Burned out on burning wood

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Nope- I burn the wood stove until there is no more wood- then I go out and find some more if I need to-

Hate it every time I hear the boiler light up- even more frustrating as our hot water is through the boiler. Storage tank is next thing to help bring some sanity.
 
Im usually pretty happy when spring rolls around,with all of the vegitation sprouting, warmer weather,knowing the wood burning season is comming to an end. spring and summer is the time I collect wood so I guess it really never ends.

That being said I am also pumped to get the stove fired up in fall
 
too bad we cant burn wood to run the AC in summer ,,,, then i could play with fire all yearl long!!!!
 
i love and enjoy all of it 4 years going strong and dont think ill get sick of it i will admit i hate cutting wood twice. buying a new stove and the wood size i had it cut for the old stove was 20 inches and does not fit in the stove lol. so i will admit i dont enjoy cutting wood twice other than that i love it.
 
Lanning said:
do you guys ever take a break from from burning and use your furnace?

Not just no, but (*&^ NO. But then, I'm so tight that I squeak. If I can save money, I'll happily bust my tail to do so. I don't mind carrying wood in. Yeah, it's tedious, but I can spend 30 minutes and carry enough wood inside to save me at least $50. If you could get paid $100/hr after taxes to do a little hard work would you do it? I would...
 
The insert was one of the best purchases we have made. There is nothing like sitting next to it when it is crankin' and it's 0 outside. Now is the time to enjoy all your hard work with the warmth. Hard work is good for the soul. January is almost gone. February will usually have some temperature moderations. Hang in there. Spring is around the corner, if you can see it past the 9 foot high snowbanks!
 
You have to take things in stride. You have back up heat for a reason......let it kick in every once in a while. For me it is a challange not to hear that boiler fire up. I only had my insert for about three months, but can tell you it is fun to see the PSE&G (gas/electric) guy come to the house. A few days later I get a bill for under $50..more like 35, and I laugh. My monthly bill was $350. It is work but I feel that it is worth the warmth, comfort, and feeling of acomplishment when you see the savings. Better yet I get to be outdoors...not that I am lacking since I am a landscaper, but I love it!

Hey....if splitting the wood is work, buy wood in the spring already split and green. If the stove is work....give it a break. I can almost bet it will bug you and you will be back in the game before you know it.
 
First year burning and I love it. Not burning 24/7, but weekends and days i work from home. House is finally warm during the winter! The only thing that will stop me is that i am running out of seasoned wood for this year and don't want to dip into the 2.5 cords seasoning for next year.
 
I do not tire of burning wood and even if I had a furnace, I would not use it. However, it does sometimes seem good when May and June comes around and then we only have the occasional fire in the stove. I hope to be burning wood yet when I'm in my 90's.
 
I don't get tired of burning wood. It makes winter enjoyable. Before we bought our stove I couldn't stand Michigan winters. Now I look forward to them. I like coming in from snowmobiling or ice fishing and knowing the house will be warm. My wife helps a lot with the operation of the stove.
 
Even though I have no intention of stopping, I have been tired recently of all the work of keeping two stoves feed. Between hauling in wood every night for the inside racks, the 1/4cord I keep on the back porch that I re-fill every 4-5 days and all the cutting I am doing for 2011-12, 12-13, I do get tired and want to take a break. It happens around this time of year pretty much every year. But like others I don't want to hear the furnace kick on(which doesn't happen unless it get in the mid teens anyway) I will continue this cycle through the spring. By mid summer I will be wishing for the cold weather to start burning again.
 
Haven't heard the furnace run since I put it on the curb 4 years ago and wouldn't have it any other way.
 
Nope, I don't get burnt out. I am 40 and when I was younger I helped dad load and stack. Now that I am older I take great pleasure in it. The only time I haven't burned wood was my time in the army and when I went to school. My dad would save wood for me to split when I came home though.
I don't have video games or a gym membership. It is a good workout and I don't sit on my butt all the time staring at a TV. Plus when major storms come through not much changes for me. I am in practice of sustainability. Plus the $17 electric bill makes me smile.
 
I am in my first year burning and besides the messes it makes, I do like it. What I miss is my other projects that sort of get the back burner when I am spending time out in the woods cutting or splitting out in the back yard. As for a break, I thought about it and don't want to, but I am running low on seasoned wood. I might just reduce it to evening burning.
 
When burning 24/7, my NG furnace runs on average about an hour a day in the early morning after the overnight fire has died down. When it turns mild, I let the fire go out and the furnace take over. In the single digits tonight (-8°C) so I won't be putting any more wood in the stove and won't be lighting it again until after work tomorrow. It peaked at 76°F in here, too hot for sleeping.
 
CountryBoy19 said:
If you could get paid $100/hr after taxes to do a little hard work would you do it? I would...
PFFFT! I don't know how you're doing your math, but no way can you process $100 worth of firewood in an hour. If my firewood was worth the hours I put into it times $100, I would sell it instead of burn it!
 
Dakotas Dad said:
( I am also helping a neighbor woman get 3 years ahead also..

