Colder here. What's your temp? What ya burnin?

-22 is the high and -27 is the low and the weather guessers were wrong and it was -46.

 

Not bad for February indeed. You could almost be growing lettuce and broccoli there now, assuming you don't see a hard freeze.

 

Showoff!

 

57 now. Going to mid 40s in the morning. Partial doady some good resoak and a few pieces of white in the stove.

 

It hit 40° Sunday, -40° F or C that is. I cancelled splitting punky DED Elm thanks to my creaky 77 year old back . Called my neighbour instead and bought some good White Birch that he imports from Manitoba.

 

0° at the moment. 70° inside. Ash with a big split of locust, and a nice round of ironwood. One of my better stove Tetris packs this year. Not taking a pic though, too late for that.

 

I’m burning a couple big wet uglies of Norway maple, I think. I am severely rationing the 20% red oak that I have left for the season as it is going to be getting cold this weekend (for around here). Actually not too bad. The forecast jumped to 18f from 6f for Saturday. We’ll See if the big wet uglies save some coals for the morning.

 

Ahhhhh. Nice warmup this AM. Zero F. Mucho bettero than -15F. No warm weather in the forecast however.
Still have a 1/4 load going so it will be some time before reloading.

 

it was 8 here, now it's a balmy 10, relit the coals with a Hemlock split and some Red Maple. We will transition to Red Oak after she's lit.

 

10F here. Time to add some Cherry to the Wood Gun.

 

Big warmup here as well, amazing the wood savings difference between-46* and -19* in the OWB. Do any other of the OWB owners put a wall side ways in the front closest to the door to help slow down the burn? I have found it increases the burn time substantially. Spruce doing the heavy lifting.

 

Our temps have been hovering around 0 to -10 below. But wind chill the last couple days has been -20 to -40 below.

 

-15 here this morning, some birch and red oak in the OWB.

I don't but I have thought about it, I find a burn a lot more if the wind is blowing at the OWB door.

 

22 here. House is warm, but just barely. Some fool didn't put enough wood in the boiler yesterday and it was out and down to 120* this AM.

 

Give it a try and let me know how it works for you. I have been building a log wall in front it surly helps. Makes the spruce last 15-20% longer. I have a Central Boiler 5036 classic. The levours on the front door, bottom 3 rows have no restrictions from outside right to coal bed/wood. Yesterday for example @ -46* the center was burned to a slight coal bed and the side burned down to about 8”. And maybe 1/2 of a log that was playing gate keeper. That load lasted around 7 hours at that temp, not to shabby for spruce.

 

Heat wave here. Some ash, mulberry and locust, a little past prime, in the stove.

 

-4 right now and dare to say it feels kinda good? Much better than the -22 with a brisk north wind that is coming back this weekend. Straight red oak in the OWB currently. Not my favorite in a gasser because it doesn't coal up well and burns down to almost zero ash. Need a little of both for quicker restarts. Need to get a little mix in there for next year.

 

Zero this morning with clouds around overnight. I am liking the long range forecast a bit with highs in the mid 20's by next week and no minus temps for overnight lows. Spring is on its way.

 

This is spruce @a 10 hour burn @-30* warming up to current -19*


And my reload with my front wall, sometimes it’s a tight was and others not so much. From the pic above you can see how the burn is more even. Curious for your results.