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[coolidge]

4.5 cords since middle of Sept

[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

[yotehunter66]

Probably about a chord since November 1st. Going through her now though with highs of 30.

[mlappin]

Expect to move up to about half a cord a week with the cooler weather.

[hondaracer2oo4]

I started October 13th, just about cleared 3 cords.

[Uponthehill]

Since November 13 (Friday the 13th) I have burnt 3 rick or 1 1/2 chord of seasoned white oak.  Mostly 4 to 10 inch rounds.  House stays @ 75 (wife's request) and shop @ ~ 50.  Around 70 when I'm working.  Stay warm...

[Cabo]

Just a little over 2 1/3 cord since Oct. 17.

[Roger2561]

Since mid October, approximately 1 1/2 cord of mixed hardwood.  Roger

[fireman69lfd]

About 1 3/4 cords since mid October. If it keeps up the way it's going now, I have next year's cut already!

[kybaseball]

We have had is easy so far and only used 1 1/2 cord of wood. Been trying different things with the stove like how much wood, which way to stack inside the stove and temps. Found that if i try to keep the wood to say a 8 to 10 hour burn time the stove works much better and using less wood with very little ashes and i mean very little.

[hondaracer2oo4]

Roger, I am jealous of your numbers! We live not far away from each other and you have used half of what I have used! Your heat load must be much lower than mine or something. I can't even imagine how little wood I would have to throw in to only be at 1 1/2 cords over 2 and a half months into the burning season. Right now depending on the projected temps I am throwing in typically 5-6 splits that are 24 inches long and about 6-8 inches by 4-5 inches in diameter. In order to cut that in half I would have to throw in 2.5  splits every 12 hours. Doesn't seem like I could ever do that!

[Roger2561]

Honaracer2004 - Last year I burned a tick over 8 cord for the entire heating season.  I'm heating approximately 4500sqft of an 1840's farmhouse plus DHW.  The house is 40ft X 40ft with a full basement.  The only heat that the basement gets in the winter is from the non-insulated hot-water pipes from the OWB.  I guess when the pipes are consistently around 190/195 degrees something is going to get warm.  I keep the living area of the house at 70/72 degrees 24/7 except my bedroom, that's at 65 degrees, if it's any warmer than that is too uncomfortable to sleep.  Over the years I've done a lot of improvements to the house; the kitchen (a separate room) was completely stripped to the bones and rebuilt.  It used to be drafty.  It's amazing what insulation and caulking will do to keep the drafts away.  My living room and dining room; again completely stripped to the bones and redone.  Its now an open concept, one large room instead of the two.  It's nearly 750sqft of living space. 

Before my brother and I turned the second floor of the house into an apartment for him, it was never heated and poorly to non-existent in insulation.  When we started that project the entire second floor was completely stripped back to the bones and heavily insulated.  Now I have absolutely no heat loss through the second floor.  Every time I remodeled a room, I made sure to spray-foam or caulk all areas where there was a potential for drafts, AND then before rebuilding everything was heavily insulated.  It's made a world of difference in comfort while trying to read, listen to music or watch football.  Roger         

[hondaracer2oo4]

Well I am heating a 220 year old two story colonial. Foot print is 32x42 I believe. Basement is unheated 1/4 walking height / 3/4 crawl space. Attic is unused but high roof deck. I have brought all of the walls down to bare, foamed and chaukled each exterior sheathing board and batt insulated R15 with 1/2" of R3.3 rigid foam board over the studs and then sheet rock over that. Every room is done except one bedroom upstairs that is unused and unheated. I removed all of the attic insulation and airsealed with foam and chaulk every penetration through the ceiling into the attic. Then I laid down 8 inches of blown cellulose to fill the joist bays up to the top. Then I laid down R30 batts over the top of that which covers about 1/2-2/3s of the attic( I know I need to lay down the rest with R30 batts but I have storage that I have no where else to put at the moment). My sill plate I have gone around and sealed up with spray foam in any of the gaps but I don't have the sill insulated at all(it is an 8x8 sill). I heat with forced hot air(sometimes wish it was baseboard for comfort but I also don't like the wall space that baseboard takes up). I just can't get over that you can get 12 hours with only 2.5 splits. That is mind blowing to me.

[Drivebymashing]

October 18 to today ive used 1.5 cords. 1300 square foot modular and a 220 gallon hottub. Normally i use a cord a month. Its been pretty warm here in north carolina.

[mlappin]

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.