2017-18 Blaze King Performance Thread PART 3 (Everything BK)
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MissMac
Minister of Fire
Holy turkeys! When it's 70* F here I'm in a tank top and gitch, starfished on the lawn trying not to overheat! What are you doing running your stove when it's this hot out!
Your shoulder season is my red hot summer
! Pictures.....or it never happened....lolHoly turkeys! When it's 70* F here I'm in a tank top and gitch, starfished on the lawn trying not to overheat! What are you doing running your stove when it's this hot out!
Your shoulder season is my red hot summer
jetsam
Minister of Fire
My neighbor's heater goes 24 hours on a load.... but a load is 12 cubic feet. He bucks to "between 3 and 4 feet". 
Ashful
Minister of Fire
A few things to note, here.Holy turkeys! When it's 70* F here I'm in a tank top and gitch, starfished on the lawn trying not to overheat! What are you doing running your stove when it's this hot out!
Your shoulder season is my red hot summer
1. I said "where the high temp might peak in the mid 70’s", as in a day with 50F low and 75F high. With the BK's, one load carries me 24+ hours, at these temps. So, I just load and let them roll right thru.
2. Most of my house was built in the mid-1700's, and has 20" thick stone walls. They hold somewhere between ground temp (53F in winter) and average daily outside air temp. On the aforementioned 50/75F spring day, my interior wall temps might be in the high 50F's all day long. Not exactly winter, but not tank top temperature, either.
Alpine1
Feeling the Heat
jetsam
Minister of Fire
3. The Stony Tomb Of The Dwarf-King has its own weather patterns, unrelated to the mundane weather of the mortal realm. Those who have trodden here and survived... were not of the clan Jo-tul.
If it goes in the low 40s at night I'm probably burning. But then the highs might just barely hit 60. Not a lot of 30 degree temp swings like in the arid west and southwest.
Ashful
Minister of Fire
If you ever visited this house, you would be very underwhelmed. Not a hint of haunting, here.
lsucet
Minister of Fire
Here 48/75. Lowest will be 36 around 5 or 6 o'clock with highs low 60s during daytime. Half a load tonight just on one stove will make the trick
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We're hanging around 50º, no burning today or tonight. I put the lemon tree outside. Spring is coming.
lsucet
Minister of Fire
Big group of cranes heading north this morning. Hummmm.
Can winter be over?
Can winter be over?
Alpine1
Feeling the Heat
In the low 20s here, with wind off of the water (as always.) Low tonight in the teens, with wind off of the water (as always.)
Current wind chill at 14'F.
Current wind chill at 14'F.
Poindexter
Minister of Fire
yes, spring is here.
1. Made it through another January in Alaska, winter is over. After winter, spring.
2. Temps are consistently up in the single digits for daytime highs. Spring.
3. The cranes are coming. Takes about 6 weeks for them to get here from NM, maybe ten weeks. Spring.
4. Gaining seven minutes of daylight every day - spring.
5. AQ burn ban @-16dF Spring. If it was -30dF or colder (winter) I could run my wood stove at our current PM2.5 readings.
Tomorrow I shall put some dryer lint on the back deck so the cat can bird watch out the sliding glass door.
1. Made it through another January in Alaska, winter is over. After winter, spring.
2. Temps are consistently up in the single digits for daytime highs. Spring.
3. The cranes are coming. Takes about 6 weeks for them to get here from NM, maybe ten weeks. Spring.
4. Gaining seven minutes of daylight every day - spring.
5. AQ burn ban @-16dF Spring. If it was -30dF or colder (winter) I could run my wood stove at our current PM2.5 readings.
Tomorrow I shall put some dryer lint on the back deck so the cat can bird watch out the sliding glass door.
AlbergSteve
Minister of Fire
Livin' large he is, with two sources of heat.
What do they do with the cranes, clean up all the debris, flotsam and jetsam from stuff that exploded due to extreme low temps?
Three. It was sunny today. That warmed the house up nicely.Livin' large he is, with two sources of heat.
MtnBURN
Burning Hunk
WHAT "Winter"? Things are bordering on critical here. The 55 degree days on end have been nice...but it's getting harder and harder to enjoy them because I know what's gonna happen if we don't get some moisture. I've never seen it this dry for this long...in what should be our snowiest months.
Talk about an "overfire". The entire West is setting up for a very epic fire year if something doesn't change before "Summer" rolls around.
And those long range forecasts just don't look good at all.
jetsam
Minister of Fire
Jeez, all these spring posts.. we hit 10°F before windchill last night. That's spring for Poindexter, but that's deep winter for balmy long island. We've been flopping between spring and winter every 3 days here...
MissMac
Minister of Fire
Extreme cold warning in effect for my neck of the woods - currently -24*C, calling for overnight of -39*C. Question for you folks - do your stove crack and moan sometimes? I would expect some popping and snapping noises from a cold stove warming up, but sometimes when i'm hours into a burn, all of a sudden my stove will startle me with a "pop". Normal cracking of the metal bits? I was just napping on the couch, and a couple of doozies woke me from my slumber so I thought i'd see if it's a common occurrence among other users?
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