Burning 24 hours 7 days a week, when applicable, and/or heating your house continuously with wood un

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Do you burn 24/7


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Burning 24/7 has spoiled me. Nothing like tossing some splits on a nice hot bed of coals in the morning to get the stove going. I dread the thought of having to start a fire in a cold stove now.
 
We do not burn 24/7 and the wood stove is the only heat source to heat a total of 1500 sq/ft on two floors. For example today the daytime temp was around 2 °F , but the sun was out and the morning fire which I started at 5:30am from left over coals only needed one more load. The fire died out about 2:00pm and I just started a fire from scratch. This has been the norm for most of our winter.
 
pinewoodburner said:
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...

Replace the oil boiler with a heat pump in December. I have burned Burn 24 / 7 the last 3 years to supplement the heat. Saved lots of $ on the oil but 1 stove could not heat the entire house when temps below 30. Thought about adding another stove. Oil was $2400 for the heat season. Just got my first power bill and the new heat pump added $70.00 Don't know if I will add a second stove now. Payback would be to long. Maybe if I can find a used stove.


I should say too that while I do burn basically around the clock, my one stove is not enough to heat the whole house in cold temps. So I leave my thermostat set at 68 durring the day and 55 at night. So the furnace generally runs for 15 min to an hour in the morning and maybe 15 minutes a couple hours after sunset.
 
The Super 27 has not shut down since the beginning of November. It easily provides 90% of our heat.
 
We in the Horsehead Nebula burn 311/72. I actually have a hydrogen stove because there are no trees here. I post on hearth.com just because I like to crack wise at Earthling wood burners. You are a funny bunch. And I long to actually see a Big Mac. Our diet of Poltridus seems boring in comparison. Don't ask.

Our droid the Limbaugh III does most of our heavy Intergalactic conquest work for us. 26 planets down. Five more to go.
 
BrotherBart said:
We in the Horsehead Nebula burn 311/72. I actually have a hydrogen stove because there are no trees here. I post on hearth.com just because I like to crack wise at Earthling wood burners. You are a funny bunch. And I long to actually see a Big Mac. Our diet of Poltridus seems boring in comparison. Don't ask.

Our droid the Limbaugh III does most of our heavy Intergalactic conquest work for us. 26 planets down. Five more to go.

I want a shot of what BB's drinking. ;-P
 
24/7 for three years now and would have it no other way. Wife runs the stove with complete confidence when i don't. Only time it gets a rest is when I need to clean out about two weeks worth of ashes. then light her right back up again. Burning through much more wood this winter than last since we are now 20 days with temps below 32 degrees and nightime( Sunday night) at -20. Unfortunately had to purchase oil for domestic hot water last week, 160 gallons, but thats since last August. :)
 
Fire stays going as long as I can keep it. Havent had to light a fire in 3 weeks. So long as something doesnt keep me away from home too long, there is a fire going....
 
The Greenwood burns 24/7 to heat the house and the hot water. The Liberty burns 24/7 if below 20* to keep the house toasty and so the GW only needs stoking every 8-10 hrs. My dad heated with wood when I was growing up and that house was COLD. Not my house, I like it warm.
Doug
 
We burn 24/7. We tend to have a lot of "fluffy" wood, i.e., not very dense, so we have to load the stove quite frequently. Fortunately, hubby gets up really early (5 a.m. is typical) and I stay up really late (2 or 3 a.m. is typical) so there is no time of the day there isn't somebody who can load up the stove until the next person is paying attention. Obviously if we leave town for a while we need to rely on the NG furnace.

When it is really cold, the stove doesn't quite heat the house enough, so we leave the furnace on, set to about 60. The first year we were very determined to heat only with wood, and got a bit chilly sometimes, but we aren't so anal now. :)

I used to hang out here a lot when I was learning the ropes, but this is I think our 4th year burning and I think I know everything now. :)
 
I would if i could. Im more like the 10/7. It burns so long as i am there to feed it. I cannot get long enough burn times to last me through the work day, sigh. I must start a somewhat cold stove everynight when i get home. it burns probably till about noon after loading at 5 am.
hence why im trying to go bigger. it brings new meanign to go big or go home (to feed the stove)
 
raybonz said:
Hi Al,
It was good to meet you and your dad last week! I was wondering why you need to heat your basement and if so why not just use electric baseboard if only for short term use? I plan on calling Ray when this snow goes away for 2-3 more cords of wood.. It's great to be ahead and I need to be a little more ahead believe it or not.. Al an investment in wood now will pay dividends down the road.... Be careful to not get all oak as it takes years to season until you can get ahead.. Maple and cherry season quickly and are easy to get around here and heat pretty well too..

