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

-5ish this morning on the back porch. Boiler is cruising through the wood. HUNGRY!

 

Again........the weather folks forecast -2° overnight, and we got down to -14°.
Nice.
Calling for snow to start with 3-6" from the west side of the state and moving all the way across to the east, then sounds like it'll keep on going.
I need to refill the tractor, then plow. I haven't bothered the last couple snows and there's about 4" out there to clean up before we get the new batch.
Then, I get to plow again...except driveway is getting more narrow every time I do.
About 30' between the 2 legs of the horseshoe drive, and it's all full.
Anybody needs some snow? Bogy?

 

Where is the snow blower when you need it?

 

On Weather Underground they are saying 5-8". That's up from the 1-3" they said earlier.

 

Hanging around 5° right now. Boiler cruising through some White Ash, a little White Pine and a little Red Oak. Snowing. They are calling for 1-3" today and 1-3" tomorrow.

 

It was 1.5 degrees last night when I called it a night, this morning we had 21.4 when I made the coffee, Beech & Sugar Maple still being loaded in the Liberty.

 

48℉ and stove is out

 

Warmed up very nicely here. At parents for supper a little earlier and it is 27° out! YEAH!

 

25° this morning. Ohhhhh, gotta take advantage of this. What to do? So much to do and so little time to do it.

Last night I brought the boiler and large tank to 190° and shut it down about 10:30 when I went to bed. Let it cool down after the heat was drawn out of it over night and gave it a good cleaning this morning. Oil boiler filled in early this morning, and will be for a little bit more, until the Wood Gun catches back up.

 

So, I started burning 2 weeks and 1 day ago as a sole source of heat, and those two weeks we probably averaged single digit temps. I was basically running my stove balls to the wall to keep the house between 67-70. I did have better results with smaller splits and loading more often and then the biggest 2 or 3 chunks I could shove in at night and during the days.

My stove is an EPA no cat, with a small 1.3 cu ft firebox, my wood appears to be 1 y/o, and my house is approx 1,000 sq ft, well insulated, decent windows. Right now its 37 F and the stove is full damped, idling away, and I'm hot! This is loveley!

I can't wait for the snow to melt so I can go harvest some wood! I've got my saw tuned to the hilt, chain is razor sharp, and a splitter lined up (UIL). I have probably a whole years worth of wood to harvest ( by whole year, I mean whole years worth of harvesting!) and I'm so ready to go out and get it. If all goes as planned, I'll be getting a MS290 soon, then I'll start putting a hurtin' on the old truck (and back).

I hope this enthusiasm never goes away, I love the independence of wood heat, I love playing outside and in the woods, and who doesn't love tools that you can hold in your hand and do so much work! I've been hoarding parts to build a splitter for a while, I've got a huge pump, plenty of engines, and hydraulic lines at my disposal, sooner or later I've got to stumble upon a cylinder. I've come across a few, but way to big.

Did I mention that I spend way too much time here trolling around? So glad I found this place!

 

That is the enthusiasm we like to here! Just make sure you work safe. PLEASE! Chaps, foresters hat or hard hat of some kind, eye and eat protection. Our goal needs to be: To be able to be healthy and do this into our very old age!

 

Warmed up nice here today. Over 40! While heading back home from town it was between rain and snow. Temps about 28 now. Big chunks of Ash burning hot in the boiler.

 

Below zero temps returning to midwest next week, I am on a work trip so the wife is on her own for the week.

 

-6c=21f right now and "someone" cracked a window early this morning Told her not to worry as its supposed to get good and cold again next week

They are calling for up to 50mm=2inch of rain tonight and tomorrow and not quite sure where its all gonna go? Shoveled around the edges of the roof yesterday and the troughs were running well an hour later. Not much more i can do i guess?

 

22° on the back porch this morning. Ash going through the boiler, but the boiler is getting longer break periods with these milder temps. I'm glad of that. Gone through a good bit of wood so far this year.

 

With this little rise in temps, we pushed in some Cherry,Beech and some Sugar Maple. This was in the Cherry stacks, not sure who mixed the wood but this needs to stop.

We'll be pushing in some Ironwood for this stretch of -10,-20 or -35 that will come in.

 

-20 or -35 that will come in? Where did you see that? Man I hope your right. That would give the bugs a hard time after a mild thaw like this!

Very mild here today of course. Temps in the higher 30's right now and raining. Rained pretty hard last night. Some people tell me they saw/heard thunder and lightening not far from this area. I just heard the rain a couple times I was awake last night.

Woodlands. Do you notice a big difference in the heat output of your wood types that are fairly close in BTU output? Difference in length of burn time?

 

I heard those temps last night on the weather channel, they never did give an area but the way this winter has gone you can bet we'll be in the mix.

If they're fairly close in BTU output, no. For the coldest weather we burn Sugar Maple with Beech.

We never received much rain last night, it's raining pretty good up here at the moment, glad I took the sled out last night.

 

So, on your property. Are the Sugar Maple and Beech are the highest BTU stuff you have then?