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

48 now, going to 60 today. No fire. Instead, I'm going to redo the door gaskets.

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Letting it go out this morning. It was 38'F when I woke up at 5:45, up to 45 now here on the MA/NH border. It's been a mild fall season temperature has on once gone down below freezing. Ground isn't frozen yet. I'm pretty much set to do battle with Old Man Winter when he shows up but he ain't here yet. But I know he's a' comin'.

I've got 10 cord out back all CSS and waiting, 5 are 2+ years old, 5 are 1+ years old and it's oak, maple and a small mix of birch and other junk.

 

Wind out of the north? We live in a valley that runs north/south. Aside from the temperature you can tell its going to cool off when the flags change direction.

 

Getting ourselves on a better fire schedule. With temps getting to 30F to 35F at night and about 50F during the day, 24-7 fire is not necessary. But, we were getting into the habit of having to start fire right at bedtime. So, last couple days I made sure to get up early and provide the fam with early morning fire consisting of dry pine, 3 to 4 uglies (typically pine and mulberry), and one split of hardwood (oak). Gets the house warmed up in the AM, and sunshine through the windows holds the temp during the day. Evening temps falling through the 40sF takes away some house heat, but at these temps the house can hold overnight with no fire. Will try to hold this pattern for a while.

 

26° outside, snow about to hit, again.... Guessers now say it could be 6" by my house. Starting in the am and going all day.

I brought in wood.

Siberian elm, Norway maple, ash, and if I get bored some ironwood, honey locust, apple, and shagbark hickory.

 

Really nice warm, sunny day here in the Rockies. Snow melting. Birds singing. Currently 74 in the house. 42 outside. No need to light the Jotul. I have the pellet stove going downstairs to heat the lower level. That heat will rise throughout the night.

 

30 °F now , Low tonight 26 °F stove is choochin , 76 °F inside

 

37* os...70* is....temp is still droppin...little ash n cherry torchin...once its sunrise...ill leave it go ...maybe...

 

30* outside 70* inside this morning. Reloaded with a smallish load of ash and cherry.

Good to see you posting again HDRock
I hope all is well...

 

27f here with a chance of light snow through 6AM. Heading for teens next few nights, and then single digits next week with no significant snow. Early ice for fishing is looking like a given here.

 

47 but rainy. Oak and hickory branch wood.

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19f right now. Made for a cooler morning walk.

 

Im thinking it might be here to. I noticed a few of our smaller lakes are frozen over now. I had a thought to hike into the alpine for early season ice fishing but not sure Ill get to it. -11c/12f earlier this morning with an inch of fresh snow overnight. Temps are supposed to stay below freezing for the next week according to the weather guessers.

 

Catalpa is ok. It's definitely not a good or great firewood. It's low on BTUs, around 15 mbtu a cord or so, maybe less. I've burned it, years ago. It was sold to me as "mixed hardwood". It's not. It's a softwood that grows really quickly. This had to be trucked in from somewhere a little south of here, because it's not really a local tree. When I got this I thought I was getting a deal, and it turns out that it wasn't. It also turns out that the place that delivered it was a company that stiffed my dad's plumbing and boiler company out of payment on a service call for an OWB. It was from CL, so there was no way I could've known that was who would be delivering the wood. I did call the driver out on the Mixed hardwood part as it was pretty much all catalpa, with a little red maple in it, maybe 10-15% maple. Guy claimed be only delivered it, and had nothing to do with the same beside that and collecting cash.

That was the last time I had wood delivered . The only way of have wood delivered that I pay for would be in log form and it would have to be gooder stuff only.

 

Fwiw, catalpa is about 15.9 mbtu a cord. Silver maple is just a tad better at 17 mbtu a cord or so.

I don't think either wood coals up that well.

 

Ive been burning lodgepole pine today (15.3 mbtu)which burns nice and hot but Ive never heard of catalpa but it sounds similar in btus. Its neat hearing how different regions have its crummy woods based on the btu wood available. If that was here, people would be snatching it up. The best we get in native trees is larch at 19 mbtus and just a bit of native birch at 19.5 mbtus. I was walking the pooch in the forest today a few minutes from my house and noticed a few standing dead lodgepole pine trees that had toppled over recently.... Im drooling over getting them.

 

Its -12c/10f under clear skies. I loaded this larch for an overnight burn a minute before snapping a pic. Warm sleepy hours ahead!