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

10 F here, dropping to o or -5 they say. Light wind, light snow. 74F even through the whole place. Gotta cool the bedroom off a bit now. Cherry & Hard Maple in the furnace. 10" snow on the ground. Looking forward to a few days w/o snow. Getting tedious keeping everything plowed. Heat wave Tuesday on. Upper 20's & Low 30's.

 

It's 5 out and dropping so we have some small sugar maple splits in the liberty and the pellet stove set at 75.

 

-22c here right now but supposed to be in the plus range for rest of week? Maple brewing nicely,

 

The greedy hungry beast is most enthusiastic about ash, cherry and hickory this morning,,4 degrees out of doors and 70 in every room of the house.
Today is my Friday.

 

-15F here this morning. Going through some wood now!

 

16 deg. here and I just cleaned out the ash, there was six inches of coals by yesterday. I left it overnight, the coals did keep the stove warm. I have now relit it, and away we go! Fire in the hole!

 

7* here this morn'n, might make up to the mid 20's....I hope, wood burner a glow'n......

 

6° and a high of 21° today. The firebox has about a foot of coals that don't seem to be producing much heat, so I threw in a few chunks of ash to bring the water temp back up and attempt to burn the coals down a touch.

 

Guess I shouldn't complain at 17°f this morning.

 

I'm pretty sure I have this figured out.
Accuweather is in denial.
Forecast low of 4, and we were at about that when I went to bed.
However, upon awakening this am, it was -6 OAT. Still 63 IAT, so not too bad considering they were off by 10 degrees.
Half an hour later, and we're up to 66 and climbing. I adjusted the choocher valve (Horkn coined that) closed and the temp went up close to 800 before dropping back down to 650 or so.
Ooooh, 68 IAT now.
Have I mentioned that I like the 30?

 

800°!

 

We had - 10 this morning, the basement temp was 78 and it's 70 up here. We burned about half a bag of pellets last night along with a load of nice sugar maple.

I filled the liberty up with some smaller splits of sugar maple and the basement temp is 80 and up here still 70.

The pellet stove is shut down until tonight depending on if we need it.

 

Yep. I had opened up the choocher valve to get the STT up, and it worked......a little too well. It wasn't up there more than a couple minutes.
Came back down in pretty short order, after I closed it up and turned up the blower.
Gooder thing I was keeping an eye on it.

 

Ive been away from the gang for a few days so Ive only been able to do the odd glance your way. Ive been working like a demon and also hosted our annual Christmas party at our house, not to mention Tundras birthday was yesterday! I had to read pages and pages of this thread and it seems like theres lots of freezing rain, deep snow and over all cold wood burning temps across the land! saskwoodburner its good to see your temps have broke. We are -9c/16f ourselves, we had -30c/-22f just two days ago so Im happy to be out of that for awhile. I dont mind the deep cold but it makes everything hard. We have kids and have to watch them travelling around town, making sure they have a plan and dress properly. Currently its snowing like crazy but that should make the skiers happy!

 

Piney welcome aboard! Nice to meet you. Its good to have another Canadian around. You got instant approval when you said you were burning Tamarack. You will notice going forward that I talk lots about this great firewood and post numerous wood gathering threads about it. Out here we have the western larch version which grows quite big. Not sure if Ive missed them in another thread but make sure you post pictures when you get the chance!

 

19 right now.
Just got back from errands and an early morning DOT physical. Good for another year. Hoping the new administration backs off on some of these regs! Sheesh! Ive been to the Dr more in the last 4 months than my entire life combined!
Sitting in the captains seat at home sucking up some oak heat off the Woodchuck!

 

If there's a bright side to the cold weather, it's that it hardens you up in a hurry!

 

Yeah for sure. I remember going on a holiday at Christmas time to Scottsdale Arizona with the family about 5 years ago. I took the kids for a walk to a local park that had a stocked pond. Air temp was probably 14 or 15 c so we didnt need jackets. I chatted up a guy sitting in a lawn chair fishing who was wearing a toque and a heavy winter jacket. He looked at us and said "you guys must be from Canada". I guess we stood out a bit. He was further amazed when I started telling him stories about driving on frozen lakes and ice fishing. He thought we were nuts!

 

And he was right! All my Canadian neighbors are . Aren't you?