Looking at pics all around the forum and I can’t help noticeing how green all of your surroundings are.
I shouldn’t, but allow me to do a bit of complaining. We’ve had a lousy spring so far. Still no signs of buds or green grass. I’ve been firewood prepping for next winter for a couple weeks now - between showers of slit. A few degrees above during the days and a few degrees below during nights. The frozen ground is melting slowly, making a mud mess. Still running the boiler for heat.
Oh, and drying shunks - impossible. A week or two on the trailer doesn’t make a difference. Another few weeks in the drying cribs - no difference. I’ve been bagging moist fuel and I empty them in loaf trays and let them sit on top of the boiler for a couple days before I run them in the gasifier. This is the first time in 8 years I’ve been forced to this procedure. It feels like it’s been either raining or snowing since mid July last year.
Welcome to the club, I have the same feeling. The only difference is we have no snow, nothing this year, maybe one or two days.
Btw, the normal “road” I would take on my land is not doable without tracks at the moment, only mud. Therefore a different path between the trees and a quick crossover the mud path. And the picture above is laurier, it doesnt lose his leaves during winter. I heart it is beautiful fuel, another project. First looking for asparges behind the green wall .
Edit, it wont show pictures of the cherry trees. If I do that you dont stop complaining 
Full blossom
I agree, Jo.
As soon it dries up and give one hope, a heavy rain shower messes it up again 
There is buds around here, and it starts to get greenish, but still muddy and wet, water in my basement, ice on the windshield in the mornings…
Well, i helped you complain some?
Regarding fuel for the car, dry trees, both pine and spruce work quite well, a few days in the boiler room after chopping and they are fine.
Hey JO
Please forgive me but I will rub a little salt in the wound
Thank you, Joep. I couldn’t stand a pic like that 
Thank you, Göran. You did
But how to get to them, Jan? Mud and flooding.
I do have loads of chunks, but for the first time ever I have to pre-dry them by the boiler. I’m glad you didn’t share pics of green grass
Thanks for the video, Wayne 
I had to wear my welding helmet to watch it.
Be of good faith JO. To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under heaven. Soon you will be green (for a couple of months at least) Have you heard of snow peas? I have no luck growing them myself. I guess our snow is too deep or something. 
If it is anything like my issue with them, the deer, woodchucks, squirrels, rabbits, turkeys, etc all ate them. 
Oh, that’s no problem. you can take the skis, it will be cold and below 0, at night for at least a week.
Tom, its important to pre cook your snow peas seeds and sow hot. That way they dont get cold when rooting 
Jokes to the side, its my third year of yowing snow carrots. You literaly sow them in snow. Sprinkle seeds in rows over a snowy wheat feald (white snow makes you see seeds nicely). When the snow melts and they sprout under the moist environent, they wait till wheat dies off and is harvested, then they grow real nice till winter.
These are this years carrots
JO, I was thinking about your gas getting so hot today when I was driving home.
I put in a bag of birch that I found this morning very heavy, so probably very wet (fires only with fir now) and when I went there the heat rose from the filter to 175 degrees c, normally around 130 degrees c.
Could that be the cause of your heat rise?
Don’t you have small birds where you live? Pickin the seeds in the snow?
Wet wood may give higher gas temps due to incomplete reduction, where steam carries heat away, colder reduction zone=higher gas temp out.
Sounds wrong but i got a feeling it’s the way it works.
The dark seeds seem to warm in the sun and sink in some. Ofcorse timing is important too, one shuld pick the right day to sow (temps, snow thickness…)
Haha, I do grow them. Late May, early June at the earliest though, or they will rot before they start growing.
Could be one of the reasons, but it’s rather consistent and runs crappy on low demand as well. I still suspect a heatex leak. To busy at the moment, but will take a look at it during summer. It’s still drivable.
Jan, that’s almost 2 minutes worth of chunking you have there 
Are you into burning dimentional lumber now?
“Are you into burning dimentional lumber now?”
Do you mean I sawed the wood?
Dry fir, sawn in the band saw and then split in the bench saw and finally small pieces in the chopper behind the tractor.
When I got home and was going to cut, the axle between the tractor and the cut came loose, when I fix it, the bearing frame for the cut broke, then I went to the sofa.
That sounds like the course of action I would have taken too. It is the world telling you to quit for the day 