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

37f here, saw mill slats in the rack. Maple, oak, and ash. Good shoulder stuff and passable cold weather stuff.
Snow expected late tomorrow a.m.. stacked up more slats and deadwood hickory on the porch to stay ahead of the weather.
On a totally unrelated note, just got back from a housewarming for my favorites cop and his missus. Good times. And he had the gpa bear rollin', so all ' s good!

 

Minus 12c and elm in the box again.

 

Back from the first walk of the day. It's chilly out there!

The wood I loaded at 10:30 still has the stove over 250, flue temp 260, all is good. Lots of coals. As in lots, glowing red. I've opened the air a bit to speed up the burning of the coals, because it is so cold out. Hopefully, they'll be burned down enough in an hour to add wood. Will probably burn ash during the day today, hickory and maple overnight.

I have to wipe the window one of these days. Haven't done so in about a month, and there is a good haze of light ash on the window. Hard to take decent pictures.

 

It is 10º here and Ash and Pine burning in the boiler. Got a little snow last night, maybe an inch.

 

When I woke up it was 8, just burning down some nice Beech coals from last night, the basement is 78, living room is at 70 and the sleeper was at 67 this morning.

I just checked the outside temp, it's 5.9 on the Radio Shack Special.

 

21 out
71 in
Started refilling the wood room yesterday. Lots of red/white oak in in the heaphausen where I was pulling from. Good thing as we have some cooler weather forecast next week.
Heaphausen is about 1/3 gone. I'll prolly start pulling from attached shed on the next fill. The snow on the tarp and shoveling just to fill the wood room is getting old. I need to empty it anyway . I noticed a few weeks ago that one of the posts is kicked out an inch at the top. This summer I'll just add a cable and turnbuckle to pull it back in.

 

30° and I'm burning junky woods that were left untarped. Cherry, walnut, and a hodge podge of whatever rounds were there.

 

It's -11 tonight with three hunks of Beech and two nice size rounds of Ironwood in the Liberty, in the opposite corner the Pellet Stove is set on 79.

The living room is 70, the sleeper is 67 and the basement is 80.

It looks like up in Northern New York it will be a cold week so we'll be burning both at night or when we need it.

 

26 at 6 a.m. This morning January thaw is over tonight's low is 7 sugar and oak loaded up
the stove is chooken

 

It is -4 on my back porch this morning. The boiler was loaded full, with large and medium size splits of Ash only, last night at 9:30. I set the alarm for 5:30. At that time the boiler was running and I had a few red coals when I opened the door. Loaded it right back up again with the same. 8 hours of burn time at this temperature isn't bad at all for this place. The Wood Gun is doing a nice job.

 

-11 F this morning, 99 % humidity. 21 degrees colder than normal low. The good news is that it is still 8 degrees warmer than it was the same day last year, AND it is about 15 degrees colder than the lows forecast for the rest of the week. Oh, and the stars were beautiful last night....beautiful clear sky with about 1/4 moon, so light enough to go for a nice walk.

Had a 12 hour burn last night, tiny coal bed to tiny coal bed. Have just loaded with hickory, a small piece of ash and a small sugar maple. Will burn it a little higher today during the day, so not sure how long this moderate size load will last.

 

We had -15 this morning, last night we burned the Pellet Stove and the Liberty with a load of Beech and Ironwood.

The temps were the same, 80 in the basement, 70 in the living room and the sleeper was 67.

We just have the Liberty going with a nice load of Beech.

 

Hovering around 0 right now, supposed to dump down to -17 tonight. Feeding both stoves a Beech diet.
75 here in the cave.

 

That is cold. Even a little wind at that temp is brutal. Must be nice to have the Beech and Ironwood for burning. Another kind of beach would be good also right about now!

 

Five at my place right now. A little wind, and it is a cold one.

 

3.6 back in the pines tonight and yes it is nice to have the Beech.

I was just telling Sav yesterday that on my snowmobile rides I've noticed some topped off Beech.

They're on a hill down in the ravine.

 

Do you have a small winch on anything you own? Something you can pull a tree to you with if need be. Or do you always cut them into rounds and the figure out a way to get close enough to them with the side by side?

 

Yes, we have a small winch I use in the woods but most of the trees are cut on the hill......depending on the size.

I have some nice size trees (for our lot) down from the windstorms of 2013.

 

My neighbor can't seem to stay warm so I brought him down a nice load of Ironwood, he says dump it outside and I'll get it later, I said it's been seasoning for 1.5 years so if it's not going inside it will go back home with me..........we made room for it inside.