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Wouldn't have expected Wood to be the most cost effective option.

dugditches 4y ago
One has to think of the overhead. Cutting and stacking(or picking up/delivered), the space to store it, having to carry it into the house, emptying your ashbox, having to actual start the fire, etc.
- voisin 4y ago
  But man oh man it is hard to beat the ambiance. I have heated exclusively with wood for the last two winters and completely agree with your comments but I wouldn’t trade it for anything.
- peteradio 4y ago
  Heats thrice
  - wrycoder 4y ago
    Four. Cut/haul, split/stack, move to stove, burn. I move two cords - about four tons - a year through that cycle - into my house and stuff it into a one foot square hole in the stove. Love it.
    - lostlogin 4y ago
      At least four, and the hard labour is usually in summer for me, when the heat is a negative.
exabrial 4y ago
Trying burning hedge (Osage Orange) and you'll quickly see why! It burns so hot it can damage light duty fireplaces. Osage Orange thrives on abuse and grows wherever it can in the midwest. There are extremely efficient wood systems available that automatically throttle up/down, you set with a thermostat, and only need to be fed another bundle [edit] of wood once every few days. The ashes are automatically kicked to a can that you empty once a month. It's quite extraordinary how far these systems have come.
- dwater 4y ago
  I am guess that’s a typo because a cord of wood is 128 cubic feet, which would be a real big furnace.
  - exabrial 4y ago
    You’re correct, I meant a bundle every few days. A cord lasts some people an entire season.
    - lostlogin 4y ago
      I had never heard of a cord as being a unit of measure. It’s 3.6 cubic metres in my units, which is easily a season for me (in a much more mild climate). A cord is apparently the length of a piece of string. That’s the second ridiculous unit of measure I’ve encountered today - shoe sizes are incremented by in barleycorns.
      - exabrial 4y ago
        Cord is used all over the us/Canada, not sure if it’s European

One has to think of the overhead. Cutting and stacking(or picking up/delivered), the space to store it, having to carry it into the house, emptying your ashbox, having to actual start the fire, etc.

voisin 4y ago
But man oh man it is hard to beat the ambiance. I have heated exclusively with wood for the last two winters and completely agree with your comments but I wouldn’t trade it for anything.
peteradio 4y ago
Heats thrice
- wrycoder 4y ago
  Four. Cut/haul, split/stack, move to stove, burn. I move two cords - about four tons - a year through that cycle - into my house and stuff it into a one foot square hole in the stove. Love it.
  - lostlogin 4y ago
    At least four, and the hard labour is usually in summer for me, when the heat is a negative.

exabrial 4y ago

Trying burning hedge (Osage Orange) and you'll quickly see why! It burns so hot it can damage light duty fireplaces. Osage Orange thrives on abuse and grows wherever it can in the midwest. There are extremely efficient wood systems available that automatically throttle up/down, you set with a thermostat, and only need to be fed another bundle [edit] of wood once every few days. The ashes are automatically kicked to a can that you empty once a month. It's quite extraordinary how far these systems have come.

dwater 4y ago
I am guess that’s a typo because a cord of wood is 128 cubic feet, which would be a real big furnace.
- exabrial 4y ago
  You’re correct, I meant a bundle every few days. A cord lasts some people an entire season.
  - lostlogin 4y ago
    I had never heard of a cord as being a unit of measure. It’s 3.6 cubic metres in my units, which is easily a season for me (in a much more mild climate). A cord is apparently the length of a piece of string. That’s the second ridiculous unit of measure I’ve encountered today - shoe sizes are incremented by in barleycorns.
    - exabrial 4y ago
      Cord is used all over the us/Canada, not sure if it’s European