Pellet Stoves

[justplugit]

Don, if i had it to do over again i would go with the pellets.

When we had the oil shortage in 76, i put in a Garrison wood burner and burned around 6 cords a year,
which at that time was about $40 a cord and now around $200.
Wood is alot of work compared to the pellets.

Put a Vermont Casting gas stove in about 15 years ago and never looked back,
but gas is no bargain compared to wood or pellets.

[MAC]

Originally Posted by justplugit

Don, if i had it to do over again i would go with the pellets.

When we had the oil shortage in 76, i put in a Garrison wood burner and burned around 6 cords a year,
which at that time was about $40 a cord and now around $200.
Wood is alot of work compared to the pellets.

Put a Vermont Casting gas stove in about 15 years ago and never looked back,
but gas is no bargain compared to wood or pellets.

200 would be cheap up here for wood this year. The guy I firewood from me told me wood would be 400 /cord this winter. I have a little over a cord left from last year and refuse to pay what they want this year. Once the wood is gone, no more fires in the fireplaces.

[BigFish]

Firewood folks are gonna price themselves out if it gets higher than $300.00 a cord......Jeez 3 cords of wood is gonna be about a grand.....just as soon spend the grand on oil!!!!!!

[BigFish]

Oh...good luck finding pellets come fall....there is always a shortage so unless you laid in a good supply now.....you may find yourself with out. I would stick with a wood stove......you can use it when the power goes out....big selling point......and you can always find something to burn!

[Swimmer]

I have about six cords to cut and split for winter. Buy it log length. Chainsaw crapped out. Need a new carburator. Works out to about $65.00 a cord plus my labor.

[basswipe]

This might be a dumb question but does a pellet stove burn wood also or is it pellets only?I have a fair amount of wood from a tree that was cut down this Spring.

I'm looking into a stove because I don't how I'm going to afford to heat my home this winter.

[UserRemoved1]

pellet stove is just that for pellets, corn sometimes etc. Wood stove is very much different Norm. Pellet stuff is much cleaner in the house etc.

Originally Posted by basswipe

This might be a dumb question but does a pellet stove burn wood also or is it pellets only?I have a fair amount of wood from a tree that was cut down this Spring.

I'm looking into a stove because I don't how I'm going to afford to heat my home this winter.