Ray

Hey Ray, nice to meet you too and check out your set up. Yeah I'm all over the wood. Got that load of maple and Ash last week looking to get another soon. I'd like to have some oak on hand JIC.

Like I mentioned in my other post I have some exotic pets in the basement, hence the need for some heat in the basement. I've got another stove and I priced out a chimney liner through one of the vendors here and it was $1200. Can't swing it right now. I also know a guy in heating and he said he could give the basement it's own zone, so that's another option. I'd love to burn 24/7. I think the hardest part is timing the loads. Kinda like having a dog and getting home to let him out. Once my house heats up it's pretty easy to keep it there with this stove. We'll see.
 
I checked 24/7 . . . although technically the oil boiler does come on if I am away on vacation, when the inside temp dips below 60 degrees F, when my wife is sick and I'm not home to tend the fire and during the recent spate of sub-zero weather . . . that said . . . when I come home on vacation the woodstove is lit up right away and technically the fire is always going . . . just sometimes it isn't producing much heat . . . I attempt to heat 24/7 . . . mostly because I hate the thought of paying $3 plus for dead dinosaurs.
 
I would love to burn 24/7 but I can't get long enough burn times and don't have enough time unless using oak. The only thing I don't like my stove.
 
I have been heating primarily with wood for the last 2 years. I am obsessed with wood burning. It becomes a way of life. I drive down the street and look at big trees and try to guess how many cords of wood it would yield. Splitting wood in the summer is like brushing your teeth. It's a ritual. You just get up and do it without thinking. I also find myself admiring another mans wood stack. Does that make me gay?
 
24/7 here unless the temps are to high, haven't had that problem for quite awhile. Been burning that way for 3 winters now, went form average of 500 gallons of propane each year to under 100 gallons each year and loving it, that was just the house savings,saving even more in the shop
 
24/7 here. i love everything associated with heating with wood and so do the family and pets. keep warm
 
I'l open myself up to ridicule and admit (yet again) that I only burn a few hours a day. That's all I need. One load heats my entire walkout basement and workshop and keeps it livable when outside temp is 25 or greater. Below 25, I burn two loads.

So why do I burn at all? I've come to the realization I'm a closet pyromaniac, and I'm not happy unless I get to see a massive fire at least once per day.
 
Started a fire back in late September and it will likely be Mid May before it goes cold.

Had to let it go to just a few coals for a couple hours though, when we did a mid season sweep.

Propain is ridiculous. I think we paid 300 bucks last year for all we used, and am not wanting to see what it will be this year.;)
 
What exactly does 24/7 mean? 24 hours for 7 days, but which 7 days? There are many times that my fire has burned for more than 7 days but there are also times when it hasn't. It doesn't make sense to waste wood if it's too hot in the house.
 
LLigetfa said:
What exactly does 24/7 mean? 24 hours for 7 days, but which 7 days? There are many times that my fire has burned for more than 7 days but there are also times when it hasn't. It doesn't make sense to waste wood if it's too hot in the house.

I altered the title of the thread for clarity. :)
 
tsquini said:
I have been heating primarily with wood for the last 2 years. I am obsessed with wood burning. It becomes a way of life. I drive down the street and look at big trees and try to guess how many cords of wood it would yield. Splitting wood in the summer is like brushing your teeth. It's a ritual. You just get up and do it without thinking. I also find myself admiring another mans wood stack. Does that make me gay?


LOL I do the same thing! Though I don't think I'll be slittling in the summer, too hot. I'll stick to the cooler months for that.;) Of coarse I still do it by hand.
 
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