What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

[jetsam]

Spiders. Spiders are in my stove right now.

We won't be checking their BTU content this week, according to the national weather service.

 

[johneh]

nothing in my stove but air It is to frigin hot for a fire

 

[Rangerbait]

Cool and windy here on the Eastern Panhandle of WV, so I just threw some Poplar in the Blaze King.

 

[kennyp2339]

I put about 8 2x4 cut offs (about 16" long) long in the morning at 6am, load is still running strong, currently its 54deg, breezy and mostly cloudy, good day to have a low fire going.

 

[begreen]

Pistachio nut shells, lots of them. They'll get burned down soon. Cooler weather is coming.

 

[firefighterjake]

Cedar and pine ... wife was chilly.

 

[WoodyIsGoody]

Pistachio nut shells, lots of them. They'll get burned down soon. Cooler weather is coming.

I presume they are unsalted?

 

[begreen]

I presume they are unsalted?

Heck no.

 

[WoodyIsGoody]

Heck no.

Why don't you just throw them in the garbage? Salt + steel + heat = not good.

 

[begreen]

Why don't you just throw them in the garbage? Salt + steel + heat = not good.

One burn a year is not going to hurt anything. It's not like burning driftwood, they are lightly salted. If this was a cat stove though I wouldn't do this.

 

[Rangerbait]

It's down into the low 49s, so I peppered tonight's load with a single split of Shagbark Hickory...good Lord, that stuff burns hot!

 

[kennyp2339]

Why don't you just throw them in the garbage? Salt + steel + heat = not good.

That amount of salt isn't going to hurt a thing, at least BG is snacking healthy, could be a fire box full of Marlboro butts.

 

[Fuut Master]

That amount of salt isn't going to hurt a thing, at least BG is snacking healthy, could be a fire box full of Marlboro butts.

Hilarious right there.

 

[jetsam]

If you throw the dogends in the stove all year, you can climb up on the roof and have a one big cigarette instead of all those little ones on the first cold day.

 

[WoodyIsGoody]

That amount of salt isn't going to hurt a thing, at least BG is snacking healthy, could be a fire box full of Marlboro butts.

It could be hypodermic needles! Or plastic vodka half gallons! Actually, salt is worse. Pistachio shells have a much higher concentration of salt than driftwood. Salt has no easy way to leave the firebox once it adheres to the interior steel, it persists. Salt also attracts moisture from the wood to the steel.

Is it going to rust a hole in one season? Of course not. I just prefer to avoid getting it in there in the first place by putting them in my kitchen garbage.

 

[Lloyd the redneck]

Cardboard. And some old concrete form stakes and pieces. Just taking the chill out of the house on the cold rainy day. Been burning straight cardboard in the shop stove to keep the dogs warm when we're gone. Spoiled girls

 

[Dima1973]

Put a few oak splits in the stove this morning. It was 65 downstairs.

 

[jetsam]

Sorry, spiders... It is supposed to get down to 49 tonight, and it got all the way down to 70 in the living room. I said 'good enough' and threw in a stoveful of little sticks from the edge of the woods to test my freahly boiled cat.

It's going back up to the high 70s here this week!

In other news, the small dog clearly remembers this stove thing from last year.

 

[Jay106n]

My wife uttered the magic words "It's kinda cold in here". Got the beast fired up tonight on a bit of cherry. Happy October!

 

[Vikestand]

It's gotta be in the low 70's to upper 60's for the house to see a fire consistently. Which won't be for another few weeks. Right now the only thing in my stove is a box of replacement gaskets and some high heat stove caulk/glue....

 

[Chas0218]

I have ash and a little maple so ash it was. I ran the little defender this past weekend and with a light load of ash and 1 maple split and the cottage went from a cool 57 to 75 in about an hour. The wife was a little upset because we were packing up the cottage and winterizing so we were working our butts off sweating from all the heat. Took 5 hours but she was still coaled up pretty good when I cleaned her out for the season. At this rate I might need to clean the chimney in 5 years with 3 fires a year in it. She should get a little more use during the winter months when I go up to ice fish.

 

[Ashful]

Woke up to 40F this morning. It won't be long, now!

Gotta get some wood moved up to the house, in the next week or three. Our stone house holds heat well, as long as the daily average remains reasonable (we're still seeing 70 - 80F highs), but we pay back for that with a slow warm-up in the spring.

 

[kennyp2339]

Woke up to 40F this morning. It won't be long, now!

Gotta get some wood moved up to the house, in the next week or three. Our stone house holds heat well, as long as the daily average remains reasonable (we're still seeing 70 - 80F highs), but we pay back for that with a slow warm-up in the spring.

I thought I saw the oilman doing a "dry" run to your house.

 

[Dobish]

The furnace had kicked on the past few mornings, but i refused to light a fire until October. We had snow this afternoon, and my wife is driving through the storm right now, so i want her to be toasty when she gets home. Loaded up some pine, spruce, and maple from the uglies pile. It was 63 in the house when i got home, now the stove room is 73 and the upstairs is 65.

 

[JSeery]

Silver maple. Could have just turned on the heat for a little while, but that wouldn't be very fun.