Daddy Tanuki
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2030 hours on April 12th, its 37°f or about 3°c here at Fujigane at the cabin. just curious who else might be running their woodstove besides myself.
61F here, but heated all winter with two oil filled portable radiators. Do have a pellet stove ready for the metal building/workshop tho, without very tight insulation electric heat won't be cutting it there.2030 hours on April 12th, its 37°f or about 3°c here at Fujigane at the cabin. just curious who else might be running their woodstove besides myself.
I've been heating the house since early March with free electricity thru the mini split. Furnace was run 2 days when the weather looked to be cloudy for several days in a row. It is less stress on the body using free electricity.2030 hours on April 12th, its 37°f or about 3°c here at Fujigane at the cabin. just curious who else might be running their woodstove besides myself.
17°c is still enough for a small log every two or three hours here at Fuji, but when I arrived at 1400 it was 10 degrees and dropping fast I made the dumb mistake of working in the shop for a couple of hours and went into the house and brrrr. hosue was still at 10 but it was slowly dropping as the sun started down.Yeah I think 3c is fire worthy.
+1, although only 17c here.
I copied my woodstove design off of a fisher Mama Bear. but i used thicker firebricks so interior cubic feet its in the middle between a Mama Bear and a Baby Bear. once the fire goes out it still heats for 4~6 hours as the bricks radiate the stored heat.
if my cabin was big enough to ahve one of these along with my primary wood stove I would love to have one of those in the cabin.As I type this, I'm sitting by the wood cookstove enjoying a nice blaze and my cup of morning coffee. We're definitely in that transition time where we're not burning as much or as long as in the past months. It's 47F (8.3C) outside, 67F (19.4C) inside and rising.
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About 4 cords of oak, fir and alder gets us through the winter here along the Pacific Northwest Coast in our well insulated house. We have propane heat if needed but rarely use it. Nothing beats a wood fire for heat through the winter.
Cheers!
During our home design phase, we decided to make our wood cookstove our only wood burning heat source so designed a "great room" where the cookstove would sit at the edge of the kitchen but also be at the edge of the great room fulfilling duel uses of space heating and cooking. We also have a propane stove in the kitchen.if my cabin was big enough to ahve one of these along with my primary wood stove I would love to have one of those in the cabin.
Theoretically I could put a wood cook stove where my wood stove is as they are close as it is. My cabin is only 800ish square feet so not a lot of space.During our home design phase, we decided to make our wood cookstove our only wood burning heat source so designed a "great room" where the cookstove would sit at the edge of the kitchen but also be at the edge of the great room fulfilling duel uses of space heating and cooking. We also have a propane stove in the kitchen.
In winter, the wood cookstove gets used a lot for cooking since there's almost always a fire burning around dinner time. In summer, we just use the propane stove. The way the house is designed, it works quite well aesthetically and practically.
Could your cabin be reconfigured to incorporate a wood cookstove closer to the kitchen area and do away with the other stove? They do make some smaller wood cookstoves if space is at a premium.
We use the wood stove to cook stews, chilly stuff you can do in a Dutch oven or pot but not anything you would do with a skilletTheoretically I could put a wood cook stove where my wood stove is as they are close as it is. My cabin is only 800ish square feet so not a lot of space. View attachment 209228
I copied my woodstove design off of a fisher Mama Bear. but i used thicker firebricks so interior cubic feet its in the middle between a Mama Bear and a Baby Bear. once the fire goes out it still heats for 4~6 hours as the bricks radiate the stored heat.