Any Home Bakers Here?

[Ladies-Eight]

I switched to a pellet stove when I was still splitting wood in January and February.

Have not heard about a pellet stove?

What is it?

As long as you can have someone BRING you the wood...YOU WILL NOT be too OLD to burn it. I am OLD...walking with a walker...AND HAD A WOOD FIRE yesterday. The GAS will be on soon.
ENJOY. Aria

You are so right -- "where there's a will there's a way"

hubby has been dealing firewood for 50 yrs-- a few years back a bunch of people switched to pellet stoves (cleaner, no lugging wood). One winter there was a shortage of pellets, and they went back to wood

Interesting how we can go back to what it was when the now is not available.

 

[wyoDreamer]

A pellet stove is a lot like a regular wood burning stove but it has a hopper that you fill with pellets. The stove has a motor and will drop pellets into the stove as needed to keep the fire going. Unlike a wood stove, it will stop feeding pellets when the room reaches the set temperature so it doesn't make you open a window in the middle of winter to cool off the room, and will automatically start up when the room gets cold. Ours works off a remote thermostat - just like your furnace does. It also has a fan to help move the heat out into the room. That is a very simplistic description of a pellet stove.
The pellets are compressed wood (the ones we use are just wood, no binders) and come in 40 lb bags. They look like the pelleted feed you feed your animals. We buy 2 pallets of bags and stack them on our front porch for winter use. You must store the bags of pellets in a dry area - no knocking snow off the pile of firewood to bring it inside the house, lol.

 

[Aria]

A pellet stove is a lot like a regular wood burning stove but it has a hopper that you fill with pellets. The stove has a motor and will drop pellets into the stove as needed to keep the fire going. Unlike a wood stove, it will stop feeding pellets when the room reaches the set temperature so it doesn't make you open a window in the middle of winter to cool off the room, and will automatically start up when the room gets cold. Ours works off a remote thermostat - just like your furnace does. It also has a fan to help move the heat out into the room. That is a very simplistic description of a pellet stove.
The pellets are compressed wood (the ones we use are just wood, no binders) and come in 40 lb bags. They look like the pelleted feed you feed your animals. We buy 2 pallets of bags and stack them on our front porch for winter use. You must store the bags of pellets in a dry area - no knocking snow off the pile of firewood to bring it inside the house, lol.

We have a wood shed attached to back deck of our home....Our Wood is covered...no snow to remove. Our wood shed also stores our Summer
GEAR and our Cooker is available for winter cooking if needed. We LOVE OUR WOOD Stove.
and the wood ashes are added to our garden. Aria

 

[Aria]

We have a wood shed attached to back deck of our home....Our Wood is covered...no snow to remove. Our wood shed also stores our Summer
GEAR and our Cooker is available for winter cooking if needed. We LOVE OUR WOOD Stove.
and the wood ashes are added to our garden. Aria

We also have a Small Black Fan that runs when the stove is heating distributing the heat around. Easy to warm our large home in October November NOW. When Floyd was here we only burned WOOD. ..all year. Now I use it less. Aria

 

[Sequel]

A pellet stove is a lot like a regular wood burning stove but it has a hopper that you fill with pellets. The stove has a motor and will drop pellets into the stove as needed to keep the fire going. Unlike a wood stove, it will stop feeding pellets when the room reaches the set temperature so it doesn't make you open a window in the middle of winter to cool off the room, and will automatically start up when the room gets cold. Ours works off a remote thermostat - just like your furnace does. It also has a fan to help move the heat out into the room. That is a very simplistic description of a pellet stove.
The pellets are compressed wood (the ones we use are just wood, no binders) and come in 40 lb bags. They look like the pelleted feed you feed your animals. We buy 2 pallets of bags and stack them on our front porch for winter use. You must store the bags of pellets in a dry area - no knocking snow off the pile of firewood to bring it inside the house, lol.

Excellent description! The worst is the wasps that wake up in the house after you bring the wood in! No matter how careful we are we manage to get a few.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Morning Bakers. Grandma tausht me wood ashes can half to garden half to birds no bugs just in the dirt where they do bathes

 

[Sally PB]

We LOVE OUR WOOD Stove.
and the wood ashes are added to our garden.

The wood ashes are a godsend on the slippery driveway in the winter too. No salt to hurt dog paws or the soil.

 

[wyoDreamer]

You can use the ashed from a pellet stove for the same thing - as it is just wood that is burning.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Your right Ma went to pellet and did that.. She found she could open a bag how the brother stacked them. Let them fall cut it off halfway. Carry the bucket in the house still

 

[Aria]

You can use the ashed from a pellet stove for the same thing - as it is just wood that is burning.

Wood Stove Pellet Stove Make your own choice.
Both are FINE. Aria