Shutting Down for the Season
Let it go out today. Hadn't gone out since Christmas. Mornings have been in the high 30's so it's not a big deal. House warms up enough during the day so it only gets down to the high 50's over night. Had been playing around seeing just how little I could use while keeping it going. Was only shaking down about a 4" wide spot in the middle. Only had a bit more than that burning and even that was starving for air due to ash build up. Was tending the fire three times a day but only adding coal once a day. Last time I added it took 6.5 pounds for 24 hours. Ended up with 400 pounds left from 3 ton. That's over two ton less than last year. Yeah, it was a mild winter, but I think part of it is I learned a lot about how to get the most out of it. Going to clean it all out and spray it with LPS2 now.
Bruce
Bruce
me too. we got 3 inches of snow back last week with some raw temps off and on. we'll be getting wet snow flurries again this week. I'll fire it up today. I use Pea so it doesn't burn so hot.snuffy wrote:Talk of my flame's demise were premature! Fired up my Mark III tonight. Feels cozy once again.
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Yeah, looks like you might get a little tomorrow (Tuesday/Wednesday). I'm not that far north..captcaper wrote:me too. we got 3 inches of snow back last week with some raw temps off and on. we'll be getting wet snow flurries again this week. I'll fire it up today. I use Pea so it doesn't burn so hot.snuffy wrote:Talk of my flame's demise were premature! Fired up my Mark III tonight. Feels cozy once again.
Stove has been out about a week.
Those 70* days did it. If we get the rainy crap this week, I'll do a wood fire to
get the 'raw' out.