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

26 ish this morning. Pine and Ash gasifying in the boiler.

 

I usually throw some on the coals here and there to make the flavor pop. Nothing fancy, mostly bagged wood chips you'd find at Peavey Mart or Canadian Tire. Soaking the chips in hot water for an hour or so.

I did try some willow chunks (only the inner heart wood) after someone mentioned it being usable on another forum, and it's true, it is. A mild-medium smoke depending how you use, with mild peppery after tones. Kid you not. I've tried it with chicken, pork, and cold smoke eggs.

 

I stoked the box before daylight this morning and checked it awhile ago. The water temperature was 112* wtf? I opened the door and it was full of wood still, I could hear the solenoid humming??? So I took my propane torch and the wood took off good, so I let it burn for a minute and shut the door. I looked at the stack and the smoke was lazy coming out??? Open the door and it took right off, now I can still hear the solenoid??? I took the cover off and the lever that goes from the solenoid to the dampener door lost a cotter key, now I know why it went wonky, but I heve no clue what happened to the key.

 

The drive this morning was slow for about 1 1/2 hours due to slippery snowy slushy conditions. Then it got better!

 

We had 33 this morning with rain so I loaded up the Liberty with wood.

When I came back in after plowing two driveways I started another fire before I did my treadmill workout, it's 30 out.

 

Been burning through my walnut stack during our mid-January shoulder period. Looks like we're going to time getting rid of that one pretty well as it's scheduled to get a bit colder over the next week or so. My wife wants me to break out the oak... I will probably have to grant her wish there. She doesn't like the amount of ashes the walnut leaves... the oak burns up much more cleanly... but then, it is oak!

 

Last week we were burning soft maple since it was pretty warm. Today we switched to red oak since its dropping in temp. Currently we are 33 but it's kinda windy.

 

Still nice around here. Sitting at -8 C ( 17 F?) tonight, and you guessed it, poplar n pine.

 

That is a nice temperature for you saskwoodburner considering your location and the time of year. -12c/10f here at 11;15 pm and I just loaded the stove with the usual larch. We got close to the freezing point for an hour or so but mostly sat at around -5c/23f today before the sun went down behind the mountains around 3:30-4 pm. It was -17c this morning under clear skies but warmed up quickly from there. The forecast is showing a warming up which is fine but should stay at or slightly above freezing for highs. I dislike the melt freeze periods as it makes so much work for ice removal. With snow everywhere it makes it hard for any flowing water to escape. Fortunately its stayed consistently enough below freezing that the best weve had to deal with is a few icicles that are hanging off the snow on the roof.

 

26 this morning with Ash and White Pine burning in the boiler.

 

Good morning, a cool 30 degrees with a dusting of snow.
Chunked a bunch of newly acquired elm and maple in the owb last nite.

 

It's a balmy 26° and some maple went in the crematorium this morning.

 

It's 27 out this morning with a cool wind, the Libertys full of wood.

 

2-3 inches overnight. Just enough to put the shovel down to make everything look better.

OWB is getting whatever I throw into it!

 

It's 60 OAT 73 inside the house at 2AM and I can not sleep.

Check out the forecast.

Good weather for seasoning my wood!


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Received 3" of whitechit overnite.
Oak was what was on top of the stack so that's what it gets and some coal.
We are forecast for up to 3' by Sunday,,,,, uhggg ! Don't mind winter or the cold ,,, just hate dealing with that much snow that fast!

 

I'm into the hickory and red oak now... the yard smells great, and I just reloaded at 173 water temp with identifiable splits still present after loading at 730 this morning.

 

It's 27 tonight, I'm burning down some coals and then we'll load it up with some wood.

 

26* and snow is predicted, I tossed some locust and maple on the huge bed of coals. I need to get rid of some tomorrow.

 

Sounds a lot like my wood burning habits. Had some quaking aspen in the pile this year so been burning some of that with the pine.