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

29° and just loaded up with some old pine. Lights right up and burns hot.

 

Old Spark,

Believe it or not, I read that as a serious question for a moment. I need some sleep.

Just went to take the car in to get the window )stuck open) repaired, and there is a tree down across my road. Large crown, and I guess the ice/wind was too much for it. The trunk is splintered starting a few feet up. Fortunately it's a small tree. Unfortunately, it was a nice one.

 

Weather forecast just keeps getting more interesting. Hunker down.

 

42 degrees right now last week -22. 40 mph winds killing me with the stove.

 

Best week of winter this year for most of us, if you like snow and cold, and I do . Ive been putting aside some shagbark and some 21" pieces of hard maple just for a week like this. Oak today but starting tonight I'm going to start burning my best stuff.

 

31F and droppin steady with a 25mph wind. Burnin oak and oak andddd oak. Well pretty much all i have is oak. Might be a bit of sass mixed in there.

 

This morning it was 16 degrees so I loaded up with Cherry, just heading down to load up with some Beech and a few rounds of Ironwood.

The temp is sitting at 7.5 with some good winds.

 

14* here, loaded 10 splits of white oak and ash, ran the flue temps to 800, shut down the air, stove at 600 feels good.

 

Well, it's 11f here right now. Split up some of the elm limb rounds, from that big dead guy I took down awhile back. Three big chunks of that in the princess right now.
Just waiting on weather to roll in. We're expecting up to 6" overnight, so I fired up the plow truck and got it staged to knock out the driveway, should the need arise.
Brought in a little extra this evening. Oak and elm, mostly. Wifey bought a carrying sling at Orschelns' today. She calls it her "wood purse". LOL. She has embraced the whole wood thing. She's in favor of being warm.

Oh, I did want to report to the group that Orschelns' has a Mexican made Michigan bit ax for 15.00, with the coupon. I wouldn't do any serious chopping with it, but for 15 bucks it does split pretty well. Also, they have a bunch of related stuff on super duper sale. That means that TSC and rural king and the others probably do, too.

 

Sweating in the stove room on a big split of 4yo willow oak, wanted to test a really big block ~10x12" to see how it would work for this coming week's single digits.
I think they work well, tried a smaller one this morning and the house stayed at 78 with outside temps ~45 and a steady wind.

The split size is just big enough that I can add 2-3 smaller splits of dry oak or pine to get the biggun going and nearly choke it off with "real heat" not the soapstone blowing for another 6-8hrs of "feels like heat"

 

Winding down from the day time festivities. Came home from work and had good coal bed in both stoves after a 11 burn. Loaded em' up with some more maple and beech splits. Current temp is -13 f, house temp is 75. Will be giving them the full overnight load shortly. Supposed to drop down to -21 overnight. Winter has arrived..................................

 

Its 6 right now got up to 9 today last night was 4
burning the same mix ash oak and sugar maple,
I'm going to need to reload here soon 72 in here right now

 

17 outside...73 inside Thanks to a nice rack of red oak

 

stay warm buddy

 

15 Outside.....72 Inside
Burning some Maple right now, In about an hour I'll throw some Oak in then go to bed.

 

The first week of winter has arrived...



Right now it is 23° F outside (and dropping) with NW wind about 25 knots, 75° inside on a mix of red & white oak upstairs and coal downstairs.

Stay warm everybody,
KaptJaq

 

10º outside right now, 74º inside above the stove room. Burning down some american elm and sugar maple. Will load'er up full about 10:30...got some oak (red & white), sugar maple and I came across an old piece of hickory mixed in that was from 5 or 6 years ago, that's definately going in for the overnight.

 

Warm enough today that half my snow is gone. Warm westerly winds, but gusts to 50-60 mph. in the canyon, higher elsewhere.
I expect to have 90% of my snow gone tomorrow, just have to deal with mud. Weird stuff for this time in Jan.

 

Would love to here how you find the burn with the best stuff compared to what you have been burning.