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

Fisher Papa bear. I got rid of all my government stoves except for a blaze king king in my shop. I've tried lots of different EPA stoves but they all coal up during the day. being warm and trouble free all winter without thought works best for me. I burn a couple more cord a winter in the house, but that is nothing for 5 to 6 hours of work.

I like the blaze king because It'll chooch and keept the shop at 45 to 50. And I only feed it once a day.

 

Mostly but I'll throw in a few splits of lodgepole in the morning to get the stove extremely hot within 15 minutes.

 

I feel the same. Warmed up to 5 below and climbing. Suppose to get real real nice in a day or two.

 

Down to 29 now, wind way up. Snow coming down. An old fashion blizzard coming in. Burning Pine.

 

9 degrees outside 30 miles an hour wind.
I never have to shove my air in all the way but definitely had to today, Stove is a choochin boy but under control, Blower on too

 

-5 degrees here with steady 20-30 mph winds with higher gusts. Beech and small pieces of knotty hedge in the BK Princess cruising through the day.

 

I cleaned out the stove and just got a fire established with some cherry, hickory and a couple splits of black locust. It’s 39 here and the temperature is dropping fast, with the little bit of precipitation we’re getting starting to turn over to sleet.

 

The magic of turbo charged draft is quite the thing sometimes

 

It has been below zero all day with high winds. The boiler was struggling to stay up, and there was a ten degree temperature drop from the boiler to my furnace intake pipe- I have a BBQ meat thermometer attached there.

Frozen pipe to upstairs bathroom too. Just noticed the winds had blown out one of the crawl space vents, blowing winds under the house.

Throw some treetop poplar splits in to get a s to the load for overnight. Feeling so much better that the problems we were having are now resolved. I was losing faith in my boiler.- forgive me.

 

It's been in the 50's all day. I shut down the stove earlier to address an issue with the door gasket.

I have a fire now back in the stove, using oak splits.

With temps being forecasted in single digits by sunrise, I'll be putting oak and black locust in the stove for overnight. I'll have oak ready for a reload when nature wakes me up ~2am.

 

Wind is downright nasty! Trees still standing, fingers still crossed.


76 inside. Just threw a piece of pine on the oak coals.

Scary stuff.

 

Big change from the 52⁰ this morning. Currently 13⁰ with a 15-20mph wind (gusts around 30+). Grandma bear in the basement is rollin @450⁰ with a load of red/white oak. The pellet stove on the main floor is on level 3 and the house is a comfortable 72⁰

 

74/-3 burning down the coals in the stove so I can stuff it full of red/white oak and pig nut hickory at around 9pm. The wind is absolutely brutal. Hopefully there will be some blowdowns in the county.

 

Somebody who i was working with kept saying pine had creasole. He said it about a dozen times this week. I just stood there shaking my head.

 

14 on the way down to 8. If y’all see the South anywhere please ask it to return to NC.

 

1/70 just loaded at 6 with ash and black locust. Cathy has been baking all day so the kitchen is nice and warm. Our Aussie don't do much sniffing, just get to business at hand or should that be business at paw.

 

It has warmed up to 6 below zero F here. 68F inside. But I will be burning some LP in the furnace soon.
I have not cleaned out any ashes for 5-6 days and I need to do that soon. Got no room!
I won’t give the stove my typical overnight load so tomorrow 6am I will do the clean out.

but it will still chap my arse to hear that LP furnace kick on tonight,,,,,,

 

Thanks for sharing that. In between appointments today, I watched a bunch of his videos. Very well done. Ohio has there been any news on his status?

 

-2/70 maple running the stove . I don't get on here all the time but to all Have a safe and Happy Holiday !!