What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

thewoodlands said:

That would work great on our driveway, it's pretty much a straight run except for one bend. Do you have chains on the tires?

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Never had chains on the tires, never needed them.

It weighs close to 500 pounds, so maybe it provides enough traction with it's own weight, at least in my situation.

Todd67 said:

We had a blizzard in 77 when I lived in northern Illinois. It must have been one heck of a storm!

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That Blizzard gave Buffalo a reputation for snow nationally, even though Syracuse typically gets more than Buffalo.
I am pretty sure Tug Hill got around 39' or 40' of snow that year as well.

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Just loaded the stove with a bunch of mulberry that's pretending to be hedge. Trying to keep the flu temps under 500.

Pin oak and black cherry

HisTreeNut said:

That Blizzard gave Buffalo a reputation for snow nationally, even though Syracuse typically gets more than Buffalo.
I am pretty sure Tug Hill got around 39' or 40' of snow that year as well.

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Our Illinois blizzard was nothing like it was here in NY. We got 3ft of snow in that blizzard, which is a foot more than the yearly average for snowfall there.

We had 8 this morning, more sugar & red maple went in the liberty.

The windchill has warmed up to a more reasonable -30F. I just reloaded with oak, mulberry, and some old hackberry that I forgot about.

It's time for a fire so with the winds picking up and the temps dropping, we'll get some sugar & red maple with some ironwood going.

-25 here in central wi and will be colder tonight, currently -18. I loaded my garage up with soft maple by mistake. A full load is gone in 4 hours at these temps.

It was -4 with a windchill of -25 this morning, the first fire was the same old mix, sugar & red maple but the second fire will have some ironwood in it.

I brought in a face cord of black locust for this week. Time to use the good stuff.

I put four rounds of ironwood in the liberty on top of some nice coals, it didn't take long for that to takeoff .

This morning it was -22F for the second morning in a row. Yesterday's high was -9. Its nice that my wife worked from home yesterday and could keep the Caddy fed. Today is not supposed to break zero, but at least the wind has died down.
I've been burning my best well seasoned oak, one or two big pieces and then top her off with white ash, or yellow birch or some elm.
The Caddy has been doing an excellent good job keep us and the dog warm! The only challenge the cold brings is the buildup of coals. I have to burn them down once or twice a day, they really build up when firing hard like this because I never really let a load burn all the way down. I rake them up and pile them at the front of the firebox, open the air intake damper wide open. I might toss on a couple pieces of bark or small light pieces and she gets those coals really, really red hot with a nice blue flame. Do this a couple of times and I can usually get ahead of the coal pile!
I'm sure glad that I am not burning propane to heat the house this January!

We have the Lopi Liberty going in one corner and the Yankee Pellet Stove going in the opposite corner it's 85 in the basement and 70 up here.

I just loaded both stoves with some locust and cedar splits house is around 75.

@Jay106n

Congrats on the baby boy, and welcome home!

We had - 5 this morning, more sugar & red maple went in the liberty, we'll get some ironwood in it this afternoon.

Congratulations @Jay106n .

Congrads on the baby boy. Two years ago when we brought home my second daughter the temps were pretty rough as well. It is tough having a winter baby, keep everyone warm sounds like mom and new baby boy are doing good.

Congrats on the wee one...

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+15 this morning 45 degrees warmer than yesterday morning, just put a full ash load in,off to work.

Overnight we went with ironwood, this morning it was 7 degrees so we went with sugar & red maple.

@J106n Congrats
Ash Cherry and some Honey locust doing the job here. Looks like today i will be able to get out and reload the garage stack.

It's 50 degrees warmer than Wednesday, so just above freezing. LOL! A few small ash splits are doing the job right now. However, oak, hickory, and cherry are smoking up tomorrow's super bowl pork feast at the moment.