Frozen in Oregon

[Dustin]

Well, we're having some record low temps here in the Pacific Northwest

Last night, while patrolling the Columbia River, it reached 12 degrees! Coldest temps I have ever worked in. Water was freezing to the side of our patrol boats!

On a happy note, I have both stoves cranking here at home and it's a nice 74 degrees in the house. I had doubted my ability to heat this joint, but with "real" seasoned wood this year, the stoves are running hot!

How's everyone else holding up?

 

[begreen]

Thank goodness for wood heat in times like these. We are much warmer up here, a balmy 24F this morning. It's kind of odd to have the ground crunch underfoot, but the house is toasty warm.

 

[Nick Mystic]

We dodged the bullet on the ice storm they were predicting for us last night and today. It's raining off and on, but the temperature is hovering around 36 degrees, so we're okay. It is supposed to get a few degrees warmer tomorrow, so we should make it through this weather event unscathed. The big Jotul is pumping out some nice heat, so life is good.

 

[alforit]

Eight degrees this morning at my house just 45 minutes south of Seattle ..........Wish I had my new stove .

 

[begreen]

Brrger. That's what a little altitude and getting away from Puget Sound will do.

 

[Hoozie]

Hit -20 here last night
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mesowest/getobext.php?wfo=mfr&sid=KLMT&num=72&raw=0

Glad I put a heater in the well house last week. Sheesh.

 

[alforit]

Hit -20 here last night
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mesowest/getobext.php?wfo=mfr&sid=KLMT&num=72&raw=0

Glad I put a heater in the well house last week. Sheesh.

 

[Sprinter]

Brrger. That's what a little altitude and getting away from Puget Sound will do.

Yeah, it was +2 here very early this morning out by the greenhouse. It's a heat wave now at 26. DW wanted it to hit zero so she could brag about it on FB

 

[luv2byte]

In in SW WA, barely across the border, I just got in from warming the pipes in our pump house. Water was running but barely a trickle. Glad we caught it before it was totally frozen, no water & 3am getting ready for work. Otherwise, I've been sweating my backside off from the fire going all weekend. Stepping outside w the dogs is quite refreshing.

 

[tahoostas]

Chilly here in Manitoba Canada. Was -30's C last night. Brr.

 

[Cynnergy]

Worried about the cabin here. We drained it but we weren't prepared for -14C (7F) last night! Don't know what will happen to the fridge/freezer or the canned fish and pickled beans in glass jars. Rookie mistake. Might be a bit of a mess when we can get back up there. Haven't had temps like these since I can remember. Glad we rescued the paint at least - we moved it to our house in town last weekend.

I can see a proper root cellar might be on the list for next summer...

 

[Sprinter]

Worried about the cabin here. We drained it but we weren't prepared for -14C (7F) last night! Don't know what will happen to the fridge/freezer or the canned fish and pickled beans in glass jars. Rookie mistake. Might be a bit of a mess when we can get back up there. Haven't had temps like these since I can remember. Glad we rescued the paint at least - we moved it to our house in town last weekend.

I can see a proper root cellar might be on the list for next summer...

We have a small 3' x 5' x 6' very well insulated room in the corner of an un-insulated garage for storing such things. All it takes is a light bulb to keep it above freezing even in these temps. It was near zero here last night, but above 40F in that room. Even if you're off grid, you may be able to rig up something. Having some thermal mass in there helps moderate temps too.

 

[Sprinter]

I just got in from warming the pipes in our pump house

I have a neighbor who's pipe from the well head to the heated pressure tank room froze up because it wasn't deep enough.

 

[Oregon aloha]

No brag of "0" here either. Got close 3* here, but my neighbor said it was down to 1* at his house. High today @ 20*. This is the first time the wood stove has struggled to keep the temp. up. Current temp. outside is 18* and 65 * at the far end of the house. Is everyone staying warm?

Our well house is uninsulated, so we leave a faucet dripping in the house and so far no frozen pipes.

 

[Seanm]

It got down to -32c here with highs of -23c. We sure have gone through a lot of wood this week. Today was a bit warmer and is -22c with the stove pumping out the heat. Normal is highs of -3c and -11c for lows. I had frozen pipes in one of my rentals but thawed them out before they burst. Tree sap was popping in the forest and the husky in my avatar got to sleep inside the last three nights! My family lives in the Vancouver area and Nanaimo was down to -10c. Mom and dad have a new corgi puppy that hasn't seen frozen puddles or snow yet. That would have been cute to see! I guess I don't have to wonder if its ice fishing season yet!

