Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[fruitcakesa]

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.

This time of year I might have 1 or 2 fires a week and ramp up to 1 burn a day mid winter. The heat storage is key.

 

[aeblank]

This time of year I might have 1 or 2 fires a week and ramp up to 1 burn a day mid winter. The heat storage is key.

I'm at one a week or less, and that's with a family of 4 and 1200 loads of dishes & clothes per week. It's pretty sweet.

 

[Rustyiron]

I run a gasser wood boiler as well, love it. A few years ago we put in a " ductless mini split" heat pump system, mostly for the a/c but it's been wonderful during the "shoulder" season heating. Virtually unnoticeable on the elec bill. The wood boiler is primarily for heating the shop and complete overkill for the house alone and the in slab radiant is not a thing you fire up just to "take off the chill".

 

[Loaderman22]

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.
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Our wood stove is in the basement also, so the wood comes right in the walkout door, & stacked. The dust mess stays downstairs, and the heat comes up through the floor. It's so nice on the wife's footsies that she helps load it once in a while.

 

[Loaderman22]

First run of the splitter for the season. Started with some Maple (storm damage) logs, then these rounds of red oak left over from last year.

 

[shooterdon]

Trying out an idea for adding capacity and a rain cap to an IBC tote for my firewood storage plans

The LS 4140 handled the weight fine. I figure there is .4 of a cord of wood in there. I was going to build a car port to store wood but this is cheap and makes use of most the plastic bin that is a PITA to dispose of. Now I only have the bottom few inches to deal with.

The 2x4's are screwed to the plastic bin and the assembly rests on the top rail of the tote. I doubt the wind will lift it off by I can attach it to the tote rails if that happens.

 

[CalG]

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.

It would be fun to see a list for your set up like the humorous one posted above of "The cost of burning wood" ;-)

 

[CalG]

Our wood stove is in the basement also, so the wood comes right in the walkout door, & stacked. The dust mess stays downstairs, and the heat comes up through the floor. It's so nice on the wife's footsies that she helps load it once in a while.

Same here. rolling a wheel barrow full of fuel wood in the basement room with the stove is not a bad deal at all. I just part the barrow next to the stove rather than unpacking it. The wood likes to be warm too.... ;-)

 

[Loaderman22]

Same here. rolling a wheel barrow full of fuel wood in the basement room with the stove is not a bad deal at all. I just part the barrow next to the stove rather than unpacking it. The wood likes to be warm too.... ;-)

I bought a couple furniture dollies, & I want to build wood storage boxes on them. That way they can be loaded in the garage, then rolled in door right to stove in basement.

 

[Loaderman22]

I saw on CL a guy who cut his plastic tote liners on a diagonal then put them over the totes like a Gable roof. I think he used rope or wire to hold them onto the totes. I guess if you cut into the face of the Gable you could get a little more wood in there, but not as much as ShooterDons idea.