Is anyone here using thier wood stove yet?!

[bigzio]

Yep, we burn around 20 face cords every year. We have a wood fired boiler in the basement, and a fireplace in the living room where the computer is. During the not so terrible cold we burn the fireplace otherwise we use the boiler. Gotta love that wood heat....nothing compares.

bigzio

 

[helmstead]

It has just about gotten cold enough here, but not quite. We've had one fire in the fireplace...

We're all sick as dogs here, though, which may play a part in our slowness to the winter transition.

 

[buc]

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I have found that there are some common threads that run thru the people that have chickens.


We are as a group are cookers, we like things from our own hand to go into our cooking and into our families.

We look for was to save money, like heating with a renewable source of heat like wood.

We garden, and we are either very independent or are working towards the day we are independent.

 

[6chix]

We have been using a Austroflamm pellet stove we got for FREE for the last 3 years. I burn about 3 tons of pellets every winter and heat 90% of the house with the stove. When we were heating with oil we would keep the house at 64 all winter long. now its 72 and up all winter long. I can't imagine how much we would be paying for oil this year to heat the house.

 

[skeeter9]

Actually, we have had several fires so far this fall. We don't have a woodburning stove, just a fireplace, but we have plans to rip the fireplace out and put in a rock area for a stove. Of course, that will probably have to wait until both daughters are out of college - about 6 or 7 years. In the meantime we'll just have to make do.

 

[MissPrissy]

Buc, I would add self-motivated, resourceful and creative.

 

[MissPrissy]

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Why rip it out? FP's are expensive. Why not reface it with rock to use with an insert?

 

[buc]

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Yes Dear, We are those you added as well.

I wonder how you came by yours?


Mine came from my father that never earned a lot of money, raised 6 kids and had to make do.

He would take me to the store with him and show me the cost of fresh produce, then he would take me home to our garden with those prices fresh in my head and so me the same thing in our garden.

A priceless education that I am attempting to pass on to mine.

 

[MissPrissy]

Mostly from my grandma, Buc.

 

[buc]

Grandmothers are a wealth of information and wisedom.

I have a black walnut cookie recipee from my mother's mother, I just love it.