Econoburn and 50 below F

[salecker]

We have been in a bit of a cold snap the last 4-5 days
50 below F at nights or colder warming to 44 below F days
Yesterdays burn started at 1:30PM to 12:05 AM
the burns have been increasing by an hour a day as the cold soaks through my log walls, after about a week i am at 12 hours of burning a day.
My cast iron rads are like a wood stove in each room.
Love my quad pane windows
first pic is a dual pane window in my door, second is a triple pane window bought on sale that matched my roof line, third is a quad pane window which are all my windows except the door windows and the 2 triple pane units in the bedroom,sun-room

 

[airlina]

Can not imagine those type of temps, we had 0 F a few mornings ago here in western NY and I thought that was a bit nippy. Your temps sound downright dangerous . Amazing that your econoburn can keep up especially since you say you only have spruce avail. for fuel. I'll never gripe complain about the balmy temps around these parts again.

 

[salecker]

The secret is storage.
My waste oil shop furnace was down for a while a few days ago. Took 3 hours to get it to run again. Ut has to run 19 hours in 24 hours to keep the shop warm. 24 hours after it was going the shop was still cold. 48 hours had the temp back up. I am sure it never stopped running for the 48 hours.
The cold is dangerous, but managable
I would rather spend a week at -40C instead of a week at +40C
I reload every 2 hours during the burn to charge storage.

 

[cumminstinkerer]

@salecker we hit -9F saturday night for a low and only got to maybe 10 above for the high yesterday, the Polar got loaded at 8pm saturday night, loaded again at 7ish AM yesterday, I had about a half a box of charred coals left, didn't load again until 8pm last night! storage is awesome for sure! I've been getting about 14 hours during the day and then usually run just from 8pm to like 630 am, i stayed in bed a bit long yesterday. I really want to find something cheap to log the actual boiler fire times, just havent figured it out yet, the cool thing is the Polar idles great and then fires right back up when either storage calls for heat or the boiler water temp drops to low.