Done with fire wood

[37 chief]

After 45 or so years of cutting, hauling splitting, stacking, dragging wood in the house. I am going to miss it. I am removing my antique Round Oak wood stove, and installing a natural gas stove. I can still work with my wood, but at 83, things can't go on forever, I have to stop sometime. I will probably stop my weed mowing business in a couple years also, depending on my health. So far so good. Been doing that a long time also. I will post a picture of my new stove when it's installed. Stan

 

[rustred]

After 45 or so years of cutting, hauling splitting, stacking, dragging wood in the house. I am going to miss it. I am removing my antique Round Oak wood stove, and installing a natural gas stove. I can still work with my wood, but at 83, things can't go on forever, I have to stop sometime. I will probably stop my weed mowing business in a couple years also, depending on my health. So far so good. Been doing that a long time also. I will post a picture of my new stove when it's installed. Stan

That’s hard work. But that nice warm fire is enjoyable.

 

[Butch(OH)]

Im not quite there yet but getting closer this being my 48th winter with primarily wood heat. We have always had gas back up but haven't used much. Over the years I have made it much easier with shop built equipment thus most of heavy lifting is not done by my back. Actually have two fires burning most of the winter. Outdoor wood boiler heats the bulk of the house and domestic water and a Jotul wood burner in the kitchen that feels good on my old bones on cold days.

 

[DaveBN]

Dad always said wood warms you 3 times. Once when you cut it, once when you burn it and once when you carry out the ashes.
I'm sure most of you know that saying.
Dave

 

[4wdtom]

After 45 or so years of cutting, hauling splitting, stacking, dragging wood in the house. I am going to miss it. I am removing my antique Round Oak wood stove, and installing a natural gas stove. I can still work with my wood, but at 83, things can't go on forever, I have to stop sometime. I will probably stop my weed mowing business in a couple years also, depending on my health. So far so good. Been doing that a long time also. I will post a picture of my new stove when it's installed. Stan

I understand putting in gas/automatic heating but I would have kept the wood stove. Nothing like a wood fire for heat. Even if you only had a fire once in a while, say on a cold day or when the power went out, it would be nice to have. It sounds like you could still cut some wood, if only for the occasional fire.

 

[BillinCentralMO]

Dad always said wood warms you 3 times. Once when you cut it, once when you burn it and once when you carry out the ashes.
I'm sure most of you know that saying.
Dave

I thought the three were cutting it , hauling it , and burning it .

 

[Bob NY]

After 45 or so years of cutting, hauling splitting, stacking, dragging wood in the house. I am going to miss it. I am removing my antique Round Oak wood stove, and installing a natural gas stove. I can still work with my wood, but at 83, things can't go on forever, I have to stop sometime. I will probably stop my weed mowing business in a couple years also, depending on my health. So far so good. Been doing that a long time also. I will post a picture of my new stove when it's installed. Stan

My father quit doing fire wood at 83 also. That was many years ago.

 

[Butch(OH)]

I understand putting in gas/automatic heating but I would have kept the wood stove. Nothing like a wood fire for heat. Even if you only had a fire once in a while, say on a cold day or when the power went out, it would be nice to have. It sounds like you could still cut some wood, if only for the occasional fire.

Yes, the blizzard of 1978 taught me a life lesson. Nobody alive had seen it so cold for so long. Lots didn't have power for weeks. Very few but the dairy farms had a generator set We were lucky and didn't lose our power but all the neighbors did. The oil furnace ran for 2 weeks and never shut off. All we had beside that was a fireplace and no firewood. I've always felt very lucky that mom and I survived that mostly unscathed. The next summer we installed a wood burner in the living room and I've heated 99% with wood since. I guess this would be 46 years now,, not 48 as I posted in error earlier.

