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

Well the wind seems to have gone away for now. Hopefully it will stay that way.

 

This is about as cold as it gets here at -9*. Forecasting -15 for next week and every day the forecast has gotten colder. Weather guy said this will be the coldest its been in over 20 years for my area.

Burning hedge and black locust...

 

Mostly white pine with an odd piece of spruce and hemlock -- what can I say it? It was delivered for free

 

We are at 12 this morning. Looks like about 8 inches of light snow. Windy. Cold. Wood pile is spitting out walnut too. Should have saved the locust I was cooking a few weeks back!

 

That IS a good price.

 

Good training for ya!

 

Got down to 5 last night. 7 hours in on a load of 4 shagbark splits 1 hedge and 2 walnut. All uphill until tomorrow.

 

0° Black Locust & Mulberry

 

When did they start naming snowstorms?

 

I asked my wife the same thing...... It seems ridiculous that every snow, wind, or rain storm that blows through gets a name now

 

- 40 with the wind chill in Massena, looks like the temps will start to rise this afternoon. I wonder how low this next Artic Cold Wave will drop the temps.

I had planned on bringing in some Cherry until I saw that report last night, with the way this winter is going, I better c/s/s about seven cord if not more this spring/summer.

The hill that has all the wood down gets lots of sun.

 

18 here this afternoon. Supposed to go down to 8 tonight. The wife is out shoveling the ice off the driveway and I'm sitting in front of a stove full of white oak coals from the load I put in at 5am. Tonight will be BL and white oak.

Just looked out the window... the wife is freezing! She said she wanted the exercise. I said ok and laughed.

 

Dude, you are my idol!
I usually have to trick my wife into doing things for me.

 

-37 with the wind chill, Sugar Maple & Beech going with the pellet stove rolling in the other corner.

 

-12 here right now. Boiler playing catch up now. I let it go a little too long.

 

Well it never got above 15 degrees on the thermometer today and it's back down to 9 degrees now. I actually decided not to push the stove hard and see what the house does and so far it's been fine. I put one load in at 6 am and my wife put three more pieces in around 2. I just got done burning down some coals by pulling them to the front and put the night load in which should take us until around 5 or 6 tomorrow morning. The Living room has held pretty steady around 73-75 and rest of the house is lagging between 70 and 67 degrees so considering the outdoor temps I'm pretty stoked.....lol. For the night load I have big chunks of red oak and Hickory so I should have some decent btu output from them

 

With the wind chill we hit -41 , regular temp of -18.6.

We have both the Pellet & Wood Stove going in the basement, it's 81 in the basement and the living room upstairs is 71.