 

[Highbeam]

The family and I were in Enumclaw last night watching the christmas parade in 12 degree temps. It is tradition that the men take turns with the women visiting the pub for shots of booze during the parade. Especially when the bagpipers come into the pub for a special concert. I was putting up insulation in the barn today and trying to stay warm, it seems the caulk nearly froze in the tube as it was hard to squeeze out.

The BK is running hard on 12 hour cycles. Despite dang high output, the stove glass is still mucky.

 

[NVHunter]

I'm currently planning my stove install in my place as we speak. A Blaze King Sirocco 30. It's a little late though I guess. We got down to -22F last night and NOAA is predicting -24F tonight!

This is by far the coldest I've ever seen at my house, I guess that's why they call my home, Cold Springs Nevada, just north of Reno.

I really have stove envy right now as I'm watching the $$$$ fly away with my gas furnace and gas fireplace...

Everyone stay warm out there.

 

[begreen]

The family and I were in Enumclaw last night watching the christmas parade in 12 degree temps. It is tradition that the men take turns with the women visiting the pub for shots of booze during the parade. Especially when the bagpipers come into the pub for a special concert. I was putting up insulation in the barn today and trying to stay warm, it seems the caulk nearly froze in the tube as it was hard to squeeze out.

The BK is running hard on 12 hour cycles. Despite dang high output, the stove glass is still mucky.

Is that residual creosote? If the glass is cleaned while high burning will it stay clean?

 

[BrowningBAR]

The BK is running hard on 12 hour cycles.

Now imagine what it would have been like with the Heritage?

 

[PDXpyro]

We just returned home a few hours ago, after a week in central Mexico. Who messed with the @#*&!! thermostat while we were gone? Anyway, the Lopi's now cranking with locust and oak... will take quite awhile to drive off the chill in the house, which was barely heated during our absence. Sure glad I had left a couple of faucets slightly dripping.

 

[Highbeam]

Is that residual creosote? If the glass is cleaned while high burning will it stay clean?

I scraped the glass clean and even running with a flame the whole time, cat always way up high, and fans on 50%, the glass would amber up and the lower corners get textured and nearly blocked. This is very dry 100% doug fir from two summers ago. What I find amazing is that I haven't emptied the ashes all year and only have about an inch on the bottom of the firebox. Doug fir is really weird.

The heritage glass would stay very clean, only the occasional dusting of white ash. I am also burning the NC30 out in the shop at high throttle to stay warmish and the burn times are amazingly short. That stove is getting red alder and I reload three big splits every 2-3 hours. The coal bed thing is occuring where they accumulate too high so I can't load more wood but the stove temps are cooling.

We also have that weird thing our eastern brothers speak of. Frozen ground. I can walk and drive places with no squishy mud underfoot.

 

[BrowningBAR]

I am also burning the NC30 out in the shop at high throttle to stay warmish and the burn times are amazingly short.

Just for clarity, even on "high throttle" you still have the air nearly shut down, right?

 

[begreen]

Sorry to hear the glass is not staying clear when burning hot, I was hoping it would. Right now I am burning soft maple during the day and it coals terribly. Refills are more frequent as well. Like alder it is a lower heat wood. At night I am burning mostly cherry.

Try running a few loads of doug fir in the 30NC. Our T6 likes doug fir a lot.

 

[Highbeam]

Just for clarity, even on "high throttle" you still have the air nearly shut down, right?

No, it cools off. For me, the stove top gets hottest at about 1/3 open. When looking straight down from above the operating rod (not the spring) is just visible past the ash lip. Remember, the stove is in a 30 degree room with 10 feet of single wall. When I first start the fire, the smoke condenses and actually drips onto the ash lip. This wood is extremely dry three years cut/split in the sun and no hiss. All I can hear is the howl of wind being sucked into the stove.

The BK glass stays somewhat cleaner when working hard but nothing like a non-cat. We have been enjoying the flicker of flame and the stove fans make a huge difference getting heat to the back rooms. Perhaps if I ran the BK hard on red alder the glass would be cleaner. Lots of tar/pitch/resin/sap in doug fir. These were large old trees.

 

[GeneralBill]

Willamette Valley here. We don't get spells like this too often and I'm seeing the piling up of oak coals.

Speaking of OAK, the other kind, it is interesting to feel the temperature of the Summit's pedestal base, which is very influenced by the outside air. It stays pretty cool/cold when the temps are below 20F. The Summit's fan design seems a little off. New air chills the sensor and shuts off the fan just when you need it!