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

Ok so heat pump.

I was going to say even here in SC we have needed heat for more than a month

 

34, only going down to 25 tonight. I grabbed a load of black locust to load up the stove and make sure the wood is ready for the colder nights we are due to get in the next few days. Fired off about as fast as locust can be expected to, and thankfully sounds dry. I need to bust my azz this winter and get myself ahead.

 

17 degrees now. Burning a mixture of Ash and Honey locus.

 

Last time I checked, it was 9 OAT, headed down to zeeeero.
May set the thermostat for 66 or so, just in case the stove can't keep up.
Brought in some Oak for the overnight fire, but there's Red Maple in the stove right now to bring the IAT back up.

 

30 here and falling fast. Supposed to be teens overnight and going forward, so we're into the hardwood. Weather is funny stuff - worked about 40 miles south (and a couple thousand feet lower altitude) and had rain all day, came home and found 6" of snow to move.

 

Real feel 27F right now dropping down to 19F , gonna break out the locust for the overnight burn, the house is 72F now with some ash and maple

 

It’s some 64 ° F in the house but surely feels colder after the wee lass and I carted wood in for the bin. Alder taking flight. Soon dinner, warm stove and sleepy heads(hopefully!)

 

12F with a stiff breeze feels like 0F with blowing snow another 2-4 tonight.
Maple, cherry and poplar going now staying around 70 inside

 

Son of beech thats gorgeous!

When 90% of the flame is the secondaries, you know you did it right!!

Im a wood dork hahahaha

 

Set the thermostat !! Set the alarm to load the stove!! Can't let the heat kick on!

 

It's ok clem, all part of the master plan, which may change at any time. Gotta' be adaptable.

 

Yep, I need my beauty rest worse than the average person. I'll load her full at bedtime(Now) & deal with what comes at 6:00 A M. Usually still in the upper 60's & blower still cycling. I can deal with that even when it's really cold.

 

It’s 16 degrees, wind picking up and 74 inside! Burning a mixture of locust, silver maple, and pine. Tried an experiment tonight, baking bread on top of the stove, first time. Top middle was a bit doughy and a bit burnt on parts of the bottom. Had a slice with butter - yum.

I’ll make a few adjustments and try again.

Stay warm - Gpsfool

 

15.1 out as of now....put a couple splits of oak in with some ash. fell asleep too early this evening .....just got the stove chuggin back along.....guess ill be up till I leave at 4:45am

 

40 degrees. Burning Bear Bricks, log pine, and North Idaho logs. Supposed to drop to 34 degrees tonight.

 

Some ridiculous thing like +34 here at 9 pm. I put some fairly dry poplar on a few coals left over from the day time. Opened the draught a bit. When I heard it burning I corked it off again.
Its almost hard to run the stove slow enough to not drive us out.

 

Mostly Ash, one chunk of Cherry, and a little Pine.

 

What do you do to get ahead during winter? I'm getting a little stir-crazy. The dump is totally dried up. I have stuff to split, but there's ice all over my splitting spot. Looking for ideas here.

 

It dropped below 20F last night, running the stove a little harder. Also noticing I am having more trouble keeping the fuel temps. down, time to put the damper back in behind the radiator.

Brian