My wife said she was a bit cold and asked me to start a fire. I am always the one who is cold. I was momentarily disoriented by the request and asked what the temperature was inside. It was 72. She told me it was OK, she could just put on some more clothes. It is amazing how fast an experienced wood burner can go from a cold stove to full blast furnace mode with proper motivation.
625 stove top in about 15 minutes. Loving the small pine splits. Will definitely be stockpiling more for just such a situation.
I have no shoulder season type wood this year. Just have to split down to twigs but I wish I had some pine or cedar.
Went to 1/3 throttle 10 minutes ago, now at 785 stove top! I cut it back to minimal; got more than enough output to do the job.
I actually do have a couple sticks and splits of some sass. I picked it up piecemeal so its kinda spread throughout my stack. Never thought much of it as a firewood, just a stove filler.
Would work for shouldering, yes? BTW, I was referring to you and sassafras, cos I thought it was you that posted pics of that busted sassafras among the middle of some stacks or some such? If not you then who?
Might have been me. I attached a pic the other day of an oak that got stuck on a standing sass right next to my rounds pile. Have a bunch of sassafras at the back of my property so I always seem to have a little on hand. Have never gotten much out of it though. Like pine much better, cedar too.
Growing up out on north shore of LI, we had some sassafras in the yard, but dad always took onto oak and locust, and honestly I never heard "shoulder season" til I landed here on the forum... There's a nice mulberry growing on the front yard corner of my childhood home still(they won't mind if you go cut it down, J)... Visited the old home place in '14.... Miss that area- sometimes.
