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

Discussion in 'The Wood Pile' started by Gasifier, Nov 4, 2013.

  1. thewoodlands

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    We have 45.7 tonight with another load of soft maple and cherry going in the wood stove.
     
  2. Backwoods Savage

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    Stayed in 60's all night until a bit of rain moved through around 5:30 this morning. This is amazing as that is summer night temperatures. I see the temp just dropped again so maybe the cold front came through early.
     
  3. Backwoods Savage

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    I see they issued a wind advisory with up to 50 mph wind today. Yuck...
     
  4. Rope

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    19* snowing and gust to 40mph, 72* inside courtesy of spruce. Really enjoying the warmer weather, the OWB is going 24 hours per load.
     
  5. yooperdave

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    Been on 24 hours a load here for a few days too Rope :handshake:

    30 now, windy, finally stopped raining but its snowing now.
     
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  6. thewoodlands

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    We had 40.1 this morning, the stove is cold and the driveway received some sand and ashes this morning. We hit 56.3 just a few minutes ago.
     
  7. Erik B

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    Got the fire going this morning. Temps were down into the mid 30's. Lots of wind the past couple of days. Glad we are sheltered from the worst of it.
     
  8. yooperdave

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    Sun is shining, snow is melting....well, at least the snow that I didn't shovel.... but it is still windy.
     
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  9. Prometheus

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    Right on! Colorado's great. When I was a teenager I used to go to the Crestone area every summer. Hang out at the dunes and do some backpacking up in the Sangre de Cristo range.
     
  10. Prometheus

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    Sure. Hopefully these are visible...

    The first one is the clearest photo I can find of the pile. It's from last December when I was working on our fence, but you can see the mill ends behind the fence rails. That's about half or 1/3 of what I got from the miller. Filled a 30' trailer. Some of the mill ends took 3 guys to unload. And free! So that was a good scrounge.

    The next photo is what's left right now. Down to the bottom row... Our Aussie brought his frisbee when he saw me come out to take the pic. Last one is a measurement of one of the larger splits of a walnut mill end in our rack by the door.

    All of this stuff came from a custom miller who mills whatever you bring him, which is likely why it's so big compared to what you see on Youtube or whatever. Irregular logs = bigger mill ends.

    I got my fence lumber (white oak) from an Amish sawmiller who also had mill ends, but his were much thinner. Probably because he sourced his own logs and was much more production oriented.
     

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    Oh, and 48 outside and 75 in the stove room burning walnut and white oak :)
     
  12. Redneckchevy

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    36 out right now, got oak,elm,maple and basswood in the OWB.

    Finished stacking the cord of red oak splits I brought home.
    Got to finish cutting the rest of it up and get it home.
    (Don't mind the dirty OWB... It needs a power washing on this side.)

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  13. tamarack

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    40 F been getting a little skiff of snow last 3 nights, always gone by 9am. Burning Lodgepole.
     
  14. thewoodlands

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    We're still at 55 but dropping so the wife wanted a fire (our first of the day) we have some soft maple and cherry going in the Liberty.
     
  15. Eric Wanderweg

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    Dirty OWB? All I see in that grainy picture is this:

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    :D
     
  16. Horkn

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    Ash. Burning ash tonight. Just taking the chill out of the air. 72° inside. 36° outside
     
  17. Backwoods Savage

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    Temp at 34 now which is the lowest so far.
     
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    Windy once again but made it cold for the morning walk. 18 and partly clear; no new snow.
     
  19. thewoodlands

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    We had a low of 34.3 this morning with a load of cherry going in the wood stove.
     
  20. Chazsbetterhalf

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    My son sent me some picks of the dunes. Every days off, he and his girlfriend grab the dogs and goes hiking and camping some place. He is in Fort Collins.