Anyone here use wood or coal to heat with?

[rjundi]

I burn 1 cord paid wood($280 seasoned/split) + usually mix another .5 cord self split/found wood.

I have an ultra-efficient Jotul woodstove that heats our main living area. I am thankful for that 2009 30% energy credit that allowed us to get our stove.

It cut oil consumption from 1000 gallons per year to 600.

 

[SEMI_287]

My girlfriends mom uses wood heat to heat the whole house. I'm not sure how man cords they go through. We use kerosene and go through about 450 gallons at the most.

 

[shell_user]

Yeah, where I grew up there are a lot of coal mines still around, and so a lot of people there still use coal. Lot of those "outdoor boilers" that people use to heat their house and garage. I may go to hard coal dont know yet.

 

[Bandito440]

Find a Harman dealer and have a look at their Magnum Stoker if you're going coal. It feeds and will adjust its heat output like a pellet stove. I was really impressed, but decided to go with wood pellets because of the 30% rebate and a local manufacturer of pellets.

 

[shell_user]

Thanks Bandito440 I will do that maybe this friday. Thanks for that info!

 

[volvos_rock]

have been using fine PA Anthracite to heat 2200 Sq Ft ranch for the past three years. Using 2-4 tons a year @ $150-$200 per ton. Awsome heat and the electric baseboards only come on in the morning on the coldest days. We loose power alot so a Harmen hand fired/shaker Elite insert it is.

 

[Shannow]

, I look after the infrastructure that gets 22,000 tonnes of it a day into the furnaces

 

[mechtech2]

Cujet-
Stunningly beautiful.
But those windows can't be good for heat insulation!

 

[JHZR2]

Parents have a dual fuel coal-oil stoker in their mountain house. Runs oil to be automatic when gone, and coal for economy when there. They maybe burn a ton of coal a year.

The issue with coal is that in a well-insulated house, you actually have to keep your water temperatures and home temperatures higher (sometimes uncomfortably so) to prevent the coal fire from going out. If it does, then when there is a call for heat, the furnace will feed coal and overflow the catch basket with unburned coal. This is early 80s tech... Not sure how much theyve updated coal since then though.

 

[IndyIan]

Coal sounds interesting, but with no deposits nearby I doubt its very cheap in my area. We do almost all our heating with wood from our land, and use 2-3 cords depending on the winter. 7 years so far with no heating bills is nice. Don't know where that money is, but it justifies a nice saw and recently a tractor so it sort of pays off.

 

[rjundi]

Cujet. Neat house.

A massive wood burning stove would likely do wonders in a space like that.

My parents live in home built in 1785 and "heat" the outside especially with some original windows/glass. They finally purchased the largest and efficient woodstove which looks interesting small in their "cooking" fireplace from way back when. It keeps the house comfortable at low cost for fuel oil.

It is 60F in my house so I decided to cut the chill:

 

[Shannow]

Originally Posted By: rjundi
I burn 1 cord paid wood($280 seasoned/split) + usually mix another .5 cord self split/found wood.


Cord 128 cubic feet ?

Checked the prices around here, mid spring, and its $300(Oz) for 1.8 cubic metres, or about 64 cubic feet.

Coal miners locally are getting coal for about $30-50/tonne (27GJ, 23% ash), but most are open hearth, so not very efficient.

 

[shell_user]

Well I think I may just take the old wood and coal cookstove out of my camp and put it in my house. Use hard coal too. I can get a tri axle load from of mixed hardwood(cherry, red and white oak, ash, locust) for 250$ delivered to my place. I mean tri axle log truck also and full. That or I may go with the harman I looked at this morning. That or a hitzer wood and coal stove.