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

That sucks..........timing is everything, unfortunately it wasn't for the good.

 

hey I don't know why it turned out like that but that's pretty cool, pic, that's my stove burning,
I'm a photographer and don't know it

 

60º this morning, 36º now. Hadn't fired the stove since last night at 10 pm, still had enough to rake around and load. Heading toward the teens by morning, hang there for tomorrow then single digits and 5" inches of snow overnight Monday. Just brought about a day and a half of oak and beech in by the stove. Bring it on, wanna give that new snowblower a work out and let the Buck stove stretch it's legs a bit.

 

We got lucky alright. It stayed about 32 for a while. Then about 3:30-3:45 the wind starting picking up. And the warmer air came with it. The ice started falling off the trees like crazy! We had to go under a couple big pines to get to the vehicles from camp. You got soaked going under them. Good feeling though. The ice was going. Big relief. I thought for sure we would lose power if the winds came up. But they did not get too strong. Almost all ice had left the trees by 4:30-5.

 

Same stuff happened here sherwood For some reason every time i do the border thing its a hassle?

 

Now Loon. Emma has eluded that you are sometimes the reason there is always a hassle in the woods. Same at the border?

 

I do know she feels guilty keeping secrets from you guys Gas.

 

What is that she is looking at? A bird she killed?

 

I think shes feeling sheepish about the sheep chit she obviously had been rolling in.................

 

-1 out with no wind chill. The deep freeze is here. It won't hit double digits above zero until the weekend. Keeping warm with elm and poplar logs tonight. I only had a couple of poplar pieces, but it's a nice change.

 

Loon, great picture. Don't they just love getting into the newly plowed/prepped soil? She looks like she knows she really shouldn't be there.....
We should start a thread on border stories, during a slow weather/burning time.

 

Its 5 a.m. and the temp is sitting @ 0-f with a stiff wind chill coming from the NW. Both stoves sporting really nice coal beds and the temp is 74 throughout the house. Bring on winter.......................

 

Put 2 large Shagbark rounds on at 11PM before I went to bed,was 5 degrees outside & 78 in here....

Set the alarm for 5AM,there was a big bed of coals with a light covering of ash.2 outside & still 72 in here. A couple small Silver Maple & Pine splits,1 big chunk of Silver & its going great again.Shagbark/Bur Oak for the rest of the day now.

Big storm to arrive around 1PM today,5-7 inches expected by early Tuesday. High of 14 today if we're lucky,with NW gusts 30-40 & blizzard conditions starting for the evening rush hour....

 

It's cold. Burning wood...and lots of it.

 

-22 wind chill here now, stove is on a steady diet of Oak and Mulberry.

 

Put a load of Ash in about an hour ago. The winds have really picked up. The trees are swaying and it is roaring. Way glad the ice came off the trees during the brief warm windy period yesterday. It would not be a pretty sight today otherwise.

I have a nice cat fire going. Flue damper and air control both completely closed, coals glowing, no flames, clear glass, stovetop temp 400, probe flue temp 520.

 

How do they burn and what moisture content?

 

Loud

 

It is getting ready to drop below freezing around here. Looks like we will stay frozen until Saturday or Sunday. I'm getting ready to light the second stove and will probaby fill it with coal. I'm burning a mix of red and white oak, two or three loads a day (daybreak, end of school/work, and overnight) upstairs. One or two buckets of coal a day downstairs. Both stoves running nice and easy, the house in the low 70s.

KaptJaq