Isn’t it cheaper to buy in ready to go wood, over fuel oil?
This old girl does a pretty decent job of heating my 100+ year old farm house. On a really cold night the oil fired boiler kicks on once, sometimes. It ain't new and it isn't as efficient as others, but we can cook all our meals on it and do all our baking in it. Bacon,eggs from the coop,home fries from the garden and homemade biscuits make it all worth the effort, to me. View attachment 329765
have you tried using your blower ? I started using mine during this cold snap and noticed my Englander 30 put out a lot more heat through the houseWhere can I signup for free heat?
Englander 30, heating 1700sqft, not keeping up. If we let it do 8hr cycles, mid 40's to low 50's in the house. If we burn it hot and constantly stuff fresh logs in, then I can get into the 60's. We are constantly dumping coals since 200-300F heat is doing nothing at these temps.
Forgot to mention, plenty of wood.
I can make it go there if you'd like.Thanks Bushmans. All those field stones came from our homestead property.
I actually meant to post this to the thread "Is you stove keeping up?", but had a senior moment and it ended up on this thread.
Even feeding it every couple of hours (dry hardwood), house temp is shy of 70F.
Wife is annoyed.
Can't fault the stove or the wood.
What a killer machine! Very impressive!It has been getting below zero regularly. I wish it was this cold all year. Of course it keeps up. What are we chop liver.
I can make it go there if you'd like.
What a killer machine! Very impressive!
OK, thanks Steve. One day reprieve from the arctic weather tomorrow then right back in to the freezer for the rest of the week here. I see you guys are still getting brutalized as well in Cheese head land.@Vermonster, I got it moved, it's a few posts back here though, goes by time posted.
I had a little fire this morning. The house got too hot. Summer temps have arrived, we hit 60 in the shade today so I put on shorts and sandals. I decided to carry an armload of wood in for tomorrow morning, and dropped a chunk on my sandalled foot. Owie.
OK, thanks Steve. One day reprieve from the arctic weather tomorrow then right back in to the freezer for the rest of the week here. I see you guys are still getting brutalized as well in Cheese head land.
If that's the Hahn processor, one was at my house a few weeks ago. The original designer is the one that dropped it off. Hammered out a nice small pile of stove stuffers in 20 minutes.
He also dropped off a "toy" not yet in stores for us to demo.
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