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

10* out 65* in....I got up around 5 to check the fire and it was 9* outside so we hit single digits last night

Right now I'm burning down some coals from last night's load. I'll be loading up with more red maple when its ready.

 

Same temp outside again this morning. Warmer inside though.

 

I'll send some better temps out to ya.

I had 27 for an overnight low here. And just enough of the slightest amount of snowfall to make the truck look white.

 

28F and 72F. Mild temps for several days ahead. Nice. Stove needs nothing yet.

 

18F at my house currently, which is a warmup from the 9F I awoke to. Red and white oak on tap, with a few smaller pieces of Mimosa filling in the gaps in the firebox.

 

Got up real early at 0400 to go to work , 4 * . I had no time to mess with the remnants of last nights fire. The Mrs. will have lit the fire when she got up.

 

Some good ole -11* and a 72* inside with birch having the job.

 

16°F for a low last night, white oak making in warm inside.

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26° and feeling stiff out there. Short Fatties of Ash loaded EW

 

It only got down to 33 last night. 68 inside when I got up. It will be a lot colder when Christmas comes.

 

15 this morning. My wife and I went to the public market early and loaded up on veggies and other supplies (coffee!). Stopped at a German market in the city and bought some thick sliced bacon, dragon's breath slim sticks and smoked ham. Got home and started a fire from last night's coals. Currently burning some black locust and ash and enjoying the fire. Hope everyone has a good weekend!

 

I burned like 9 bundles oak slabs since October 1 I never burned that much that early . It's just cold enough I needed keep a fire going . Burning slabs. My bundles are about 2000-2200 lbs . Heating 6600 sqft

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Stove was loaded @ 9PM last night. When I went to bed it was 12 out and 72 in. I got up today @ 11AM; 66 inside, 35 out. Stove chewing on a mixture of sliver maple and ash, back to a cumfy 72 inside.

 

I think it got to 2*. At 4 am. Too dark to see house was chilly. Oh dad played with stove again.. yellow birch and maple this morning

 

9 bundles? Crap! That's way too much wood to have gone through for the low temps we have been having this year so far! The bundles of slab wood I thinking of are almost a full cord exactly!!!

I lit mine (OWB) on the 20th of OCT. I have been burning only wood that I bought. It is the left over chunks of a log that goes through a firewood processing machine, so the pieces are anywhere from 4" to say 10" long-but unsplit. They came from logs anywhere from 4"-5" up to 12" ish.

I can load a trailer(5X10) for $50.

So far, I've burned a little less than 3 trailers. Not bad....$75 a month for heat and hot water.

I guess the point I'm trying to make is that a stove will burn just as much wood as you put into it. A few years back, I started loading the stove only 1/2 of a side at a time during the shoulder season. It may be a little too late to try that now, but please give it a try this spring.

 

So when I got home this morning, I fed the furnace and payed down for a few hours. When I got up this afternoon, furnace blower was running and I thought to myself, that should have turned off by now. Go out and notice all the doors are open. Well, I find out the 8 yr old, who is afraid of nothing, took it upon himself to load the furnace himself. Scary! Let it go for tonight so the house will cool down. Plan to fire it up again in the morning

 

9 bundles seems like a lot and 6,600 feet is nothing to sneeze at heating either. I am a few months into heating season, I am pushing the 3-4 cords burnt and loving my OWB. Will be interesting to see how much I burn this season. I may need to check the bundles of slabs out from the local saw mill. Is the burn time effected by how tight they stack?

 

I burned slabs with an OWB (also a central boiler, BTW) and qwuickly learned that even though they were hardwood bundles, it was still "gopher" wood due to it being slabs. Nice and cheap though! Got a big truckload for $150!!!

 

I feel inadequate around you people. Don't think I've burned half a cord yet.

 

Glad nothing bad happened.