Low 30Fs this morning/afternoon and clouds. Mostly pallet wood (pine) and chunks of white pine i've had sitting around from probably 8 years. Still solid. Have lots of oak (red and white), but saving that for real winter weather.
What Is In Your Stove Right Now?
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Hey, I love to share..................... we started at about 12 here this morning. It started to snow hard about 7 a.m. and lasted about 2 hours giving us 3". The temp climbed up into the mid 20's and is currently @ 26.
We're still at 30.2 tonight, we did get some snow that gave us a quick two inches later this afternoon but with the warmup and heavy rains coming, we won't have any left when Monday is over with.
Forecast shows 7F Monday night. I'll probably have to turn the furnace (nat gas) for the 1st time. 1st year burning wood, but i use to have a pellet stove.
We've had our share of colder nights so far this fall, by the way we're starting out it looks like it could be a winter of snow with rains moving in behind it, that will give us plenty of ice which sucks.
Snow i like and can deal with. Ice on the other hand…….impossible to deal with. Steep driveway to my house makes it me hating ice.
MEngineer24
Burning Hunk
Weather has been so inconsistent here as per usual this time of year. Got a small fire of some half rotted red oak tree I cut up last year. That stuff dried fast this summer. 37F here currently.
Night load. Some sugar maple with a toper of black locust. I want to sleep in tomorrow…….
BrownT10
Burning Hunk
More red oak, put in a couple rounds and some uglies. Reload in the morning and finishing splitting and stacking some maple and black birch tomorrow for use in 2 or 3 years.
Grizzerbear
Minister of Fire
We hit 55 today. The weather here has been unusually warm for this time of year and really all fall....dry too. Its 46 out with a low of 43 tonight. I have some post oak and black jack in for the night.
We have 28.4 tonight with NOAA forecasting a low of 18, just the pellet stove tonight.
The wife likes walking the dog on the trails around the house so when we get ice, it's a groan.
Usually our ice on the driveway doesn't get real bad until late February and March but when we get a winter with snow & rain, it gets bad.
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This snowed over is ok, iced not good!
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Low headed for mid-high 20s again, pine for the win. Here’s my forecast for this week, brought some mahogany and juniper in tonight for that.
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Yes, and potentially up to 10" between early Sunday and Monday afternoon. I'll be heading back to the northwoods Monday morning in the slop. SE WI isn't supposed to get much snow.Yes the low Monday evening is supposed to be -7so I can hopefully burn up a lot of the scraps I have around.
Caw
Minister of Fire
Woke up at 8:30 and reloaded with a full load of maple and oak before looking at my phone and realizing it's going to be 45 today. Whoops. It's now 72 in here and we're approaching coaling. Shorts and t-shirt day inside here!
Remember to always check the weather before loading. I almost always do but was tired and lazy. Being so far ahead on wood though it's no biggie. Another case for getting as far ahead as you can!
Remember to always check the weather before loading. I almost always do but was tired and lazy. Being so far ahead on wood though it's no biggie. Another case for getting as far ahead as you can!
Some oak and sassafras. Running it low because it's going to be 46 f but I don't want to restart for tonight. Tomorrow will be crazy: 59....
Caw
Minister of Fire
I often run into the "I don't need heat now but I don't want to start from scratch tonight" situation this time of year. I usually end up feeding it a few splits at a time with the blower off just to keep it going. It's a little wasteful but we get some heat and the night load is much more effective. I absolutely hate starting my overnight fire in a cold stove. Sometimes I'll even light a tiny fire and reload on that to avoid it.
Another reason for getting ahead on wood so you can do these things!
Yes last time I started the stove cold, I made a fire of 11 or so 1 ft long 2*4s (that is 1/3-1/2 box for me). Gets it hot quick, burns down quick, and reloading at the right time for overnight makes things easy.
Today the stove is cruising very low (mine has a large turn down ratio, allowing to have 11000 BTU/hr output or so, which when heating from the basement is ok). But at 46 now, it's 71 in the home. Slightly higher than we like.
We had 24.2 this morning so I shut the pellet stove down. Since we started burning pine I had promised the wife that I would clean the chimney when we were done burning pine, I did that today, all was good and not much came down in the bag.
