Whats in your stove after an overnight burn

Woody Stover said:

What's the sq.ft. on each level?
And where do you live? All I see for your location is some map coordinates.

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lol -NWNJ, heating approx. 1500sqft

Kevin Weis said:

Glad someone said that pine is not the evil stepchild anymore. Don't have any now, but may cut up that 16" White Pine Trunk that I pushed to the side of the property with the tractor loader now, if its not rotted by now. Kevin

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Pine is awesome firewood but it doesn't do well lying on the ground. It soaks up water quickly and rots in a few years. The good news is that it also dries out quickly if you split and cover it before it rots.

Pine is my very favorite wood for cold snaps when I am pushing the stove- burns hot, no coaling issues.



There's a partial (about 3/4?) load of red oak from 8 hours ago. Been burning it at about 1/3 throttle; it will probably go another 6 or so before it's down to coals. A full load can go ~27 hours on low, or ~4 hours on high.

Not my overnight load,(overnight is the easy one) here is my morning load around the 15 hour mark. Wife loads the stove in the morning so not sure what type of wood or how much she loaded in it this morning.

This was last night's load at 8pm. Oak and one locus round. Forgot to take a pic this morning but stove top at 6am was 300, 80 in the living room and 12 outside. All the coals where in the very back on the right side. Forgot to mention the air was probably left 15 percent open

.9 cu ft firebox, load with locust at 10pm, close air all the way at 1030, open and stir at 645, stove top at 178, reload with doug fir to get her cooking again at 648.

Pine, okay, now I got to try it. But wont be this year unless I find some standing dead with the right MC. There is a lot of Cedar, Atlantic I think, around here but it never dies unless cut by power company or a road crew. Seldom any storm damage from it. Now White Pine, just the threat if ice and branches come down. Kevin

Here is my Blaze King Ashford 30 at 730AM today after being reloaded last night around 8PM with some less-than-prime (~18-22% moisture content) mixed wood (ash, maple, & misc medium/hardwood). Dirty glass, but that's a little better than 1/3 full of coals and near-coal large chunks.

11.5 hour burn time so far.

Also below are plots of the temperatures over that time. Upper plot is the last 8 hrs...lower is 24 hrs. Red is Cat temp, green is stack ~28" from the collar, blue is stovetop.

This is with a slow fan running all night across the stovetop, which drops sensor temps ~100 deg F relative to no fan.

Stovetop temps oscillated between ~280-380 all night due to the cycling of the BK thermostatic air control. Stack temps between ~240 and 420 F. Yesterday during the day, i burned down two small loads from the 'uglies pile' of some too-long splits.

Would love to see if anyone has a regency f2400 or even the f3100 and their burn times.

MagdalenaP said:

Would love to see if anyone has a regency f2400 or even the f3100 and their burn times.

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First post, I have to mention I have gleaned a vast amount of information from the members on this site so thanks are in order.
I load E/W three hardwood splits behind the raked forward coals then fill the rest of the way with softwood N/S. I do this around 9PM so I can get the stove settled in for the burn. Stove top will cruise between 500 and 600 degrees F (with stove blower on low) for the first part of the burn the slowly drop off. In the morning around 6AM (House at 20c) I can rake the coals forward and toss on a few softwood splits to get the place warmed up again.