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

16 degrees predicted overnight. Loading the xtrordinair elite 36 with mulberry, ash and the occasional oak split. 71 and comfortable inside.

 

I do the same thing but it can be tricky. My lovely wife just isnt tuned in to wood species as I am so cant tell the difference between many of the woods. She can tell a pine from birch of course but larch from fir or lodgepole forget about it. I have a rack in my garage that is pine,spruce and fir for day time burning and on the other side of the garage I have a limited amount of birch and a large amount of larch. I kind of like this set up myself because in the past I would mix it together and always found I was digging for one or the other. Now its easy.

 

21 degrees. wind chill 7. Coldest air this year for us. As usual, nothing but ash in the stacks for the next 3 years. No primo oak or locust for me.

 

28 F. and the coals from last night lit right up with some Oak and Cherry small rounds splits. I love having a bellows to excite those coals, catches the wood in about 30 seconds.

 

Yes sir, folks that don't get real cold weather don't know what sqeaky snow is. I love the sound, better than wet snow. And you can hear with your tires as well. Bring it on. Picking up my sons ski and boots tonight from the shop, many ski areas been open for a couple of weeks up north.

 

22 degrees with upper teens guessed at for tonight.

The Greedy Hungry Beast is burning ash, locust , shagbark and hard maple.

My woodshed is 16"x25" (the odd size is because I built over an old concrete slab that was here when I bought the place)
I don't segregate the wood species, fortunately nothing but hardwoods around here. Last years' wood on one side, this year's wood on the other. during the throes of deep winter, it all burns better than snowballs.

 

30 F this am had a nice bed of coals from the overnight burn stuck in a piece of cherry, chestnut, ash and silver maple and that will keep the house around 70 till I get home got to keep the hounds toasty. Just waiting on the white stuff they are getting just south of me and it looks to get into the teens next week

 

Woke up to -22 C (-7 F) and if you like windchill thrown in, -31 C (-23 F). Poplar and one stick of pine for stove food .

 

26° and a huge pile of coals in the boiler. I will feed it some scraps of pine and punky stuff to try and burn it down to ash. If that does't work I will pitch a few shovel fulls of coals out to ash mountain, just to make room in the box for wood. This is one of the reasons I don't care much for maple, it will build a mountain of coals that don't throw heat. Oak, cherry, pine, beech and ash all burn to ash but not the maple??? I have friends that have noticed this too with outdoor boilers.

 

My reload this morning was a bit of spruce and lodgepole pine. Its a beautiful sunny morning but its a tad chilly at -28c/-18.5f. Should start warming up a few degrees each day now but we will see.

 

It was 31 this morning so after getting a fire going with some cherry we pushed in more firewood.

We have just under two face cord of what we had up for shoulder season wood for this year. After that is gone we'll be burning some better wood, more cherry.

Nothing for snow in our neck of the woods.

 

Burned boxelder w couple pcs of ash today 27 °F low tonight °F24 °F
I'll burn all ash overnight
Cooling off around here , no snow on the ground yet

 

I finally did the last bit of cleaning on the pellet stove today so we'll burn that tonight, it seems to be burning fine.

 

Jeez you have a buffet of wood tonight!

 

23° out, burning elm now. 71 inside.

 

Still snowing.

Pretty much a light wind (12mph)

Just under 20f.

Still snowing.

 

For some reason I get a kick out of these opposites when they pop up!