LouNY
Super Star Member
- Joined
- Jul 4, 2015
- Messages
- 10,738
- Location
- Greenwich, NY
- Tractor
- Branson 8050, IH 574, Oliver 1550 Diesel Utility (traded in on Branson) NH 8160. Kioti CK2620SECH
Well lets see I still have a nice double walled buried 1000 gallon oil tank,
as well as a few above ground tanks. I will have to get my last delivery for the year soon,
another 3-400 gallons. I use oil for my primary heat through a boiler which is also
my hot water through a boiler mate.
My auxiliary heat source is an insert in my fireplace for COAL, yep the dirty old American product
from PA. Between 3 to 5 tons a year of coal.
I looked at wood and outside boilers a great many years ago. If I had gone that route
I would be on at least my 3rd unit and I would be cutting 5-8 cords of wood a year.
While wood is "free" to me my time and the equipment is not. And the last few years with health issues
and surgeries and such it would have been difficult to impossible to cut wood and maintain that system
I am certainly glad I did not put in a wood burning system, I do wish that I had put in a coal boiler.
Oh, and for just general info when I grew up we were heating with wood, great big ol central furnaces in the basements
of my folks house and my grandfathers house. About 15-20 cords per year, cut in the winter and skidded out,
stacked in the wood yard, till time available between crops and the buzz saw set up on the tractor and that wood cut into furnace and stove wood lengths, then split and stacked in the basements and wood sheds, then all the kindling split for the stoves and wood carried in daily,
then ashes hauled out of the basements and stoves frequently.
Hell no I don't have any desire to burn wood even "free" wood.
as well as a few above ground tanks. I will have to get my last delivery for the year soon,
another 3-400 gallons. I use oil for my primary heat through a boiler which is also
my hot water through a boiler mate.
My auxiliary heat source is an insert in my fireplace for COAL, yep the dirty old American product
from PA. Between 3 to 5 tons a year of coal.
I looked at wood and outside boilers a great many years ago. If I had gone that route
I would be on at least my 3rd unit and I would be cutting 5-8 cords of wood a year.
While wood is "free" to me my time and the equipment is not. And the last few years with health issues
and surgeries and such it would have been difficult to impossible to cut wood and maintain that system
I am certainly glad I did not put in a wood burning system, I do wish that I had put in a coal boiler.
Oh, and for just general info when I grew up we were heating with wood, great big ol central furnaces in the basements
of my folks house and my grandfathers house. About 15-20 cords per year, cut in the winter and skidded out,
stacked in the wood yard, till time available between crops and the buzz saw set up on the tractor and that wood cut into furnace and stove wood lengths, then split and stacked in the basements and wood sheds, then all the kindling split for the stoves and wood carried in daily,
then ashes hauled out of the basements and stoves frequently.
Hell no I don't have any desire to burn wood even "free" wood.