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Brought up the goood stuff, locust!

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  1. swags

    swags Moderator

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    Its 4* outside so brought up the good stuff! Locust!!!! Just loaded up the stove for the night. Looking forward to a good burn. image.jpg
     
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  2. My IS heats my home

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    Cool pic! Sounds like you got things under control, a load of locust should keep plenty of warmth for the overnite
     
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    Oh, yea! Baby! Lock and Loaded....
     
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    Nice!:thumbs: There's a tractor in the way of my good stuff so I'm stuck burning white oak.
     
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    That'll do it :fire:
     
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    I like the carport idea, its snowing and your wood is staying nice and dry. Best I have is shagbark, I saved it for a cold snap like we're having now.
     
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    great picture :yes:
    thousand words !
     
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    I like White Oak, I"m burning a mix of shagbark Hickory, Ash, and Cherry right now.
     
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    White oak is my good stuff. Locust is just my octane booster.
     
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    Should keep you toasty. Big splits of pin oak here...
     
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    I've been burning mostly ion oak this year, just the way it worked out. This year I have almost all good stuff that is plenty dry. Pin oak, locust, mulberry, pear, and then my lesser stuff is a little cherry and some pine.
     
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    Love the Ranger! Enjoy the warmth from that wood!
     
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    Still rolling this morning, I set the stove a little lower than I was with the oak and still had plenty of heat this morning and big piles of coals.
     
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    Well 16 hours in, stove at 300 still plenty of life left on the load. I like locust. image.jpg
     
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    I loaded nothing but Black Locust last night. I've never loaded the entire stove with BL before, got an amazingly hot, slow and long burn out of it. I left this morning at 9 (10 hours) and it had about 3 hours left to go. Temps were in the single digits all night. LOVE the BL too!
     
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    I bet you slow down, just a little, to enjoy that new roof each time... able to enjoy a dry snow free load area... ;):yes:
     
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    BL is da chit....i stuffed an 8" round in tha back last nite along wit a bunch of good oak at 830 woke up at 430 to a 70 degree livin room:D..ohyea had a -10 degree wind chill:thumbs:......and plenty of monster coals to relite....
     
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    Amazing isnt it :fire::fire::fire:
     
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    Sean, it appears that carport definitely was a good idea. Glad you have some prime wood in there.
     
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    Excellent! BL is sporadic here - never had a chance to try it, but would love too. Really like the way you store your wood - seems to be keeping most of the snow and ice off the stacks - nice work! Cheers!
     
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