First snow of the season last night, low in the 20's only up to 34 for today, I have lots of nicely seasoned oak this year with some ash. Next year I have oak, hickory and hard maple. I still mix in some NEIIL's but Im flush with wood.
What Is In Your Stove Right Now?
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Grizzerbear
Minister of Fire
It's 51 out now with a low of 37. I have some hickory and post oak in the house ready to go in the stove before bedtime.
Watching the Nittany/Michigan state game as well. It's been a good one. Makes me jealous of y'all northerners with your snow. Makes me wanna put the for sale sign up and head north lol.
Watching the Nittany/Michigan state game as well. It's been a good one. Makes me jealous of y'all northerners with your snow. Makes me wanna put the for sale sign up and head north lol.
We might have a low of 9, we'll use the pellet stove tonight.
We're at 10.9 already, we'll see how low the temp gets.
We're at 10.9 already, we'll see how low the temp gets.
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I burn some pine with my hardwoods sometimes with no problems but yes we have lots of hardwood here too so I burn that mostly.
And just like that . . . good bye fall and hello winter temps.
Switching over to the better wood (i.e. my woodshed splits and rounds) vs. the punks, chunks, uglies and softwood I have been burning up to this point.
Switching over to the better wood (i.e. my woodshed splits and rounds) vs. the punks, chunks, uglies and softwood I have been burning up to this point.
stoveliker
Minister of Fire
It was 32 this morning. Light snow, nothing on the ground. 40 now, still snowing a bit. The basement was 79, home was 68 (we like it that way; any warmer and I feel like a lady having to change clothes every time I go outside). Refilled with pine and sassafras.
Our outside temp bottomed out at 6.3 this morning, the pellet stove kept everything up here 68. I shut the pellet stove off and then loaded up the Liberty with some hard & soft maple.
Saranac Lake NY had a low of zero.
Saranac Lake NY had a low of zero.
Don't have that problem and decided for now using my kiln dried oak wood for any future fires because of its dryness . I got my ax out with a larger screwdriver and some assorted other steel tools for now and tapped my split and it actually split--to my amazement...(another member suggested this method) for measuring wood moisture but the probe was still not that easy to get into the wood to measure the moisture so I lightly hammered it in and the reading was 10%...The problem that I do not have is "cold temperatures" for this week our temperature here is about 68 degrees and on Thursday I believe 71 degrees and sunny...so I am waiting for cold weather and snow with no real work being done on my wonderful wood stove area..so I wait to be able to put wood in the wood stove..nothing burning for now..clancey
33 here right now with flurries. Wind finally died down last night. Ash and some mixed soft/hard maple today, couple of pieces of black walnut tossed in for fun. I've been setting the honey locust aside to let it dry a little more in the basement. Last summer's humidity wasn't much good for drying dense hardwood
kennyp2339
Minister of Fire
I love the cold, but rather soak in a few more days in the 60's, golfing was so much fun this year.
If you want warm weather some more---you get cold and if you want cold weather (so that you can use your wood stove) you get hot weather--life has its problems...lol ---I want some snow...clancey
Gearhead660
Minister of Fire
Was out of town for the weekend, had the (cringe) propane boiler heating the house. Glad to be back with the stove cruising on ash, hickory and elm uglies.
stoveliker
Minister of Fire
A game of Tetris with pine and sassafras.
Yeah, yeah, I need to practice more to be perfect. But more perfect screws up my reloading schedule. I already have to blow the thing on high the last two hours to get it down far enough for a 12 hrs reloading period. (And the pieces were not that straight.)
Yeah, yeah, I need to practice more to be perfect. But more perfect screws up my reloading schedule. I already have to blow the thing on high the last two hours to get it down far enough for a 12 hrs reloading period. (And the pieces were not that straight.)
Grizzerbear
Minister of Fire
35 out now with 33 for a low. I've got some hickory and black jack going to heat the house tonight. It was 55 today with blue skies. Spent the day cleaning the yard of leaves. Finally got done but I'm thinking about getting a lawn vac before next fall. It's just getting old doing it by hand and seems to be more leaves every year. It also always needs to be done during hunting season which I can't stand lol.
It can wait until hunting season is over...
Cherry, pin cherry, pine, boxelder. Split and checked a round and it’s reading 14%.
Accu says we're heading down to 17, it's 22.8 tonight with a load of cherry, soft and hard maple going in the wood stove.
Grizzerbear
Minister of Fire
Yea true lol.....I'm tagged out actually but it still didn't feel right to be raking leaves during deer season.
Caw
Minister of Fire
It was 31 degrees outside and 67 in the house when I woke up. Threw in a medium load of red maple to take the edge off. I'm ready for colder weather, I'm tired of shoulder season start/stopping!
Running on a diet of Maple, Beech and Red Oak. Temps. ranging from low teens to low 20's night/day. Load stove about 9 each night and wake up about 6 to a really good bed of coals ready for the day's re fire. Stays a very comfortable 72 here in the nest. Still love my NC-30 after 12 years. Haven't needed to kick in the 2nd stove (Regency R3) going on 2 years now.
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stoveliker
Minister of Fire
Just reloaded with some oak scraps . Not a full load otherwise it's not ready to reload by bedtime.
JamesGuido
Feeling the Heat
Nothing but ashes…
As we’re vacationing in Sanibel
As we’re vacationing in Sanibel
The wife said it was 21 this morning, the liberty saw another load of soft & hard maple.
