These cold temps are insane! 19°F currently with a wind chill of 12°F Loaded the stove this morning, this afternoon, (maple, poplar) and tonight pin oak. Amazing the temperature swings this past week.
Never made it out of the 20's here today. The air was cold with a pretty stiff breeze when I went to cut a load of black locust about 9:30, headed home about 12:30 with all the old F-150 needed to haul. 12º outside right now and 75º inside with ash and red oak cruisin along in the Buck. Did I ever tell ya how much I enjoy bringing home more locust.
It got to like 35 today. It's 28 now. Burning ash, elm, and mystery wood. I should post a picture of a piece of mystery wood. I can say it burns, so I could care less what it really is.
Snowed all day yesterday, ended up with a couple inches....had the stove going for about 8 hours, kept the house in the 70's Woke up 2 am. Fired up the stove.....67 inside 19 out. burning a buffet of wood.
12º here this morning at 6am. Standing dead Pine gasifying in the boiler. Oh I have no doubt there will be a need for fires throughout April and into May here. I just think I will be tired of burning wood and will quit before the end of may arrives this year. I start burning early every year. I am trying to remember when now. I think I started burning one fire a day in the beginning of September for hot water. As the nights start to cool down in the fall, just the heat radiating off the boiler and buffer tank helps keep the house cozy.
13 degrees here right now. Still have plenty of wood in the stove from last nights load at 8pm. Will be putting in some oak around 9am.
3 out !!! Really ??? Its the end of March !!! Yesterday the GF and I drove into the city to HD for building materials and our once every 4 months SAM's Club cupboard/freezer restocking. Theres a big inland lake there and the cold wind coming off it was brutal. Absolutely spectacular sunset last nite and sunrise this morning. Got up early . Fed the stove and walked to the shop .Brought up the potting soil tote and its warming up in the furnace room. Gonna start the 'maters this afternoon. Looked at the calendar yesterday and the last time I partly filled the wood room was Feb 18. I've only used a little over a 22" face cord since and more coal than normal considering the above zero temps. I was hoping to empty the attached wood shed as I have a post that the frost got ahold of and it needs some persuasion back where it belongs. Also gonna build a tunnel dog entrance into the wood room and would like the wood gone. May just fill the wood room with whats left to get it out of the way.
We had 1 degree this morning, it's a good thing I set the Pellet Stove on 76. We hit 42 today, it feels real good.
Yup. I've been out cutting a little wood here for the last 1-1/2 hours. The weather is nice. The wind here is a little chilly though. On a break here at the camp.
44 degrees, loaded the stove with, I guess a little bit too much pine, Stove tried to get away from me but it didn't 82 in the house now
SWMBO was out for the day and just got home. First thing she says, "There's no fire!" I was working in the yard all day, cool out (high 30s) but sunny. Didn't bother putting anything in the stove & the house was still 70°F. There were enough coals to put some small soft maple splits and it took right off. Boy she is spoiled. KaptJaq
40º with some snow or ice pellets blowing outside. Strong wind today all day, 75º inside and I just put a few splits in the stove of elm, oak and beech.
Burning some maple uglies that are fundamentally dry, but have surface moisture. They took a bit to get going nicely, but we've been enjoying great secondaries for quite a while. Snow tonight and tomorrow. Thunderstorms and 50 on Wednesday. Every night though is going to be cold.....today the sun melted quite a bit of snow, and we had little rivulets in many places. I'll be glad when the ground dries a bit.
32 and snow here as well. Bride is feeding stove some maple. I'm stuck sitting flat on my arse..........
Nightime temperatures were in the low teens here over the weekend. I am still burning full time, but making smaller fires and going longer between loads during the day. I usually don't burn much wood during April, but it is hard to believe I wont keep burning for a couple of weeks at least.
