60 pounds, a bag of pellets is 40. On the lowest setting it will run for 36 hours and on the highest for about 12. A bag of pellets is 4-6 dollars.
hmmm...I see I see. I always forget how spendy heating homes back east can be, espeically in the northern areas.
Yeah it is a bitch. I run wood with kerosene backup. Because wood is free (for me) and you don't need to pay for delivery or rely on a supply line. The kerosene is really awesome as I can burn about one gallon a day to keep our house at 48 degrees with the heater I have and it is 3.09 a gallon at the moment.
There's a LOT of folks up in the PNW that use wood, also. Obviously in the big places like Portland and Seattle they're using electric cause hyrdo, but leave the metro area, and it's all wood fired. I'm not a huge fan of straight wood, personally, cause of the work, clean up, and lack of BTU compared to other heating methods, but it's plentiful and cheap
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