For those up North..

[XmasTreefarmer]

Well this super cold weather must be doing something to my brain! I've seen the posts on the 100 degree club and really never thought I could join, but I did! I just never thought we'd have temps quite low enough to do it. Well this morning we were at -25 here in S. Wisconsin and I reloaded the Oslo and hit 70 in the house, then finally 73 and suddenly it struck me - I only needed 2 more degrees to get in the club ... I raked coals, got some nice dry oak and elm in there and hit the 75 degree mark!

Now it's time for the temps to go back to "normal".

 

[buc74]

-24 this morning, the truck started but it didn't like it. lol

 

[XmasTreefarmer]

Whenever I have to start an engine when it's really cold like that, it's just plain hard to do - car, truck, tractor, whatever, it just seems so hard on them. After those first few minutes as things start to warm up and things start to sound normal, I breath a sigh of relief.

 

[yooper08]

Have definitely been running through the wood today. Burning mostly ash so far, just started third load today since 7:00am, usually I'm on a three load schedule. After this load, will be adding oak to the mix. Factoring in wind chill, have stayed above the 100-degree differential most of the day.

 

[firefighterjake]

Well this super cold weather must be doing something to my brain! I've seen the posts on the 100 degree club and really never thought I could join, but I did! I just never thought we'd have temps quite low enough to do it. Well this morning we were at -25 here in S. Wisconsin and I reloaded the Oslo and hit 70 in the house, then finally 73 and suddenly it struck me - I only needed 2 more degrees to get in the club ... I raked coals, got some nice dry oak and elm in there and hit the 75 degree mark!

Now it's time for the temps to go back to "normal".

So . . . with half of the winter down . . . how do you like the Oslo? Are you finding it a worthy replacement of the old stove?

 

[XmasTreefarmer]

So . . . with half of the winter down . . . how do you like the Oslo? Are you finding it a worthy replacement of the old stove?

It sure has! No regrets which is always my goal whenever I buy something. All the more important when this thing weighs over 500#, is expensive, and really must heat my home. The thought of needing to swap that stove out for something else would just make me ill, so it is a relief that I got it right. You never really know until it's in the house and you are burning it/loading it/removing ash/etc.

This is not an Oslo commercial, but the stove is so well made, is so attractive, and functions so well that it still makes me smile every time I look at it. And it's really loafing today ... it's 20 degrees out right now rather than the -25 we had on Wednesday and Thursday!!

Besides doing everything that I thought it would, I have had a few nice surprises and one of them is that it holds coals much longer than I had read about. Just this morning I did a re-load on coals at 6:00am and my last load was at 8:00pm last night which was maybe a 3/4 load. That's an honest 10 hours which is more than I need the way I burn. I'm burning a mix of Red Oak and some Elm right now.