8 here - feels like t-shirt weather! Looks like the January thaw is coming this week. Hope is enough to let the fuel lines in my truck thaw out....
I have seen the same, particularly with pine. But once you get her going.. look out! I always keep a mix of small and large splits with pine,...
-4 here, wind in the -30's. Just loaded the boiler with red oak and sugar maple, and tried starting the truck, which I foolishly forgot to top off...
Our school district has a hair trigger, too. To their credit, it's pretty large and serves all "rural" areas (except the town the middle and high...
2 here with wind chill of -30. Snow blowing chores are done, third time going through my driveway. I love the wind. Sugar maple keeping it toasty....
2 here, wind chill of -35. 8pm load, topped up at midnight is still cooking. In case I haven't mentioned it, I love sugar maple.
I would like to think it's good for US! :D Dinner was smokin', and the snow has been moved. The wind died down a little to a dull roar, so...
Hard to tell how much snow we "actually" got with the drifting. I know it was just about up to the hubs on the truck when I got home from work at...
Maple indeed - of the sugar persuasion. Rocket fuel for the owb!
One time a couple years ago I fell asleep while burning down coals in the owb. Never did the overnight reload, on what turned out to actually be...
Not sure - it came in this truck, filled twice. My frequent wood hookup and all around great guy had too much work and farmed some out to this...
Welcome aboard. Great group here, both knowledgeable AND friendly. Nice intro with the oak pics - you'll fit right in! :)
Mike nailed it. This came from behind an artsy fartsy house in south county where all the NYC denizens keep their second homes. Took that willow...
Taking advantage of the warm weather (15!) to burn down some of coal mountain with hemlock and pine. Supposed to bottom out at zero so it'll be...
Wish all my splits came with handles.. As I recall, there was some garden hose a little further down in this tree.
The spruce will be fine. The birch may be ok, but I'd definitely unzip it and cut/split asap. It will rot fast once winter is over. No need to...
JCMC, can you talk a little bit about your setup? How much you're heating, storage if any, etc? I'd love to get 24hrs on a burn in this kind of...
I'd like to try white oak. None of it here that I know of.. Wood I have had but want more of: hickory of any kind. Fifty miles east has plenty of...
You will have to start a new thread titled "I thought of burned a lot of wood BEFORE..." :) I heat 1400' of 1850 sparsely-insulated house plus...
Sugar maple doing the deed here. Coldest wind chill I've seen so far in this little cold snap was -36. Boiler got down to 124 that day, but...
