One more first...

37 degrees last night 10pm, decided to load up for my first true overnight burn in the 30. Stuffed it to the gills with BL, closed secondary air completely, and went to bed with a 600 stovetop.

7am... 6" of still-working coals, 250 stovetop, 40 degrees out, tossed on 3 more splits and shut the door. Result.

corey21 said:

Congrats glad it worked out.

Did you cover up the secondary air inlet or was this the primary control you were talking about closing?

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Um.... thought the primary was unrestricted and the knob/slider on the front controlled secondary air....

Backwoods Savage said:

Bluedogz, why on earth would you stuff that stove to the gills? Then on top of that it was BL?! Save that stuff for mid-winter. 2 or 3 small or medium sized splits should be plenty. This is only October! I put in 4 pieces of lumber cut offs before going to bed and the house was still very warm this morning. We just don't need a lot of heat with temperatures in the 30's.

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Dennis, you have a fair point...I used BL because that's what I've got, no other reason- I have (relatively) huge supplies of BL, cherry, and hickory, next to no lower-grade stuff. And the BL happens to be stacked closer to the house.

I stuffed the stove simply to see if I could get a proper overnight burn. Obviously, I did and then some. Looking at it, 3 or 4 4" BL splits would have done fine. Now I know.

Oh, and yeah, I shut down primary air. Mea culpa... shoulda RTFM.