Quaking Aspen Fire

[thewoodlands]

The temps should fall to the low 30's tonight so we are burning the quaking aspen that we cut (blowdown) last year, we should have enough wood to get to the end of October depending on the weather.

zap

 

[Pagey]

October of 2032, you mean. ;-P

We've seen your stacks, Zap.

 

[thewoodlands]

October of 2032, you mean. ;-P

We've seen your stacks, Zap.

You must be talking about Sav's pictures. :snake:

zap

 

[thewoodlands]

October of 2032, you mean. ;-P

We've seen your stacks, Zap.

We had the fire above which had the temps in the basement @ 73, the second fire had the temp in the basement @ 77 which was the last load of the night. Woke this morning with the temp upstairs in the house 69 degrees, the outside temp was 38 so I'm happy with the quaking aspen for shoulder season wood.



zap

 

[Pagey]

I have some beetle kill pine and a tiny, tiny amount of silver maple for shoulder season. Almost lit up this morning, but ran out of time. We're close, but not quite there yet.

 

[yooperdave]

yeah, getting to be that time of year again. early sunsets; colder than normal sunrises; and a good fire in the stove to relax by...

 

[pen]

Wish I had some softwood around. Putting enough pieces of hardwood into the stove for a good burn usually means we are opening windows this time of year. I let thing get into the lower 60's in the house last night. By tonight, it should be cool enough that I can have a fire and still be able to sleep w/out sweating to death.

The rational thing to do would be to use the electric radiator or furnace, but what's the fun in that?

pen

 

[thewoodlands]

yeah, getting to be that time of year again. early sunsets; colder than normal sunrises; and a good fire in the stove to relax by...

yooperdave, you might be getting snow soon! :cheese:


zap

 

[thewoodlands]

Wish I had some softwood around. Putting enough pieces of hardwood into the stove for a good burn usually means we are opening windows this time of year. I let thing get into the lower 60's in the house last night. By tonight, it should be cool enough that I can have a fire and still be able to sleep w/out sweating to death.

The rational thing to do would be to use the electric radiator or furnace, but what's the fun in that?

pen

Pen, the best thing I did with the Aspen was split it big so it burns longer. I'm not sure for next year but we have plenty of pine down so I might try that.


zap

 

[yooperdave]

yeah, getting to be that time of year again. early sunsets; colder than normal sunrises; and a good fire in the stove to relax by...

yooperdave, you might be getting snow soon! :cheese:


zap

there you go using the "s" word!
i think we had it during one storm this past week. either corn snow or some really small hail. doesn't matter, i guess.
i may even have to get the thermometer replaced...the outside one read 13f this morning-whats up (or down) with that?

 

[Backwoods Savage]

yooperdave, I saw some in your forecast and wondered if you got any. They spoke of the higher elevations away from the lake to get it.


Zap, don't you know that popple is terrible wood and you shouldn't even cut it up?

 

[thewoodlands]

yooperdave, I saw some in your forecast and wondered if you got any. They spoke of the higher elevations away from the lake to get it.


Zap, don't you know that popple is terrible wood and you shouldn't even cut it up?

Sav, you know me if it's down and in the way it goes underneath the Stihl. Our first load of the night went in, burning nice.



zap

 

[ecocavalier02]

zap i like the temps ur gettin there in the adk's ill be heading that way for our hiking trip in 3 weeks. i dont like it to be anything warmer than 40's at night for camping.

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[SolarAndWood]

i dont like it to be anything warmer than 40's at night for camping.'

You could have done that Labor Day weekend up there :lol:

 

[ecocavalier02]

i dont like it to be anything warmer than 40's at night for camping.'

You could have done that Labor Day weekend up there :lol:

lol. i love this time of year def my favorite seasons fall and winter.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

yooperdave, I saw some in your forecast and wondered if you got any. They spoke of the higher elevations away from the lake to get it.


Zap, don't you know that popple is terrible wood and you shouldn't even cut it up?

Sav, you know me if it's down and in the way it goes underneath the Stihl. Our first load of the night went in, burning nice.



zap

But Zap, burning popple causes warts.

 

[thewoodlands]

Does that mean you won't be stopping by! :vampire:



zap

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Not so. Did you get my email Zap?

 

[Milton Findley]

I have always thought that popple was good firewood, and if it wasn't, no yoopers would have survived the depression and there would be nothing but uninhabited woods north of highway 8 in Wisconsin either.

We are going up up north to spend a week in our camper, (more of a condo on wheels than a tent), and we will be relaxing by a popple fire in the evenings.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Have fun up there Milt.