Lets do a poll. Best heat source for your house. 4 choices.

[jazz]

Geothermal requires an electric pump to keep the fluid flowing constantly. That can add up to a nasty electric bill. Trust me I know. Have it in my city home and now its shut off.

Nat gas is superior in all forms. Fast, efficient heating and storage in the pipes in case the power goes down. A city can run on line pack only possibly for a few hrs. Cant do that with electric or geothermal.

[Guest]

When I was younger we had a wood stove in our townhome in the basement and on those cold winter nights you would get that sucker hot then close the doors and let it slowly burn inside the stove all night till all was out in the morning. The great heat source and oh so toasty warm.

I was seven years old before I realized my name wasn't getwood

[Old Cowzilla]

wood pellet heat all the warmth and no fuss or mess. Keep solar powered fencers in basement in winter so batteries don't freeze. heh heh!

[SASKFARMER]

One year three farms ordered a whole semi-truck of Birch. It arrived we divided it up and then stacked but wow it was like natural gas a new beginning compared to poplar that burnt so fast.

How much simpler life was when it was life or death.

Didn't get the wood woke up frozen and an ass whipping.

[Old Cowzilla]

After school job filling coal hopper on furnace then cleaning klingkers ? out of furnace and taking outside. PLASTIC 5 gallon pail not a option .

[Hamloc]

For me my best choice for heat in my house is natural gas, it takes 277 kwh of electricity to produce as much energy as 1 gigajoule of natural gas, it is a no brainer!!

[burnt]

So very grateful for the 25 acres of hardwoods on the back of our farm. It's our complete source of heat, never even start the oil burner anymore.

It's a lot of work, but it's work that I love as much as any job on the farm. We cut enough wood to heat our house in about a week's time if it was all put together. It replaces about $1500 worth of oil and the heat is much more even and "warmer". That's something only wood-burners can relate to.

[SASKFARMER]

Redland farms had a machine that took the logs of Birch cut split and loaded onto a truck to take to the Lakehouse.

Would have worked in the 60s.

[bucket]

So very grateful for the 25 acres of hardwoods on the back of our farm. It's our complete source of heat, never even start the oil burner anymore.

It's a lot of work, but it's work that I love as much as any job on the farm. We cut enough wood to heat our house in about a week's time if it was all put together. It replaces about $1500 worth of oil and the heat is much more even and "warmer". That's something only wood-burners can relate to.

Go to kijiji ..there was machine for a skid steer that would save alot of work cutting and splitting....

[beaverdam]

Saskfarmer,

you didn't list wheat,,, I have lots to burn, nobody seems to want to buy it anyway.