Thread Goodbye August... Hello September♥

[Petunia]

KIKO IS A RACIST!!

I L-O-V-E the Fall Season

i went on a school trip with Kiko and his class and we went to this farm and got to pick a pumpkin at the pumpkin patch (aka Farmville)

this is kiko and some semi-antique farm equipment being a racist, lol....Also that big headed Asian boy in the pic grunts to communicate with people. no words, just grunts.

I loveeeeee that Kiko and I have been to so many wonderful places in the world this past year.

 

[Syrup Beaver]

I love fall as well.

Fired up the wood stove for the first time today, should drop below freezing at night later this week.

 

[fly]

I love fall as well.

Fired up the wood stove for the first time today, should drop below freezing at night later this week.

jealous+++

 

[Syrup Beaver]

You won't be when it's 20 below out and I'm burning a crapload of wood just to keep the house at 53 degrees

 

[Petunia]

ive had my heat on all weekend.

 

[kiwi]

It's cool enough I can open my windows from 5:30 till about 8:30 in the morning.

 

[Duke]

I haven't had to turn on the AC once this weekend. It's be glorious.

 

[fly]

You won't be when it's 20 below out and I'm burning a crapload of wood just to keep the house at 53 degrees

You're burning logs? Not very efficient... I haer them wood pellet things are pretty nifty tho.

 

[Mean Mr. Mustard]

Sept was horrible
Oct is shaping up to be better

 

[fly]

Its possible that I will drive to where ever Symantec's headquarters are and firebomb the building. Stay tuned.

 

[Mean Mr. Mustard]

Its possible that I will drive to where ever Symantec's headquarters are and firebomb the building. Stay tuned.

When you end up in jail, can I have your stuff? If so ill mail you cartons of cigarettes to use as currency and to keep from getting gang raped.

 

[fly]

When you end up in jail, can I have your stuff? If so ill mail you cartons of cigarettes to use as currency and to keep from getting gang raped.

I bequeath to you my rainbow colored horse dildo. 12 cartons plz

 

[Mean Mr. Mustard]

I bequeath to you my rainbow colored horse dildo. 12 cartons plz

Actually, youll probably need that rainbow dildo in prison.

 

[Syrup Beaver]

You're burning logs? Not very efficient... I haer them wood pellet things are pretty nifty tho.

Efficient enough, 75%.

I have plenty of wood to cut and split, pellets are $275 a ton currently.

Wood has more btu's than pellets.

My wood stove doesn't need electricity to burn, a pellet stove does.


I've thought pretty hard about a pellet boiler to replace the ancient oil one, so's we can get more heat, but they're like $6,000 - $10,000 before installation costs.

 

[fly]

Interesting. I've never really looked into them, but the few articles I've read about em were pretty neat.

 

[Syrup Beaver]

They are, and are cheaper per btu than oil, gas, and usually electricity.

But you still have to factor in the cost of the unit, cheapo standalone units are about $1,000 or so new, nicer ones are $2,500 - $3,000 and will probably heat a whole house provided you have some method of moving the heat around.

Hot air furnaces are fairly cheap enough where it totally makes sense to use one in place of an oil/gas unit most of the time, the real limitation on use is who is going to feed it if you go away for a weekend, or a week?

You'd still need something for backup that runs continuously if you're not there so the pipes don't freeze.


Right now wood is as free as linux for me, even if I had to buy it it'd still be cheaper than pellets. Not as easy or mess free, but cheaper.

 

[plot]

Log splitters aren't cheap.

 

[Syrup Beaver]

8lb maul at Job Lot, fifteen bucks.

 

[plot]

Fuck. That. Get a hydrolic splitter.

it's like the difference between using a snow shovel and a tractor to clear your driveway.

 

[Syrup Beaver]

Except that splitting wood by hand is somewhat cathartic, and really the only thing that a hydraulic splitter saves you on is the splitting, you still have to move the wood around, load it into the splitter, stack it, etc.

I'll concede that it would be dramatically easier for the 30" rounds I have to deal with, I might actually rent one to take care of a pile of those I've got going, but the majority of trees I have are much thinner.