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

Today we have had about an inch of snow. It’s -14* all is well

 

Nice picture from your deck!

 

Worked up a sweat clearing my yard up a bit after it stopped raining to save face!!
It got up to 68F as far as I am concerned, noticed by 230 it was showing that on the weather. That is Hot!

 

I cut some poppel, to my understanding its silver poppel. I have heard it called aspen, quaken aspen, I don't know the difference. I scrounged one on the way to work. Its warming the office as I type. I took pictures, its hard to see the grain. Its tight, just not as tight as the spruce but close. I will post a pic when I get home.

 

Sitting at -12 C feels -18 C, or 10 F feels 0 F. If tomorrows forecast holds true, we'll be looking at melting/snow/rain and hovering at or just above freezing. So much for the nice fluffy snow, things are about to be not so stealthy in the bush while hunting. Poplar in the reactor same as always.

 

NOAA has us with a low of 19 so we'll burn some not so great hardwood tonight.

 

Everyone calls what we have here white poplar, but it is really quaking aspen. Let me know the size of round so I can find one similar. I might need to sand an end smooth to count rings, as some of my cuts look like an angry snaggle tooth cat chewed them!

 

Yeah, the last two nights I only burned white pine and balsam fir. Both mornings there was nearly no coals left, and pretty much had to start over. Tonight it's back to a piece of beech to go with the conifers.

Hopefully tomorrow morning I'll have a nice little pile of coals for an easy rechooching.

 

I just measured its 5 inches and 73 rings, had to get a magnifying glass out.

 

Right on, I'll go root in the pile in the morning, headlamp dead atm.

 

Its burning good, I put three pieces in. They are half burned and fire is 2 hours old. I normally don't burn poppel, I normally don't find it close to where I normally get spruce. I know of a few easy stand to get to. They gonna be gone soon, I am liking what I see. Looks like it might leave a lot of ash, compared to spruce.

 

Poplar is quite ashy, but she gives a good show! It seems when I kick it hard off the line, and throttle back sharp around 550-575 F stack temp, it has the nicest blue/orange roiling flames. I usually walk it up slow but sometimes you need the heat now.

 

I am work busy and the door has been open a lot @ -18* so the fire is nice. I know of at least 15-20 cord of fire killed standing dead, that's easy to get to, hmmm.

 

I can think of worse wood to burn. Poplar is not that bad, but nearly any tree that is available, will burn decently. If it's available, burn it.

 

20's tonight and I'm loving the red maple and rock elm combination.

 

Must be really fun to count but if you think sbout it those trees are more than 100 years old by time, just stopped growing and cured for what 20 years?

 

It was fun to count. This burn was 5 years ago. they are not quite a century.

 

Here ya go.

 

22F here in Md burnin a little bit of oak