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

Morning folks! We are at 10 degrees with a feels like of 1 degree. It's supposed to get to 28 today, but the wind won't be bad, so that's good.

 

3F at 8:00 am! River birch and elm in the stove.
First time I’ve ever really had a good stash of wood for “shoulder season” ( never had heard the term before I joined up with you fine folks ) and the season is obviously past already.

 

28/68f. Dusting of snow overnight. High today of 31. Oak and hickory in the Lopi.


Mike in Ok

 

Right now you're at where we were at during the coldest cold snap last winter I think we saw low single digits on only a handful of days. We're overdue for some sub-zero weather though.

 

Its -24c/-11f under clear skies. Im sitting by the stove sipping on my morning coffee as the freshly loaded doug fir comes up to temp. Happy Friday!

 

8f this am. this was one “split” from last night. Not sure how or why I hadn’t split it down but probably just missed it and it fit so why not.

No fire today as I discovered, in a bad way, that I need to do a good clean. Not so much the chimney, but it seems my oak is plugged somewhat. Never had this before but my fires are starving for air. So gonna do a full clean out and maybe even move the stove a bit to see what it looks like from inside. My old earthstove pulls air from below and so it’s piped in thru outside wall and down and then loops back up under the pedestal. I bought the place with it so haven’t moved it but will tonight or tomorrow.

 

It in the teens here today with a wind chill around -5*, I have been burning mostly Silver Maple since I started but this morning I put some plutonium in to get the place warmed up & cycle the fan on the air handler to try & move a bit of heat to the crawl space. It’s not going to move a lot of heat but it will surely move a bit. It will most likely hit 90*




The temps have been holding pretty steady with the air closed off about as far as it can go.

The stovetop temps were about 650* to peaking at 700*

It will burn all that creosote out from the Ponderosa & bit of Hickory that I burned.


What’s the plutonium you ask ? Just some 25-30 year seasoned Osage.

 

Took the day off. Barely got wood in without a complete restart of the wood, after taking a nap.
Put some well seasoned splits and loaded a bunch of beech limbs. Will load it well for overnight.

it will be sub twenty tonight. I also refilled my fireplace wood for burning through the cold day and evening

 

15 now and dropping. The plowing is all done and hopefully the snowfall is too! Slippery underneath that snow.

 

20/75....wind dropping. Ash and Poplar

 

2 below now. Was 28 below this morning which was colder than they predicted. 87 in the house, burning fir

 

-28f? Thats pretty cold. I always have a c to f conversion calculator open to know what you guys are talking about . Montana sure is a diverse state when it comes to weather. The closest town to us thats in Montana is Eureka right at the border and they are pretty mild compared to your region and ours for that matter. You're also at a good elevation aren't you? I dont recall, do you get any larch down that way? I see it in the upper parts of Montana and Idaho that I frequent. Im sitting at -16c/3f right now.

 

Not bad for temps here, but crazy wind. Currently -6 C/20 ish F. Just came in from hunting awhile ago and needed to fire up the beast to chase the chill. Pine is on the menu tonight.

 

About 28 with White Pine currently holding the inside temp of 71 in the living room steady. Ash and Elm going in for the overnight.

 

28/69 maple earning its keep

 

Yeah Eureka is much more mild. The mountains really vary in temperature. My brother who has a house 15 minutes away was only at 7 below this morning. He lives at 6100 feet in elevation and I at just over a mile. I get the C to F conversion. I can't seem to ever understand foreign temperatures either. I don't know why. I had a customer hand me blueprints for a house in metric one time. I had to hand them back to be fixed so I could understand them. They looked at me like I was nuts.

 

We’ve had single digits a half dozen times already…. Seems kinda early to me

 

Windy out there tonight.

 

24, feels like 13 down here in the lower. Light NE wind.

 

Far as I can tell, 'Shoulder Season' lasted about 2 days and off to the deep freeze.