Is Wood Good?

[lleeder]

<font size="3">As an alternate fuel source? My next store neighbor gets trees and trees deliveried to his house. He can be heard chopping and chopping all day. He chop, he chop, he chopping , chopping , brocoliheyhey. I want to ask him if I can get some wood. Before I do is it a good source of heat that will save me money or is it a waste of time.</font>

[sailor]

<font size="2">dunno.&nbsp; he sounds like he might be a serial killer tho', so you might not want to ask.<br /></font>

[Snoogans]

<p>its pretty cheap to buy wood, however unless you have a few fireplaces, they pretty much only ehat the room they are in. Its probably more economical to not use wood if you arent already set up to do so</p><p>maybe he just likes fire&nbsp;</p>

[spoon]

<strong>lleeder</strong> wrote:<br /><font size="3">As an alternate fuel source? My next store neighbor gets trees and trees deliveried to his house. He can be heard chopping and chopping all day. He chop, he chop, he chopping , chopping , brocoliheyhey. I want to ask him if I can get some wood. Before I do is it a good source of heat that will save me money or is it a waste of time.</font> <p>Sounds like someone is still hungover.&nbsp; Chop, chop, chop.&nbsp; Every time it goes right through me!</p>

[Bulldogcakes]

<p>I dont know if its good, but its very romantic.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://www.geliosoft.com/fireplace-screensaver/fireplace.jpg" border="0" width="340" height="272" />&nbsp;</p>

[Don Stugots]

at my sister's house in PA she installed a pellet buring stove to help with out of control heating oil bills.&nbsp; she hasnt even used have of what she used last year.&nbsp; which is how the base the bills on.&nbsp; i find her house to more comfortable too.

[Gvac]

<p>&nbsp;</p><hr width="100%" size="2" /><font face="verdana" size="1" color="black"><strong>Is Wood Good?</strong></font><hr width="100%" size="2" /><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Apparently so.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v435/bbogdan/blog_images/september/morning_wood.jpg" border="0" />&nbsp;</p>

[Death Metal Moe]

<p>Like others said, I can't see it being that economical or there would be a huge wood fuel industry.&nbsp; I think he probably has a buddy who gets him the stuff or he's just a fan of wood burning.</p><p>Do you think maybe he smokes stuff?&nbsp; Maybe he has a wood business on the side where he splits it and sells bundles?</p>

[oh_kee_pa]

maybe he likes the smell of wood burning.... or, he's in training for the lumberjack challenge on espn

[led37zep]

<p>Growing up we had a wood burning fireplace that had a built in fan.&nbsp; It would blow out the hot air right above the fireplace...if we had that fire going we'd never use the heater.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>You can usually get a cord of wood for a few hundred bucks and that usually can last you a little over a year.&nbsp;</p>

[Judge Smails]

<p>I've got a fireplace that we only use on holidays and special occasions mostly as a pretty aestetic (sp?) type&nbsp;thing.&nbsp; While it can definitely heat up the room, it is wasteful because the majority of the heat is just going up the chimney.&nbsp; </p><p>In addition, I saw a thing on Mythbusters that showed that a fireplace can actually create a kind of backdraft though the rest of your house where it will actually suck the air and heat from the other rooms and send it up the chimney too.&nbsp; They showed how the temperature in the rest of the house signifcantly lowered when the fireplace was on.&nbsp; So rather than saving you money I think it might increase your heating costs in having to keep the rest of the house heated through conventional means. </p><p>&nbsp;</p>

[Sheeplovr]

<p>i thought this was going to be about dick</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

[zentraed]

