The burning season is upon us here .....

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lowroadacres

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This morning we woke up to -11 degrees C or 11 degrees F. Since we have been well below freezing for several nights now it has become routine again to fire up the little Drolet morning and night with the odd couple of small splits in between if either of us is at home with our flexible work schedules.

We have been burning through poplar as shoulder season wood but tonight when I got home there had been a mixup with the instructions to our boys who ended up bringing in the beautiful 18 month seasoned ash to the wood box.

Needless to say the entire 2800 square feet is nicely warmed by the fire that they and their mother started.

It also helps that we added a small fan at the header of the stairwell to assist moving the air trapped behind a beam up the stairs.

It is all I can do to wait out getting a larger stove or the dream scenario of an insert for our fireplace.

Money is still very tight and with some news we got today it has gotten tighter but we are just adding more work hours to the plate to see if our business can increase the income to the point where it actually catches up to decisions we have made over the years.

It is very nice to have a warm house though. And somehow I was able to smile about the fact that the wood box was loaded even though it wasn't the wood I wanted in.

Maybe, just maybe my firewood addiction is easing? Not likely.
 
11 degrees here and I would be cranking the stove. If you call that shoulder season I don't even want to come visiting when you think it is cold. :ahhh:

Enjoy. And keep those boys and the lady warm.
 
+1. Those temps would have us pulling out vintage locust and cherry. It's great that your family is helping out. There's nothing like coming home to a hearth warm house when it's nasty cold outside.
 
11* I would probably have to dig out my winter coat and a pair of gloves, though it's not too bad. I start to complain about hte cold when it's well below 0 and the wind is blowing so hard that it's damn near impossible to stand.
 
NATE379 said:
11* I would probably have to dig out my winter coat and a pair of gloves, though it's not too bad. I start to complain about hte cold when it's well below 0 and the wind is blowing so hard that it's damn near impossible to stand.

all the houses around you should be great windblocks nate.
 
NATE379 said:
11* I would probably have to dig out my winter coat and a pair of gloves, though it's not too bad. I start to complain about hte cold when it's well below 0 and the wind is blowing so hard that it's damn near impossible to stand.

As I tell North of 60 in the Yukon every year.

http://www.allied.com/contact-us.aspx

Move. :)

Stay warm guys.
 
BrotherBart said:
NATE379 said:
11* I would probably have to dig out my winter coat and a pair of gloves, though it's not too bad. I start to complain about hte cold when it's well below 0 and the wind is blowing so hard that it's damn near impossible to stand.

As I tell North of 60 in the Yukon every year.

http://www.allied.com/contact-us.aspx

Move. :)

Stay warm guys.

Thanks for the tip, but
I dont think you could stand me living any closer BB. :lol:
Temps dropping pretty quik to-night. Time to pull out the pine.
Keep warm lowroad.
Cheers
 
-11 celsius at night and plus 8 celsius during the day.

In a few weeks those temps will seem like a distant memory.

We are in a valley on a yard with a great shelterbelt but a small stove and a beautiful fireplace as we work to heat 2800 square feet, 1400 per level.

The house is well laid out for wood heat but we are not in a place financially to fully utilize the layout. Thankfully the South windows are designed for a relatively effective passive solar boost for the house. Once the days on end of -35 to -45 hit and our backyard rink comes back in to being the house becomes a challenge to heat without losing our shirt.

Learning from hearth.com friends about getting ahead on wood and being able to be choosy about the type of wood we burn has been a God send though.

A lifetime of heating with wood has been a good basic education but hearth.com has truly begun to fine tune my understanding of the process.
 
lowroadacres said:
-11 celsius at night and plus 8 celsius during the day.

In a few weeks those temps will seem like a distant memory.

We are in a valley on a yard with a great shelterbelt but a small stove and a beautiful fireplace as we work to heat 2800 square feet, 1400 per level.

The house is well laid out for wood heat but we are not in a place financially to fully utilize the layout. Thankfully the South windows are designed for a relatively effective passive solar boost for the house. Once the days on end of -35 to -45 hit and our backyard rink comes back in to being the house becomes a challenge to heat without losing our shirt.

Learning from hearth.com friends about getting ahead on wood and being able to be choosy about the type of wood we burn has been a God send though.

A lifetime of heating with wood has been a good basic education but hearth.com has truly begun to fine tune my understanding of the process.


I kinda slow to figure things out so
where do you live?
 
Manitoba, straight North of North Dakota.
 
joecool85 said:
I'm well north of the 60 degree line, more like 45 here. I don't feel real cold till its down to about -20F (~244K).

You know it's cold in this place when the guy whips out the Kelvin scale.

pen
 
Thank U for the info I kinda figured it was not in America because the C temps and your accent not like down here in Texas ya'll draw the words out more than us.
I have never been that far North and not planning on it unless the beer is colder and the fish bite alot more,
 
410MAN said:
Thank U for the info I kinda figured it was not in America because the C temps and your accent not like down here in Texas ya'll draw the words out more than us.
I have never been that far North and not planning on it unless the beer is colder and the fish bite alot more,

Both are true. In addition, many times you can walk on water up here in the north and just sit your beer on the top of the water and all is well.
 
pen said:
joecool85 said:
I'm well north of the 60 degree line, more like 45 here. I don't feel real cold till its down to about -20F (~244K).

You know it's cold in this place when the guy whips out the Kelvin scale.

pen

lol.....I'm giving a plus one to this one Pen.....
 
lowroadacres said:
We are in a valley on a yard with a great shelterbelt but a small stove and a beautiful fireplace as we work to heat 2800 square feet, 1400 per level.
lowroadacres,
Just curious, do you use the open fireplace for heat as well? And how does it do?
 
pen said:
joecool85 said:
I'm well north of the 60 degree line, more like 45 here. I don't feel real cold till its down to about -20F (~244K).

You know it's cold in this place when the guy whips out the Kelvin scale.

pen

I'm adding that into my signature.
 
pen said:
joecool85 said:
I'm well north of the 60 degree line, more like 45 here. I don't feel real cold till its down to about -20F (~244K).

You know it's cold in this place when the guy whips out the Kelvin scale.

pen

Most funny thing I've read here in months! Kinda appropriate that his name is "joecool" :)
 
joecool85 said:
pen said:
joecool85 said:
I'm well north of the 60 degree line, more like 45 here. I don't feel real cold till its down to about -20F (~244K).

You know it's cold in this place when the guy whips out the Kelvin scale.

pen

I'm adding that into my signature.

Where's the "LIKE" button.....that is a GREAT quote and it fits you well, joecool!!!
 
Nope, I'll deal with a couple cold days to not have to deal with over 75* summers!

BrotherBart said:
NATE379 said:
11* I would probably have to dig out my winter coat and a pair of gloves, though it's not too bad. I start to complain about hte cold when it's well below 0 and the wind is blowing so hard that it's damn near impossible to stand.

As I tell North of 60 in the Yukon every year.

http://www.allied.com/contact-us.aspx

Move. :)

Stay warm guys.
 
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