Yardman

Just curious, I've been doing it for a few years. Live in the woods and know how to run a chainsaw, and a wood splinter, and an axe.

My favorite smell from the chimney is that from black cherry. I'm off to cook venison on the open flames and beef for da wife. Using oak as the main flame/smoke/taste.

LimboGirl

My parents do. It irritates my lungs. I like the smell though.

Yardman

My biggest issue is dust, but I've had that with forced air systems.

I like to watch the fire. Often it is better than whats on TV. Different species of trees burn differently and I enjoy that.

Maybe it's just the "Cave Man In ME" ? IDK, just know I like fire and the fact I can heat my house with what I did to make it happen.

LimboGirl

I like to watch a fire burn, also. I just can't. It starts irritating my lung immediately. We have a fire pit on our patio and I had to tell my husband he would have to enjoy it without me. Oh well. Enjoy your fire. I always liked chopping wood, also. I wasn't very good at it though.

CalifGuy

LOL...clicked on this subject thinking it was some sexual reference or innuendo that I was not yet familiar with but, nope, it really is quite literal...does anyone heat with wood. Not here...I'd freeze to death if my Southern California home dropped down to 65 degrees each night rather than the 72 degrees I like to keep it at! ;-)

SimplyAmorous

Me & my husband installed a wood/coal furnace in our last house, couldn't stomach the price of gas, we built the chimney and spent alot of time gathering free wood, we saved alot of
$$ in those 2 year living there. But it was alot of work. Here is one of our piles before he got the maul & axe out, my dad let us borrow his Log splitter, that was a blessing... I was the Stacker.

We sold that house, now we have oil heat.

My husband still entertains the idea of getting one of those outdoor wood furnaces for our house. Still throwing the idea around... we can make it so it can heat our garage & the house with underground piping. I used to visit forums on these things trying to decide & checking them out at the Fairs. But we just never took the plunge to get one yet. I know they will take alot more wood than the indoor ones, but one plus -you can throw HUGE logs in there & they'll burn all day long.

We're not sure we want to go back to all that work of searching for wood, I don't feel like chopping all our trees down to heat our house. I like my woods. But we had some fond memories from using wood heat too.

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Therealbrighteyes

Marina del Rey?

I misread the title and to me the question was "Anybody heat their wood" and I was like, whoa.....that's interesting. Ha.
We use oak during the winter time.....conveniently started with a Duraflame "log".

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CalifGuy

Further inland than Marina Del Rey so maybe the house may really dip down to a very frigid 63 degrees during winter nights if the heater is not turned on...65 just sounded better.

Halien

31 days after buying my current home, our air conditioner system burst into flames, and the electrical fire took out our furnace. Left a sick feeling in the stomach shelling out the ten grand for a super high efficiency furnace and air conditioner, but in the months where it's 10 below zero, its worth it. Still love to have a wood fire in the fireplace on weekends, but wood is like gold in my area. I arranged a deal with a subcontractor friend to get rid of the trees along a new subdivision area, in exchange for the wood. I love splitting cured wood by hand. Cheap therapy too.

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cruiser

We've been heating our house with a woodstove insert for 3 years now and we love it. Even when it goes down to single digits the heat rarely comes on. Burn about 2 cords a season.
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Jellybeans

Ok...everytime I read this thread title, it seems so pervy to me. Lol!
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Yardman

It ain't pervy.
Having fun after the meat is cooked on the open fire is awesome More so when I've killed and butchered that meat.

Nice wood pile SimplyAmourus. I too battle with my green side that wants all to just grow uninhibited and my Caveman side. I've only been using trees that were girdled by beaver...da beaver left...LOL

I'll never cut my sap maples or my acorn oaks. It would be like cutting off a limb from my body. I cherish acorn pesta and maple syrup.

The Beaver and I have a long love/hate relationship......

I'm just a hillbilly

Yardman

Oh, morning wood is important...LOL

I've had a bad sliver from stoking the fire with my morning wood poking out. Kinda like the don't fry bacon in da nude advice.

The important thing is to have hot coalsin da morning for starting the next days fire. Then it's time to ignite the morning wood.

greeneyedky

I've had and used wood heat for over 13 years. It is hard work but worth the money you save. When my fiance and I first got together his house was heated by a gas furnace. We did one season with it. Cost was over $1000 the next year we installed a indoor wood furnace, forced air type and just ran it into our old duct system. LOVED IT!!!! Plus we had an old Fisher stove in the garage. Since moving to a much smaller house the Fisher is in the basement and used to heat the house. We have a furnace here but it is disconnected. The wood stove is a bit dusty but if it saves me a grand a season I don't mind cleaning. We also live in town and our neighbors love the smell. I've even had one neighbor tell me she goes out on her porch just to smell it.
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