That sounds like a win/win.
27* outside. We have been feeding the stove a steady diet of white ash. The warm up has begun. Hopefully we will melt this snow off, then the...
My wood is definitely dry enough. I'm well past the 3yr plan. More like the 4 or 5 year plan. The oak I'm burning has been cut and stacked for 4...
Okay. I loaded the stove up pretty tight tonight with 8 splits and 2 pieces of limb wood. All but one piece is going N/S. One large split in the...
We are suppose to get to 21* today. A load of ash is heating the house easily.
I realize this will be different for everyone with different models, but I was sitting here looking at my stove and thinking how I load. I have...
Currently 12* forecast says were are going south of zero tonight. White Ash is heating the house now with big splits of red oak and a few hedge...
I second what NH mountain man said. I always try and stack on bricks to elevate the pallets off the ground.
Are you saying your baffle is starting to fall?
19* and a light snow is falling. The stove is loaded with red oak, one hedge round, and a mulberry split. That should give me enough coals for an...
I have an old Bat Cave Carolina I stove/insert that runs 24/7 here during the winter. I normally run 3-4 cord of wood through it a season. This...
18* but sunny and little wind. It feels good outside really. Today would be a good day to do some cutting and splitting but I have too many honey...
Frosty has some water retention problems.
So we have been getting a little weather today. It started as rain, changed to ice, and now we are getting some decent snow. I decided to go...
28* and snowing now. I woke up at 530 to the sound of ice pellets hitting the windows. School was canceled because of the ice so today I am...
57* outside and raining right now so no fire tonight. It is suppose to get cold and start icing tonight, then change over to snow for tomorrow....
54* here outside. The stove is cold and te heat pump is keeping the house at 72*.
It's 43* and raining here. I grabbed some hickory out of the garage because I didn't want to go get lesser wood from the barn. We are suppose to...
Yes, the ash borer killed them. There are several more to cut also, but they aren't as big. One is probably 20" and the others are 16-18" trees....
We recently took down several large ash trees at my parents house and I've slowly been working on cleaning it up. I was thinking today that I...
