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

Discussion in 'The Wood Pile' started by Gasifier, Nov 4, 2013.

  1. Well Seasoned

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    That will never happen!
     
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    27 degrees here also but will let fire go out because when sun hits the windows it gets plenty of solar heat here...:)
     
  3. papadave

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    thewoodlands , well, true to form, the dogs woke me at 6:55. Coffee was shortly after. On my 2nd cup right now.
    25 at that time, and the house had dropped to 67 again.
    Raked a nice coal bed forward and added a medium split of Maple e/w, then a few minutes later, changed it to n/s and added a couple more.
    I'm creating more coals, but I wanted to warm the house up a little.
    I should be able to let it cruise for a while after it's down to coals again.
    Only supposed to hit 32 today.
    Still only burned about 1/2 cord, but it's goin' away a little quicker now.
     
  4. papadave

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    The snow forecast has dropped to 2-4", but unless that storm takes a turn northward, we'll be high and dry.
    HDR and points south should get a few " though.
    That's a goodly sized patch of snow.
     
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    Wont get nothing here :(
    The outlook shows it continuing NNE
     
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    32 here with a stiff Northern wind..... Locked and loaded the stove full at 5 a.m. of Honey Locust and Mulberry... 82 when I left... Should be some hot coals when I get home around 5 ish....
     
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    20 this morning, feels like 10. Supposed to get a bit of snow today through tomorrow, but I don't think we'll get much.
    Only burning the OWB at this point.
     
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    About 1" snow on the ground ,snowing steady , but most of the snow is supposed to come late afternoon and evening.
    34 outside, ash in a little Hickory in the Box 75 inside
     
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    I woke to a cold rain this morning but it must have cooled off a little because now it is huge snowflakes, like an inch across. The ground is still warm enough that nothing is sticking yet.
     
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    29 here and snowing, 71 in the house. Burning a load of chunks and knots (silver maple, black cherry, mulberry) and two gren bricks for good measure. Loving this colder weather (and the snow too).
     
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    Thanks for sharing your experience with these types of stove... Mine is an '81 wondercoal- same thing, but with a spin draft on the feed door. After a good bed of coals, relights went quick, managed to cut the smoke outpu by better than half! I've had this stove for 2 years.... Can't seem to get ahead enough to step up to one of them big boy stoves like a bunch of ya's have, but we tryin! In mean time, I'll use what I got!
    Put the house up to 82* last nite, fire probably went out at 4 am, still mid 70's now....
     
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    My big boy stove has made my 450sqft stove room over 90 before when learning!!
     
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    And that room was open to another 1000-1500sqft with fans blowing cold into the room
     
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    Like a "sou-nah"!!!!!
     
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    Well, it started snowing about an hour ago. Still coming down at about the same rate, and it's sticking a little.
    My wife just asked if had a fire going. It is now. 2 Oak, with a Maple, and an Ash split.
    Feels a bit cooler than it really is, but since I'm a FHC member, the house should be warmer soon.:dex:
     
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    Us also, we have a ten foot picture window in the living room that the sun, at this low winter angle, heats up nicely when it finally rises and clears the trees. Around 10 AM.
     
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    8 inches of snow on the ground, 33 out right now, burning some pine now, will load up some ash and Hickory for the overnight low of 25
     
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    Yep, mine was a " WonderCoal"as well I misspoke in my prior post.
    I agree use what you have my friend, just wanted to share my experiance with mine and ones I know that friends have owned. Nothing you are doing wrong, just a hard stove to get the most out of sometimes....:yes:
     
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  20. thewoodlands

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    We have an outside temp of 40, food for the Liberty tonight is, Cherry, Blue Beech/Muscle Wood with some smaller rounds of Sugar Maple.
     
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