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

Yup no pics because it was dark. Sure enough I lose that shear pin on the blower last night... Close enough til the next one

 

Slowly but surely getting warmer even though still colder than average. So used to feeding the stove for cold weather that when it warms up slightly we're sitting in 75 f temps inside! Poplar n heating oil because there's lots left.

 

-20°F / -29°C last night. The average low for today is -2°F / -19°C. DED elm in the stove.

 

Might get up to freezing today, but it's nice and sunny and the south facing rooms rooms with solar gain are up to 68 ºF.
Burning pine and oak. Let the fire get down to a small bed of coals, load some small splits of pine on top of them, and a couple splits of oak on top of that and come back in 4 hours and repeat. The coals get the small hot charge of pine going and the small hot charge of pine gets the oak going. Keeps the north side of the house very comfortable.

 

Raining here, around 40°. Burning some dead sassafras and red maple


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Above zero for my day off, will be nice splitting the wood I have been bringing home. It a pleasant 14* a little wind, spruce n the Blaze King keeping the house warm. Coffee is hitting the spot...life is good.

 

-5 °F last night burned ash n hickory , sunshine and 27 °F now with some ash n maple in the box

 

Yup shear bolts easier in daylight and warmer temps.. Never could thread nuts with gloves on in snow and dark

Might be why a few bolts and screws are loose

 

Forecast for snow changed...6-10"....still changin to sleet n freezin rain...

 

Teens here, looking like a little snow Wednesday night. Wife loaded a big piece of apple and some small ash splits around noon, still choochin along at 72 inside. Overnight looks like ash and Sugar maple.

 

It’s a really nice day off, temp wise with some spruce keeping Jack Frost away. Mom and I split the rounds I have been bringing home from work, this past 7 day stretch. The pile is a little taller, wider and longer.

 

Rope, naive question coming.. As cold and dry as you are up there, how does seasoning work out for you? Is it stump to stove like some of the Midwest guys with their dead standing lodgepole pine, or do you still need to pack away for a while so the BKs can eat happy?

Burning 15 cord/yr with an owb, I found it nearly impossible to get more than a year or two ahead - but the owb would still run great even with one full summer on the wood. I seem to remember you saying you go through 15+.. God bless ya, it is a different lifestyle with that kind of consumption!

 

Nice to still have the bucket when that happens. They’re talking 3 more storms over the next 8 days now More play time err.. work on the tractor . Until something like a broken shear pin happens at least.

 

20F & clouding up here, supposed to snow, rain & sleet here tomorrow. Oh boy. Oak in the boiler.

 

Great question, the standing dead is stump to stove. Most of the spruce that I have been bringing is from the ‘85 fire. I should get a moisture meter, when I put the spruce on a bed of coals it will flame between 3-5 seconds. Now the green birch that I split today will be ready by fall. Yessir we go through between 15-20 cords a year. It’s way cheaper than pay for home heating fuel for 220+ heating days a year.

I cut this birch and noticed when I was at the gas station how it was already spider webbing. Was less than 3 hours off the stump. Not sure if the cold or low humidity contributes the most to drying.

 

Burning 15 cord/yr with an owb, I found it nearly impossible to get more than a year or two ahead - but the owb would still run great even with one full summer on the wood. I seem to remember you saying you go through 15+.. God bless ya, it is a different lifestyle with that kind of consumption! [/QUOTE]
I also struggle to be well ahead I am working on my 3 years. That’s going to be 60 cords. I am working on my ‘21 wood now. Back around Christmas I started bringing a pickup load home after each work day. I am hoping in the year or two to be at the 60+ cords. It’s a monumental task that needs the same in effort.

 

60 cord will take up a lot of room! Trying to picture it!?!? My hats off to you. 28 here with ash burning slow. Snow,sleet and freezing rain in its way here for tommorrow.


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will that put pressure on your fishing lakes and give you a wet slurpy mess?

 

I just got of the lake a few minutes ago after helping a friend get his spear shack off the lake ahead of this latest round of new snow. I have driven my neighborhood lake from north to south, and east to west, as well as several others, and have found no slush yet. From my experience we got our worst slush in December and January after heavy snows on top of 8-12" ice. In February we have to watch out for ice heaves and pressure ridges.