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

20 degrees at 6AM 25 miles north of Seattle ( Crazy) Loaded insert up with North Idaho Fire Logs before bed last night, Stove was still warm this morning with coals, However house was at 60 degrees, turned on my NG furnace to get house to 68, loaded stove up with Doug Fir and Big Leaf maple currently 71 and climbing

 

25-40 here the last couple days. Got to the bottom of the pile on my shoulder wood. Need minus 17" wood for the Englander. 20-30" for the big gun. Been many years since I've ran out of short wood under cover for the Englander. Running out due to no chimney yet for the big gun. Been on the list at a stainless fabricator for 2 years for a new chimney. GRRRRRRRR !!!
Anyway there were about 20, 8" rounds of dry cherry at the bottom of the last pile. Ohhh man do these big rounds burn looooooooonngg at 30-40 temps and nice low even heat. Perfect for these temps.
Never been a fan of cherry but I now have a good app for it.

 

It was cooler but that was my fault, it was 65 in the house. The temp I set the pellet stove on should've been higher, both the wood stove and the pellet stove are in the basement.

 

-11 F this morning. Yesterday fought a -20's F wind chill all day. Still doing 12 hour reloads on the Ashford.

 

Wow. It's early to be that cold.

 

We only got down to the 20's last night and back over 50 today, even on the cold nights I can't bring myself to burn the oak and hard maple and just keep burning ash. Still have just under a cord of ash so I'll probably keep burning that until the real cold part of winter. I've been burning 16" since it was all cut for the princess and the PH takes 20-21", I have a little hard maple that's cut 20". That's about 25% more wood in the box, I'll save for the next polar vortex.

 

Still burning the Pellet Stove, I think it's still in the 40's, we'll crank up the liberty tomorrow morning.

 

Hit 64 today. Supposed to get in the 20s tonight. Burning oak. And oak.

 

Pretty mild here still. Right at 30º this morning on the back porch. Ash burning in the boiler. It was so warm yesterday and last night that there was not much heat demand last night. Boiler still half full this morning.

 

Yesterday the high was 52, but VERY humid, cloudy and gusty/windy; real feel reported as 32. NYC at the same time was 55 (3 degrees warmer), real feel 58.....temperature doesn't tell the entire story! I had the house nice and warm yesterday...74 degrees....occasionally added a 2 inch branch or two or three during the day, then left the coals to burn down overnight. It is still comfortable in here now, in the 60's. I raked out all the ash, then loaded the stove with twigs and very small branches. Will probably continue to do that today, to burn down the brush. Then a real fire later in the day. We are going down to 9 tonight. Extended forecast at this point (it keeps changing pretty drastically) is for cold weather to really set in, but, for the first time since last winter, an extended period without any real precip. Until the 17th of Dec, as of current forecast. I hope that materializes. Will give me time to burn the brush stacks I have on my lawn. And let me save my c/s/s/til the second half of Dec. At the rate we are going, I am mildly hopeful I may have some of the c/s/s dedicated to this year's heating left over for next year.

 

The wife and I were gone for a long weekend and the live-in SIL stayed home to watch the animals. She didn't seem like she wanted to learn how to run the stove so the wife gave me permission to just leave the basement thermostat set at 64. When we got home yesterday evening it was 8 outside with little to no wind, 53 in the living room, and 63 in the basement with the LP furnace between cycles. I started a fire in the Answer post-haste and within an hour the living room and kitchen were back up to 73. I stayed up 'til 1am to get one last log or two loaded to carry through the night and it was still 68 at 7am with -9 outside.

As a side note; does anyone else notice that it can take a while for all the "stuff" in a room to get back up to a decent temp once you let it cool down a ways? Even after I got the air temp back within reason last night it seemed like areas of the room or maybe pieces of furniture were still radiating or giving up their chill?

 

It's in the 20's tonight with possible low of 8 so we fired up the Liberty with Cherry and some nice dead Elm rounds, all dead Elm going in for the overnight burn.

The weather looks like it will warm back up again for the rest of the week.

 

6f now and swamp maple in the box.

 

Looks like 6º on the back porch right now. Ash and some Box Elder in the boiler at the moment.

 

Yesterday hit the 60's for me in Boston. I think it topped out in the high 50's at home. This morning heading to the train, it was 37. My son started the stove before bed as he gets the heat into his room from the wood stove. Tomorrow I am working from home and it's due to be a high of 55 with rain. It gets gradually cooler the rest of the week, and the goes back up to 48 on Saturday. Enough already, I am now ready for the snow. Bring on the snow.


Jason from RI.

 

Cold! 8 degrees F, -13 C in Kingston, we are several degrees colder than that. Then, of course, tonight we go above freezing and have a few hours of icy precipitation. I think I preferred last year where we got down below freezing in November and never say an above freezing day until almost May. Icy precip is the worst, followed closely by wet heavy snow and mushy slush. Al least cold weather brings beautiful, dry crunchy snow.

Still burning twigs, branches and uglies. A stove full of twigs burns quickly, with just a few smaller branches added, needs reloading often, but heats the house really well, really quickly. And I have lots of brush left from the trees that were cut this past Spring..all nice and dry. The longer the weather allows me to continue processing this stuff, the more cord wood I can save for the real winter.

 

Right at 28º this morning. Ash and some Pine burning in the boiler.

 

I loaded up some oak last night. And I'll do the same tonight. Closing in on a cord burned this year.

 

Back to shoulder wood for me. That last big tree had quite a bit, and I just want rid of it. You know who is complaining that the fire's not hot enough. We'll see about that! 28f at the moment. I'm also closing quickly on a cord, but mostly shoulder and uglies.
On a side note, my version of Uncle Augie ' s solar kiln (shrink-wrap) appears to be working. Lots of condensate on the top last I looked.