tarm gasifier wood boiler installed. It also has an oil burner backup and will heat all our domestic HW.
We had put a radiant heated floor in a few years before and finally got the whole system functional. Along with a 650 gallon hot water storage tank, we get 24 hrs [or more]
of heat after the fire goes out!
Wood consumption is no more than with the old stoves and little to no smoke from the chimney when operating in gasifying mode.
We use maybe 6 cords a year.

 

[aeblank]

After a decades of using 2 woodstoves [cookstove in kitchen, barrel stove in L.R.] with no back up heating, we bit the bullet 15 years ago and had a Tarm gasifier wood boiler installed. It also has an oil burner backup and will heat all our domestic HW.
We had put a radiant heated floor in a few years before and finally got the whole system functional. Along with a 650 gallon hot water storage tank, we get 24 hrs [or more]
of heat after the fire goes out!
Wood consumption is no more than with the old stoves and little to no smoke from the chimney when operating in gasifying mode.
We use maybe 6 cords a year.

I have a tarm as well. Love it. I buried a 1600 gallon tank though... I lose heat for sure. It's not in the basement, so good in the summer, less good in the winter. I do 2-3 fires per week in the dead of winter. 1-2 of them are after-work evening burns.