Daddy Tanuki
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2030 hours on April 12th, its 37°f or about 3°c here at Fujigane at the cabin. just curious who else might be running their woodstove besides myself.
who is still burning wood in april?
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pollenface
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Yeah I think 3c is fire worthy.
+1, although only 17c here.
+1, although only 17c here.
Brucey
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61F here, but heated all winter with two oil filled portable radiators. Do have a pellet stove ready for the metal building/workshop tho, without very tight insulation electric heat won't be cutting it there.
Zwy
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I've been heating the house since early March with free electricity thru the mini split. Furnace was run 2 days when the weather looked to be cloudy for several days in a row. It is less stress on the body using free electricity.
Daddy Tanuki
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17°c is still enough for a small log every two or three hours here at Fuji, but when I arrived at 1400 it was 10 degrees and dropping fast I made the dumb mistake of working in the shop for a couple of hours and went into the house and brrrr. hosue was still at 10 but it was slowly dropping as the sun started down.
With the last couple of mornings getting down in the low 40'F range having the wood stove would be nice except I opened the chimney clean out to allow the dumb birds a way out. Every Spring it seems that one or more ends up falling down the pipe and getting stuck if the clean out is in place. One year one of them even managed to get into the stove itself. So after Winter I clean out the chimney and leave it open.
So instead I am burning a few grid electrons. At 8 cents per kWh it is cheaper than any other heating option.
So instead I am burning a few grid electrons. At 8 cents per kWh it is cheaper than any other heating option.
hugemoth
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My yard in Central Oregon 1 week ago. Still burning here.
Q-Dog
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I burned a bunch of tree limbs out back, that have fallen during the winter!
I haven't run the central heat here since some time in February. We have used a couple of oil-filled radiators to take the chill off, but only with excess solar. I have also had to run the air conditioners a few times in the afternoon, also on excess solar energy.
The remarkable thing is we always tried to not run the heat and air conditioning in the same month. Now I run heat and air conditioner, sometimes in the same day. Last month's power bill was the lowest I have seen in a very long time.
I haven't run the central heat here since some time in February. We have used a couple of oil-filled radiators to take the chill off, but only with excess solar. I have also had to run the air conditioners a few times in the afternoon, also on excess solar energy.
The remarkable thing is we always tried to not run the heat and air conditioning in the same month. Now I run heat and air conditioner, sometimes in the same day. Last month's power bill was the lowest I have seen in a very long time.
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Spartan
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As I type this, I'm sitting by the wood cookstove enjoying a nice blaze and my cup of morning coffee. We're definitely in that transition time where we're not burning as much or as long as in the past months. It's 47F (8.3C) outside, 67F (19.4C) inside and rising.
About 4 cords of oak, fir and alder gets us through the winter here along the Pacific Northwest Coast in our well insulated house. We have propane heat if needed but rarely use it. Nothing beats a wood fire for heat through the winter.
Cheers!
About 4 cords of oak, fir and alder gets us through the winter here along the Pacific Northwest Coast in our well insulated house. We have propane heat if needed but rarely use it. Nothing beats a wood fire for heat through the winter.
Cheers!
Checkthisout
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At the cabin. The Fisher burning old-growth Western red cedar. 
Still in northern MN. But don't obviously have to keep it consistently going now. It's used to cook on as well but it starts getting to the point where you don't want that heat anymore. But wife loves the 2' x 4' cooking area. Switching to the electric hot plate to cook means you only can have two pots maximum at once.
thepartyhound
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Yeah, the pellet stove is still coming on in the early morning hours before we get up for just a bit. Although it is very minimal. Temps have been dipping to the low 40s and high 30's at night. Lows in the low 20's being called for next week. In Montana at about 5500' elevation.
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Daddy Tanuki
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I copied my woodstove design off of a fisher Mama Bear. but i used thicker firebricks so interior cubic feet its in the middle between a Mama Bear and a Baby Bear. once the fire goes out it still heats for 4~6 hours as the bricks radiate the stored heat.
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Daddy Tanuki
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if my cabin was big enough to ahve one of these along with my primary wood stove I would love to have one of those in the cabin.
Spartan
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During our home design phase, we decided to make our wood cookstove our only wood burning heat source so designed a "great room" where the cookstove would sit at the edge of the kitchen but also be at the edge of the great room fulfilling duel uses of space heating and cooking. We also have a propane stove in the kitchen.
In winter, the wood cookstove gets used a lot for cooking since there's almost always a fire burning around dinner time. In summer, we just use the propane stove. The way the house is designed, it works quite well aesthetically and practically.
Could your cabin be reconfigured to incorporate a wood cookstove closer to the kitchen area and do away with the other stove? They do make some smaller wood cookstoves if space is at a premium.
Daddy Tanuki
Solar Wizard
Theoretically I could put a wood cook stove where my wood stove is as they are close as it is. My cabin is only 800ish square feet so not a lot of space.
Daddy Tanuki
Solar Wizard
We use the wood stove to cook stews, chilly stuff you can do in a Dutch oven or pot but not anything you would do with a skillet
Just cranked up the Harmon pellet stove a little farther at the townhouse on the east side of S.F. Bay.
Not solar there and moving out soon anyhow so won't be. Place was 60F this morning and two minor bumps of the setting only brought it up to 70, so one more...
Any more of this global warming (before I get solar in) and I'll freeze to death. B-b
(Fortunately the NV place is a heavily insulated small Liindel Prow house. In the daytime, even in the winter, the problem has been to keep it cool. B-) Still needs a bit of heat at night in the winter, though.)
One to 1 1/2 ton of pellets or a tad more heats the CA house for a year. Runs maybe $300 to $400 for fuel - while the old gas
furnace could burn through that much natural gas (at CA socialized prices) in a month or so.
I had once looked at buying a pellet mill, making my own pellets from lawn trimmings and weeds in CA and/or firebreak-maintenance clearing of tumbleweeds, sage, mustard, and other "weeds" at the NV 5.1 acre place. But the cheapest I could find even a little one for (even at alibabba) was over five grand. So it doesn't make sense.
Not solar there and moving out soon anyhow so won't be. Place was 60F this morning and two minor bumps of the setting only brought it up to 70, so one more...
Any more of this global warming (before I get solar in) and I'll freeze to death. B-b
(Fortunately the NV place is a heavily insulated small Liindel Prow house. In the daytime, even in the winter, the problem has been to keep it cool. B-) Still needs a bit of heat at night in the winter, though.)
One to 1 1/2 ton of pellets or a tad more heats the CA house for a year. Runs maybe $300 to $400 for fuel - while the old gas
furnace could burn through that much natural gas (at CA socialized prices) in a month or so.
I had once looked at buying a pellet mill, making my own pellets from lawn trimmings and weeds in CA and/or firebreak-maintenance clearing of tumbleweeds, sage, mustard, and other "weeds" at the NV 5.1 acre place. But the cheapest I could find even a little one for (even at alibabba) was over five grand. So it doesn't make sense.
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Checkthisout
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So the guys on Hearth.com hate me.
I got that stove for free and cut about 1/3rd of the back off and made the chimney exit the top so I could use it in my puny cabin.
There is a book about Bob Fisher and Fisher Stoves.
The door on mine is hinged on the left side (rare) and is a 3 piece top (the earliest models) has pipe caps for draft control (how Bob did it on his first stoves) and if you look closely, the door says "Patended" instead of patented.
Apparently the foundry misspelled the word on the first run of doors Bob had made to license to outside manufacturers.
So it's basically pinnacle Fisher stove collector masterpiece....and I took a grinder to it and chopped it down.
Before I knew of course......
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