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

This is why I went with a wood stove verses a pellet stove. Still have heat and can cook also make my wifes coffee (without it she is not so pleasant)

 

Ya know....i have a 7000 watt generator,75ft. extention cord to run from generator to outside box n all the stuff needed to hook to breaker box....n i keep puttin it off (me dum @$$)....
You are definetly right about thewood stoves...

 

I'm sorry if I'm barging in here.
It's EASY PIE to warm up a rig or piece of iron.
All you need is a safe place to run a ready heater ! And a tarp big enough to cover the whole thing to the ground with a bit extra. Put the heater under the tarp placed so it blows heat toward what needs heated up.
It's good to keep an eye on things. But give it plenty of time to fully warm up before hitting the starter. It really saves on the starter and batteries.
Iirc Rope has posted pics of him warming up his John Deere with a tarp and Ready Heater.
I used to put both my 3500 watt generator And ready heater under the tarp to warm up my Terex loader. At 40 below and colder it would take me 9 gallons of gen gas and heating fuel to get it going.
I also plug in the block heater and oil pan pad, and charger and tranny pan pad.

 

Nice whisper font!

 

Mid 30s here today, let the stove go cold so I could get some stone put up behind it finally. Mrs Papi said it's got to be done before Thanksgiving guests come, so I figured it was time to get moving!

Then she got cold in the afternoon, so a nice hot pine fire turned the trick. I let it run a little more open than usual and the steady 620 stt was nice to come back into after playing in the snow with my micro-me. Haven't really had the occasion to run the stove hot yet, so this was a nice trial run for when it gets cold.

 

mostly Doug fir, couple pieces of oak..

 

Well, this was unexpected.

Hit the shores of Lake Superior this evening/night to pick some rocks. Not too bad, we dressed for it but had to chisel out the rocks from the frozen ground...it was 19f. Jumped in the car to go home and ....SURPRISE!...........Its -2f right now with lower sure to come! We were watching the temps drop lower and lower as we pulled away form the lake.

I think the guessers were only calling for low teens.

Another 3" last night.

 

Not too bad this evening, -13 C feels -18 C, or 9 F feels 1 F. Poplar chugging along. Temp isn't supposed to drop much more tonight. But as yooperdave alludes to, sometimes those forecasters haven't got a clue. I'm personally starting to be more surprised when they get it right, than when they are completely wrong.

I tell ya, if we had to take a shot of rye every time time they flubbed the weather forecast, we'd all be happy. I mean alcoholics. Whatever, I'm going to check the weather.

 

-8f right now.

 

It got into the lower 40’s here yesterday so I spent the day burning coals down. Shoveled out some ashes about 9 and loaded up a top down fire with some Envi-8 blocks on the bottom and KD oak and beech on top. 3 sticks of pine kindling, 1/4 super cedar and off to the races. At 5AM the blocks are nicely involved so I put 2 beech half splits on and closed her back up. It went from 400 STT to 550 in the last 20 minutes. Only 28 OAT this morning. We’re heading into a cold week. It’s supposed to peak around freezing today and get colder from there.

 

34* os.....70* is.....gotta fill the wood box (bone dry).....cloudy all day.....hope the junk on the driveway melts off soon...

 

29 here 62 inside, just lit off some White Birch and small Apple splits.... away we go!

 

Im at my farm this weekend. When i got here it was 50f inside. Leave the heat off. It was upper 30s outside. I was burning anything i could shove into that little 1.5cuft give or take Vogelzang stove to warm the place up. Got it to around 60f in the bedroom and about 68f in the room with the stove by the time i went to sleep. And by the next day i had warmed everything enough and it was warm enough yesterday where it wasnt hard to keep it comfortable yesterday. I was trying not to cut on the furnace and save the oil. I can keep it bearable down into the upper 20s easy one you have the olace warm. You just have to load that little stove so often!! Really makes me apreciate my big 3.5cuft stove i have at home. But my house is also more than 3x larger than the area i heat here? I guess its just better quality stove and those effecient catalysts?

 

A dusting of snow and temps hanging around -13 C feels -21 C or 8 F feels -6 F. Supposed to warm up a few degrees but the wind will pick up too, so not much difference really. Getting near the end of the stubbies/uglies in the shed so it's back to normal firewood soon.

 

30 out
71 in
Burning up some really longs Katy corner in the stove with some really shorts in the corners.
Good day for it. No wind . Blanket of insulation on the roof = low heat needs .

 

Umm . While I know it's not going to be that cold at my house, I'm not ready for that at all. I mean I have the firewood to handle it, but my body will be in shock after being in Hawaii this long. Going back home today. We have a few hours to hang out in the sun yet though.

 

Safe travels!