What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

Cold weather finally set in. Not really a fan of freezing temps, but i dont care for burning when its too cool not to, but blazes us out and we have to crack a window. The englander is not the best shoulder stove for sure. But she shines now. Teens for 10 days or more in forecast and nary a cold spot in the house. Cherry, mulberry, white oak and red and the box is hot.

In my stove right now? A buncha heat radiating outward, warming me and my boy (he's black..don't ask.)

Black Cherry right. Red, White Oak and Pignut left!

Just starting to get some snow...Mulberry in the BK

Rangerbait said:

Just starting to get some snow...Mulberry in the BK

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I get some 'yaller wood'
here too but I'm often not sure if it's Mulberry, Redbud or what..? Burns good thoiugh.
At least it doesn't look like you'll get buried...just enough snow to make it pretty outside.

Oak, oak, and more oak. Fresh load moved to the house, today





Hey, begreen, I was thinking of you last night. I came in to the old wing of the house at 69F, and it was about 22F outside. I put four splits in the BK and ran on high, just to prove to myself that last week’s claim of these stoves being able to heat the place without the boiler were true. I had it up to 72F in less than 2 hours, so it looks like I wasn’t fibbing!

White oak and some really hard pine. Never had pine that burns like hardwood. Wish there was more of it around here.


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Ashful said:

Oak, oak, and more oak. Fresh load moved to the house, today

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Hey, begreen, I was thinking of you last night. I came in to the old wing of the house at 69F, and it was about 22F outside. I put four splits in the BK and ran on high, just to prove to myself that last week’s claim of these stoves being able to heat the place without the boiler were true. I had it up to 72F in less than 2 hours, so it looks like I wasn’t fibbing!

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I continue to be blown away by how effectively my King heats this house. Within 1-2 hours of firing it up, the entire upstairs is 73 degrees...that would have had the heat pumps hemorrhaging money to maintain those temps!

We have about seven inches of snow here in the hills of mid Wales, and it is still coming down. The stove is keeping the place warm with oak and sycamore.

At one point it was 23 degrees and currently we are about 25 degrees. Don't really know how cold it got as sleeping is more important than temperature watching.
Have the remanents of some white oak burning away and have been mixing pine and oak during this winter event.
The far rooms of the house are in the low to mid-60' s while the rest of the house is in the mid-70's.
The Buck is performing well and the wifey is toasty. Life is good.

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Here in northern Hartford county it is in the high 20’s and 6” of fresh snow. The Napoleon has been running on mostly Norway Maple but I’m beginning the switch over to red/white oak.


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Got cold ashes in our stove. A high pressure system has moved in and set up shop, creating an inversion which traps the cold air and pollution here in the valley at 4400'. It's 20* outside and I can't breathe because the air is so dirty and I can't burn due to burn ban. Go up the canyon to about 8000' at the ski resorts and it's a balmy 55* and clean crisp air. Weather man says we could be stuck in this pattern for a month or more.

http://air.utah.gov/forecast.php?id=slc

Got a mix of white oak and bitternut hickory was 22 degrees with 5 inches of snow. Burning like 2 to 3 splits and letting the coles go down. Trying not to heat it up to much. House is 69 to 70

Been in the mid 20s at night with wind chills in the teens...been burning some Locust and White Oak...tonight it is a full load of big White Oak splits cruising in the BK...

Just played another round of the Devil's Tetris and loaded up every last cubic inch of the Blaze King with some nice Mulberry...man, that fire box can swallow a serious amount of wood. I love coming downstairs to a mid-70s womb in the morning though!

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It’s 12 out now and going down to 0 the next few nights. I’ve been burning 4 year seasoned red oak the last few days.

Rangerbait said:

Just played another round of the Devil's Tetris and loaded up every last cubic inch of the Blaze King with some nice Mulberry...man, that fire box can swallow a serious amount of wood. I love coming downstairs to a mid-70s womb in the morning though!

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I talked my buddy into going with the King for his old farm house....he is eternally grateful as is his wife and kids!

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ZZ Tom said:

Got cold ashes in our stove. A high pressure system has moved in and set up shop, creating an inversion which traps the cold air and pollution here in the valley at 4400'. It's 20* outside and I can't breathe because the air is so dirty and I can't burn due to burn ban. Go up the canyon to about 8000' at the ski resorts and it's a balmy 55* and clean crisp air. Weather man says we could be stuck in this pattern for a month or more.

http://air.utah.gov/forecast.php?id=slc

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Damn. It’s time to move, Tom!

Over the past week the lows have been around 0-8F and the highs in the 30's and low 40's. Keeping the Jotul F45 loaded with lodgepole pine and running 24x7. House cools down to the mid 60's and night and hovers in the mid 70's during the day. Our 10 month old girl likes to play on the rug and watch the fire with me.

Its conditions like these that make we wish for a stash of hardwood for the overnight burns.

Ashful said:

Damn. It’s time to move, Tom!

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Yeah, we're looking into that. I would so like to get out of here
I'm sure my wife won't move far from the child and both of our folks are getting up in years, can't leave 'em high 'n dry

Stacked with rounds of maple. She’s a hungry beast the old buck

Stacked to the gills with two year old red oak.

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