Sounds like one of the "good guys" to me. :)
 
<snip> double post
 
This has been a fun thread, and I've enjoyed reading all the replies in here. Since no one else mentioned it, I'll throw this one in, too. So I'm gearing up for my mid-week indoor woodrack fill-up, swept and reconfigured the rack (it flops apart sometime, a summer project to paint it and nail it together), sitting here w/my bunnies on and about to head out and do it, but stopped to post. Two more things that make it good to keep burning. First, after I've got some work done, sitting down to relax feels like an earned reward, not mere sluggishness. Here's another cool thing about burning wood: this forum, you'all.

I know that even if I don't brag about it, heading out there to do-what-must-be-done gives me braggin' rights, room at the fire (or at least if that's not the case, no one's been rude enough to pitch me out yet). This forum is part of the fun of heating with wood. I mean, could you imagine a forum where the posts ran like this?:

"S'up?"
"I turned up the thermostat to 70."
"Wow. LOL. WTG."
"Good times."
"I'm thinking about turning mine up."
"+1"
"No way, man. I'm leaving mine at 67. That was how my dad did it, and that's how he brought me up. I still have his thermostat from when he was a kid."
"Pix or it didn't happen."

Okay, sending myself out to the woodpile now . . .
 
LLigetfa said:
CountryBoy19 said:
If you could get paid $100/hr after taxes to do a little hard work would you do it? I would...
PFFFT! I don't know how you're doing your math, but no way can you process $100 worth of firewood in an hour. If my firewood was worth the hours I put into it times $100, I would sell it instead of burn it!

You didn't read his fine print:

I’ll happily bust my tail to do so. I don’t mind carrying wood in. Yeah, it’s tedious, but I can spend 30 minutes and carry enough wood inside to save me at least $50.

As long as there is an endless supply of free dry split wood outside your door, you can make $100/hr carrying it in and putting it in your stove :lol:
 
I think of it the same way as a lot of people: I'd have to be working to pay the oil/gas bill if I wasn't doing this. My 2 cord/year saves me about 400-500 gallons of heating oil/year, most of which because I can leave the thermostat at 60F and not have my wife kill me.

One thing I can say is stacking a pile of wood dropped off at the end of the driveway is a now a guilty pleasure I'm ashamed to let anyone seeing me do. Splitting rounds dropped off at the end of the driveway is a pleasant afternoon I'd do for free. Bucking a pile of clean logs with a sharp chain (oooh, just thinking about gets me excited) is more fun than it should be, and something I'd skip paid work to do. However, walking out 300' into wet ground, dropping a tree, unhanging that same tree, limbing that tree and disposing of the brush, then splitting and carrying it all back out either by wheelbarrow or by hand is a lot of work. After you've processed a standing tree burning it shouldn't wear you out. I think everyone who burns should have to do it once, just as everyone who eats meat should have to hunt/process an animal once. I figure by the time I'm done dropping, limbing, bucking, splitting, stacking, waiting and carrying the wood inside I've saved myself about $3/hr, but its about more than money.
 
snowleopard said:
This has been a fun thread, and I've enjoyed reading all the replies in here. Since no one else mentioned it, I'll throw this one in, too. So I'm gearing up for my mid-week indoor woodrack fill-up, swept and reconfigured the rack (it flops apart sometime, a summer project to paint it and nail it together), sitting here w/my bunnies on and about to head out and do it, but stopped to post. Two more things that make it good to keep burning. First, after I've got some work done, sitting down to relax feels like an earned reward, not mere sluggishness. Here's another cool thing about burning wood: this forum, you'all.

I know that even if I don't brag about it, heading out there to do-what-must-be-done gives me braggin' rights, room at the fire (or at least if that's not the case, no one's been rude enough to pitch me out yet). This forum is part of the fun of heating with wood. I mean, could you imagine a forum where the posts ran like this?:

"S'up?"
"I turned up the thermostat to 70."
"Wow. LOL. WTG."
"Good times."
"I'm thinking about turning mine up."
"+1"
"No way, man. I'm leaving mine at 67. That was how my dad did it, and that's how he brought me up. I still have his thermostat from when he was a kid."
"Pix or it didn't happen."

Okay, sending myself out to the woodpile now . . .
lol, thermostat.com/forum !!! I'm there. You think my post count is high here, just wait to see what that forum would do for it.
 
Nope, not burned out at all. I love everyhting about it. Granted, I don't have a fire in the morning because I need the furnace to run a bit (t-stat at 62) for a little heat in the basement, so it's one less fire a day. But if we have some place to go at night and I can't get a fire going as early as usual I feel like I'm getting screwed. Like I'm being cheated out of "fire time". Tis a sad day when the stove goes cold in the spring...sitting on the sofa watching the tube with the stove all dark and cold. Aint right man, just aint right.


Btw, T-stat.com. That's funny right there, tell you what!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
snowleopard said:
I know that even if I don't brag about it, heading out there to do-what-must-be-done gives me braggin' rights, room at the fire (or at least if that's not the case, no one's been rude enough to pitch me out yet). This forum is part of the fun of heating with wood. I mean, could you imagine a forum where the posts ran like this?:

"S'up?"
"I turned up the thermostat to 70."
"Wow. LOL. WTG."
"Good times."
"I'm thinking about turning mine up."
"+1"
"No way, man. I'm leaving mine at 67. That was how my dad did it, and that's how he brought me up. I still have his thermostat from when he was a kid."
"Pix or it didn't happen."

Okay, sending myself out to the woodpile now . . .

:lol: That's awesome.
 
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