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Full load of ash tonight. Even with the temps in the teens, I've pretty much been doing evening spot fires and relying mostly on oil. I just filled my tank at $1.25/gal. 150 gallons was $190, cheaper than buying a cord of wood right now. Although, I do have a decent amount of free wood....tough call at this point.
 
The Quad 4300 got one huge split of hedge and one huge split of white oak. Gonna go lock the air down and be toasty for a while :)
 
Enough coals from last night's ash to get some maple splits going this morning. Now I'm back to ash. Good thing too, cause I gotta warm myself from the 14 inches of snow I just cleared. Got to the bottom of the driveway, turned around and saw another inch had fallen in the meantime.
 
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Oak shorts and uglies... that's what I burn on the weekends, saving the nice straight and long stuff for long weekday burns.
 
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I seemed to have pulled a lot of walnut out of the stacks last night, so i guess that's what is getting burned this weekend.
 
Had my 1st true overnight burn last night. Fully loaded her at 3am with ash and cherry, still burning at noon. Easy reload of ash, cherry, oak, and maple combo for the snow storm.
 
Burning the last of my cherry and elm mix, with ash. Finally went through the two chords in the shed by the house. Gonna fill it back up this week, but my only dry stuff left is ash. May have to cherry pic some small splits.of the fun stuff from my other stacks to keep it interesting.
 
It warmed up in Indiana. Mid 30's today and going to hit 40, maybe 50 next week. House is very warm too. Burned some ash limb wood, hard maple, and now two nice sized white pine splits are burning on the coals. I will pack the stove with honey locust when I go to bed.
 
...First time I can think of for this wood, I been loading cedar in my wood furnace. It burns good, no popping/sparks jumping like I have heard about other "evergreen, spruce, cedar" types of types of wood. I have been looking at the pile of russian olive and think it is going to be next. Burning 24/7 in winter, wood is main heat.

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Got home and checked out my firebox, box was cold, full of ash from yesterdays burn, I raked up the leftover coals, to find numerous hot coals burried in the mix from a burn 24 hours ago (front air intakes were left open and damper was left at half damp). I tossed piece of pine in and it lit up right away lol. I love the All Nighter :) Topped off the pine with a few cherries and ash piece and off she goes.
 
As of right now ashes and a few coals
 
Today it's sunny and warm and I'm burning as much of my 5 to 6" Staghorn Sumac as I can. The smaller stuff goes in the brush pile but I might as well get some heat out of a bush! Amazing how a bush can grow to 20 ft.
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Today it's sunny and warm and I'm burning as much of my 5 to 6" Staghorn Sumac as I can. The smaller stuff goes in the brush pile but I might as well get some heat out of a bush! Amazing how a bush can grow to 20 ft.View attachment 173160
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For some reason my wife absolutely detests staghorn sumac . . . she wanted any and all sumac cut off the property . . . says it looks like a big, gangly weed to her. I tried to tell her we could make a drink that tastes like lemonade from the flowers, but she wasn't having any of that . . .
 
DougA said:
Today it's sunny and warm and I'm burning as much of my 5 to 6" Staghorn Sumac as I can. The smaller stuff goes in the brush pile but I might as well get some heat out of a bush! Amazing how a bush can grow to 20 ft.View attachment 173160
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That looks a bit too green to me.
 
Tulip poplar that is near to paper in moisture content along with some hickory.

My wife had the house at 78 when I got home.
 
After the weekend I just had, I'm giving the ol' dragon a night off. It's currently 41, which is obviously nice and mild for an evening in late January. I should probably give the chimney a sweep out, too.
 
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Three big blocks of mulberry, getting the blue flames off the secondaries it's an awesome site. Feels good with temps falling again.
 
Sugar Maple and Plum. Hotter than the blue blazes of hell.

I've never burned Plum before until tonight and I can say I'm real impressed with it. It flames a little and then glows for 20 minutes until It finally burns and burns hot and long. I only got a little bit from a storm damaged tree this past June but I'd love to get more.
 
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After the weekend I just had, I'm giving the ol' dragon a night off. It's currently 41, which is obviously nice and mild for an evening in late January. I should probably give clean the chimney a sweep out, too.
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Was out running around the neighborhood at 10:30pm on my tractor tonight, running some radiator flush fluid up to temperature, and then doing a hot oil change. Didn't even need a jacket over my sweatshirt!

Yes, I know... "every neighborhood has one, in mine I'm it."
 
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