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

40/70

What do your flue temps do when it’s firing like that? Mine shoot through the roof on my Lopi Endeavor. I finally added a flue damper above the stove and they still get pretty dang high.


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Weve warmed up a few degrees to -24c/-11f. I thought I might have lost the fire this morning. There weren't many coals to rake forward but I put 3 pieces of kindling on it and 3 fir splits and she's roaring back to life.

 

To make ya feel better about your weather!

 

I don’t have a thermometer on the flue yet I don’t usually run the stove wide open for more than the first 10 minutes or so, until the fire gets established, then throttle back the air. There’s a cast iron pot full of water on my stove, which is kind of my temperature indicator. If I start to see the steam roll off it fast and bubbles form like it’s close to boiling, I know I’ve got to turn it down a notch. Another indicator are the tubes at the top of the firebox. If they’re glowing red, I know it needs to cool down.

 

-45…. I’d move.


It’s 30 here. Just put 2 splits of walnut on the bottom, 2 chestnut oak on top of those and a round of mulberry to the right. Smorgasbord!


Cold spell on the way this weekend. Savin up the SBH for that.

 

Yellow Birch

 

Cold spell headed here too. Can’t believe I’ll be colder that you in PA.


Mike in Okla

 

You will be colder than us in Vermont on Fri. High for the day is forecast to be 54 and dropping to 17 that night. High of 22 on Saturday.

 

This might be fun. Glad I got plenty of wood and supplies. Sounds like a 4-5 day event with the Lake Effect.

As of this Monday, it looks like many (most) schools that are scheduled to be open on Friday will have a snow day and a snow day is possible on Thursday if the freezing rain develops in your area. Businesses (hospitals and the like) should be thinking about staff schedule disruptions. Think about the possibility of avoiding or minimizing travel late this week. Secure anything that could be affect by strong winds (your garbage bin, etc.). Think about headding to the store(s) to make sure you have the food/supplies to last several days. This will be a large storm, affecting both land and air travel over a large portion of the central and eastern U.S.

 

Just arrived from Puerto Rico, where it was mild 80’s. Came home and loaded the belly with maple splits and beech limbs.
My brother and a neighbor took turns loading it while we were away.

High 20’s with snow for the next hour or so. Nothing to accumulate. Off tomorrow so I plan to get some splitting done in the morning. In the thirties then.
So glad to be home and not worry about firewood concerns

 

24/74 just reloaded with Ash and Red Pine its getting a little too hot for me.

 

It was in the teens earlier, now warming up to 25° with snow falling. There's going to be a big storm/ blizzard arriving Thursday and Friday.

Ash and honey locust in the quadrafire. 75° in the stove room.

The new smart thermostat I put in about a week ago really seems to be helping. I have the circulate function and that has been a huge help.

 

29 outdoors and 72 inside the house. Cherry, hickory skinnies and one split of Bradford pear in the Lopi.

 

13 F here this morning. The load of mixed hardwoods did well overnight last night. At 6:30 this morning I added some Pine and Spruce. Get some more of that burned up today while I’m home.

 

23*/ 71* white oak

 

I have 27/73. The usual chestnut oak keeping the firebox full of coals. I have to idle this wood furnace until the temps dip below freezing. It has a capacity of 3000sq/ft and our house is just under 2k.

 

Rain, sleet and snow yesterday. +3f for this morning.