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[tinfoilhat2020]

1 cord of pine/poplar, 2 cords of mixed hardwood since October 1st. Heating 4,000sqft + DHW. 1,000sqft (with 10ft ceilings) Dog facility is kept at 75-80°F. House is kept at 72°F and garage is kept at 65°F. Very pleased with the performance so far. 8-10 splits morning and night typically.

[willieG]

same amount in the old silver bullet ( I dream of half the wood usage they say a gasser would bring me but I cant see me spending that amount of money)

250 feet of underground pipe (even though it is logstor) I know is costing me some large btu's as well

the underground pipe cost 3 times what the stove cost me..lol

scrimp everywhere you can BUT the underground lines

I have about 235’ in the ground but in two runs, not sure how you can do any better other than sliding whatever you use inside some 6” PVC to add yet more thermal break.

not saying I could do any better but the length does add up the losses. if you use  a 1 degree loss per 100 feet at 5 gpm and 32 degree soil temp, as they quote in their brochure... that's about 2.5 cords of wood for my average run time of 180 days. if I could (wife wont have it) move my stove to 100 feet I think that would only be about 1 cord extra

[mlappin]

Okay, I can see that.

My one run is pretty deep under the main drives and are slid thru 6” PVC just for sh*ts and giggles, then have sand around all of it, but being under the drives the frost gets drove deeper.

The run thru the yard is roughly 36” deep but in my experience with a good layer of sod, some landscaping and the fact it doesn’t even get walked on in the winter frost usually doesn’t go as deep in those situations.

[coolidge]

Wood usage should pick up a little with a couple nights below zero coming, then another warmup

[willieG]

240 feet of my 250 is under gravel driveway that is mostly kept snow free all winter, in recent years I have started pushing snow over the pipes  where I can, now I can keep about 1/3 of the underground length covered but with the varying winters we have been having I cant really say if I am saving  any wood or not.

[intensedrive]

Started heating October 15.  Burned roughly near 5.5 full cords   House kept at 70.

[hondaracer2oo4]

I would be near that 5.5 with my old hardy h4. That is just the nature of the beast with the conventionals.

[tinfoilhat2020]

my convention hasnt been that bad to be honest...it is also a bit over-sized....but so far so good!

Also....a guy down the road has a 22yr old HARDY....the thing is still kicking like the day he bought it....just helped the guy cut wood this past weekend...he said in 22yrs he has had to replace the door gasket a few times and the blower motor one time

[AirForcePOL]

Gone through 2.25 full cords in 1.5 months.  Heating 2200 sqft house and 1620 sqft shop.  House is 72 deg all the time and I keep the shop anywhere from 60-70.  I am using the same amount of wood to heat both my shop and my house than I did just heating the house last year with my 5000e.  I just added about 12 inches of blown insulation to the shop on Saturday so I am hoping that should make a pretty good difference in my consumption. 

[Ched Bull]

3 cord since October 10th getting a lot of 24 hr burn times.

[mlappin]

Gone through 2.25 full cords in 1.5 months.  Heating 2200 sqft house and 1620 sqft shop.  House is 72 deg all the time and I keep the shop anywhere from 60-70.  I am using the same amount of wood to heat both my shop and my house than I did just heating the house last year with my 5000e.  I just added about 12 inches of blown insulation to the shop on Saturday so I am hoping that should make a pretty good difference in my consumption.

Thats what I found when going to the G400, heated a lot more space on half the wood but it replaced a home built CB knockoff. Before all my old boiler did was to keep the 450 gallons of water in the shop hot, wanted to actually heat the shop then start the waste oil boiler as ole smokey could eat the wood about as fast as you threw it in when trying to do both.