<strong>Judge Smails</strong> wrote:<br /><p>In addition, I saw a thing on Mythbusters that showed that a fireplace can actually create a kind of backdraft though the rest of your house where it will actually suck the air and heat from the other rooms and send it up the chimney too. &nbsp;</p><p>A quick qoogle search for &quot;dirty wood burning&quot; turned up this <a href="http://burningissues.org/home-heating.htm" target="_blank" title="Wood is Dirty">link</a>. It has a lot tables showing how inefficient wood burning is. Of course, it might still be &quot;cheaper&quot; for you, but responsible energy consumption is important, right?</p><p>&quot;There are few energy advantages to the homeowner for burning wood or wax logs in fireplaces. Instead of heating the home, a fireplace tends to move the home's indoor air, along with the hot gases from the fire, up the chimney. Thus, most of the heat, along with the most of the particulate air pollution (but not all), leaves the home up through the chimney, moving out throughout the surrounding neighborhood and into other peoples' homes.&quot; </p>

[Bill From Yorktown]

<p>hmm lessee</p><p>1 - fewer trees - bad</p><p>2 - air polution - bad</p><p>3 - fireplace inefficient - bad</p><p>4 - chopping wood - exercise - good</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>you do the math</p>

[FUNKMAN]

<p>wood is good but plastic is fantastic</p><p>that's what women say</p>

[burrben]

didn't bush talk about wood chips?

[Sarge]

I&nbsp;have a wood burning stove in my house, and its fantastic.&nbsp; Just make sure you burn a good, hard wood like oak, or maple.

[DonInNC]

Not a very good source of heat, but a great workout.

[waltermitty]

<img src="http://www.iflipflop.com/gotwood2_sm.jpg" border="0" width="250" height="310" />

[epo]

<strong>Don Stugots</strong> wrote:<br />at my sister's house in PA she installed a pellet buring stove to help with out of control heating oil bills.&nbsp; she hasnt even used have of what she used last year.&nbsp; which is how the base the bills on.&nbsp; i find her house to more comfortable too. <p>My dad installed one of those in his house a couple of years ago.&nbsp; I gotta admit that I was very skeptical, but his bills are way down, his usage is lower and the evidence has it being very eco-friendly.&nbsp; I've gotta say I'm impressed with what I've seen.</p>

[sailor]

<strong>Bill From Yorktown</strong> wrote:<br /><p>hmm lessee</p><p>1 - fewer trees - bad</p><p>2 - air polution - bad</p><p>3 - fireplace inefficient - bad</p><p>4 - chopping wood - exercise - good</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>you do the math</p><p><font size="2"> these guys might be a little biased (i don't think they're making money off of it, so maybe not), but here's some facts on <a href="http://www.woodheat.org/why/10good.htm" target="_blank" title="10 reasons">burning</a> <a href="http://www.woodheat.org/" target="_blank" title="woodheat">wood</a>.</font></p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by sailor on 2-25-07 @ 8:30 PM</span>

[Chigworthy]

I get wood for free (I have to cut it, haul it, split it, stack it) so it is very economical.&nbsp; Years ago, possibly the late 1800's, some Australian bastard came through California selling eucalyptus (or&nbsp;blue gum)&nbsp;seedlings to rubes.&nbsp; He brought Australian samples of the wood, which when grown down there is a nice straight-grained lumber crop.&nbsp; When it grows in the winds of California, it gets all gnarly, twisty, and week.&nbsp; So now, there are orderly lines of 100 foot eucalyptus trees all over this state, occasionally falling down in a bad storm.&nbsp; This wood burns like a sumbitch, all full of oils.&nbsp; My friend melted his blinds one night burning the eucalyptus.&nbsp; After you cut this wood for a while, the bar on your chainsaw turns black.

[PapaBear]

I enjoy a nice fire in the fireplace, but it always dries the air out too much.

[Fallon]

<strong>Sheeplovr</strong> wrote:<br /><p>i thought this was going to be about dick&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;Thought or hoped?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Ohhh. This is why I have minus Sheepy Points. You still rule though bro.&nbsp;</p>

[narc]

<p>It's actually the wood that makes it good.</p><p><img src="http://www.mnet.co.za/contentImages/blogs/KennyRogersRoasters_LS.jpg" border="0" width="644" height="333" /></p>