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

18 this morning now 27 still some silver maple uglies with a big white birch ugly on top 71 inside. Taking the little guy out to watch the neighbor combine corn maybe even the big.... I mean little guy will get a ride

 

Still mild here in London. Been burning Ash 'n plum.... Toasty!

BB

 

Nice to meet you Scooter.D, lots of greats folk here. Enjoy!

 

Welcome to da club Scooter.D ya'll come back now ya here

 

Woke up to to mrssaskwoodburner firing up the stove. That's what I get for sleeping in. Sitting at -7 C ( 19-20 ish F) here, and gloomy to boot. Looks like cold temps are spreading around judging by all these posts.

 

33 °F out ,ash n maple in the box

 

We're getting a warmup for a few days. The pine may last the rest of Nov. at this rate.
Unheard of.

 

Good and cold here also. Elm in the T5.

Got a couple city folk coming out shortly and a great day to be a splitting.

 

That should prove interesting.

 

Found out the last time they were here Dave that the young lads girlfriend isn't allowed to work the splitter after a couple glasses of wine anymore.

 

Well, I hope she still has all hers fingers......and both thumbs.

 

Yes she does but I don't!

 

Warming up a little here now. 20 degrees at 3 PM. Ash and Maple burning in boiler. Soooo much longer burn times compared to the Pine.

 

We had 9 this morning, it's been a pine day for the Liberty. I think we reached 21 today with the temp tonight dropping between 12-14.

 

Some of us have had trouble even before the wine..... last year, I 'nicked' three fingers of my left hand by turning a thin. round piece of wood in front of the wedge and getting my fingers caught between the wood and the buck block. (and on my splitter, the buck block is a series of pyramids that end in points) No real damage though I did have to use pliers to re- shape and remove my wedding ring. Whew, that was close! Then, later in the very same day, I did the very same thing again except 1) it was my right hand that got wedged and 2) that one did some damage. Two fingers split like a sausage on a hot grill, and one finger nail (pointer finger) lifted off... and then fell off a few days later :-( Big pain, many bad words, some blood and a long time healing. Fortunately the hand came back nearly 100% and the nail grew back in 100% so no long term damage. But a stupid mistake.... TWICE!

The business of firewood gathering, handling, manipulating and finally burning is quite unforgiving and does not treat foolishness kindly. I count myself very, very lucky not to have lost the first two fingers on my rt. hand, and I am right- handed.

Brian

 

Wow that sucks BDF.

I was just kidding earlier as the only problem we had that day was she wouldn't shut up.

 

30 here , 21 tonight but next week calls for 50/32 .


Shorts of spruce , maple , oak and birch keeping the chill outta the house

 

Same thing here- I would not shut up either! First it was hollering, then when I could form words, it was...... er, unpleasant and still loud. Then it was endless concern, something about 'I hope my fingers do not fall off' and 'I hope my fingernail does not fall off' and 'I cannot imagine doing certain jobs with my left hand' [think bathroom] and so forth. Then just quiet sniveling and the sound of wine pouring out of the bottle.... for hours.

Really though, it did hurt, and it did look pretty bad for a long time. I compounded it by NOT seeking medical attention- hey, I can tape and bind as well as a surgeon could suture, right? (not really). It took over a year to heal as well as it has. Still, I have full mobility, can do everything I need to (scratch where I have to, pick at what needs picking, use a corkscrew, etc. )

But it turned out pretty good, actually very good, and I really did learn my lesson (he says in hope). I have slowed down with the splitter and am always careful to place my hand on top of the wood being split (if large enough) or remove it from the area altogether.

But thanks for the concern and kind thoughts!

Brian

 

Just grabbed this from today's burn.



The portion until right around 10:00 AM is the overnight burn, with the draft open, burning down the coals. At around 10:07 I loaded the stove fully, closed the bypass (stove was hot and had a fair amount of coals), opened the draft and stove pipe damper until 10:30, when I closed the draft to 6 notches, or the first big notch (1/4 draft), and a few minutes later shut the stove pipe damper and left for the day. You can see the combustor and firebox temps. are a little unstable as the stove vacillates between a secondary and a pure cat. burn until about 11:30 AM, when it steadies down into a hybrid burn. This means there was flame in the firebox but it was not all that active, and still producing a good deal of smoke, which the combustor was burning. The next big change occurs at 14:30, when all the volatile gasses were burned out of the wood and the combustor temps. drop way down. But the firebox stays hot a while longer, cooling more slowly as the last of the wood solids burn off. Finally, at 15:09 the last of the actual wood and wood gasses (volatiles) are all gone, the fire is 'out' and the combustor no longer has any fuel but the stove is full of coals from the oak; the remaining steady decline is the coals burning down until I arrived back home and kicked the draft and damper wide open to accelerate the burn at 17:25. The last of the coals then burned down and the stove is pretty much empty and not producing any more heat from fuel, but the stove is still hot and radiating from the steel, soapstone and so forth.

This is a medium- hard burn for the Ideal Steel in my house. I could have put more wood in it but not much. This would represent and all- day or overnight burn and can easily keep the entire house quite warm and pleasant but as can be seen, there is no way it could go, say, 20 or 30 hours. There just is not that much fuel in the firebox. Now I can get the stove to burn over 24 hours, but not producing the amount of heat shown in this graph, and it will not keep the house warm when it is below 30F outside running that low.

Brian