What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

I dug out the oak and found a small pile of black locust I forgot about. Cherry, ash, red oak and bl is keeping the house 71' when its 4' outside. Propane doesn't even compare when its like this. Gotta love wood heat.

Got Black Locust and Cottonwood in tonight.. odd combination I know. 1 piece of BL plus 2 of Cottonwood has my living room at 74 vs 19 outside.

The other day I was scrounging and found some boxelder and hard maple dumped off. I try to keep my wood separate.. so even though I did have room for this new wood I didn't have room. One of my BL tiers aren't empty yet thanks to this warm winter, and one of my "everything but BL but not junk" tiers aren't empty yet, and I refilled one of my junk tiers around Christmas.. so I took some Cottonwood that I CSS in July out of one of my junk tiers and put the new stuff there for now. Of course I could have just piled up the new stuff for now but I guess like many here I'm kind of OCD about this and it MUST be under cover at all times.

Too much wood... what a nice problem to have.

LocustPocust said:

Got Black Locust and Cottonwood in tonight.. odd combination I know. 1 piece of BL plus 2 of Cottonwood has my living room at 74 vs 19 outside.

The other day I was scrounging and found some boxelder and hard maple dumped off. I try to keep my wood separate.. so even though I did have room for this new wood I didn't have room. One of my BL tiers aren't empty yet thanks to this warm winter, and one of my "everything but BL but not junk" tiers aren't empty yet, and I refilled one of my junk tiers around Christmas.. so I took some Cottonwood that I CSS in July out of one of my junk tiers and put the new stuff there for now. Of course I could have just piled up the new stuff for now but I guess like many here I'm kind of OCD about this and it MUST be under cover at all times.

Too much wood... what a nice problem to have.

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Just some good old two year old perfect length nice and square red and white oak. This is the best my hampton has ever performed

This may be the least interesting subject ever posted on an internet forum, but I can't stop watching it.

Don't let any prospective mates or employers see you watching a thread on what sort of wood others have loaded in their stoves... they just won't understand.

It's 17 out right now. I've Been throwing in Ash, Red Oak and a few splits of Elm throughout the day. It's about 73 inside. Nice and comfy.

BrotherBart said:

We went off the cliff starting last night too. Gonna go down to teens tonight and single digits tomorrow night. Kinda chilly for the Tropics of Virginia. Been feeding my usual diet of red and white oak. There is a reason they call this development in the woods The Oaks. There is a lot of Beech too but The Beeches would have just been too funny.

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That would have been a good name..then you could have said you lived in the "Virginia Beeches."

That being said in the low teens & burning a mix of some birch, maple, & oak.

Ashful said:

This may be the least interesting subject ever posted on an internet forum, but I can't stop watching it.

Don't let any prospective mates or employers see you watching a thread on what sort of wood others have loaded in their stoves... they just won't understand.

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Luckily one of my coworkers is also a forum member/lurker so he understands.

Still a steady diet of honey locust for me with the occasional silver maple or dog wood. 24/7 burning here now, and that is a lot of work with the old smokey!

Ashes...burning oil while its cheap and saving my wood.

I like to run at least 1/3 softwood even in our coldest weather, to keep the hardwoods lively and help with quick restarts. Currently burning off the last of the doug fir that didn't get soaked by our recent floods, in which 2 cords of our bone-dry wood ended up floating.

Unfortunately, most of that low-lying wood that's now floodwater-soaked was the dry fir, and I'm gonna be stuck with too much dry hardwood in the upcoming shoulder season. I know: not *really* a serious issue, and many burners would kill to have this "problem." But annoying anyway.

(Added edit) Actually, the real problem here is the hassle of gathering up all of that wood that got flood-scattered randomly around the yard, restacking it, and then having to wait an extra year after I'd planned to burn it. As an added bonus, much of that formerly clean wood has a nice coating of slimy, silty mud.

The past few weeks temperatures have been going up and down, this weekend will be below zero degrees F for highs and lows. Last cold spell was -25 F for a few morning lows. I am burning cottonwood in my wood furnace and stove has enough coals to get going in the morning. Siberian Elm is my favorite wood to burn.

3* this morning. I woke up at 2am to reload the fire with black locust. Now I have a load of hard maple burning. I'm home all day today with my two youngest so the stove is going to get a workout.

Burning a grab bag of wood today. Little poplar, walnut, about 1/3 of an oak 12 X 12 X 24, and a little of "I'm not sure what it is, but it's wood" wood. Temps in the single digits today, I'm hoping the piece of 12 X 12 goes for awhile.

I did some firewood cutting and I had to quit. I didn't understand why I was so cold, this was at 4:30 pm at my home January 16th 2016. Most certainly, people the most passionate about burning wood, are those who are the coldest (at least outside, not in their homes).

White birch/elm.

I can not remember what my last load consisted of but the outcome is this!!

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Not exactly bikini weather. You must wonder about the conditions that had folks settling that part of the world, in the days before central heating and electricity.

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Not exactly bikini weather. You must wonder about the conditions that had folks settling that part of the world, in the days before central heating and electricity.

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They burned a lot of corn cobs and cow patties. And they were pretty cold, too.

11 outside, 72 inside. Got Black Locust and Sugar Maple in the stove crankin' away. I had to turn the damper down because it was getting a bit carried away. Cold, Clear night, rising barometric pressure, the draft is excellent.

18 degrees out. 2 pieces of Ash, 1 Beech, 1 Red Oak.

Also, a warm and happy wife, and a blue nose pitbull who is in heaven.

Another two full loads of oak and ash tonight. Have never tried Beech!

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Another two full loads of oak and ash tonight. Have never tried Beech!

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You'd love it. Splits easy, at least in my opinion. Splits even easier with my DHT 27 ton. Dries great in 2 summers. 28M BTU a cord, I think? And it leaves almost no mess.My only problem with it is that I don't have enough.

In fact, I split a really large "overnighter" that I split originally in March. I'm talking a huge split. I kept it in my laundry room for a few hours so it would be room temp and give me an accurate reading. I checked in 3 spots. 1 was 20.1%. Another was just over 21% The third test was 20.8% I believe. I single stack in the sun, so it helps, but that's fast seasoning for such a quality wood.

I've split a lot of beech this year, looking forward to burning it once that day comes.

Some rounds split easy, some twisted ones would swallow my wedge and laugh at me. Really depends on the tree. Tougher to split than oak/ maple, easier than elm.

Honey locust right now, then hard maple.

I don't get much beech, but there is a very large one down in a field next to my cutting area. I'm going to try and get my hands on it. It would be very easy access. Can drive right to it.