New Woodstock Ideal Steel Owner Experience
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Getting into the cold spell with 22 this morning.
Looking at single digits Sunday morning so I'm burning some of my oldest Locust mixed with oak and a little hickory.
Loaded three layers last night @ 11pm and three splits at 6am.
Stove damped down after both, its 38 now with bright sun and 74 inside.
Lowest it got was 71 around 5am. Going to get out some ash and re-fire between 3 and 4.
This stove is extending my firewood stash beyond my wildest expectations. Just blessed to have the best firewood on the planet her in the SE.
Looking at single digits Sunday morning so I'm burning some of my oldest Locust mixed with oak and a little hickory.
Loaded three layers last night @ 11pm and three splits at 6am.
Stove damped down after both, its 38 now with bright sun and 74 inside.
Lowest it got was 71 around 5am. Going to get out some ash and re-fire between 3 and 4.
This stove is extending my firewood stash beyond my wildest expectations. Just blessed to have the best firewood on the planet her in the SE.
Took a week off when we got close to 70 for several days.
Looks like we are headed for about 10 days of the same starting mid-week.
Been re-stacking (cross stack this time) our firewood and it looks like, thanks to the miserly Ideal Steel,
we have enough seasoned wood for at least two seasons.
Plan to get another's year's worth cut up and split by the end of the month.
Cannot say enough about this Woodstock stove's performance.
Looks like we are headed for about 10 days of the same starting mid-week.
Been re-stacking (cross stack this time) our firewood and it looks like, thanks to the miserly Ideal Steel,
we have enough seasoned wood for at least two seasons.
Plan to get another's year's worth cut up and split by the end of the month.
Cannot say enough about this Woodstock stove's performance.
I hear that! I used to burn mainly BL since there was standing dead all over the place at my in-laws farm. Hickory and Oak too, but those things would never die, so I never burned em, not even one tree in the last 6 years or so of cutting. But BL was good enough. Wish I had some to try in the Ideal Steel, but we have been separated now for 2 years so no more cutting on the farm. I scrounged a big score of ash fall of '14 and that is all I have been burning besides Eco-bricks. I know ash is good stuff, but I'm pretty sure BL would still blow it out of the water, or stove
.With two stoves running for me, at least during most of the colder half of winter, I can really utilize the lower burns more. With other stoves that were barely overnight burners it was always a bit of a struggle loading last minute before going to bed, and then having to reload as soon as you get up. It is so nice now to load early in the evening, and also get up and just stir up the fire or open up the air a bit. Also skip one or two loads during the day too! I loaded a loose 2/3 - 3/4 full load of ash, not even big pieces, last night around 9pm I think. It's noon now the next day and all I did was open up the air 2 notches this morning. A large pile of coals still, a couple even full wood length still.
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Ohio, sorry you lost that wood.
Kind of a strange scenario here in the SE; capable of very hot temps all summer with loads of the best firewood – oaks, locust, and hickory - you could want.
Locust is not nearly as plentiful as it was a few decades back.
So many fence posts and barn poles were made from the trees with all the spikes.
Fortunately I can still find enough – a friend has a giant dead locust that I've been slowly working on processing for several years.
Just limbs so far.
Kind of a strange scenario here in the SE; capable of very hot temps all summer with loads of the best firewood – oaks, locust, and hickory - you could want.
Locust is not nearly as plentiful as it was a few decades back.
So many fence posts and barn poles were made from the trees with all the spikes.
Fortunately I can still find enough – a friend has a giant dead locust that I've been slowly working on processing for several years.
Just limbs so far.
JA600L
Minister of Fire
I have too much locust 
and 3 of them to take down yet. I try to save it for the really harsh weather. Once I empty my supplier of the locust I doubt I'll ever find anymore for free again. Most of the Amish and farmers around here burn wood too. Other varieties are available, but almost never free locust.
and 3 of them to take down yet. I try to save it for the really harsh weather. Once I empty my supplier of the locust I doubt I'll ever find anymore for free again. Most of the Amish and farmers around here burn wood too. Other varieties are available, but almost never free locust.
We may be done for the season.
Looks like some temps in the 50s, maybe a "forty" thrown in next weekend then back into the 70s.
Got a few locust to cut before the sap rises.
Looks like some temps in the 50s, maybe a "forty" thrown in next weekend then back into the 70s.
Got a few locust to cut before the sap rises.
kennyp2339
Minister of Fire
I'm looking at the long range weather and it looks like we'll have a little winter up here NW NJ and the northeast around the 21st, there is potential of a nor easter developing, I love seeing the snow but we've had some warm weather here recently and all the tree's are running sap which means if we get a wet heavy snow we could have tree damage.
Babaganoosh
Minister of Fire
It was pretty warm yesterday by me in NJ but without the sun shining my heat would have kept coming on. It was 46 when I woke up and topped out around 60 yesterday. I put in a single load for the day. About 3/4 of a box. Mostly pine and maple. Kept the furnace off all day and didn't run me out of my den running in cat made only.
Last weekend we felled a big ash (EAB kill, leaning towards the house). The whole time, I was sweating and getting eaten by mosquitos! IN MARCH! Had the AC on to get the house back under 80F this week. IN MARCH! As I was leaving the house today I looked at the lawn beside the driveway and realized the grass needs mowed. IN MARCH!!
This is some crazy weather. I'd get geared up for spring but I'm afraid it'll have a snap or two back to typical March/early April weather. Worst part of is is that we're a month short of logging/felling/brush clearing weather. We have to get a wet snow to beat all the underbrush down before we can get out there and work and then we have to stop when everything picks itself back up off the ground and tangles again. Usually that's not until late April or even May but it's already happening. The heavy snow to knock it down didn't come until the middle of February so I guess we're actually short 2-2.5 months of work time out there.
If this weather continues after we get our stove put in this summer, the 4 cords I have CSS will last about 10 years!
This is some crazy weather. I'd get geared up for spring but I'm afraid it'll have a snap or two back to typical March/early April weather. Worst part of is is that we're a month short of logging/felling/brush clearing weather. We have to get a wet snow to beat all the underbrush down before we can get out there and work and then we have to stop when everything picks itself back up off the ground and tangles again. Usually that's not until late April or even May but it's already happening. The heavy snow to knock it down didn't come until the middle of February so I guess we're actually short 2-2.5 months of work time out there.
If this weather continues after we get our stove put in this summer, the 4 cords I have CSS will last about 10 years!
Yep.
Even with a quick cold snap - highs in 40s Sunday - I am going to forego a fire as the stove has been cleaned out and the furniture moved.
Just b focused on some wood.
Snowshoe Resort (200 miles from me) had snow throughout the weekend, 6 to 8" on top of Cheat Mt. where most of the resort's facilities are located.
Lots of serious wood burners in Pocahontas County.
Working on adding to my Locust stash this spring.
Lots of serious wood burners in Pocahontas County.
Working on adding to my Locust stash this spring.
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