Saw -31* on the way home this morning and just woke up to -9* and some snow, spruce has the house a toasty 72*.
30 and 76 here at 6 am. It was a beautiful day around 50 yesterday and a little breezy and it will stay in the 30’s today with clouds moving in. Sounds like a good day to SS the beech I cut yesterday, about a cord. Finally got rid of a couple bad leaners that were ice storm damaged. One in particular was hollow near the base but she came down without splitting. This will put me in the 19 cord range CSS. Getting there.
35F here this morning, Black Walnut from last night still going in the boiler. No re load till later.
It kicks out the heat ! Can be ferocious at times. Burn times are a lot shorter than expected. I suspect I have a wee tiny gasket leak as the cause.
Its done it since new? Heard i shouldnt of tampered with anything on the stove but what i did was pulled the ash box out grabbed a mirror and a dremel, ground a small groove on the front damper sliding plate. I found the stove out of the crate wouldnt let a guy close it far enough and now it runs alot longer with the slow dancing flames. I have pictures somewhere on the pute and will try to find them.
30* out 60* in No fire yesterday. It was an overcast mid 50s day. I didn't expect it to get that cold last night. No worries. Red maple is lit and doing its thing to warm things back up in here.
It was so warm yesterday I let the stove go out, woke up to 27'F this morning on the Mass/NH border. Overcast all day soo the Fireview made it toasty today burning 2+ year old Oak and other New England hardwood. Spent some time on my forever project of scanning all my slides from my younger years to digital. I think the kids would have no use for anything that required actual physical space and mechanical doohickeys to look at. (like most the rest of the world) So I came across these two slides. Developed in late Jan, 1980 my first winter in the house. I wasn't very good at burning but I got better over the years. My first stove was a Garrison 1, a big smoke-dragon. Those were the days, I'm guessing it was 10:00AMish on a Saturday morning. Those day are long gone.
Ended up with an inch of snow here. Sticky but not bad for pushing with the shovel. A light breeze out there now and holding around the freezing point.
Those are some cool old photos If you had the label on the bottle facing the camera that pic could be used as an ad.
38* out 70* in....I discovered some short pieces in my stack yesterday. Oak, red maple and elm currently in the nc30.
