How many are running their stove hard!

RIDGERUNNER30 said:

was just wondering how many are running 24/7, here were i live we hit a bitter cold spell and post to down in the single digits and low teens all the way into next week kind of odd for were i live. I have been running the stove in the 600 and 650 degree range and looks like ,I will be running it that way for a couple more weeks what about you guys , I really enjoy it my heat pump has not kick on in a couple of days I love it, I guess when bone cold weather hits run your stove like you stoled it.

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Burning some hard maple has we speak, 81 degrees and rising.

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Ja, when it gets below -30°C I burn it as hot as I can and not build up too many coals.

Have been running 24/7 since before Christmas, just let stove cool down enough to clean out the ashes. Don't like to let it cool down , but too many coals to rake to one side or the other.

my insert is small therefore i always run it hard / wide open

My cat stove is most efficient with the cat at 1100 degrees and the firebox near cutoff, which puts out about the the same amount of heat from load to load. I'm feeding it 25year old Locust post and Chestnut Oak. Nights here in the single digits and days in the twenties. Predictions are for this weather pattern to last into next week.

RIDGERUNNER30 said:

was just wondering how many are running 24/7, here were i live we hit a bitter cold spell and post to down in the single digits and low teens all the way into next week kind of odd for were i live. I have been running the stove in the 600 and 650 degree range and looks like ,I will be running it that way for a couple more weeks what about you guys , I really enjoy it my heat pump has not kick on in a couple of days I love it, I guess when bone cold weather hits run your stove like you stoled it.

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I've been running it right to the wall since...oh..right around Thanksgiving or so. The entirety of the eastern seaboard is seeing some damn unusual cold, normal for us up here in the Northeast, but very unusual for you all below the Mason-Dixon. Run her up all day long, set up an overnighter, and clean it out in the morning.

Ditto! Its COLD in IL and I am running my little old buck pretty hard. Doing a pretty good job. Only gets behind at night since I come home for lunch during the day. I love it!

I'm letting mine stretch its legs a little bit, but not really pushing it.

With an oversized stove (A 30NC for 1600 sqft) and a pretty well insulated house, I can't run 24/7 until it starts to get pretty cold (the shoulder season was hell for me this year). Even single digits with wind chill below zero doesn't even really force me to push it too hard.

-SF

sheet, its been 0 to -15 for the last week. Ive been running thru the wood like crazy. The up stairs furnace runs 1/2 time and the down stairs has only been on 2 or 3 times. we have 3700 sq to heat and the summit does about 40 % of that. I am starting to bring home pallet wood to mix in as i go so as not to run out. This global warming stuff is killing us up here.

SlyFerret said:

I'm letting mine stretch its legs a little bit, but not really pushing it.

With an oversized stove (A 30NC for 1600 sqft) and a pretty well insulated house, I can't run 24/7 until it starts to get pretty cold (the shoulder season was hell for me this year). Even single digits with wind chill below zero doesn't even really force me to push it too hard.

-SF

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WOW :exclaim:

Help send wood to me in iowa lol 6 tonight

I'm a weekender, but ran for 9 days Christmas to the Sunday after new years. After getting the house hot, day 1, I don't need to run over 300, or I'll over heat the house, no matter how cold it is out. I hate to think about how much wood we would go thru to keep the Oslo running at 650 all day, and night.

keeping it as hot as I can and using all the wood that I need to do it.

PS, this is my first winter with this stove. I've never been able to keep the house at 70-72 with the furnace, I used to have to set the thermostat at as low as 62 so the furnace wouldn't kick off because it ran too long. It did that once the other night when it was also windy, but the thermostat was set at 72 and it only did that in the morning after the stove had almost died out from it's overnight(ish) burn.... if the wind picks up again here it might be a different story, i might have to turn the thermostat down to 68-69, but man is that a difference. I really need another stove in this house too...

RIDGERUNNER30 said:

hey LLigetfa, that sure is some cold weather you have were you live, I have never been in that kind of weather, takes a tough person to brave those conditions . I always wanted to go see canda they say it a beautiful place but maybe in the summer time.

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Canada is a beautiful place, but you don't have to go up to where LL lives to get extreme cold. We get temps like that every year where I live in NY, and Old Forge in the Adirondacks has hit both -40ºF and -40ºC... at the same time. Still, never this early. Lowest we've been to is -5ºF (-21ºC) so far this year. Stove is in the basement, so we start to lose the battle upstairs at about that point. Running her as hard and hot as I dare, no burn cycle, just keep throwing dry wood on fast as she'll eat it. If I slow down my masonry chimney will cool off, and that's how I store most of my heat.

Decided to turn the lights off at one point when my pants felt like they were going to catch fire filling it. There was a distinct dull red glowing area visible in the darkened room. Grabbed the IR and got a reading of 947ºF about 5" up the left door. Oops. A little too hard and hot.

Funny, coldest part of the stove at that time was about 700ºF... dead center on the top, where everybody seems to use as a reference point for overfire.

Looking good here. The Fisher has the 1600 sq ft home warm with the help of 2 fans. We have not been above freezing for 74 hours now and for the first time any winter I've been sleeping on top of the covers and not under them. I've learned well, think I'll have a beer and reload for the night.

It has been very cold in the northeast but I don't think I am running the Quad hard I think I am finally stretching it's legs and running it the way it should be. We had minus 15 degree wind chills and the house stayed 80 plus.

I have used one match since christmas day. I am really learing how my new stove performs. All is well. Had some great secondaries going last night. I thought about taking a pic for you guys but my camera was at work.

I have not turned on the furnace yet. Gas to furnace is OFF. and I intend to keep it that way.

njtomatoguy said:

I have not turned on the furnace yet. Gas to furnace is OFF. and I intend to keep it that way.

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Ditto. Have not used any oil since the late fall when it was a bit too warm to fire up the wood stove but cool enough to want a little heat. The past few days though we have put the Oslo to the test with single digit temps and very strong winds. It has not let us down yet although I have been burning through the wood pile a little faster the past week or so.

Our avalon olympic is just crankin out the heat!! apple,cherry and oak burnin very nicely. Finally got our dose of 30" of snow and a deep chill. Gotta luv it

Plus or minus single digits are just about perfect for letting my stove run. The only difference is that I'm cranking up the air during
the last third of the cycle to burn up the coals. That shortens my burn cycle to about six hours. So I'm using more wood
(an extra burn cycle), but the house gets warmer. Overnight, I let the cycle run 8 hours, and the house gets cooler with lots
of hot coals in the morning. The furnace is set so it doesn't run unless we're gone overnight.

24/7 since just after Thanksgiving. Wood is going quick but I know of a couple standing dead trees that I will be going after once it warms up a little. Had to put the splitter in the shop with a heat lamp under it to get it to start on Saturday when it was 6F. Stove burns down pretty good when I am at work able to scoop the ashes out and sacrafice some coals. House hasn't been below 70F yet though.