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

High of 31f today and windy. Burning white pine for the first time at ~13% and liking it. Easy to handle, quick to dry, and lots of it available to me if I choose. Kinda a pain to cut and split up though.

 

Started the day at about 26, went up a few degs., and has been dropping steadily all day and evening. 17 last time I checked and a bit windy, on the way down to 12.
Still 72 IAT with some coals leftover from an earlier Spruce fire.
Might throw in a few Poplar splits in a minute until the overnight load of Ash or Ash and Maple. Still debating.
I love having options.

 

Hmm, my weather ticker is quite obviously off a bit.

 

Still mild here in high 30s. But the temp is suppose to drop about 30 degrees from today's high to tomorrow morning's low of 17. All in less that 18 hours.

For the colder temps over the next couple days, my son and I brought in about half a face cord of Ash, Maple, and even some Cherry! Shhhh. Don't tell thewoodlands , but I swiped that Cherry from his place the last time I drove by there.

 

I just brought three heaping wheelbarrow loads of Maple onto the porch, a few misc pieces of Oak, and then a wheelbarrow load of Locust. Not gonna be bad tonight, but its just gonna drop through the day tomorrow. Probably gonna have to break down and fire up the smoke dragon downstairs too.

 

Still on the pine plan, but tomorrow might change that. Calling for a low that's scraping single digits. I think red maple is up first in the rotation once it's hardwood time.

Finally took the bedroom air conditioner out of the window this afternoon. We haven't used it in a few weeks, but it gets toasty upstairs even with the vents shut. The fan setting is nice, but with cold coming I'll be dammed if I'm going to lose heat out the window.

 

30F here now with a stiff wind, feels like is 15F. Supposed to get in the mid teens I guess. Still burning Silver Maple, thinking I should've grabbed a load of Oak or Ash, but it'll be fine. May be below 68* in the shop in the A M. Hate to have to put on a long sleeved shirt.

 

Sitting at -14 C ( about 6? F) before the wind this evening. I guess the bright side to the chill is it gets the system used to the cold in a hurry.

 

chilly going down to 13 tonight. Burning some walnut. Unseasonably cold for us this time of year.

 

We had 32 this morning with a high of 44, it sounds like the front is moving in so it's time to build a fire.

 

46° right now but I did not light a fire today at all until I got home from work. The house was completely cooled. Rained all day and might be on my way to getting sick so we’re toastin tootsies.

 

10 under when I got up this morning @6. I think the high here today was +7°F. Around 0 atm. Still burning poplar. Basically All we have to burn here is white spruce, black spruce, silver poplar ( some call it aspen) but most of them are from Colorado. Or Idaho.
And we have cottonwood.
I prefer poplar. It makes a good coal. But dry cottonwood is good also. Black spruce burns good and seems to last a little longer than white spruce. But, it doesn't make much for coals . white spruce doesn't either.

 

Currently sitting at 5, probably drop a couple more towards sunrise as usual. Stayed 69 in here with a load of red oak cooking in th IS. Reloaded again this morning because of the cold, gotta keep the furnace from running! Probably go back to once a day loads after tonight. Upper 30s, then mid 40s, and even a close to 50 coming this next week according to the weather guessers, then back to just barely above freezing for next weekend.

 

Sounds good, did you have to trim the lines on the soot eater or you used it as Is? Did you have to order extra rods

 

14 this morning.

Probably time to burn some of the good stuff. Been burning up some pine and something that had fat bark, but barely any weight. Burns OK... But doesn't get super hot... Even poplar or maple has better staying power this fat balsa...

 

27 out and 71 in here in the Buckeye state. Burning down some coals, not supposed to warm much at all outside today. I'll load the stove shortly with maybe maple & hickory, maybe a chunk of black locust.