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Keeping warm this Winter

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Keeping warm this Winter

Postby Jim Hudson » Sun Oct 09, 2005 8:13 pm

Are any of you folks going to do anything diffrent to keep warm this winter? Heating less space? Changing heating fuel? Anyone have any experience with using a pellet wood heater?
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Postby jostev » Sun Oct 09, 2005 8:22 pm

We aren't going to use anything different but more wood and probably colder temperatures inside the house. just my 2 cents

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Postby Eugene » Sun Oct 09, 2005 8:29 pm

Nothing different. Propane. Filled this sumer at $1.359 a gallon then contracted for enough propane to last the winter at $1.379.

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Postby jim turner » Mon Oct 10, 2005 9:25 am

I am considering putting in a add on wood burning stove however I do have concerns about my homeowners ins going up because I am 6 miles to the closest fire station
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Postby RedNed » Mon Oct 10, 2005 6:35 pm

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I've seen those pellet stoves at the fair upstate.I thought they were different . Did not know how much the pellets cost a lb. Thought it was $ expensive. Now with home heating oil through the roof. :roll: Maybe I have to shoot some more coyotes. Or know how to skin a griz.......Wood stove is just to messy.Get one of those fireplaces on my deck to heat the outside world. You know greenhouse effect :lol: Stink out my neighbor with crappy pine................
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Postby Bigdog » Mon Oct 10, 2005 6:44 pm

An alternative worth looking at is a corn stove. At the price of corn nowadays fuel is very cheap and readily available. I understand that they are very efficient as well.
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Postby Mac from NS » Mon Oct 10, 2005 6:52 pm

Jim those pellet stoves are quit costy.The pellets cost about the same as wood but a lot cleaner. My dad was looking in to them two years ago and
I think he said the stove was around $2200. at that time.Haven't talked
to anyone about how they heat.
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Postby Carm » Mon Oct 10, 2005 7:41 pm

I will just take it in the shorts for whatever natural gas prices will be. And cover up with more blankets!

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Postby Jim Hudson » Mon Oct 10, 2005 7:50 pm

Pellets $200 per ton up $20 from last year and I was told they were in short supply.The TSC stove is around $1200 with manual settings. A better stove from a stove dealer with thermastat control on the wall like your central heat is $2600.http://www.mytscstore.com/images/productImages/prod_200_by_200/3195163-50862.jpg
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Postby WKPoor » Mon Oct 10, 2005 8:35 pm

My father-in-law has a pellet stove. I used one winter myself:
Pro: clean burning and only got to fill once or maybe twice a day.
Con: Will not work without electric and you got to buy the pellets. Also it doesn't put out near the heat of a wood stove. Then there is the noise of the blower that has to run the whole time the unit is in operation.
Wood stoves are or can be cheep, wood can be or is free (at least for me)
and if I loose electric I can heat and cook on the wood stove. Of coarse there is physical side to operating a wood stove with preparing the wood and bringing it in but I know that I can always get firewood, pellets though are somewhat to chance.
Biggydoggy's corn burner may be a better idea. I think most pellet stoves can burn corn also.
One more thing; After you buy the pellet stove, if you want to sell you'll play hell getting half your money back. A wood stove on the other hand may sell better if even that were a factor.

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Postby Cub-Bud » Mon Oct 10, 2005 8:56 pm

We filled our 250 gallon LP tank a few weeks ago at $1.70/gal.

We booked 600 gallons at $1.50/gal.

I am seriously thinking of adding this to the residence to help with heating in the winter:

http://www.hardyheater.com/index.html
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Postby WKPoor » Mon Oct 10, 2005 10:41 pm

I too have thought about those units buuut:
They are always priced out of site. This mfg. is located in Miss. which is strange. How much cold weather do they get a year. Seems like I would trust them more if they where located somewhere like North Dakota. At least that way I know they actually tested the unit where its cold! :lol: :lol: I'm sure it works well in 50degree winter temps. Nevertheless I have seen them and wondered if they would be a viable solution. Seems every cheep alternative has a steep initial purchase price. The payback on some of these units would be 10-20yrs or more no matter how high propane gets to.

Right now I have a free woodstove and all the free firewood I can cut or drag home. That is why I supplement with wood. It only costs me a little time and exercize.

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Postby John(videodoc) » Tue Oct 11, 2005 4:43 pm

the first winter we lived in our total electric house, the electric bill was over $800 for one month. we didnt have time to prepare for winter that year and didnt use the fireplace enough.

that was 4 years ago. I already got a hay wagon rack, and a gravity trailer of wood split and sitting by the house for this winter. wife loves to play with fire, so who am i to stop her from doing so? i got another 4 chords of wood split and stacked down by the barn, in case.

with the timber buyers coming in to cut down about 600 trees to take to the mill, i got a feeling ill be cutting tree tops from now until cub arama next year.

by the way we have gotten our monthly electric down to around 300, with running the fire place full bore, heat set at 68, and plenty of blankets.
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Postby John *.?-!.* cub owner » Tue Oct 11, 2005 6:40 pm

guess I'm lucky. Our electric bill for total electric heat runs aobut 100 per month on average billing. Our house is not very big, and does have a geothermal heat pump. We have a wood stove in the basement we use occasionally, but not very often.
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Postby freebird » Wed Oct 12, 2005 3:38 pm

I have hung 2-5 inch computer fans to blow warm air through the house and down the hall. You would be amazed how well they work. I used to live in a cabin and had a 1902 Majestic cookstove as my only source of heat.
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