what are you burning today?

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ll , 86F inside? :oops: Yer balmy for sure, LOL. Our living room is a toasty warm 74F. At 86F I want to be close to water I can dive into.
 
The thermometer says 86 inside but because its cold outside it really doesn't feel that hot
 
Some oak and yellow birch. The wife just opened up the front door to let in some cold air. I guess I better slow down on putting wood in the stove. Currently around 30 degrees outside.
 
all pine now. Box elder is too ashy/coaly to use much. 72 in and 21 out, up from a chilly 7 this am.
 
Oak and Beech. Weather has been less than nice here for the last week.
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A mix of white oak and red oak...stove is in the Colin stage now jus raked to front added a small spilt ready to reload..I have found although I love the stove I average he only 5 or 6 hrs on a full load..was thinkin bout doing some sperimentin this spring to get longer burns...
 
Burned some cookies earlier! All Oak in the stove, and some super-seasoned "featherweight" (2 year C/S/S) white pine, i saved just for the holidays in the fire pit outside.
 
Burning a weird load of sugar maple. It's 2 years css, is sooting up the glass, with weird intermittent secondaries, but no smoke out of the stack.
 
White spruce, cause it's all I got. Woke up to -16 outside 78 downstairs and 72 upstairs. Will have dueling burn barrels eating cardboard and Xmas paper later.
 
White birch, white ash, black locust, red maple and some beech . . .

And biscuits with help from my Bakewell Cream -- turns out the same recipe printed on the Bakewell Cream can is the same recipe for my Nana's Biscuits.
 
Black locust and a little red oak. 14* outside right now. 75* inside.
 
White Oak below 20% humidity 27 outside 70 inside
 
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Oak, not sure red/white, etc... 2 1/2 yrs old but still some not below the magic 20% I try to pick the pieces that "feel drier" and put the ones that feel wetter outside for drying till next season after I split them smaller. I will MM more splits, but time has been at a premium with Holiday activities, family, health issues, etc... Just glad to know I have enough wood for this season and some for next. Merry Christmas.
 
Not burning today :(.....
 
Burning black walnut, oak and one piece of pine for tonights overnight burn. I hope you all had a merry Christmas. We had a houseful everyone was loving the yule log fire show and heat.
 

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Cherry, Ash & Maple was the first load for today. Full load of White Oak for overnight.
Yes cleaned a bunch of ash out from 3 of my not so favorite woods, but I will burn any wood that burns. Crap during the day, Oak at night.
 
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Pine as usual again today. Currently 25 degrees out.
 
This was 3 or 4 hours ago. 1 elm split and 3 locust splits loaded E/W
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Hi 1st post in this forum.

We had a storm a couple of years ago that dropped 3 red oaks, 2 post oaks and 1 quite large maple in my yard and we are still burning those in the Buck Model 81 insert in the basement fireplace.

Upstairs we are burning Somerset pellets in our Harman Accentra fs stove.

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Did that happen when the tornado went through?
 
Oak and hickory all winter long.
 
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