ambull01
Feeling the Heat
lol, never heard chicken necker until I met someone from Baltimore and I've been on the Lower Shore all my life. I live in Berlin. You?
This winter has been average, I feel. We rarely get in the single digits here, and if we do, it's normally only for a couple hours in the morning. Teens aren't that common either, maybe 20 nights in the winter will be in the teens. Mostly 20 degree temps or above. Last winter was an exception; we had hardly shrubs and trees die here from the excessive cold. JANUARY 30 WAS -2.5 in the morning, which I don't EVER remember having negative temps in my lifetime here, but hey, I'm on 29.
Rarely do I have to start a fire. Only if I let the fire go out to clean the ash out do I have to restart it and even then, I usually push the red coals off to the side and use them to relight.
Well it may be a western eastern shore thing then lol. Nice, you're real close to OC then. I'm in Centreville. I absolutely LOVE the ES so far.
Yeah I think we've only had a few days of single digits here with the wind chill. Not that bad at all. If I can just figure out how to keep the skeeters and ticks off of me during the summer/fall I'll be in heaven.
I know I'm a guy and I have a USMC avatar but my mother in-law made us a little basket worth of firestarters which I can only describe as cute. They were made with cup cake paper things, a slim candle inside the cup cake wrap, and a pine cone attached to the candle. There were probably 20-30 of them in the basket. Wife's grandparents gave us 2 boxes of Fatwood and 4 boxes of those triangle shaped starters. We've already gone through all the fatwood and triangle thingies since getting them in December.
A lot of varibles go into this since houses/weather vary so much.
I'm heating just shy of 2k 1980 construction in Michigan with a Princess Ultra and load the stove twice a day when it's cold. Single digits cold or colder it's usually two full loads a day, when it warms a little I usually load full in the am and adjust the overnight load as needed so I don't end up with too much left over wood in the morning. 30's for overnight lows and 40's for daytime highs one load a day usually gets it done if I'm using good wood.(not chunks and uglies)
I'm starting to hate all of you BK owners. Ya'll have it so easy.