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

Its 38 f here right now in the rain. I just got in the door from a long stressful day and its 930 pm and im to tuckered to light the stove. I think forced air natural gas is going to keep the house warm tonight.

 

Well, tomorrow is another day. The stove will still be there, and hopefully the stress is gone. Also, whiskey is warm too.

 

-1c for the first time this year. Maple been brewing since last nite.

 

I really appreciate when post contain temps in centigrade (and both C and F). Makes it easier to understand / learn the imperial system.

We've been having small fires in the evening all week now. Frost this morning.

 

I still gotta google the conversion 80.

 

First fire of the year this morning!

 

I haven't lit one yet being stubborn... AC only came out 3 weeks ago.. house has a ton of South facing windows and residual heat is keeping it 65ish inside.. tonight's low is expected to be 28 and north wind time for oh for scopes minus 1 to 2 C

 

Burned some mixed wood last night 34 °F
Walnut on tap for tonight

 

Just a lovely mix of wind, sleet, rain, and snow today. +1 C right now, dropping to -3 C overnight. (34 then 26 F). Still burning up all the stubby ugly chunks of poplar.

 

Ive got er up and going tonight again. Im getting ready to throw some doug fir on the fire, keeping it subdued since its a balmy 4-5c out but its windy and raining tonight so need a bit of a fire to heat up my 2600 sq ft! Pretty soon Im going to be sitting in front of it watching a movie while sipping some whiskey saskwoodburner

 

Drown to 28 when I got up this morning. The furnace is keeping things nice and toasty for my wife and daughter so they can ride out their colds. White birch and the instacksbles are working well

 

Looking at -6 C (21 F) this morning. Poplar and a few sticks of mountain ash is on the menu today.

 

double post

 

Do you burn much mountain ash? Weve got a fair amount of it here in tree form as yard trees but in the forest they are more bush like trees. I wonder where on the btu charts it would fit?

 

Is this the tree you guys are talking about? None around here.

Sorbus aucuparia - rowan, mountain ash | Arboretum Mustila

 

I haven't burned hardly any ash. I took down a few small yard trees that were annihilated by wood peckers, but most of it is green. I just literally had sticks lol 2-3" diameter. A lot more dense than poplar, I'd say twice the weight for a given size dried, so even a conservative guess one would think 1.5x more btu than poplar, maybe 2x. Just a guess.

 

Yep, that's the one. Non native around here as well, although the birds are changing that, and maybe in 30-40 years there will be enough to use for firewood!

 

I had two Mountain Ash trees flanking my driveway. Birds just loved the berries and kept them happy right until December or so. That is until the ice storm of '98. The following spring one fell over in a strong wind and the second fell over the next year. As a matter of fact a lot of trees are still damaged from that storm. At least my black locust didn't suffer too badly and must be 24 inches at the base now.

 

Here are a few pictures of mtn ash that I took last week on a walk that Tundra and I go on. The first one has nothing to do with trees but I like it because it shows a happy dog As you can see they are more like a bush around here although not much can grow in that spot as its an avalanche path. The last one was taken in town about 2 weeks ago when me and the family went out for dinner. Its more of a tree. I wonder if it has similar btus as an ash tree?
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