We're heating a 2400 sqft. ranch style house, built in 1973 and pretty well insulated. We used an add on wood furnace in addition to oil forced air heat. I used to use about 250-300 gal of oil at $3.70/gal. in addition to wood. We just changed to a 96.5% efficient propane furnace in addition to the wood burner. Looks like we'll use about 250 gal. of propane @ $1.49/gal. plus wood, so maybe $375. I cut my own wood, near enough to haul with a tractor and trailer, no pick-up expense. I've spent about $600 for chain saws and maybe $300 in repairs/chains over the 40 years I've heated with wood. I built my own wood splitter for $85, and I already had the tractor and trailer to haul wood. Heating expenses are less than $500 a year for us. Now, we're in Michigan with some of the higher electric rates in the US, partly thanks to tree huggers that convinced our legislators to mandate a fair % of our energy from "renewable" sources by 2015. So electric costs are far more than heating costs and there isn't much we can do about them, except read by a kerosene lamp.
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Today's Featured Article - Third Brush Generators - by Chris Pratt. While I love straightening sheet metal, cleaning, and painting old tractors, I use every excuse to avoid working on the on the electrics. I find the whole process sheer mystery. I have picked up and attempted to read every auto and farm electrics book with no improvement in the situation. They all seem to start with a chapter entitled "Theory of Electricity". After a few paragraphs I usually close the book and go back to banging out dents. A good friend and I were recently discussing our tractor electrical systems when he stated "I figure it all comes back to applying Ohms Law". At this point
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