I know it is getting to be a long, wearing winter. I am ready to retire the stove for the season, but with lows again pushing close to zero, I will keep on the 24/7 burn. Hard to believe the stove has been running non-stop since before Thanksgiving. I have burned more wood than I can believe this season. So the question is, how is your wood piles doing and are you ready to wave the white flag?
Stove is still chugging along but mostly gets a break during the day. probably be constant for a few days next week though. the wood pile is seriously low and into next years stash so nowhere near prime stuff.ahead.
March usually starts the transition for us. There is always a fire over night but we can let it go during the day when the temps rise into the 50's. We will keep a low fire going on damp, rainy spring days. And yes, our wood supply is seriously depleted. I'm definitely into what was supposed to be next years stash.
Reloaded at 3:30am, and continue to burn 24/7. I'm seriously into next years wood. Going to find out about a log length load today.
Still 24 X 7 in MD. I'm on the Chesapeake and the water is still in the 30's. When the south wind blows and warms everyone else it's penetrating cold at the house. Another couple of weeks to go. Ospreys showed up yesterday a full two weeks late.
24/7 here. Wood pile is in decent shape still. Snowing like crazy here right now. Suppose to get 3-6" of the stuff. There were places in my yard I started to see short green stuff? Were they little, teensy weensy trees?
Pretty much 24/7 here. Was able to let it go cold one day this past week. Just burn smaller loads and not load as often now.
Well, this "neverending" winter is pretty much as usual....except for the cold. We burn, and expect to burn, right on into the middle of May. That's usually when the fat lady starts singing around here. I guess it depends where you live. Anyway, yep, still burning, but not quite as much. Same old, same old. We've got another 1.5 months of it. At least. Temps are trending ever upward. Spring will get here on it's own schedule, not when our calendar says it should.
I don't remember the year, but I may have burned this much one other time. That would have been BDW (before dry wood).
When we stop burning 24/7, we stop burning and usually are only a week or two away from putting the tomato plants in the ground.
I'm still waiting for either my outside woodpile to appear from the snow or the new food plot to appear. Either way they both need some attention. Keep up the good work guys and gals!
About the same here but we've got a few days of 40s/20s coming up, so back to two loads a day then. I've still got about two years' of Oak, Hickory and BL stacked that will have three summers stacked when I get to it, but I need to get another eight cords or so to stay ahead on us and my MIL's Buck. My wife and SIL were sitting outside yesterday and heard something fall. I went down there and found that another dead Red Oak had fallen. I've got at least six of them on the ground, and a few more still standing so that should give me the year's worth I need to stack. Then I also need some for a couple of my SILs, for next season. They can split and stack that stuff. All this wind will be great if I can get a bunch stacked now...