on a lighter note...

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Slightly dated, as the prices have probably doubled or tripled.

Save $$$?
Heat with Wood

First year costs:

2 stoves and installation $1385.
Removal of hot water baseboard and boiler $238.
Search for reputable wood dealer N/A $76.
Chain saw $210.
Ax, wedges, maul, cant hook, etc. $119.
Old truck (junk after 1st load) $595.
Newer truck $8645.
Tire chains $88.
Replace truck's rear window (twice) $310.
Fine for cutting wrong trees $500.
5-acre woodlot $4995.
Splitting machine $950.
14 cases of beer $126.
6 fifths ginger brandy $38.
Fine for littering $250.
Towing charge (brook to road) $50.
Gas, oil, files, Band-aids $97.
Doctor's fee (sawdust in eye) $45.
Medical cost for broken toe (dropped log) $128.
Safety shoes $35.
Attempt to fix burned hole in carpet $76.
New living room carpet $699.
Paint living room $110.
Taxes on woodlot $44.
Woodlot boundary dispute settlement $465.
Roof repair after chimney fire $840.
Fine for assaulting fireman $50.
Extension ladder $55.
Chimney brush $22.
Medical fee for broken leg (fell off roof) $478.
Chimney cleaning service $90.
Replace coffee table (chopped up and burned while too drunk to bring firewood up from cellar) $79.
Divorce settlement $14,500.
EXPENSES $36,388

Sale of hot water boiler system $125.
Fuel oil savings $376.
CREDITS $501.

NET COST OF FIRST YEAR WOOD BURNING OPERATION; $35,887.
 
Slightly dated, as the prices have probably doubled or tripled.

Save $$$?
Heat with Wood

First year costs:

2 stoves and installation $1385.
Removal of hot water baseboard and boiler $238.
Search for reputable wood dealer N/A $76.
Chain saw $210.
Ax, wedges, maul, cant hook, etc. $119.
Old truck (junk after 1st load) $595.
Newer truck $8645.
Tire chains $88.
Replace truck's rear window (twice) $310.
Fine for cutting wrong trees $500.
5-acre woodlot $4995.
Splitting machine $950.
14 cases of beer $126.
6 fifths ginger brandy $38.
Fine for littering $250.
Towing charge (brook to road) $50.
Gas, oil, files, Band-aids $97.
Doctor's fee (sawdust in eye) $45.
Medical cost for broken toe (dropped log) $128.
Safety shoes $35.
Attempt to fix burned hole in carpet $76.
New living room carpet $699.
Paint living room $110.
Taxes on woodlot $44.
Woodlot boundary dispute settlement $465.
Roof repair after chimney fire $840.
Fine for assaulting fireman $50.
Extension ladder $55.
Chimney brush $22.
Medical fee for broken leg (fell off roof) $478.
Chimney cleaning service $90.
Replace coffee table (chopped up and burned while too drunk to bring firewood up from cellar) $79.
Divorce settlement $14,500.
EXPENSES $36,388

Sale of hot water boiler system $125.
Fuel oil savings $376.
CREDITS $501.

NET COST OF FIRST YEAR WOOD BURNING OPERATION; $35,887.
OMG! This is no BS!

When I was a teenager, my dad decided to put in a double-boxed wood furnace with vents holes on top that connected to the heating ducts in the house. It had electric fans under the stove box that moved air around the outside of the interior box and out into the ducts. Put it in the corner of our family room in the walk-out basement to "save money on the heating oil bill." Yeah right!

Buy wood furnace
Cut hole in wall for stove pipe
Buy stovepipe
Buy brick
Have mason make brick chimney on the outside of the house all the way up three stories
Strip walls in the corner and install heat shield tile
Tear up carpet in corner
Buy and install floor tile in corner
Buy chainsaw
Buy extra chains
Buy gas can, gas, two-cycle oil and bar oil
Buy log splitter
Buy gas for truck to go to the forest to cut dead trees

We spent every other weekend after sports games all summer driving into the forest, felling trees, then carry wood to truck, drive home, unload wood in pasture behind backyard, split wood, reload wood in truck, drive to house, unload wood, stack wood on patio. You handle the wood four or five times! But when you have two boys (slaves) who cares?? Got so damn hot in the family room that you could hardly stand to watch TV all winter. Lol. What a BARGAIN!

I was so sick and tired of wood heat that I put gas log fireplaces in the first two houses I built.
 
OMG! This is no BS!

When I was a teenager, my dad decided to put in a double-boxed wood furnace with vents holes on top that connected to the heating ducts in the house. It had electric fans under the stove box that moved air around the outside of the interior box and out into the ducts. Put it in the corner of our family room in the walk-out basement to "save money on the heating oil bill." Yeah right!

Buy wood furnace
Cut hole in wall for stove pipe
Buy stovepipe
Buy brick
Have mason make brick chimney on the outside of the house all the way up three stories
Strip walls in the corner and install heat shield tile
Tear up carpet in corner
Buy and install floor tile in corner
Buy chainsaw
Buy extra chains
Buy gas can, gas, two-cycle oil and bar oil
Buy log splitter
Buy gas for truck to go to the forest to cut dead trees

We spent every other weekend after sports games all summer driving into the forest, felling trees, then carry wood to truck, drive home, unload wood in pasture behind backyard, split wood, reload wood in truck, drive to house, unload wood, stack wood on patio. You handle the wood four or five times! But when you have two boys (slaves) who cares?? Got so damn hot in the family room that you could hardly stand to watch TV all winter. Lol. What a BARGAIN!

I was so sick and tired of wood heat that I put gas log fireplaces in the first two houses I built.
Yup. Grew up doing that. We burned wood exclusively. We'd log an area in the summer and go back and get the tops for the next year's firewood.
 
The common wisdom on wood heat is it makes you hot five times:
1- when you cut it
2 -when you split it
3 - when you load/carry it in
4 - when you burn it
5 - when you think about doing it again next year
 

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