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

16 right now with some snow coming down. Ash and Pine keeping the house toasty. Will be all Ash for the overnight. Suppose to be a low of 5 for here.

 

Bad day on the roads especially this morning on the way down. My wife had a snow day so she kept the stove rolling all day and it's nice and toasty in the house. Starting to mix in some 3 year red oak my cutting buddy gave with the ash. Lows in the teens and single digits for the next few nights.

 

on the way home temp was 12 , have some 4 year old oak and honey locust in and its rocking 325 on the face and 500 on the stack

 

I wonder if we could arrange a rail car for cheap transportation and you could send me some of that locust east. What da ya think? All I would need is one.

 

The only concern there is, Bogy might highjack the train and comfiscate that load.

 

Noooo. bogydave is way west of es332 . He is sitting up there in his recliner snoozing while Birch is crackling away in the stove and keeping his toes comfy. While doing this he is dreaming up his future plan for a wood slide that comes down from the hills where he cuts right to his processing area. Wake up Dave. It's too long for a slide man.

 

and all the rain we got yesterday is heading in that direction in the form of snow

 

Currently 6 degrees here. We switched to hardwood last night. All three stoves are going, but they aren't being pushed too hard. Reload timing is the bigger issue for the overnight burn.

Insulation and new front door seems to be making a difference.

 

10 here. About 2 1/2 to 3 inches of snow last night, and zero with minus 20ish wind chills expected tonight. Burning a mix of the good elm and some of wifey's "firewood merchant" maple. Uncle Rick ' s sawmill slabs are turning out to be much better than expected, so some of those, too.

Got home from hanging out with Pop and scavenging a few rounds I'd previously bucked in his woods, and the silly thing had the top of the princess running 550 plus! Boy, was it warm in here!

 

Not much warm up the next couple days.

Tonights coal bed.


Just loaded for the night. A bit of everything, ash, oak, maple a black locust and iron wood filler to top it off.

 

That's a big coal bed to load on top off. You always load with that much left?

 

Cant do just one , need a good all day burn that's the stuff

 

All I need is one full rail car. That should last me a while.

 

15 now with some slight wind and snow to make it feel like 1. Ash and Pine gasifying. I thought it was going to get colder last night according to what they predicted. They had said 5. Oh well. It is going there today during the day. Steady temp. decrease right through the day and night.

 

Starting the day off @ -2f with a stiff NW wind chill. Ran a 9 hour burn in both stoves and the house is
Sitting @ 71 this morning. Shuffled up the coals and just re fired. Temp. is supposed to drop during the day to -11 with a wind chill of -24. Tonight it is supposed to drop to -18 with a wind chill of -40. It startin' to get friggin cold.................

 

Yup. You got work today rottiman? How many shifts left now? You are really a short timer now. Eh.

 

No today is my day off, back tomorrow with 9 left..................

 

We're sitting at 13.8 degrees this morning with the temps dropping during the day, NOAA has us with a -42 windchill reading tonight.

We packed the basement with heat last night, 80 in the basement, 74 in the living room and 70 in the sleeper.

We'll be burning Beech in the wood stove all day today and later on kick on the pellet stove.

 

11 degrees with 15mph hour winds this morning. Woke up to 72 degrees upstairs and 73 degrees on the first floor with a 10 hour burn on oak. Loaded back up on a mix of walnut, maple, and oak.

 

We've reached our high today already at 8*. Supposed to be below zero by the time I leave work this evening and bottom out at -10. The wind is blowing hard out of the northwest at 20-30 MPH.

I ran a full load of hedge last night with the stove fans on full blast and woke up to a 500* stove with a bunch of coals left after a 12 hour burn. I threw in 4 monster hedge (20x6x8) splits which filled the box this AM, set the T-stat on nuclear, and turned the fans back on high. Set aside a few more big splits for the boss lady to load later this afternoon before I get home.

So far we're keeping up, but with the way the wind is blowing I'll be surprised if the furnace doesn't kick on a couple times tonight.