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

I don’t know the exact temperature but some kind of low 40s miserable rain nonsense.

I’ve got a load of oak and elm positioned around a carefully arranged generous pile of mixed pine and hardwood kindling with a fat wood wick ready to go in my stove. If I ever finish work, it will take 1 match and 5 minutes to make all well with the world.

 

Before

 

5 minutes

 

That is 1 heck of an ash pan? What kind of stove is it?

 

We have had a pretty good cold spell here for about a week. I got up this morning around 6:30 am and it was 9* outside. High today was around 27*. Needless to say been burning some wood.

 

Dat chilly right dere.

 

Add a little wind to that and it down right hurts any exposed skin when outside.

 

Pacific Energy Fusion.

It has a pretty good ash pan but there is more ash in the base than the ash pan. I need to clean down there!

 

papadave , yooperdave



That's me

 

31 °F, now, Tonight, Snow 90% , Low: 25 °F, Tuesday High: 32 °F
Ash choochin in the Lopi

 

-5c/23f right now. I think we maintained that through the day. Lodgepole pine on low keeping the house warm. My 17 year old daughter and I went to one of my properties and cut a willow to the ground and loaded it into the truck. It was decimated by the heavy snow fall we had a month or so ago. I had someone lined up to do the job but they kept pushing me off so we decided to hire ourselves and make a bit of money. As my daughter put it she was helping out with the family business today. She made herself a pretty penny thats for sure. Once home my son and I split a bunch of lodgepole pine that was stump to stove wood. We loaded the garage with two weeks worth of pine and stacked the rest in the yard. A good day.

 

Perfect temp.....

 

37* rainin....wife said roads a little slippy in the hollows...70* inside.....too much hickory in wood box..hate burnin it right now....not goin out in the rain to get somethin else tho..

 

10f burning oak slabs 77f inside . First heavy boiler fill . About 12 inch's of slabs in a 54x36 inch fire box . I could put in 20 inch's more . But that's for subzero were not there yet lol I put couple chunks of wet stuff on top to slow things down .


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We got the seasons 6th measurable amount of snow last night, with this being the third time the snowplows were out. It happens to be the first time one storm has put snow on another snowstorm . In other words, that last storm did not melt.

A strange thing yesterday though. I always use WeatherUnderground and find them to be very accurate with a weather station only a few miles from me. But yesterday they said it was 28 degrees out, and 1 mph winds, gusting to 2 mph.

Well the ground was frozen enough so it gave the indication it was far below 28 degrees and the wind was blowing so hard that fir trees were tossed about. Not hard, but a 2 mph gust would not do that. It is the first time I ever saw WeatherUnderground be wrong.

 

Being a new home with a new heating system, I have been checking temperatures. One daughter said the first night in the house she was cold so I put a thermometer up in the second floor, but it seems it is running 2 degrees warming then the first floor. That is about right. We are at 70 on the first floor, so it was just her...

So I put a thermometer in the basement to see what the temperatures were like there. I put it 2 feet off the floor, and on the North wall in a fieldstone foundation with dirt floor. The house is banked with hay, and it is running between 40-44 degrees. Since this is a worst case scenario, and the water pipes are at the ceiling, I am happy with that.

 

Yesterday was a beautiful day in the upper 30’s, perfect for getting ready for winter weather coming on Friday. It’s freezing rain outside and 78 in here with a couple splits of pine going. Supposed to be single digits Thursday morning.

 

Pine fire this morning. 53ºF outside 71ºF so far in. Raining and raw, Supposed to be warmer today than yesterday, maybe 60ºF, so this will probably let go out until later in the afternoon.

 

33F here this morning with light rain. Maple and Ash in the boiler.

Looks like it’s going to cool down considerably over the next two nights. Calling for a low of 19 overnight tonight and 15 tomorrow night.