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

Been cooler the past few days. Came home and the house was 62* yesterday. Loaded up the wood stove with smaller pieces of red oak and kept feeding it oak for a couple of hours. I think we were up to 75* in just over 2 hours! There's a very noticeable difference burning high BTU hardwood vs the softer stuff we've been burning so far.

 

It's 29° going down to 26° overnight. Last night it was 21° and it felt it this morning!
We're burning shrapnel wood while we are home. Overnight and when leaving for work, I load the stove with Ash.
I put up a few cords of very dead oak last spring. Some is 15%-18% moisture and some is 24%- 28%. So I'm waiting to get into that

 

Warming up the rest of the week. Spend some of the day loading up some oak I split in the woods last year, to put in the woodshed. Noticed my boiler was smoking like Casey Jones engine this afternoon. Wind was blowing into the fan and damper box and causing the wood to fire up pretty good.

I noticed that when the temp gets sub twenty my downstairs furnace is on a lot at preferred temperature. Dropped it a couple degrees and seems to like it better there.

 

Wow! what a difference a day makes, 1c, 34f, mostly overcast, going up to 6c or 43f and mostly sunny, let the fire go out time to clean the ashes out.
It's always a Beautiful day in Muskoka! Enjoy!

 

32 this morning with White Pine slowly heating the Wood Gun back up. Suppose to go to a high of 42 later.

 

Another chilly morning but supposed to warm up to 50. 69 inside and burning red oak.

 

Overnight low was in the high 20s but is now at 32 and rising steadily. I just reloaded with black cherry and white pine.

 

Mild last night. 20/64 Lake has a skim coat of ice where the open spots were left.

Lab walked out on the ice and heard some cracking under foot.....he stopped immediately and looked which was to go! He chose to return on the path he went out and with a little more cracking, made it back to shoreline safe and sound.

 

I meant to put the above post in Brought in the Good Stuff thread. If a moderator could move it for me I would appreciate it.

 

Morning guys. Still moderate temps up here, a few degrees below freezing all night and probably all day. Great temps for the end of November, but surely not helping the deer hunting. Supposed to hit -13C/8F tonight. Really scrubby poplar n pine chunks heating the way.

 

Weather guessers got close today. I’ll give em credit when it’s due.



Here’s a fitting tune for y’all to listen to while you’re sitting by that warm fire.

 

Stoveroom at 69 on reload. Silver and Norway,? Maple, ash, pine bradford pear. Mild night rain with low of 38

 

stovetop 650F
31F out
77F in
elm rounds

yep, sitting here in my underwear and a tee shirt bout ready to open a window.

 

42 this morning. A mix of Cherry and Beech from last night still has plenty of heat in the Wood Gun.

 

42, windy, raining. Not ideal.

Boiler still has a bunch of silver maple from yesterday in it so the house must not be calling for much heat.

 

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More sun today. It is nice not having to shovel for a couple of days now!

 

28f and 70F. Stove really loafs at these moderate temps. Beauty outside with zero wind (rare). Makes this winter weather quite tolerable. Enjoy your burn season everybody. We sure are.

 

Checking in to report my first overnight burn!
I added these three small oak splits to a thin bed of coals at 9PM. Checked it Thursday morning at 6am (mid 20F outside) and the coals were still hot. Easily could've tossed some kindling on it to start it back up if I was staying home.
Got home from work at 6pm Thursday evening, put my hand into the ashes thinking it'd be cold by now- there were still hot red coal chunks going 21 hours later!
I don't have much stove experience to compare to, but I'm thinking this VC Aspen is going to be a really efficient little stove for us.

My wife told me last night that her coworkers and work acquaintances all have been asking her what's your holiday plans? Winter plans? What you looking forward to this season? Her answer to all of them: "Wood stove. Wood stove. Wood stove." She works at a college and a lot of younger folks don't have a clue what a wood stove even means, so i imagine she gets lots of follow up questions.

 

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red oak and a few newspaper/apple chip bricks added to the firebox after burning down some coals.



Plenty more where that came from.