 

[560Dennis]

Enjoy the new one

 

[wjytexas]

After 45 or so years of cutting, hauling splitting, stacking, dragging wood in the house. I am going to miss it. I am removing my antique Round Oak wood stove, and installing a natural gas stove. I can still work with my wood, but at 83, things can't go on forever, I have to stop sometime. I will probably stop my weed mowing business in a couple years also, depending on my health. So far so good. Been doing that a long time also. I will post a picture of my new stove when it's installed. Stan

I'm just creeping up on my 80th but am letting things go that I use to do. That may allow me to make 81.

 

[IrishJim]

Hi Gang. At 87 I can relate, I've lost my wood burner but often visit friends to get my fix. But I'll

 

[flembo]

At 77 I am getting there as well, I stopped cutting my firewood off my own land 10 yrs ago and and buy logs by the grapple load now. I figure maybe another few yrs and I will try buying cut and split. I have oil fired baseboard hot water heat as a backup. I burn 5 cord a year to heat the house and 2 cord for the sugar house, the sugar house wood is mostly hemlock that I still cut off my land.

 

[Jaden]

I thought the three were cutting it , hauling it , and burning it .

Four times; add in splitting the wood.

 

[jhwis]

That’s hard work. But that nice warm fire is enjoyable.

There's something very satisfying with a wood fire... especially when you supply the wood yourself. I'm a firewood junkie myself.

 

[Randyscottsboro]

Indians built small fire to stay warm, white man built big fire and stayed warm cutting wood.

 

[DanielW]

You made the right decision. When we converted our farm house to propane for my great aunt who was living there alone, it felt like a bit of a betrayal (and she was the strongest opponent of propane - she lover her wood fire). With oodles of hardwood bush and lots of hardwood slabs off our mills, we have no shortage of good hardwood and it seemed stupid to convert. But it took the worry/stress out of it.

Later we put another new airtight woodstove at another spot in the house in addition to the propane, which I think is the best of both worlds and something you might consider if you ever want a wood fire again: We can have a wood fire when we want, and it does a decent job heating the house in everything but the coldest weather. But no more needing to get up in the night to stoke the fire. And now getting firewood is something that can be done at our own pace, when we feel like it, and when the weather is conducive to it.

 

[Dan in Ohio]

I will be 72 early next year and last time my heating guy was out for service I asked if he knew of any state of the art boiler systems I could replace my 30 year old oil boiler, he said sure do and pointed to the wall and said we'll hang it right there.

I have been heating the house with an OWB for twenty years and know that one or the other is going to give it up soon and if not that's OK too.

 

[Keith True]

I burned wood for close to 45 years.I like it,and did work for a logger so I bought it in tree length hauled in.I have a Super Splitter,a conveyor,an excavator with a thumb,a Bobcat with forks,and a bunch of wood carts with wheels.I could pick it up with the excavator,cut it,then split it,then pile it with the conveyor,Load on the wood carts as needed,pick it up with the Bobcat and drive into the cellar with it.After the house burned,(nothing to do with the stove) my wife didn't want wood in the cellar anymore.I thought my new insurance bill was a bit pricey,and sat down with them to go over it.They had me down as a woodburner,and taking that off dropped me $790.That's most of my yearly oil cost.Interestingly enough,I am allowed to have the wood stove in place for emergencies.I am in that,'zone'according to their maps.

 

[Patsdeere]

After 45 or so years of cutting, hauling splitting, stacking, dragging wood in the house. I am going to miss it. I am removing my antique Round Oak wood stove, and installing a natural gas stove. I can still work with my wood, but at 83, things can't go on forever, I have to stop sometime. I will probably stop my weed mowing business in a couple years also, depending on my health. So far so good. Been doing that a long time also. I will post a picture of my new stove when it's installed. Stan

When I give up my solid wood stove, it's going to be pellet. I can buy low and store vs paying the going rate of gas.

 

[ole fred]

Indians built small fire to stay warm, white man built big fire and stayed warm cutting wood.

I'd always heard that Indians built a small fire and stayed up close. They never understood why a white man built a huge fire and then stood way back. Understandable I guess.