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I have been burning a wood heater for 5 or 6 years.Its pretty good if you have your own land to cut wood.Buying wood would not be very economical.Does anybody else have one?
I also burn some propane.The last time I bought 100 gal.,It was 300 dollars and some change. I try to burn more wood than propane.I burned wood for several years, then went to propane, which I like, but has gotten ridiculous $$. I'll be back on the tail end of the chainsaw before another year.
I've seen the ones that sit outside.....think they heat water for the house, too, don't they? I'd like to know how well they work. It'd be dandy to keep the smoke outta the house......and the ashes, etc..Had wood central heat in my house for 20 years, till the house almost burned down from a hole in the flue in the attic, all elertic now. I have a wood stove in my shop though, the bad thing about a wood stove in a wood working shop is you never have any short pieces of lumber laying around when you need one. If I was going to buy wood I'd go with a pellet stove instead of a wood stove, the folks I know that have them love them. If I ever go back to wood heat it will be one of the units that sit outside and heat hot water for heat.
Yep, they heat water for heating the house and for hot water too. There are a dozen or so around here and everyone really likes them. A neighbor of mine just put one in a few months ago, its about 100 feet from his house, he put up a large metal roof over it so that he can store his wood in the dry and fill the stove from under the shed.I've seen the ones that sit outside.....think they heat water for the house, too, don't they? I'd like to know how well they work. It'd be dandy to keep the smoke outta the house......and the ashes, etc..
-Nothing warms you like wood! Mr. Clawmute, is there a way you can tilt your splitter 90* and make it vertical? Its easier if you don't have to lift the logs onto the splitter. Ours is vertical, the base (stationary) end sits on the ground, we roll big logs to it then simply stand them up on the base plate. I try never to pick up a log until it's been "reduced" a time or two by splitting. Otherwise, that's one heck of a home-made splitter! :thumb:When I was a kid we burned wood. It used to drive me nuts when dad would makes us help him split wood, stack it, and fill up the wood box in the house. I would love to do that today though, at least one more time. That old wood stove gave off the best heat. Once the house would get warm it would stay warm. Since then I've never been just good and cozy warm like I was when I was young.
Since it is boom mounted I can articulate the boom in a nearly vertical position, but much prefer the horizontal. I have a "sawtooth ramp" I mad that hooks to the side of the splitter so that you can just roll the big pieces up and a large sawtooth plate each side keeps them from rolling back down. It is not shown in photo, and I didn't think I would need it! I had forgotten how big that sucker was!-Nothing warms you like wood! Mr. Clawmute, is there a way you can tilt your splitter 90* and make it vertical? Its easier if you don't have to lift the logs onto the splitter. Ours is vertical, the base (stationary) end sits on the ground, we roll big logs to it then simply stand them up on the base plate. I try never to pick up a log until it's been "reduced" a time or two by splitting. Otherwise, that's one heck of a home-made splitter! :thumb:
I hear you! A huge red oak died behind my mother's house, was about 40" in diameter at the very bottom. We about died trying to split that sucker. We had to cut the "cookies" really short, and use 7' long pry bars to maneuver them. We had the schplitter on the back of a 4-wheeler and moved it to the wood, not the other way around! I don't remember how much wood was harvested because we gave some away, but I ended up with about 2 cord, and my Paw in law about the same. I really don't want to fool with anything that big again!!