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

No fire yet today, the house is holding the heat well, sun is out helping a bit too.

Just hit 50° outside, internal holding steady at 69°

 

Wasn't freezing here today but it was cool enough to keep the stove hot. Burned all day with sticks my wife collected from the yard when we moved in and bigger splitting scraps. I always want the "good stuff" but we managed to keep the stove hot all day with stuff I would have tossed if not for my wife. After an hour of keeping the stove hot with it, I went to the uglies I was gonna give away and busted them into small pieces for next winter. I can keep the stove rolling all weekend with that stuff I was gonna scrap. More wood is good.

 

Still burning the Pine & Hemlock, when I came home from being in the woods the wife had the upstairs at 73, it felt great. We heat from the basement so 73 upstairs with shoulder season wood is gooder!

At the end of the week, we'll switch over to Cherry.

We had 1.83 cord of shoulder season wood (not face) ready for this year, we'll keep one stack (.61 of a cord) back for the spring.

For Cherry we have just under three cord ready. We'll save the best stuff for the 30 below P.V. later on.

 

41 outside 78 in the house, burning ash and Elm
I bought a whole bunch of popsicles when I had strep throat so now I'm trying to eat them up

 

37° out, finally had to light up

Top down fire with some oak on the bottom, maple on top. I have come to really appreciate the top down method during this shoulder season.

 

It's 41º here this morning. You never know what it is going to be like. Ash, Spruce, and a little Maple still in the boiler from last night. Not much heat demand.

 

Believe it or not, it's 60F in Muncie, Indiana right now. Our coldest night so far has been just below freezing.

My name's Andy and I'm a wood o holic. Hi everybody.

We live in the country between Winchester, and Farmland, in East Central Indiana. Very gently rolling farmland, and large stretches of flat plain. Scattered woods, hardwoods of mostly maple and oak. Hickory, ash, walnut, sweet gum, locust, occasionally birch and beech.

I cut almost exclusively standing and leaning deadwood from my dad's property. When he first told me to stick to deadwooding, I thought "Well, that'll take two weeks." That was about 7 years ago.

I have been burning about 1 to 1 1/2 cords a year, with propane making up my main heat. This year I'd like to burn 2 1/2 to 3 cords. I have a Blaze King princess insert, old school model. It's a little badaxx, with no cat. I use a Stihl 290 and an old 170 trim saw, and a homebuilt splitter that I acquired just this year. I haul with an 03 s10 and a lawnmower trailer, and I think that's about it for wood.

We have a little propane fireplace downstairs which supplies most of our heat, and a traditional forced air propane furnace/central air unit that we almost never use.

 

Here near Tulsa, the temp has reached almost 80 degrees this afternoon, but that won't last long. http://www.mesonet.org/index.php/weather/map/air_temperature/air_temperature

 

Welcome Andy. You'll meet a lot of your kind in here!

 

Not another Hoosier!

 

Yup!

 

No fire tonight.

 

Welcome to FHC Andy.
Go get some wood and post some pictures

 

wait 5 minutes it will change

 

Ain't it the truth? Polar vortex forcast for tomorrow.

 

Never heard of her.

 

Welcome to the show Andy.

 

Cold front came thru Omaha midday. Temp headed to 23 with a wind advisory. Ice predicted to start around 10:30 PM tonight. First fire in the basement fireplace. Red elm. TOASTY!

 

That's a cool hearth you got there buddy

 

64 in the house now I gotta make fire ugh, maybe I will beat on the tom toms too