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Post by Cam on Jan 31, 2011 22:53:16 GMT -5
Many of you fellows heat your home or fur shed with wood.
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Post by fuzz269 on Feb 1, 2011 0:11:38 GMT -5
My fur shead is bein heat with a electric construction heater for now, but our house is 100% wood heated. Our plan is to get an out door wood boiler and heat the house and fur shead with it and with one of the return water lines heat the chicken coop and pump house as well.
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Post by white316 on Feb 1, 2011 8:22:45 GMT -5
The house is heated with wood.
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Post by sneakysnake on Feb 1, 2011 9:26:44 GMT -5
I wish mine was... I am on Propane, but I do build a fire when it is real cold. I have to be careful though, cause all I have is a heatolater and they are built out of thin metal. I do not want to melt it.
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Post by wolf1199 on Feb 1, 2011 10:08:50 GMT -5
Have a Hunter wood electric furnace in the house, the electric for back up, been 20 years now on wood. Garage is heated with wood stove, that also is where my fur shop is. You cannot ask for a nicer heat then wood.Pine and birch are my 2 main woods that i burn.
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Post by gth on Feb 1, 2011 12:19:07 GMT -5
My house is heated by propane-forced air and my shed has a woodstove. I find the propane reasonable ($100 equal billing, my water heater is propane also) but if the furnace starts giving me problems I will be putting in a wood burning furnace. I like wood heat also.
I have been burning poplar in the shed this year because thats all I could get for free ;D If I go get my own I usually get yellow birch or maple.
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Post by gth on Feb 1, 2011 13:13:30 GMT -5
Have a Hunter wood electric furnace in the house, the electric for back up How do you like the wood-electric combo? I have looked at them but I was afraid of the cost if I ever needed to run it on hydro for any length of time. (vacations, etc..) Wood/propane would be ideal, but I dont know that they are even available. |
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Post by wolf1199 on Feb 1, 2011 15:10:15 GMT -5
  This is the out fit i have, been 20 years so far. I think Valley Comfort bought out Hunter a few years back now. Very good stove.My hydro bill is equal billing which is $ 200.00 a month and in August i get a rebate from Hydro. I run 3 freezers, 3 fridges, stove, hot water tank deep well submersible water pump, garage and my welders as well as many other items in day to day living. This is the only bill i have other then phone bill. No gas bill, no water sewage bill. It has worked out well for us and i know hydro is going up. Biggest thing is to get the stove that is most suited to your sq footage. Some thing to small and the stove has to work over time and to big is just an over kill. My stove is rated for 1500 sq feet and will take a 24" log. Going on vacation i just set thermos stat for 65 and shut hot water heater off |
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Post by gth on Feb 1, 2011 16:04:12 GMT -5
They havent changed at all, the one I looked at was very similar and I do belive you are right it was valley comfort.
My propane is $100 and my hydro is about $100/m so I guess it works out to a push if you are close to $200/m. My house is not very large but I have a cold wife and a toddler so you can guess who controls the thermostat.... ;D
No water or sewer bills in the boonies here either.
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Post by wolf1199 on Feb 1, 2011 19:48:53 GMT -5
Yes gth i'm in the same boat. She likes it at 22 or 23 c. The first year after building the house she would always over stock the stove and when i woke at 3 in the morning to go to work i felt i was in the desert. We , i mean she has learned not to do that anymore...lol. Wood heat is great and the biggest thing that it is constant, not this hot and cold as you get with gas,electric or propane and fuel oil. I burn 3 cords of wood in the house per winter and 2 for the garage.I think i will continue with wood as long as i can even if hydro goes up . Wood heat seems to hit my comfort zone more then any other source of heat.
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Post by sneakysnake on Feb 1, 2011 20:26:19 GMT -5
Here is a thought. Years ago, I was out in western Kansas hunting pheasants. We arrived at a farm. One of the guys presant knew the farmer and he was going to act as our guide. He said he had to load the stove before we left. His stove consisted of two underground tanks, one inside the other. The inner tank received the fuel, in this case it was a round bale of hay/weeds/ etc. The bale was sealed in the inner tank and then the air pumped in the space between the inner and outer tank and forced into the house. He said a round bale would burn for a week and keep a near constant temp of whatever they set it at. The whole thing was controlled by thermostat and had a blower that added air to the inner chamber to make the bale burn a little more. Very neat set up. Often wish I had one of them. The whole thing was farm made.
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Post by wolf1199 on Feb 1, 2011 21:37:51 GMT -5
Now Harold that is ingenuity at its best
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Post by sneakysnake on Feb 1, 2011 21:59:12 GMT -5
I justlove travelling around old farms and Junk yards and looking at the things that were made out of necessity. I am really fascinated by some of the things.
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Post by white316 on Feb 2, 2011 8:52:01 GMT -5
 The wife likes to keep the house warm we use about 6 cord a winter. |
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Post by maxwell on Feb 3, 2011 18:16:19 GMT -5
You heat the house with that small stove.
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