Well.... after a few hours of using the x27, I take a couple of Alieve, and my shoulder feels better in a little while. Sent from my SM-T280 using Tapatalk
My stove will go 24 hours on a refill, with enough coals left over for a reload. Dosent throw a lot of heat but don't need a lot. Hey my wife will open windows any day over 45 in spring to change the air. I work hard for wood and have no problem cracking a window listening to peepers with stove running
I try my best on warm days to dial in a fire that won't blow me out of my chair from the heat, but hard to judge sometimes. A boot holding the outside door open for a few minutes is the solution for big whoops. Sometimes I burn shed crud/branches, or big kindling just to limp it along. I'd rather limp one along than restart, but what do you do. Sometimes it seems I'm burning more firestarters than wood in the late season. I guess the answer is it depends.
Shoulder season is just like any other season for us. It all depends upon both inside and outside temperatures. About the only difference is the amount of wood we put in the stove at any one time and we burn oak only during winter nights that are, say, below 15 degrees.
OWB eats off the dollar menu here in shoulder season. Pine, willow, hemlock, poplar... all the stuff that snob guy a few posts up won't touch. If I need to keep coals through the day, I'll add some hardwood. I can get pine dropped off pretty reliably, but sometimes the hardwood scrounge is a harder thing to come by, and almost always involves going to fetch it. Lots of wood burners in my neck of the woods, and 99% of em are terrified of pine. More for me!
I'm into a pile of poplar. Now I know why they call it gopher wood. You load the stove up and gopher more wood. Heavy ashes also.
Not too picky what I throw in early or late but do sweep the chimney more often if its quite mild. Once so far this season though and will probably have to do it again in a few weeks. Had to open the patio door last night for awhile at 2 am.
I just let my fires burn out and start another one when needed. I use more kindling but I don't mind.
For me shoulder season is Nov and March April depending on the outside temperatures. In the beginning and at the end of the season I mainly burn 1 year old CSS Ash. The Ash was dead standing. It repeats this come March. During the rest of the heating season it is 2 year old Locus, Oak, Maple and other hardwoods.
Couldn't agree more. Those smokey overnight burns are just gunking up the chimney. Letting it burn down at night also makes sense as then I can get it shoveled out in the morning
Today was the first time in quite awhile that I did not reload in the morning.....it was not really by choice but it worked out perfect as it was in the 50's. I had to go to my Mom's this morning and did not have enough time to load when I got back to go to church with my bride. Just restarted about 30 min. ago.
Concrete floors and concrete walls. I rely on thermal mass to smooth out the ups and downs. Burn what I feel like burning to add heat when I want to. As the temperature out gets warmer, I burn less often. Sometimes days between burns if it is really mild. It gets a little warm in the stove area while I'm burning, sometimes as much as 81, but usually about 77. As the heat soaks in, the temperature tends to settle around 70-72. 73 today with the last fire last night, but it has been a warm day. On 0 degree night, it might get as low as 68 by the morning if I loaded with pine before bed, warmer if it is a good load of oak. The temperature drop is a lot slower after that. The house tends to defend 70. The farther from 70 it gets, the longer it takes to change further. I left the country for a week in March 2015 and it was 64 inside when I came home, no heat at all was used while I was gone.
Used to burn that but every now and then would come home to a low temp OWB.....just avoid it altogether now.
Hmmm early shoulder season is usually uglies, questionable wood and then the lesser btu varieties. Then spring shoulder season is usually just lesser btu varieties like silver maple and bass wood. Fire wise usually a stove load in the morning and one at night does fine.
