Well here it comes! Frigid air arrivng tonight with gusts up to 50mph in the Adorondacks. High temp Saturday is forecast to be -6 with a low of -20 and that's without windchill! I got my best stacked by the stove. Well seasoned white oak and white ash. Last week was pretty damn cold but nothing like what's coming. Burned the stove hard the last 10 days. Amazing what a stove with a 1.5 sq ft firebox will do in a well insulated 2200 sq ft house! You going to be burning your best? Maybe you set your choice splits aside for just a spell like the one coming. Stay warm!
Right Coast... Are You Ready?!?!?
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Bmore
Burning Hunk
Finally cold enough to burn my Osage Orange. Only have a face cord that is 3 seasons dry. Mixing it with Black Locust. I’ve gotten 12+ hours out of the Locust the last two days curious if the Hedge is any better. 8f tonight with a -8f wind chill. That is as cold as it gets here....
Rangerbait
Feeling the Heat
My "primo" wood is somewhere on my back porch in the stack . . . but I'm not too worried . . . the regular ol' wood has been doing a fine job of keeping the place warm during the last few days of sub zero temps.
I will say though that I have pretty much decided to not go outside and start the clean up since a) it's way too windy and looks way too cold and unpleasant and b) whatever I do will have to be redone in the morning anyways.
I will say though that I have pretty much decided to not go outside and start the clean up since a) it's way too windy and looks way too cold and unpleasant and b) whatever I do will have to be redone in the morning anyways.
heavy hammer
Minister of Fire
I have a garage full of seasoned locust that has been keeping us very warm through this cold spell. Next couple of days are going to be pretty cold but I'm ready. I have a tractor bucket full of 6 to 8 inch locust rounds seasoned over 4 years, that has been in my garage for over a year for days like what we are about to get. Everyone stay warm!
Yep. Hasn't been above freezing for weeks. Tomorrows high is 0, Saturday it may climb all the way up to 1!! Throw in some juicy lake effect squalls and white outs. We won't talk about wind chill. The Quad has been cooking using Ash, apple and cherry. Glad I filled my garage pile yesterday!
Rangerbait
Feeling the Heat
Your post makes me wonder...I have some Shagbark that I cut last winter, and it spent the spring/summer/fall in the direct sun and wind. It was at 15% when I measured it in October, and burns really well; what does an additional year do for it? Two years??
This is my first season burning in a long time, and certainly the first season that I put any thought into seasoning wood.
heavy hammer
Minister of Fire
Should only make it better Rangerbait. As long as it is stays dry the more time it has to season the better.
Easy Livin’ 3000
Minister of Fire
I've been saving a cart-full of ancient old growth oak for this spell. Burned the first load today, and it makes a world of difference compared to all the suboptimal stuff we've been burning, both in heat and length of fire. Won't get us all the way through, but we'll move to the extra dry ash stack. I guess shoulder season is over.
I'm not on the east coast but here in IL we have been in single digits for better then a week now. Lows of below zero with windchill added to that. I've been burning once or twice a day to keep the storage tanks up. Cooking away some 15% mulberry right now. Stuff burns great and burns down to nothing. I like it.
Woodsplitter67
Minister of Fire
Been ready... its 0 out right now, its been in the mid teens for the highs and winds of 40mph or higher with 8in of snow. Been burning a mix of hickory, pin oak and white oak.. Haven't needed to run the stove hard and last nght when i went to bed it was 71 in the house. The pin oak was some of the wood that was kiln dried, nice large splits.
I moved a bunch of wood up closer to the house to get me buy this latest blast
I moved a bunch of wood up closer to the house to get me buy this latest blast
kennyp2339
Minister of Fire
Suppose to be 16 today.. talk about a heat wave, cant wait to be outside
Downright balmy out this AM. I have all the south facing window blinds open and my south facing front interior door open to let the sun in. I expect my minisplit is going to get turned back on this afternoon. Still around zero but get rid of the wind and add sun and it makes all the difference.
heavy hammer
Minister of Fire
We should be on the upswing for awhile here. There calling for temps above freezing for a while. Cold this morning but supposed to get to 25 today low thirties tomorrow.
I dug the oak out of the pile and burned it for the past 10 days or so. I can't recall a stretch this long of it being this cold. It finally got up to 40 yesterday and I was about to put shorts on.
