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

It got down to 8 last night. I'm burning red oak and red elm. Friday night it lightly rained, which turned to ice, then it heavily sleeted, then lightly snowed, and the temps have been too low to help get rid of any of it. The trees are iced over and the grass is crunchy. We had some company for New Years Eve, the roads are iced over and the company is still here. It's wood burning time!

 

54 F inside, -9 F outside at 6 am since we kill the furnace fire every night. Started on slippery elm+hackberry with a 7" slippery elm round for the first feed. Red oak and white ash followed. The furnace has pushed 800 cfm for 2 1/2 hours and we are up to 64 F inside and still -8 F outside. I could have warmed faster using the high speed blower setting, 1100 cfm, but that would require more monitoring and adjustments to keep the combustion rate higher. Five inches of snow from a week ago provides the full "winter feel"...

 

-5 outside, 70 inside. Burning mixed hardwoods today — maple, elm, and a little oak.

Looks like we got a total of 4-5” yesterday. I need to get outside to shovel again.

 

-38 ° F this morning
Aspen and birch poles in the stove.

 

-10 when I looked this morning, OWB still working on the red oak from last night.

 

Snow is all done only four inches on the ground, was 18 now 20 , stove is choochin 75 inside

 

Looks like youre back to your cold temperatures! We hit -33c/-27f yesterday morning which is this seasons coldest temp so far. We are nice and mild at -10c/14f now with a half load of doug fir in the box. Think Ill do some out door work today. I have some stacks to organize and dig out. Wife says the Christmas tree is coming down today.

 

Got down to 27 last night. I slept late so livingroom was 64 when I got up. Got the evil eye from the Mrs over the chill. Stove now full of Ash & Red Oak - 550 stovetop temp.

 

-9F overnight. House was 61F this AM I thought the wife loaded the stove last night. Nope! Neither one of us did. 17hr reload was stretching it a bit at below zero temps Still was a easy restart on plenty of coals this morning. Took a few hrs to warm the place back up. Brrrrrrr. Stay warm everyone.

 

Well, the dawn drop was more than I thought it would be.
This is what I'm burning in the stove

U guys probably wouldn't burn this stuff for shoulder season . But it sure beats snowballs !
Burns up kinda fast. Aspen and birch poles.

I had to get a fire view pic in here ;-)

 

Just went outside to split up some kindling and stuff a big bigger. When I came back inside about 15 minutes later I thought my fingers were going to fall off. Just checked and its 8* outside. 70 inside and just reloaded with some red oak Ive had seasoning for 3 years. I think winter is officially here.

 

About how many cord of wood do you burn every season? With all that fast burning wood in those temperatures, I imagine you can’t wander too far away from the stove.

 

I thought I had a handle on the winter weather here. But this winter proved me quite wrong. If winter goes the way it has I think 7 full cord will do. For this year. With single pane windows and stuff. Part of the house is not insulated . And the quality of my firewood isn't the best right now.

 

That’s actually not as bad as I would’ve guessed. It’s too late to ask but I think my grandfather in Delta Junction probably burned about the same. Of course he would hit the road a lot to visit my aunts and uncles in Fairbanks and the Anchorage suburbs, letting the cabin freeze up for a week or so, but I don’t remember him having an unGodly amount of wood around to stay warm.

 

Started my first fire of the season today. I have never witnessed such crazy weather patterns as we have had lately. Yesterday we hit a record high daytime temp for January 1st, 85 degrees, tonight is supposed to get down to 28, currently 32 and dropping.

Burning three year old red oak and two year old post oak, temp inside is 74. Stay warm my friends.

 

Is that -45F?

 

I was thinking -44 . But last I checked it had dropped to -47 maybe 48

 

Alaskans are quite ODD when it comes to firewood.
Most of the natives won't put up more than a months worth of wood ahead of time. Because some relative will ( borrow) it.
Plenty of the non natives are the same. Then there are the procrastinator's they don't go get wood until the throw their last stick in the stove.
Some people stay 1 year ahead. But they are by far in the minority. I only know 1 person that has 2 or more years of wood ahead. Our species fully season in 6 months or so if covered .

 

10f all red oak

 

I find that surprising, I would think in that climate that heating fuel in abundance would be a top priority.
16F here & dropping, clear & still out, very nice night. Boiler & shop stove both loaded with Oak. Boiler is using very little with the other stove going. This thing makes some real heat!