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

About to reload with some black locust

 

Currently 12/71.both stoves ripping. We carried extra inside so we don't have to go out till mid morning. I saw pin oak,ash,tulip poplar,white pine and even a cookie of apple in the stack

 

I don't know of any, I'm not of FB though. I check the go fund me and that's all I know of. Maybe somebody on FHC knows him?

 

10 outside, 70 inside. Inside temps are falling though, really pushing the stove to keep up. Gas will probably be kicking on tonight with 50-70 mph winds and temps getting down to around 5. Just loaded up with some ash I was able to get out easily. The red maple and little bit of elm I had left on deck wasn’t cutting it. All my oak and locust is buried under 4 feet of snow. I May try and get some out tomorrow after winds die down. Of courses I see some 50’s in the long range forecast. Crazy winter so far and we’re only 2 days in officially.

Icy splits drying out. Stay warm and safe everyone who’s dealing with this crap.

 

Good Evening !!! 6 degrees here at 4 am this morning it was 58 degrees what a change power is out the welder is powering us hickory in the shop stove it is cooking hard to keep up (Not real good insulation in the shop) wind is still gusting at @35 mph heck of a wind chill for around here JB

 

0/74.... Black locust & Red Oak will be keeping us warm.

 

In my experience the pre EPA stove do get you through these really cold times better than many of these new models.Your Papa Bear sounds like my Hearthstone 1.The One was built to deal with subzero temps and it sounds like yours is as well.The new models burn longer but don't match the heat of the old bad boys.Is that why the Papa Bear is in the house and the King is in the shop ?

 

It never even got up to zero degrees today, I'm not even fighting the wind chill with that. Winds are only slightly less from the 50 mph that were going on for gusts earlier. But not much. Still 40 mph gusts. It's-3° out now. -25° with the wind chill.

That wind was BRUTAL for running errands today. Took Hayden for his daily walk around the yard, and he only made it half way before his paws started freezing up.

73° in the stove room, ash in the stove. The furnace has turned on a few times today, as expected.

Apparently our local natural gas provider asked people to turn their thermostats down to 60-62° because of some"equipment failure" causing less NG to be able to be sent. Yeah, I was already doing my part.

 

3/70 with a windchill of -16. The VF-100 has had a steady diet of ash today. Tonight’s reload includes a few splits of locust for some additional output. Like many we experienced a rapid drop in temperatures with this Arctic blast.

 

Just added 3 splits of shagbark hickory and one mulberry. I’ll let those coal up before the night time fill.


They are certainly kicking out the jams!

 

-5/70....this is as warm as it's been all day. Winds still blowing here in Eastern SD. Warmup and less wind tomorrow. I can let the stove coast for awhile....burn down coals and empty ash pan.
Another 'Clipper' forecast Christmas night, but a warming trend for the middle of the week.

 

5F here and 20-30mph west wind blowing in some lake effect snow. So far not near the storm they hyped it up to be, cold and windy with about 4" of snow. We'll see what happens overnight. Extra Oak in the boiler for tonight. Family all made it safely to here and back home for our early just family Christmas.

 

Hickory, black locust and ironwood keeping this house cozy overnight. Be safe everyone

 

3/73 top loaded it with W.Oak and BL. You can really stuff her from the top.

 

Sliding down .
Seasoned white spruce keeping us alive

 

Final fill-up on the coldest night of the year. Those three splits of SBH are like burning coal! I opened the door to make room for a 25” 1/2 round of chestnut oak. Moved coals around and was quickly reminded there was a split of mulberry in there. I took a vid for those that have never burned it:
https://youtube.com/shorts/XyIPM27WMLA?feature=share

The radiant heat was intense!

Put 3 more splits of shaggy on top of the huge 1/2 round, then one E/W in front.



Barely fit!

 

0, -22wc, 67 inside time to run a full load of 5 year old css black locust now witness the firepower of this fully loaded and operational stove

 

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Exactly why the papa bear is in the house. I actually have gotten several stoves from remodels after a couple or family had issues from December through March with heavy coaling. I've had a AS in the house and loved the glass and style, but when winter hits hard it just frustrated me. The blaze king king I got out of a house I remodeled. The couple grew up with wood heat just like most of us and couldn't get over having to shut it down to clean the cat and do gasket maintence. I've got two fire views on pallets in my shop. One brand new and one with one winter on it. Very very nice stoves, but if you don't use any industrial heat like gas or electricity they can kind of be a pain. I don't really need flat foot power in my shop as I don't want it hot when I'm working in there. With the government stove, I can keep coals in that thing for 36 hours.
The stoves I take out most often are regency. 20 years ago you could get old fishers and what not for free, now they are coming back in vogue as people realize that an older stove is just a work horse. I have an 82 year old neighbor down the road a ways with a bed and breakfast that put two fire views in his house. Within a week he literally tossed the cats in the garbage. I would have taken them to give to other people, but he was pretty owlish about the "hippy stoves these days". It was a funny conversation.

 

8/71 22 mph wind with 30 plus gusts
Ironwood and hard maple

 

Looks like we’re bottomed out at 6 degrees here this morning. I just got the stove roaring back to life with a mix of spruce and black locust.