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

On the bright side, the dog survived.
Warmed up here, 29F and no wind. Snow's already getting greasy to drive on. Looks like another crap winter coming with a bunch of warm ups and no long term frost in the ground for any serious logging. This lousy weather is why I started buying logs. Oak in the boiler because it hasn't been cold enough to break out the Black Locust in years. That stuff's getting old.

 

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When I got my stove the man I bought it from and his son brought in down the cellar steps.When he saw I had a Escelera stair climber he asked me if I wanted to sell it.I said naw I'll need it to move my stove one day.I think he would have traded the stove for the stair climber.I was tempted but realized I'd need it one day.

 

I’m an hour and a half into an all-night black locust burn. Hopefully I can wake up and open the air all the way up in the middle of the night. It’s on the mild side here at 26, projected to hit the high teens later.

 

Second day in a row with no minus temperatures! It's a skating rink outside. Wood-cutting friend found a grove of standing, dead Douglas fir before the big freeze. Soon as the logging road is passable we will hit it hard! In this part of BC it seems that all the prime firewood is always on top of some mountain.

 

If you ever get to Dawson City, Yukon there is a Jack London museum. They found the cabin in the 1950’s I think and brought half to Dawson City and made a replica cabin and the other half of the log went to California(?) IIRC. As the crow flies I’m about 200 miles west of there.

 

I never burned Douglas Fir or any pine.How can I tell the difference from other Pines.

 

By the intensity of the chimney fires?

 

There are many species of Pine trees in British Columbia. Douglas fir burns slower, and has a higher BTU value than pine. Fir trees are usually far larger than pine. B.C. was ravaged by the pine beetle, so there are lots of standing dead trees available. Cutting firewood in B.C. is free on government or "Crown" land. A visit to the local forestry office on a yearly basis gets you a cutting permit, along with a topographical map showing the areas open to firewood cutting. I burn black pine, lots of Ponderosa pine here but nobody burns it has a reputation of burning too hot for airtight stoves. Height of pine trees 80 to 110 feet, fir 90 to 160'.

 

Yes, it's around here. I don't think you have any by you. It's only in the eastern list of Wisconsin. See map.. You have to go to older growth forests here though. It's got a real smooth grey bark.

 

How would I know one from the other ?

 

20° out now and slowly rising though the night. Burning ash.

77° in the stove room. Got the blower on the HVAC going as it got up to 80° in the stove room at dinner time. Oops.

 

74/29 fireview loaded with tulip poplar ash. I have a few weeks more of tulip poplar to burn through. Warmer weather later this week.

 

Mainly from the size of the tree, and color of bark.Fir bark is very coarse with longitudal grooves, up to 2" thick, brown in color. Pine bark is smooth and usually black.

 

24 here and I’m burning more black locust mixed with a little spruce. It’s been below freezing since early Friday evening and I don’t mind it one bit Alas, tomorrow is forecasted to break the cold snap. Oh well, gotta clean the stove out soon anyway.

 

24F here. Temp is heading up? Looks like I may get one more morning of cutting in before it gets too greasy. Oak and some Elm in the boiler. Drizzle and fog predicted for Thursday and Friday. Despite the higher wood usage I'm glad to have the boiler. Way too much up and down weather to keep a steady temp with a stove.

 

32/74 w/ 100% chestnut oak in the firebox.

 

25/72 burning a bunch of small 2-4 inch rounds tonight. I swear these little rounds last longer than splits 2 or 3x bigger.

 

Yep, heading up. When it gets greasy out there it sucks. That's why my buddy and I worked in his woods yesterday. Today would've been ok too, more than likely aside from the wind that is definitely going to be a bit more than yesterday for us.

Burning some ash coals down this am. Then I'll reload with..... More ash.

29° out already heading to 40°. 71° inside

 

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