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

Man here in SC where I live I would burn that wood up in 2 days or less at my temps!

 

Heating our 1100 sf ranch only with the insert keeping around 70 with that amount of wood. It still amazes me the efficiency of the newer stoves!

 

28ºF outside
2 splits of pine and 1 oak because it was too early to load it up for the night

 

I'm heating 1.5x that area usually. And my stove room is warmer than that. At 70 were cold. Stove room is on the upper end of 70 usually. Bedrooms are farthest from it and there in the mid 60s on coldest nights.

I have a "modern" catalyst stove that is running...2nd or 3rd season on new cats. It's effecient but my home is not!!!

 

I always run into the same trouble! Good solution you’ve got though, burn some coals down to make room for the overnighter then one stick of oak to hold the heat for the re fire. Worst part is when you load up for the overnighter then fall asleep on the couch before you set it to chooch mode and you wake up a few hours later dieing of heat with half the load burned! Don’t ask me how I know

 

10F windchill 0f 0. Snowing with a light wind. Red Oak in the furnace. Gonna have to plow in the a m. yay.

 

19 here now and letting the stove die out as it's 86 in the living room. The bedrooms are much cooler.

 

This was this morning when I went to work. At work it was 48 below.
Trying to start my garbage truck at 48 below. Company policy is to use timers on the plug ins. I HATE timers. Guy that set it is from Oregon. His first winter up here. Wanted to save the company the cost of a few kilowatts by setting it a few hours less. 4 hours is not enough to warm up 4 gallons of motor oil. Cost the company 1 1/4 hours of overtime. 1 tire was a bit low and broke its bead moving the truck into the shop to warm up the hydraulic tank. Worked harder getting the truck up and running than I did at work. And I work hard at work. Wading through crotch deep snow for half the day. It got up to 25 below by quitting time.
28 below at the moment
Poplar in the stove.

 

2014 I had to get another load of wood . The guy that delivered it had story to tell
They used D cat to push snow out of the trail to get the wood . Snow pushed in to front end just right to push radiator in to the fan .. then they had a smaller cat that pushed snow away to get at wood pile it dead right by the pile so truck couldn't get in use semi to get it out of the way. Got it loaded 1/2 and hydraulic line blow out dumped about 15 gallons . Fixed that and got it loaded got out to road and brakes locked up . When he pulled in yard truck had frozen hyd stuck all over and guy said he was having kinda a bad day it take him week to straighten all out. That was at -10f ..

-3f and burning slabs.

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Someday winter will end, but not today. Poplar and random piece of ash.

 

Sounds like you had one of those days.

 

-13c/8f right now, we had about 6-8 inches last night and more on its way throughout the rest of the week. I just put the dog out for the night and now Im back by the stove sitting in shorts doing this. The kids helped me load the garage of wood on Sunday which is nice. Im not a fan of digging around in the dark in deep snow for a few splits of firewood. Larch for the overnight burn as always. I think tomorrow Ill get the ladder out and pull some snow off my tin shed so it doesnt buckle. Its not like we have that much snow but those things cant handle much.

 

We're getting in to season where during the day it's getting warmer.
-6f slabs burning 80f in living room

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Yup. At least the 8 didn't break down or run out of fuel on me. We have the 6 in the shop right now . Getting ready to pull the pins and tip the front Ram tower/grill forward so we can pull part of the radiator. The strut that holds the fan snapped in half a couple weeks ago. Causing the van to fall into the radiator. Destroying the fan and part of the radiator. Fan costs over $3,300.00
A whole radiator is over $12,000.
I'm glad I wasn't running it when that happened.


At least being cold its pretty out.

 

-8 with a feel of -29. What the heck? Nice morning for a snowshoe walk....you coming Woodwidow ?

 

20 here and snow coming. A variety of wood in the stove now, heading out to cut more Maple today before it gets totally buried.

 

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Not likely. I don't think I have ever been out in that cold of weather.

 

10°F-12°C now, high today 20, burnin ash this morning.
I will get out the snow blower when it warms up a little bit