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Full load of white oak going in. Should have some nice coals in the morning
 

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27 out, slowly warming up to 39 tomorrow. 70 upstairs.
Reload of 4 Maple splits at the bottom right that I found in the stacks when I reloaded the rack in the garage, and a mix of white oak branch wood and red oak splits.
 

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Reloaded a couple of times throughout the rest of the day. The hickory coals sure are something else. They can be like rocks that hang around indefinitely. Had to scoop quite a bit out to get a decent load in for the overnight, and still was a bit light on wood. Red oak and cherry tonight.
 

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Got home after that last load of mostly small and mid size ash with a couple of smaller beech hoping to not have too huge a pile of coals and was greeted by a ton of coals. It was only 6 hours after loading so I'm not real surprised. House temps were pretty good though, so ran some bark to get them down somewhat at least.

Coals mostly shoved to the sides... 2 ash, 4 beech & 1 ironwood went in. Temperature down to 10 with wind chill a little below zero by morning. Tired, not enough sleep again last night, never got a nap today. At least I can be confident in going to bed a half hour to 45 minutes after loading now instead of how long I used to have to wait.
 
Massive coals again this morning. 8 1/2 hours after loading house temps were down a bit but not terrible, heaters not on. Ended up having to stay up longer than expected last night because I tried charring the hardwood load less and it stalled just before getting to my final settings so needed to be opened up a little more for awhile then shut down.

Coals pushed to sides, 7 pieces of shoulder season wood filled it. Sunny and mid to upper 20's today. Going to try some small shoulder season loads run hot and pretty open settings throughout the day to get coals down and some ash out.
 
3rd load in this today. All mixed hardwoods. House is a bit chilly. 32* with a real of 18'. Quite windy wish is helping to push some drafts through the house. That and I discovered 3 heat registers were obstructed with people carelessly piling stuff up in front of them. 🙄

I also have been noticing the dragon's exhale is suffering a bit. I think I have an accumulation of fly ash in the 6' section of horizontal pipe and the chimney liner's T. If it's warmer out tomorrow, I'll let it burn down so I can clean it.
 
Added three more splits,. because otherwise it wouldn't make it to when we get back, leaving soon.
 
Ashes separated from coals and burned down twice today after the morning shoulder season load. I've been averaging about 3 gallons of ash a week for the last 3 or 4 weeks. Way more than normal. Pretty much pure ash, no charcoal chunks or coals.

Inside temperature held with solar gains but are dropping now with the sun going down and stove temperature dropping. Firing up what's left in there and going to go with a shoulder season load again shortly to give a boost and base for tonight. Upcoming temperatures are going to be higher than they've been, but winds are going to pick up. 50mph gusts maybe tomorrow and wind advisory has been issued.
 
Temps are in the mid 20s tonight and since the house is already at 72 I did a full load of spruce for tonight's load. I blew through 2/3 of a facecord of hardwood last week with the bitter cold so trying to use up some lower grade wood now. Tomorrow should be sunny and 30s so will see what I decide to do in the am. Probably more of the same to keep some coals going throughout the day. See you guys for coffee. ☕️
 
28 outside,. going down to 26. 72 upstairs; put too much in this afternoon, tried to burn it down for the night reload but that didn't work out well.
Reload, a bit loose, on many coals, of red and white oak.
 

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Morning all, ☕️ mid 20s were forecast but I’m sitting at 17. No big deal that spruce load went well. House at 70, a few big chunks left to go. I turned up the stat to 4:00 to get ready for today’s reload of spruce. Mid 30s and sunny should feel good today as long as that wind does not show up again.
 
House temps are down a bit but not real bad. 19 degrees and blustery. 6 pieces of shoulder season wood in. Hopefully will get a bunch more more ash out today and back to a normal schedule of 3/4 loads with a few scoops of ash removed at each load and only full loads overnight.
 
The wife made the overnight fire since I was checking out the back of my eyelids, it was early but the temps were 71 up here before she made it at 8:40. This morning both temps up here were 67 with the basement temp at 72. The outside temp this morning was 23.5.

The first fire this morning was seven splits of beech and maple.
 
Last bit of ash/embers to the left, little bit of coals to spread across the middle and right, 6 pieces of small & medium ash trying to get going. 37, windy as heck, and partly sunny. House temperature is down a little again but not bad. Should have no problem getting it back up with the sun helping. Will do a small shoulder season load if necessary later to keep temperatures up and have coals for the overnight. Arctic cold looks to be done for the foreseeable future. Unseasonably warm this week, back down to normal temperatures next week.
 
It's 6.36 pm and last night's 11 pm load is done. And that was a load on many coals, of poorly shaped pieces. So not a full load at all.
19.5 hrs.

Outside is 35, this morning was 26, the max was 38 upstairs has been 70-71 all the time.
This worked because lots and lots of sun (and not so cold outside).

Anyway, the window evidently was black...
Coals and reload of mostly white oak.

It's 6.39 now and already taking off.
 

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