What do you do when it is too warm to burn during the burning season?

HehHeh . . . this usually isn't an issue here in Maine . . . although we are supposed to get into the low 40s on Sunday which is quite exciting.

Truthfully, if I had a 70 degree day I would be quite happy, go outside in the T-shirt and shorts . . . and if I really had to have my woodstove fix take advantage of the weather to inspect the chimney and give it a good sweep.

I C/S/S a cord of black gum and then got another 1/2 cord of poplar C/S/S. Got to enjoy these beautiful warm winter days. The way I look at it is if it is too warm to burn then I'm putting "money in the bank."

I have a big ring of rocks out back with some seating around it (logs are good for all kinds of stuff). When it's too warm for woodstoves, it's good weather to sit around the fire outside.

This is also a way to dispose of whatever infested / rotten wood I get out of the trees I process in the warmer months. The way I see it, if it eats wood, I am not putting it in my woodpiles. .

Still cold here but my Aladdin mantle lamp takes the chill out of a room on a cool night off burning season and casts a pleasant light.

It's not too warm to burn here, at least not but for a small window in the afternoon when I'll just leave the coals as they are in the fire.

But the nice days are good for firewood processing. I got some pallets moved into place and started a stack yesterday evening. This afternoon, I need to clear off a spot for my new sandmound going in this spring. No sense paying the excavator to do it when I can do it up myself. There's a few dead trees around that area as well that I need to take down as well.

The downside here is that all of the rain we've gotten as of late is sure to make this process a muddy mess.

I have a fence to start building so I'm somewhat glad it's warm and I'm far enough ahead on wood I don't need to worry about it.

It looks like we have a few close to 60F days coming up in the next week. Small overnight loads and hope the snow finally melts so I can use the rest of my yard and not have to follow the snowblower trails I made.

Picked up and stacked a bunch of mill ends for 2019. Did the yearly maintenance on my boat. Gonna fish tommorrow @70 deg.

And turned on the heat pump for tonight.

open the windows! 55 degrees today!

Here in central Indiana were at 65+ for the next week. I inspect and clean the stove/flue and burn some propane for the furnace to run once or twice at night.

And fish

KimiBwoah said:

Here in central Indiana were at 65+ for the next week. I inspect and clean the stove/flue and burn some propane for the furnace to run once or twice at night.

And fish

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Yea 65+ for a week your house will warm up. Unless night temps deop to 20-30. For me ill throw a couple pices in the day just to have coals for the night so i domt habe to build a fire again.

I kinda get a kick out of you guys . . . and the various pics I've seen posted in the past week.

Up here we're talking temps in the 40s today as our "heat wave" . . . and the last snow depth map I saw for my area showed 30+ inches on the ground (a lot was powder, so that should compact some.)

Going out on the sled today . . . 139 miles yesterday on the trails . . . wood processing will have to wait . . . and I suspect my wife will reload maybe once or just let the stove die out. It's kinda nice actually to be saving the wood.

This weekend kinda stinks, I woke up on Saturday to the feeling of having a golf ball stuck in my throat with a 101 deg fever, layed on the couch sipping Nyquil on the rocks, this morning I feel a little better, golf ball feeling is now down to a marble, still have a fever. I'm hoping that its gone by tomorrow because I hate working while being sick.
I do have a few windows open and I did send the cat out to look for a cure, but he hasn't really ventured into the yard yet due to the fact that we have about 8" on snow still on the ground.

I shut down the boiler and run off my minisplit for the week.

I burn 24/7 until daytime temps hit 70+. My BK dials waaaaaaay down. I would not have believed that a wood stove could do that.

64 today and still burning! Hopefully it will finish off the snow.

We broke out the trap thrower since the weather broke.

52°F here yesterday. Kept the stove going and opened the windows for a lovely bit of fresh air in the house

Tulip poplar does the trick, just four or five splits every few hours, and an endless supply of that.

Smoking meats and shooting trap is a lot more fun than what I have in store, but I'm still going to enjoy this 60+ February day!

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What's going on here, Jason? Looks interesting, I usually delimb after the tree is down. Plans for the standing trunks?

ED 3000 said:

What's going on here, Jason? Looks interesting, I usually delimb after the tree is down. Plans for the standing trunks?

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If you ran a cable around both pairs of uprights and used a truck to put some draw on the cable, you could chuck those too-hard-to-split rounds (and anything else you didn't like) about a mile.

("Where'd my boom box go?" "Somewhere over the rainbow. Well, parts of it, anyway. It didn't withstand the launching process very well.")

kennyp2339 said:

This weekend kinda stinks, I woke up on Saturday to the feeling of having a golf ball stuck in my throat with a 101 deg fever, layed on the couch sipping Nyquil on the rocks, this morning I feel a little better, golf ball feeling is now down to a marble, still have a fever. I'm hoping that its gone by tomorrow because I hate working while being sick.
I do have a few windows open and I did send the cat out to look for a cure, but he hasn't really ventured into the yard yet due to the fact that we have about 8" on snow still on the ground.

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Ummmmm. Nyquil


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