100% wood - lots of fires in October, and non-stop since November. Three loads per day does the job if temps are reasonable, four loads when the nuggets rise. Cheers!
BeGreen said:I like the Jupiter option, but the 11 year solar cycles are killing me!!
BrowningBAR said:This poll is to see what the true habits are of the active members on this forum.
raybonz said:I think most people here either burn 24/7 or want to.. I have always burned 24/7 unless it is too warm to do so.. There are times that unless I wake up after 4 hrs. sleep that the stove can't keep up like last night when it got to 3 below zero.. I got up 7 hrs. later to massive coals and the heat running to keep the house at 63.. If it was that cold here or colder all the time I would have a much bigger stove to achieve 24/7 heat...
Ray
NATE379 said:Sounds like you have a really large house or it needs some insulating! No trouble here keeping the house at 75* with -25* temps.
raybonz said:I think most people here either burn 24/7 or want to.. I have always burned 24/7 unless it is too warm to do so.. There are times that unless I wake up after 4 hrs. sleep that the stove can't keep up like last night when it got to 3 below zero.. I got up 7 hrs. later to massive coals and the heat running to keep the house at 63.. If it was that cold here or colder all the time I would have a much bigger stove to achieve 24/7 heat...
Ray
Hankjones said:I try to be a part time burning since our heat pumps works fine. Problem is it's so addicitive I'm burning a lot more often then I would like to. First season burning, so that could be like first love...
BrowningBAR said:I notice that the very few non-24/7 burners comment. This poll isn't anti-part-time burning. At this point I would be pleased as punch is I could let the damn fires go out.
This poll is to see what the true habits are of the active members on this forum.
Battenkiller said:BrowningBAR said:I notice that the very few non-24/7 burners comment. This poll isn't anti-part-time burning. At this point I would be pleased as punch is I could let the damn fires go out.
This poll is to see what the true habits are of the active members on this forum.
About 1% of the membership here contribute about 99% of the posts. It makes sense to me that the folks most actively occupied with burning as a lifestyle (i.e. 24/7 burners) would be the ones who would mostly likely be the most prolific posters. If so, that might skew the results by a wide margin. A poll like this one is like a using the results of a Fox news poll on overturning Obama's health care reform bill to reflect the feelings of the general populace.
I know an awful lot of people with wood stoves. Only a small percentage of them attempt to heat entirely with wood. It is just too much work for too little reward.
raybonz said:Battenkiller said:BrowningBAR said:I notice that the very few non-24/7 burners comment. This poll isn't anti-part-time burning. At this point I would be pleased as punch is I could let the damn fires go out.
This poll is to see what the true habits are of the active members on this forum.
About 1% of the membership here contribute about 99% of the posts. It makes sense to me that the folks most actively occupied with burning as a lifestyle (i.e. 24/7 burners) would be the ones who would mostly likely be the most prolific posters. If so, that might skew the results by a wide margin. A poll like this one is like a using the results of a Fox news poll on overturning Obama's health care reform bill to reflect the feelings of the general populace.
I know an awful lot of people with wood stoves. Only a small percentage of them attempt to heat entirely with wood. It is just too much work for too little reward.
I disaagree feel most people here tend to take wood heat seriously and do their best to heat their home this way..
Ray
Warm in RI said:raybonz said:Battenkiller said:BrowningBAR said:I notice that the very few non-24/7 burners comment. This poll isn't anti-part-time burning. At this point I would be pleased as punch is I could let the damn fires go out.
This poll is to see what the true habits are of the active members on this forum.
About 1% of the membership here contribute about 99% of the posts. It makes sense to me that the folks most actively occupied with burning as a lifestyle (i.e. 24/7 burners) would be the ones who would mostly likely be the most prolific posters. If so, that might skew the results by a wide margin. A poll like this one is like a using the results of a Fox news poll on overturning Obama's health care reform bill to reflect the feelings of the general populace.
I know an awful lot of people with wood stoves. Only a small percentage of them attempt to heat entirely with wood. It is just too much work for too little reward.
I disaagree feel most people here tend to take wood heat seriously and do their best to heat their home this way..
Ray
Agreed Ray. I know several people who heat soley with wood and couldn't care less to spend a minute of their time on Hearth.com reading about it. I imagine most folks who frequent this site are pretty passionate if they're investing thier liesure time here just reading. Not everyone is as talkative as the next guy and some likely don't chime in for the same reason others don't speak up in a classroom. Fear of looking stupid. I have no such fear and I know I'm stupid so....LOL. But seriously, I'm not a full time burner for the reasons stated above in my initial post on this thread, and it's not econmically advantagous for me to harvest/cut/ split my own wood, but I consider myself passionate none the less. I'm itching to get a fire going come October and I lament the night when the stove goes cold for the last time in the spring. It is a lot of work compared to turning up the t stat, but the rewards are many, monetary advantages aside. I get much satisfaction being independent from "the man" if only for 12-14 hours a day, as well as not even turning the pilot of my furnace on til November. For the record, though I did heat soley with wood for one year. New stove, no clue how to run it properly, soaking wet green wood and not enough of it, no money to buy more= a very miserable winter. After learning so much here I know that if I ever overcome the problem with my basement needing heat, I could make the switch from part to full time no problem and will gladly do so.
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