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

First kill freeze tonight has stimulated some firewood buying. Have I already told you how much I like pine for fire restarts? Toss it on a few dying coals and walk away. Heat is decent. Burn time has me blowing through my loblolly stash.

 

Made it down to 28 last night, we had 2 inches of snow by morning. Heading to 25 tonight but no snow. 40 now and most of the snow is gone except on the north facing fields and roof. 73 in and just kicked off some cherry and maple.

 

40/66. Just lighting up red oak with honey locust noodles and splitter scrap.

 

It’s 35 in Rock County, WI. Our brand spankin’ new Quadra-Fire insert is humming along nicely. And, yes, I’m aware there’s no surround yet. It’s on back order.

Anyways, we’re breaking her in with a mix of buckthorn along with some red oak and mulberry uglies/chunks.

It sure feels nice posting actual fire-related content. I love the bird and music threads, don’t get me wrong - but THIS is what we’re all here for, no?

 

Yes it is!!
Very nice view ya have there. The surround will be the icing on the cake.

 

Started burning this week. Little later than usual. Some red oak chunks tonight. 32/72

 

Thanks man. We are gonna talk to the sales guy about hiding that fan cord. Plus they installed the box without the “seal” (block-out seal, mentioned in another thread). The install instructions show that seal should be there. It’s not. Annnnnd the “auto” function on the blower control doesn’t seem to work. So - not without hiccups, but we’re BURNIN’.

 

Here’s that thread about the seal/layer and some other users’ travails with that issue.

Trouble shooting/tweaking new insert install

 

Replying to myself but whatever. Brief update - the auto-fan/blower just kicked on so there’s one less issue to contend with. God is good.

 

For a couple days around here at least.

 

Tossed my first piece of oak into the stove overnight. I've been burning mostly ash and red maple up to now. Easy refire.

Had our 1st frost of the season.

 

27 burning white and red oak with a piece of pine to get things crackling.

 

26/67 ash and cherry. I’ll probably be burning these two almost exclusively until December (not that there’s anything wrong with that )

 

25/76 elm

 

20/63 Gonna be a sunshine day here with temps close to 40. 99 bought some NY strips for the grill!

 

Below 32* when I got up this morning. Loaded some cherry with punky sapwood but great heartwood on top of ash coals

 

It was 25 when I got up and mid 40's now. Headed for upper 60's and 70's the next few days. Put on a locust log this am, but gona let it go out for a few days.

 

-4c/25f with moderate snow fall this morning. It looks like we will be warming up for at least a week which means our lows will barely be going below freezing each day. That's alright, weve had a good run of cold weather so it will be a nice break before winter really starts.

 

I've been running into a few splits of red oak in this year's stack. I'll be saving it for overnight burns. I don't think I have much honey locust in this year's stack, so oak might be my highest BTU rated wood for this burning season. Lots of ash, elm and box elder this year I think.


It was 38° when I reloaded this am with Box elder, and catalpa. 76 in the stove room and all the snow we got on Tuesday is gone.

 

First overnight burn last night. Low of about 27F... house was at 69F when I got up. Still working through some shoulder season poplar, and the overnight burn was only a 3/4 load or so. Even with lows in the high 20s overnight, we're still not going to be on 24/7 burning for a while.