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

Once the snow is done with us, it's going to pick up some more moisture and come right at you there thewoodlands

 

30º outside, 77º inside. Loaded this morning for the day (only the second time this year). Came home to an 80º house....those 50 bags of insulation in the attic last year sure does help. Just loaded with a mix, ironwood, sugar maple and walnut.

 

23F!!! I would have a box stuffed to the too with oak!

 

Give me another week an then send it.

I think I'll have another three to four weeks before we get any big snow.

 

Dang ! I go to load the stove and what do i do, first thing, jam a big ol sliver in my thumb

 

Id call that a war wound for sure! The price of doing business,,,, just like the inevitable forearm burn reloading the stove.

 

Man thats a warm house! Ive had to open a temperature conversion table on my computer to keep up with you guys and your Fahrenheit temperatures! Thats 26.667 c!

 

You reminded me of a quick (and fairly accurate) way of converting celcius to farenheit. Double it and add 32. Your 27x2=54+32=86. Not to far off especially when you consider where I learned that trick.





Yes...Bob and Doug, Canada's best ambassadors to the United States!

 

23 degrees and frosty outside, around 73 in the house with a nice little fire going.....

 

27 deg. here, 55 in the house, just got home from work and fired up the stove. Update, house is up to 60. None of that midwest snow is gonna make it up here. Picked up a half of truck load of tree trimmings on the way home from work, mostly oak!

 

I'm with you Eric, I have an old school stove also, Vermont Castings Reolute. I have the same thermostatically operated air intake, and I love it! Holds the stove temp real steady. Never had the stove glow though, Stove pipe yes, not on purpose of course.

 

Eric,
I used to have a WonderWood Stove, you are not going to keep it from smoking. The ones I have saw, including mine, were not built air tight at all. Even closing the thermostat and dampers it still was not efficient. Mine ate the wood like it was starving, about 4 hours tops then reload. Like you said, the top would glow red when any good size fire was in it. I got mine for the really cheap when a feed store was going out of business that sold them. I kept it a couple of years and bought my Buck. I have known 4 or 5 people with these stoves, and all the same thing.

 

25 this morning. Just Ash in the boiler.

 

16 out right now still 72 inside, letting the coals from a full oak load burn down a little more and going to fill it again. High of 25 today so will probably mix some oak and box elder. 562xp shows up today! Gonna have to find something to cut up!

 

It's 25 here this morning, the last three splits of Pine went in with some Cherry & Maple branch rounds, we're still burning shoulder season wood which I'm hoping will last into the later part of the first week in Dec.

 

That would be nice. I'm still not burning like we normally would, more like late October weather. But I'm saving wood like you and most others.

 

We've actually burned 4 NY Face Cord or 1.24 cord of shoulder season wood, some of that Pine was up for two years.....not much weight to it.

 

Wow! we are not even close to that amount of this year, but you never know, we might catch up.

 

We have so much Pine & Hemlock down that we're not holding back, I'm sure there will come a time when this wood collection process will slow down but until then we'll burn on.