Wood? or Oil

Pricey wood! So I'm thinking maybe we should be cutting wood and shipping it out East to sell

I feel quite lucky to have such a good supply, we've always taken it for granted.

I think all this goes to show wood heat is not for everybody. We have LP and natural gas instead of oil for heat and they say the price is actualy going down on that here. I don't know that personaly though.

I sell wood to two kinds of people this year. People that are burning for economic reasons and folks that burn it for life style reasons. For me wood heat is all I ever known, and all I care to know. I don't think the people that burn wood for economic reasons will enjoy it that much. By the time they get the stove installed they won't save that much either so why are they bothering?

This web site is the best thing to happen to wood burning. Things get told like it is. I just wish people would read this place first before making up their mind on a decision they minght not make if they knew better.

I'm most likely out of place. Just some hillbilly that dropped out of high school but common sence is the same for all of us no matter who or where. What works over there may not work here. But some things are not ment for your mind to decide. Some times you have to follow your heart. I fyour heart is not into this, then you may need to wonder if it is right for you.

I live in RI and am a new burner this year. I bought my first two cords last march, three months before I bought my stove. Bought another two cords seasoned in June. Total cost for wood=$700. All c/s/d. Full tank of oil bought at $3.04/gal. Will I save big money this winter? Don't know, but I will enjoy it more. I will pay off my stove and liner in 2-3 years, in oil savings.

Have to agree again. I was going to sell plenty of wood to some guys that I knew, but it was green and they wanted it this year. If you are in the job for the money, so be it, I'm keeping my wood for the year I need to burn.
Side dust:
As a teacher, I feel that too much is focused to pushing towards college and nothing for those guys that may not be going "on". I'm still working labor every summer and making as much as my teacher pay (a bit harder work) and no one is questioning me. Don't be down because of your choice.
Chad

Many of the richest guys, with the nicest houses, that I know, did not go to college. Not many like hard work these days. Luckily, I find it rewarding and if I can pass it on to my kids then I win!

chad3 said:

Side dust:
As a teacher, I feel that too much is focused to pushing towards college and nothing for those guys that may not be going "on". I'm still working labor every summer and making as much as my teacher pay (a bit harder work) and no one is questioning me. Don't be down because of your choice.
Chad

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I don't realy feel down about it. If i could do it over again things would be different, but then again folks with regular jobs don't seem as happy as I am. I suppose igornance has a few benafits. But I do sometimes I feel out of place because I don't understand economic stuff. Money wise I'm very blessed, the wife is a manager at an Arvest bank. She is not THE manager but some kind of manager of sorts. She comes home and tell about that stuff it all goes over my head, I just acknowege she is talking and go on.

She comes home and puts on wood clothes and off we go after wood or what ever. we really enjoy it alot. I'll be running the saw, the look over and she is taking close up pictures of deer. We will go haul wood to people, most of the time to cabin renters, and we wind up talking till dark with them.

Saw-dust said:

I think all this goes to show wood heat is not for everybody. We have LP and natural gas instead of oil for heat and they say the price is actualy going down on that here. I don't know that personaly though.

I sell wood to two kinds of people this year. People that are burning for economic reasons and folks that burn it for life style reasons. For me wood heat is all I ever known, and all I care to know. I don't think the people that burn wood for economic reasons will enjoy it that much. By the time they get the stove installed they won't save that much either so why are they bothering?

This web site is the best thing to happen to wood burning. Things get told like it is. I just wish people would read this place first before making up their mind on a decision they minght not make if they knew better.

I'm most likely out of place. Just some hillbilly that dropped out of high school but common sence is the same for all of us no matter who or where. What works over there may not work here. But some things are not ment for your mind to decide. Some times you have to follow your heart. I fyour heart is not into this, then you may need to wonder if it is right for you.

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Just a hillbilly? You sound pretty wise to me. Smarter than a lot of college guys.

You know I read stuff like the links posted on page one and I have to see if passes the sniff test.

6400 BTUs a pound from wood.
PE says my summit will hold 60 pounds. Let's use 50 for this equation.
They also say its 72 percent efficient.

6400*50= 320,000 btus *.72 = 230,400 btus into the house everytime I fill the stove up.

A MCF of natural gas costs me about 14 dollars and is a million btus. Ok a million and few thousand.

at 230,400 btus a load and 14 dollars a million btus of gas. That's $3.23 every time I fill the stove up.

3 times a day 30 days a month =90 times 3.23 = $290.70 a month I'm saving by burning wood.

I know I'm keeping my house warmer than I did with gas, and actually this figuring makes more sense than any I have done before, but when It's damn cold out I fill it four times a day that would equal $387.60 for the month of January.

I really don't think my gas bill would be that high if I ran the furnace and kept the house the same temperature as wood.

How about I set up a paypal account and all you guys send me a few bucks, and I'll test these numbers come January?

Any takers?


Oh, and Sawdust. You're right. We're all crazy for burning wood. You don't save much money, but if you get the enjoyment factor out of it. Then it's worthwhile. Hell, it costs me money to burn wood. I figured I saved a thousand dollars last winter, so I went out and bought something I didn't really need for a thousand dollars. A few times this summer. If I don't burn twice the wood this winter, I'm going to be going in the hole money wise.

Saw-dust said:

I think all this goes to show wood heat is not for everybody. We have LP and natural gas instead of oil for heat and they say the price is actualy going down on that here. I don't know that personaly though.

I sell wood to two kinds of people this year. People that are burning for economic reasons and folks that burn it for life style reasons. For me wood heat is all I ever known, and all I care to know. I don't think the people that burn wood for economic reasons will enjoy it that much. By the time they get the stove installed they won't save that much either so why are they bothering?

This web site is the best thing to happen to wood burning. Things get told like it is. I just wish people would read this place first before making up their mind on a decision they minght not make if they knew better.

I'm most likely out of place. Just some hillbilly that dropped out of high school but common sence is the same for all of us no matter who or where. What works over there may not work here. But some things are not ment for your mind to decide. Some times you have to follow your heart. I fyour heart is not into this, then you may need to wonder if it is right for you.

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Nahh! You're in the right place. I won't pass judgement on your level of education, but common sense isn't something taught in any school, anyway.

I often look at my modern condensing gas furnace with 12 seer heat pump and wonder why I bother. It would be so much easier to just turn that on, but it's hard to warm up cold body parts with a heat pump. Oh, that and the couple hundred a month on utility bills...

Just ribbin' ya, but do you even need heat in Arkansas? BB in VA says you don't need heat south of the Mason Dixon!

Welcome to the forum!

Chris