What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

Decided to get rid of all the ipe scraps in my basement, loaded up the stove, thought it would be a quick burn. But this stuff burns for a long time, considering it's just small scraps.

Ash in both of mine, right now. Welcome back, normal seasonal temperatures.

mass_burner said:

Decided to get rid of all the ipe scraps in my basement, loaded up the stove, thought it would be a quick burn. But this stuff burns for a long time, considering it's just small scraps.

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I've done a bit of work with Ipe... never tried burning it. I can only imagine, as it's just about the hardest wood I have ever worked. Crazy heavy, in 1x12 x 16' form, too!

Two pieces of aspen, a pin cherry split, a chunk of Red oak and a cereal box.
Its 18° here and snowing.

Ipe? Never heard of it.

Finally cold enough to fire up the beast. Been gone for several days and didn't feel like starting up from scratch in the evenings, but a 57' house temp when I got home tonight has elm, cherry, ash and a beech split cranking away. Looks like burning weather for a week and then we appear to trend up again in Ohio. Only burned just 3/5 of a cord so far. Jan will be a big tell for the rest of winter I think.

Applesister said:

Ipe? Never heard of it.

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Brazilian walnut. Beautiful wood.. I made a cutting board out of it. Very tough stuff.

Odd and ugly chunks of big leaf maple that I got from a tree service ~2 years ago.

drz1050 said:

Brazilian walnut. Beautiful wood.. I made a cutting board out of it. Very tough stuff.

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It burned real slow, once it turned black, I shut down the air to 10℅ and it just criused along for at least 3+ hrs. I got a whole day out of one full load and two refills on hot coals.

Dead dinosaurs . . . I'm at work right now so no woodstove . . . although I suspect my wife is burning some sort of hardwood in it right now.

Maple I have collected the past year. Free wood smells best.

drz1050 said:

Brazilian walnut. Beautiful wood.. I made a cutting board out of it. Very tough stuff.

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"Very tough" is a severe understatement. Not only can you not put screws into it directly, you'll find yourself snapping off drill bits in it, trying to pre-drill for screws. It's hell on saw blades, too. Sort of like cutting masonry board on the table saw.

Haha, very true. Sanding that cutting board down took a LONG time (bought it rough cut.) I just throw a little beeswax & oil on it every now and then, and give it a light sanding once a year or so to remove knife marks. I fully expect it to last the rest of my life, easily.

What's in my stove? A mix of black birch, beech and a few envi-blocks. Towards the end of a 14 hr burn now.

I had some scraps of Ipe kicking around the shop forever. Used them as cribbing when moving machines. Now you have me wanting to make a cutting board out of one of them, if I can still find 'em.

Was supposed to cool off today. Temperature was around 50 degrees and the house was chilly.
Built a fire of pine & some ash. Temperature went up to 55 degrees outside and held steady there all day. Been burning kindling type wood instead...

Normal seasonal temps are starting to arrive in central Indiana. Highs in the mid 30's all week. Lows in the 20's and high teens.

I'm burning a little bit of silver maple and my left over wood from last year that I moved to the house. That's a mix of mulberry and apple wood with a random piece of ash.

My wife recently started a new job and now works from home. That's good because the stove is always full, but that means our consumption is going up.

Brought a new load into the basement. Had a few thin 1 yr cuttoffs of burr oak. Couldn't resist throwing one in on a pile of hot cherry. Getting some nice secondaries in the 28-3500. Love smelling fresh split burr oak.

The night load will consist of shorties and weirds tonight. Mostly maple and walnut.

Some black cherry and honey locust. I keep going outside just to smell the smoke.

It was cold last night, -7 degrees F here in south central Idaho. The Rocky mountains forgot about El Nino. Unfortunately I don't have a house built yet but I have plenty of firewood. So, what would I have burned?

I would have jammed 60 lbs of ash (small cuts) into the masonry heater and let it rip! And in the evening probably some lodgepole pine to 'recharge' the mass. Maybe next year.

I think the last reload was mostly elm, black locust, and some soft maple to get things rolling.

Ashful said:

I had some scraps of Ipe kicking around the shop forever. Used them as cribbing when moving machines. Now you have me wanting to make a cutting board out of one of them, if I can still find 'em.

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That's why I have the scraps, made a mailbox, post light, patio steps, other small things. The splinters are nasty too.

I did find about 3' of 4/4x10 Ipe, while pulling some 16/4 mahogany off the rack for a project, last night. A little narrower than I'd like, for a cutting board, but it could work.

Today I'am making ash out of ash.

bob