Heating With Woodburning

[Iti oj]

Dang...I thought you might have a quasi-Fargo thing going on.

What kind of atheist am i not eating babies or burning people

 

[Notanumber]

You had panes in your windows?
Our windows were just holes in the walls from throwing empties at it.

I sense a Monty Python sketch developing here if we are not careful.

 

[Valjean]

What about pellet stoves? I know nothing about them but a family friend of mine has one. They love it.

Still leaves you dependent on a pellet distributor and electricity, and who knows what chemical binders they use in the pellet mix.
With an old fashioned wood stove you can burn just about anything, you can scrounge for free fuel, in a pinch, and you don't have to plug it in.

 

[Revoltingest]

Still leaves you dependent on a pellet distributor and electricity, and who knows what chemical binders they use in the pellet mix.
With an old fashioned wood stove you can burn just about anything, you can scrounge for free fuel, in a pinch, and you don't have to plug it in.

There are no chemicals added to make pellets.
The sawdust naturally binds to itself under pressure & heat (a consequence of compression).
Advantages of a pellet stove...
You can ignore it for a long period after filling the hopper.
The heat output is constant.

 

[Guy Threepwood]

Hasn't wood burning become more whimsy than necessary? Is it cost effective? Maybe as a viable back-up in case the grid goes down? And the biggie, bustin' wood at our age is not as fun as it use to be.

I believe it's subsidized as 'renewable energy' nowadays. So cutting down your own trees and burning them, coating your neighborhood in soot, is apparently being 'green' now.

 

[Guy Threepwood]

There are no chemicals added to make pellets.
The sawdust naturally binds to itself under pressure & heat (a consequence of compression).
Advantages of a pellet stove...
You can ignore it for a long period after filling the hopper.
The heat output is constant.

I'm considering some options, I just have boring old forced air furnace- which works fine and propane has gotten cheaper.. but I would love a real source of intense heat I could thaw out with-

Likewise I have plenty trees I can chop, but don't want the smoke mess, or to encourage my black widow infestation with a wood pile!

Not sure of pros and cons of pellet stove v. corn burner?

 

[Tumah]

anything to get people in this thread.

If there's going to be skirt steak and garlic mashed potatoes I'm in.

 

[Revoltingest]

If there's going to be skirt steak and garlic mashed potatoes I'm in.

No skirt, steak or garlic mashed potatoes..
But there are kilts, haggis, & corned beef.

 

[Revoltingest]

I'm considering some options, I just have boring old forced air furnace- which works fine and propane has gotten cheaper.. but I would love a real source of intense heat I could thaw out with-

Likewise I have plenty trees I can chop, but don't want the smoke mess, or to encourage my black widow infestation with a wood pile!

Not sure of pros and cons of pellet stove v. corn burner?

Wood pellets are made from waste.
Corn is farmed, so I bet it's less green....unless the source is bad corn that can't be used for anything else.

But beware bad corn.

 

[Parchment]

I used to have an old cast iron wood burning stove, of course a modern electric one for the wife but once you got it heated up it held it for quite a while. The heat from wood seems more comfortable and warms the bones in a way modern heaters cannot, as a plus there is nothing like the smell of burning hickory- be careful with hedge or osage orange.

Wood pellets are made from waste.

 

[savagewind]

We have something like this. It is made of soapstone.

 

[Revoltingest]

We have something like this. It is made of soapstone.

Fancy!
And clean!

I have ashes all over around mine.
Here's an ad for it....

It really does work better than any other I've ever owned or run.
And I've used many different ones.