Wood Stoves

[Little Whiskey]

I thought the whole purpose of a wood burner is to keep you warm twice. once when you cut, split and stack the wood and once when you burn it. if your paying someone else to to cut split and stack, you not seeing the full value of your investment.


hell we don't even heat our deer camp tent with wood. who wants to get up in the middle of the night to throw another log on the fire?

[packinpatland]

I thought the whole purpose of a wood burner is to keep you warm twice. once when you cut, split and stack the wood and once when you burn it. if your paying someone else to to cut split and stack, you not seeing the full value of your investment.


hell we don't even heat our deer camp tent with wood. who wants to get up in the middle of the night to throw another log on the fire?

This is the first year we've ever gotten it cut and split.......we still stack.(it's an age thing) Used to get slab woood. Here in CT, there just aren't alot of places left to go and cut your own. Besides......don't you cut, split and stack before the weather turns cold?
I throw the last log in around 11pm...........it's still 'glowing' at 6.
With the price of oil down, it's tempting to just turn up the thermostat.........but even with the lower prices (but now the lower temps, yikes!) I don't know of anyone around here who can heat their house for $600-700 for the whole winter. It doesn't hurt that that we face the sun all day long....with 9 windows across the front.

The first year we were in this house, 28 years ago, I actually used the old cookstove 100% to cook with, the gauge on the front has 3 temps (it was an old Universal) ....warm, hot and very hot......everyone needs to do that at least once. .....only once.

[oregonpackfan]

When I lived in Wisconsin, much of our primary heat was wood heat. Red oak was my favorite because it was relatively easy to split and emitted a high level of BYU's.

There is nothing like to warmth of wood heat, IMO.