It’s nice to wake up to 31 this morning and go back to 12 hour burn schedule for a couple days. Looks like the bottom will drop out this weekend though. I wouldn’t doubt seeing -20’s for a couple mornings.
What Is In Your Stove Right Now?
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Full load of ash this morning. House temps are down a bit but heaters aren't on. Last nights fire was not the greatest. Doing more experiments this year than years past with loads, timing, air. Warming up to mid 30's today and might hit 40 tomorrow, single digit highs by Sunday, might not get above zero Monday. @Todd and some of the more northern folks are expecting some really cold weather. My area of the Northwoods that I haven't gotten to in a month is forecast -7 high both Sunday and Monday.
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We had 17.2 this morning, far from the forecast low of 7. The basement temp started out at 73 with both temps up here at 66. I took ashes out that I ended up covering with a bunch of snow.
The first load this morning was five splits of beech, I'm not sure what the boss used for firewood but the basement was 81 when I came inside from snow blowing and plowing the last trails I didn't get to the other day.
The first load this morning was five splits of beech, I'm not sure what the boss used for firewood but the basement was 81 when I came inside from snow blowing and plowing the last trails I didn't get to the other day.
Spreading out reloads at 250 STT to not overheat the house. High of 30 today and started dropping in the 20’s now. Loads have been smaller 3 or 4 splits to bring STT to 550-600 to keep house at 73.
I was out all day taking down the pile by the driveway. It was over 50 so wasn't concerned about the stove, came and pretty much had a cold start 
. A few pine sticks and a 1/4 cedar puck and I'm back on the cats 
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. A few pine sticks and a 1/4 cedar puck and I'm back on the cats .With just me at home today, I've been feeding 4-5 splits in the furnace. About every 3 hours and just enough to keep the house warm. Trying to conserve on fuel. I have enough to get me past March but I don't want to be dipping into some of my stacks/piles. Trying to get ahead on wood again. Damn that dragon can eat.
The chiminea in my avatar can eat like nothing I've seen. I usually have the stack capped off about half way. When running wide open it eats anything you can stuff through the hole in no time flat. Complete with the show of a 4ft flame out the top.
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4 ash, 1 ironwood, 1 beech and 1 mystery wood that might be oak. Forecast keeps getting worse. Monday's high is now forecast at -5.
Everybody has a cold and feels crappy, just said "I'm going to bed" and I have about a 1/3 of of a 8"round still solid. Tossed some oak beech and cherry in. Light load for coal in the morn. It's only dropping into the mid 20s.
Stay warm y'all.
Stay warm y'all.
How many splits a day are you WI people going through when these extreme temps roll around for a few days.
I'm in the same ballpark this winter. Probably a few more....
Of course we're running apples to oranges. LOL
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Just put a load of sugar and a couple cherry splits in the furnace. I'll get one load of oak in an hour or so.
See you fellas tomorrow.
See you fellas tomorrow.
And species... I usually wake up to a massive pile of coals. When it's super cold I need to get the house temps up in the morning so I stuff as much shoulder season types of wood in as I can on those coals (usually 7) and really let it rip. If I don't get the temps up enough with that I do it again and again. If I can get the temps up enough with that and some solar gains I then separate some ash to one side and make a 3/4 load in the middle and other side and try to get the ash out when that burns down. I want a full overnight hardwood load, so if necessary I run as many rounds of bark in the evening to get the coals down as needed.
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Is this "What's in your stove", or "What is your stove"?
Fisher Gold Special - Duel Turbo boost, Modern "Looking" Glass, Fully enclosed with custom finish and trim and yes Big ass Hinges.
Plug this into the DeLorean for an extra special trip.
Is this "What's in your stove", or "What is your stove"?
Fisher Gold Special - Duel Turbo boost, Modern "Looking" Glass, Fully enclosed with custom finish and trim and yes Big ass Hinges.
Plug this into the DeLorean for an extra special trip.
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But that is a pretty cool retro unit! I bet there's going to be a serious volume of wood burned with the weather coming. There is nothing further north in WI than Bayfield County. Right on lake Superior. He's got to be further north than @Todd, and we know what his temperatures get down to. And lake effect snow I bet is a regular thing...
@jacksnipe - does it heat effectively and how much does it eat? Can you get decent heat with the prevalent pine and aspen that's in northern WI?
Been up for several hours already. Getting old, can't sleep. Just threw 5 pieces of shoulder season wood on the coals after letting them burn down some. Will be burning things down with bark and open air and getting ash out later with a high in the mid 40's today. Tomorrow might hit 20 before the bottom drops out, so I don't know when I will get a chance to get ash out again.
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