Why We Buy Big Wood Stoves Here In The Tropics

BrotherBart said:

Here in the tropics of Virginia heating with a wood stove is mostly a pain in the butt. Only getting really cold right before sun-up. Well, it has been in the teens all day and headed for nine degrees tonight so the 30 has sixty pounds of three year old oak in it and it is 75 downstairs and 72 upstairs.

Time to let the big dog eat. And continue my habit of sleeping under a sheet.

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Whaaa, cmon a bit further north.

BB, I am just around the Beltway and out I270 a bit, so I have pretty much the same temps. We also had 6" of partly cloudy today. I'm running my Oslo at capacity tonight as it's calling for 11 F with 15-20 NW wind. I'm in a tee shirt enjoying the light show. But its coooold outside.

My old CDW has a 3 cf box and excelled on nights like this. With my Oslo, the heat pump will kick on some tonight, but hey, it doing great too. Great night to be a wood burner!

GE

BrotherBart said:

If my heat pump kicks on I am going outside and looking to the East for the second coming. It died in the 90's sometime.

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Never thought about heat pumps being "resurrected" at the Second Coming, but I am ready to fly away. Yea, the problem with the Olso is I wake up early on cold mornings and cann't roll over to go back to see until I get up and stoke the stove. But then my sleep is sweet.

I'm ready to get a bigger stove. This 3CB isn't cutting it.

BrotherBart said:

Here in the tropics of Virginia heating with a wood stove is mostly a pain in the butt. Only getting really cold right before sun-up. Well, it has been in the teens all day and headed for nine degrees tonight so the 30 has sixty pounds of three year old oak in it and it is 75 downstairs and 72 upstairs.

Time to let the big dog eat. And continue my habit of sleeping under a sheet.

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You weighed it before you loaded it?

Reeeeeally?

I hear ya, Bart. Finally I get to run the second stove (the Napoleon) full time for a bit. Was getting sick of starting a new fire in it nightly. And as it happens, I just tapped my three-year-old oak pile as well.

a bit chilly in calvert county in so md this morning..it got down to 12...got a heat wave with 16. we got about 10 inches of snow total....went out in my wife's little jeep liberty last night as we had a party at the daughters house in southern st mary's county...roads were snoey but passable that little liberty did better than my jeep sahara. got back and stoked up the fires last night when we went to bed and both the summet and the jotul were still going this morning....especially the summett...boy it sure keeps a lot of coals....gotta go plow the drive soon as it gets up to 20...might even get a tan... :coolsmile:

cass

BrotherBart said:

Bigg_Redd said:

You weighed it before you loaded it?

Reeeeeally?

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Actually for that load yes. Knew it was going to be a big load and the shipping scales were sitting there next to the wood I stored in the shop so I got curious and weighed the night load.

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It probably isn't that interesting if you burn a single species, but I've got everything that grows naturally or was planted in the area in the last 100 years in my wood pile. I have weighed a lot of loads since Jags btu thread with the 60 lb post. I can now dial in 12 hour burn cycles based on heat demand like clockwork. That big firebox gives me 12 hour burns with what most consider shoulder season/not fit for burning wood in all but the coldest/windiest stretches. It saves the good stuff for when we really need it.

Ahhh, that is what I love about the heartland... far enough south to have some of the best firewood invented...oak, hickory, hedge, etc. But far enough north we get a bitter cold snap a few times a year and actually get to use it.

Richmond ,VA, this morning (14" snow, 16 degrees).

Havn't installed my 30 yet. Wish I had I rigged up a blower last night and got the little trailblazer stove to heat get the house about 66-70. Upstairs was a little warmer it was about 0F out. Heat kicked on about 5am and my little blower died. lol

BrotherBart said:

Nah. Get on that scooter and head south old son. Just watch out for the D.C. cops as you pass through. They zero in on tats. ;-)

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When I used to drive round the country meeting women I met on the internet, one stop was Tenn.
It was long drive, and on long drives, I tend to fall 1/2 asleep at the wheel. Well I was awoken on the way down by a VA. State Trooper I think he was.
They def. do not like us Yanks down there. Grilled me where I was from, where I was going, and popped me for doing 80mpr on the highway. Then gave me a second ticker for no seat belt.
No cost of fine written on the ticket. I had to call the courthouse and they quoted me the fine there.
I'm thinking they had a rate chart, and the costs for Yanks are higher.

On the bike, I have gotten pulled over even more times. Even when I was doing nothing wrong.
In Kingston Ontario, I was pulled over because "I looked like a Hells Angel".
Maybe I should wear long sleeve shirts & tuck my hair down my shirt......Nah F-em.

DanCorcoran said:

Richmond ,VA, this morning (14" snow, 16 degrees).

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Darn it . . . this just isn't right . . . you've got more snow than I do

We got about 14" here over the weekend. Got this picture while out playing in the snow.

The insert has been hungry with these single digit wind chill's.

I thought in the tropics they used electric heat ....

BrotherBart said:

I have had oil filled heaters with thermostats in every room for years as backup. Never used them....... I have decided to let'em run and leave the stove cold for a few days and see what the pain will be.

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...and with 122 degree exterior walls....

mellow said:

We got about 14" here over the weekend. Got this picture while out playing in the snow.

The insert has been hungry with these single digit wind chill's.

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Interesting picture, looks like your plow drivers don't get enough practice on the Eastern Shore. ;-)

The Mid-Atlantic "tropics" seems to be turning into the snow belt. We got 6" over the weekend, its snowing again tonight with another 3-6" forecasted by tomorrow morning, then they are calling for a big storm this Saturday, 12+.

Glad I have my new stove for this winter, but I am hoping for Spring on this Groundhog's Day.

Green Energy said:

Interesting picture, looks like your plow drivers don't get enough practice on the Eastern Shore. ;-)

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Down here they call it "scraping" not plowing.

BrotherBart said:

Green Energy said:

The Mid-Atlantic "tropics" seems to be turning into the snow belt. We got 6" over the weekend, its snowing again tonight with another 3-6" forecasted by tomorrow morning, then they are calling for a big storm this Saturday, 12+.

Glad I have my new stove for this winter, but I am hoping for Spring on this Groundhog's Day.

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Yep. Every time I think I won't have to dig another path to the wood stacks and that what I have in the close in racks is gonna do it they tell me we are gonna get bombed again. And that 900 feet down to the road has been a major challenge since the big one before Christmas. Some of which is still on the ground under the last one over the weekend and what is falling right now.

Worst winter for snow since back in the eighties or early nineties.

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Don't think they compare to 1966 Alex.Va don't know the total but my son was born 1/30/66. Shoveled as long as i could to make a path to the road for ambulance. Slept overnight in the hospital , doc. cooked everyone a free breakfast next morn. We finally were able to leave for home that eve.
RichardKCmo by way of N. Va.