Wood Heat Thread ~ post pics

I just took ownership of a new home. Well, built in 1860-ish new. The previous owner installed a Tarm Solo Plus 40 in a shed out back for secondary heat. Im still learning how to manage it. Been heating the last week with wood. With the warmer temps lately I can keep the house at 72 for about 10 hrs per stoke. Anyone else have any experience with gasification type burners? Pics will follow. I am also looking for a better set-up for the mixing/tempering valve on the back of the burner. The current set-up, done by the previous owner is too unstable and allows for too much movement of pipes from expansion/contraction of flex pipe under the ground. So comments/ideas on pics would be appreciated.

 

I'm thinking he's dividing by the 12 months in a year rather than the 6-7 months of heating season.
Personally, I usually divide by the amount of time I'm actually running the stove for, rather than the full year.

Edit-
Of course, by my method it costs me $66 a month for heat burning wood...
If I use his method it only costs me $33 a month. I may have to change my method

 

Spending the day taking care of (more like babysitting) BIL's wood burner. Definitely prefer to burn pellets As long as the hopper is full there is fire. I only open the door once a day to knock the ash into the bucket.

 

We multiply by 12 then divide by 52 to get the weekly cost. Heat is $15.5/$16 a week. Way less than to heat with LP at normal prices. Not bad at all when the cost of LP spikes to $4-5+ a gallon.

 

You heat all year ?

 

My uncle brought up one of these for the stove during hunting season this year. Was pretty neat. Anyone else ever use one?

 

I have had 2 of them for about 10 years

 

Of course! Don't you?

J/K that formula is for budgeting purposes. In the summer electrical use goes up because of AC use, but we budget for the avg. electrical use. All bills are done in a similiar manner. Bills get paid and we don't have "money fights"

 

Makes sense

My cost for heating my home is $0

Try that on for size pellet heads

 

So your time is worth nothing? Your chainsaw was free? Your storage was built by Amish working for free? ect.

 

Semantics war.

 

Time to ban pellet burners....

 

I enjoy cutting wood so yes . I've owned my saw for about 12 years so yes . I don't know what a starage is so wut . etc

 

Good for you. I don't. And I still have to put gas/oil mix in my chainsaw. And storing wood for a year is also not my idea of fun.
Starage=Storage everybody knows that

 

That's awesome

Perhaps a pellet stove thread is in order

 

OZ thinks I'm awesome!

 

I just though i'd share my wood heating setup since I enjoy seeing other setups.

filling up the wood shed last summer

and the little Jotul with a grumpy christmas cat

 

It doesn’t take a lot of gas to cut wood as long as you have a good saw and a sharp chain I can probably do 4 cords with 2 ½ gallons. Good saws no big box junk, a saw from a chain saw dealer will last at least 10 years with no problems and start when you need it. Dry wood up here is going for $400 if you can find any. If I needed to pay for a new saw I could just sell a cord of wood. There is something to cutting your own wood way beyond just a stack of wood. The cost is minimal the rewards are huge. My total cost for a years’ worth of wood is very small even if I figured the saw cost it would be less than $60 a year. I used to sell fire wood so I guess it’s safe to say that I am so far ahead that my fuel costs are going to be zilth for the rest of my wood burning years. Even when I was working I cut in my free time free being the magic word so yeah until I can’t lift a saw any more my costs are nil for wood heat.