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

24 out side 72 inside coals, then stoak it with ash poplar. Getting ready for bed drinking a beer. I work the night shift.

 

7 here this morning. Weather says a high of 3.

Ash and small maple rounds gasifying.

 

Hammerhead, thanks for posting that info. Interesting stove. I know nothing about smoke dragons, but I wondered about the stove because the stovetop and flue temps you posted for your normal long burn sound similar to cat stove temps, cooler than most post for secondary burn stoves. The design is interesting, and clearly was an early attempt to get a clean burn, with adjustable secondary air on top, an extended smoke path to provide longer time for the smoke to burn, an extended flue tube within the stove to secondary burn. I suspect it may be a relatively clean burning, efficient stove for a smoke dragon. I like your install, looks sharp. What is the name of the company that made the stove?

 

-9 this morning and cloudy. Supposed to rise to 0 today and back down to -14 tonight. Both stoves chowing down on mixed Beech/Hard Maple. 73 here in the cave.

 

We woke up to 4 degrees this morning, the basement was 78, 69 in the living room and the sleeper was 67.

We have another load of Yellow Birch going.

 

Cold as anything with a lot more snow on the way; 8-14 inches, after a foot last week!

 

It dropped from 7 to 3 in the last couple hours.

 

Cold here too. Just raked forward to start burning down the large coal bed. Would estimate about 1 1/2 cubic feet or Ironwood and sugar maple coals in there now, from a midnight load. Stove top is still at 225. (correction: 260-still in the silver range on the magnetic thermometer-for some reason my instinct is to think of the start of the silver range as 225, when in fact it is just above 250) should start to climb again with the coals raked forward and the air open about 2 inches. I'm hoping the coals will burn down fairly quickly, given the outside temp (increased draft to help burn down, increased heat loss to make me want them to burn down faster) - hope the bed is small enough to justify a reload in about two hours. If not, will likely reload on a larger than ideal coal bed. Want to keep the temp up in the house. Will burn my remaining ash during the day, then on to sugar maple and ironwood for the rest of the season, until shoulder season.

Addendum: Just checked, officially -2 F here (although we are always a few degrees colder than that in my specific location), temps supposed to "climb" to -1 F by 11 AM, high here today 3 degrees F at 3 PM. Sunny til 11, cloudy as it warms. Think Artan and I will go for a nice walk while the sun shines.

 

-5.3 on the Radio Shack Special, we just have the Pellet Stove going an later I'll load up the Liberty with some Yellow Birch and Beech.

 

-2 Here right now. Going to wait till the last minute to load up the boiler with an Ash/Pine/Pellets mix.

 

-4 here this AM and it is snowing and blowing. Pine cord wood and mixed blend wood pellets gasifying in the boiler.

Wife is happy, her school and the kids school have a two hour delay! Good morning to stay in bed for a while!

 

Let the stove die out yesterday afternoon around 2 or 3 pm. Stayed pretty comfortable all evening, was 74 when I went to bed.
Woke up 4:30 am. Snowing like crazy, 14 outside 67 inside.
Fired up the stove 5 or 5:30, oak and maple splits.
at 7:30 it's 15 outside, 70 upstairs, 80 downstairs.

 

Storm moved in late Saturday afternoon,light rain changing to snow,heavy at times,Ended up with just over 12 inches.Metro area had from 9 to 14 inches by Sunday afternoon.High of 33 yesterday early,temps dropping all day with very strong gusts.

19 at sunset,12 at 1030PM last night.Loaded up with one 7" Green Ash round,1 oddball Walnut medium forked piece,1 medium split Red Oak & 1 small odd Silver Maple chunk..78 in here.

Woke up at 5AM,1 degree outside,72 in here with a small coal bed.Tossed on a couple small chunks of Pine/Eastern Red Cedar & 2 Red Oak rounds.Its going quite nicely.

 

24 at 3:30. WTF woke me up ????!!!!!
Groggy and just threw in whatever was close. With eyes wide shut I think it was sandwood !
Got about a foot of new snow overnite. Starting to pile up now.

 

We had about -3 this morning, the temp in the basement was 78, the floor temp in the living room was 73.5 (IR Gun) the floor in the sleeper was 71.

We're still burning Yellow Birch with the pellet stove at night, just the wood stove during the day.

 

Wind is blowing chit all over here. Just nasty outside. Snow is coming down and blowing all over. When you shovel one place, about 15 minutes later it is like you were never there! thewoodlands looks like you will have enough snow after today to get some sled time. Glad for you guys! Enjoy it. Hopefully you will get some nice temps and sunshine to enjoy.

 

The big ole pines are blocking most of the wind back here but once you get on Rte. 56 it's a whole different story.

It looks like I'll be plowing to the stacks with the rhino again, I'm glad we pushed in our wood for this week yesterday.

 

0 F here, 20 MPH wind from the North coming the length of the lake, snowing since last night.

+: I don't have to shovel. There is no snow in the yard or on the steps. I'm up a 75 foot cliff , about 30 feet back from the top of the cliff and about 150 feet back from the lake. Some drifts a bit further away from the lake.

-: It's brrrrrrrr.......according to the weather forecast, it is "frigid" with wind chill -33.....

And Thursday is supposed to be colder.

Bet Rottiman is chilly

 

Went from 38º last night at 11 to 25º this morning at 7, then down to 14º at 8:15. Been hangin right there all day, took the wife for a Dr. check and then out for a late breakfast. Back home and loaded a few pieces on a big coal bed. Sitting right on 75º in the upstaris living room and feels real nice. Heading for 0 or below tonight, will pack the stove full at bedtime.