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| Astronaut Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Cincinnati
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I ve been burning woodstoves for decades but got hooked up with this couple of years ago. It is a wood add on furnace that puts heat in ducts and has a humidifier built in. It has a powerful fan that gets to whole house. It takes a 12 inch dia by 30 inch log thru the door and has a huge firebox. It is a labor of love filling it up and playing with it. It wasn t very expensive either. | |
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| Cruisin' Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: central ohio
Posts: 64
| thats alot like mine but i think mine is a blaster . or something like that i cut my wood 18 inches , but split it for easier handling . sometimes my daughter fills the furnace , and my wife satcks all the wood . sais i dont do it right ,, darn the luck . hoot
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| Astronaut Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Cincinnati
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| . sometimes my daughter fills the furnace , and my wife satcks all the wood . sais i dont do it right ,, darn the luck . hoot[/quote]Tom Sawyer got them all painting the fence. Good job. (I mean "luck") ![]() |
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| Cruisin' Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: central ohio
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| well i sure havnt done much on mine for awhile . is there somebody elses we can look at , any of you guys out there not lazy , show us some pictures ,, h
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| Eric Frei Administrator - Brisbane L5 (Dip) Hort Cert III Arb + some Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Brisbane
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| Hot enough even in winter here, sorry.
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| | #32 (permalink) |
| Tree World Icon Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Live Oak Florida home of the crapiest trees you will ever see.
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| I have a heat pump.
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| Break'n the ice Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: NE New Jersey
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| Managing my firewood has become my favorite "hobby". Here in Northwest New Jersey, I have an RSF woodburning insert with blower. Our furnace is oil-fired, baseboard and we have not needed an oil delivery in four years. Our water is heated via electric. I am looking into heating my hot water via solar in the summer. I really have been enjoying this forum. I have been learning alot, but this is the first discussion that I have took part in. I burn about 7-9 cords a year, mixture of oak, locust, hickory, maple and ash. I will burn most anything along the side of the road that i can pick-up (without bugs). Here are some pics. My wife tells me that its better to be addicted to managing your firewood, rather than being addicted to booze, drugs, other women, or gambling. So far firewood has not gotten me into any trouble! Keep posting those woodpile pics, here are mine. |
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| Astronaut Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Cincinnati
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| Break'n the ice Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: NE New Jersey
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| Thanks treevet. I live up in Stillwater Twp. Sussex County. A little further north of Flemington. Unfortunately I am not in the tree business. I had a guy drop a load of lengths off this year, I am having a tough time hunting for wood this year without my old pick-up truck. |
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| | #37 (permalink) |
| Astronaut Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Cincinnati
Posts: 598
| I may be giving you advice you already know, but this a great time to contact tree companies in your area and let them know you will take loads of wood (for free only) dumped easily on your property. A high percentage of removals come after trees are in leaf and people resign themselves to removal. Just call all of them, check them out with a brief interview and tell them you will only take their wood when you are home until you get to know them. This is so they don t give you debris and garbage wood or cement/nail filled logs. Tree companies can get overwhelmed with wood and money made by firewood sales is a joke compared to what is made doing the skilled stuff. I give away a lot of good wood at this time of the year so I can move on to the next job. |
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| Cruisin' Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: central ohio
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| nj , thats just way to much wood . your gonna work yourself to death. i enjoy working with my wood pile , but have been to buisy latley to get into it . i think im going to take treevets advise and call some tree companies , wont hurt , i kinda like the idea of not having to haul it from the woods . h
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| Break'n the ice Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: NE New Jersey
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| Eric Frei Administrator - Brisbane L5 (Dip) Hort Cert III Arb + some Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Brisbane
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| Now that's a nice stack! ![]() I like playing the imagine game. Imagine you decide to cut some trees for wood and plant some for cutting in 5 years time etc. Then along comes some govt guy and says no, trees are protected and are required for carbon credits and survival of the human race coz we cant live without trees apparently. Imagine that, that would piss me off big time. But it does happen. Then you use oil to heat instead. ![]()
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| Afterburner is shakin' Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Canada
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| Don't forget though, the tree will be topped, pruned or hacked IF it interferes with your neighbors solar panel. The debate over shade trees vs the environmentalists using solar power is a "6 of one a half dozen of the other" issue for me. Please let the scientists show me which is more environmentally friendly!Most of the firewood is the by-product of unwanted, unsafe, diseased or dead trees. I imagine that there are people out there that propagate trees for wood down the road. I have never met one, but I am sure they are out there. The carbon credit issue is a funny thing, in Canada the government considers the carbon to be released as soon as the tree is laying on the ground. It doesn't matter if it is going to be milled and end up standing in the form of a 2X6 in the wall of your house for 70 years. Hats off to the folks that value-add to the use of the removed trees, using the wood to create heat is a far cry better than filing the landfills with it! |
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