What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

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Going to be 47 tonight. I have some oak and hickory in the Ashford 25....albeit I live in Tennessee so it’s pretty much always shoulder season as it never gets bitterly cold.


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My stove's diet remains the same. All hardwood, locust, hard maple, oak and hickory. Think I hit a few sticks of cherry as I get into the stack somewhere along the way.

And it's raining...again. We are starting to feel picked on.
 
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We had 19 this morning so we had more sugar maple,beech and a few splits of soft maple in the Lopi Liberty.
 
thewoodlands said:
We had 19 this morning so we had more sugar maple,beech and a few splits of soft maple in the Lopi Liberty.
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In the mid 40's here and was only in low 40's overnight but wetness makes it feel colder than that. Pretty cozy in here though now.
 
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jatoxico said:
In the mid 40's here and was only in low 40's overnight but wetness makes it feel colder than that. Pretty cozy in the though now.
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It seems the same areas that received a bunch of rain all summer/fall, are still getting it. When we get the rain with the cold weather, you can feel it in certain parts of the body but the wood heat does wonders for it.
 
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It seems the same areas that received a bunch of rain all summer/fall, are still getting it. When we get the rain with the cold weather, you can feel it in certain parts of the body but the wood heat does wonders for it.
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We were at least third rainiest on record and possibly got to second. Was more or less about 64" and I think we average closer to 43". Off to rainy start in 2019 now too.
 
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We were at least third rainiest on record and possibly got to second. Was more or less about 64" and I think we average closer to 43". Off to rainy start in 2019 now too.
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I'm not sure how far behind normal we are but last winter we didn't get chit for snow, our spring/summer was scary dry but we had a wet fall.
 
It's around 31 tonight so we'll burn some pellets.
 
33 this morning, which is the high for today. Will be dropping every hour to around 2 degrees tonight. Burning more maple today.
 
Currently 41 out, have some oak coals going, suppose to drop down to the teens tonight so it will be game on later, hate this weather pattern lately, cool / cold days, storm comes up and temps swing upwards of 20deg into the 40's, storm moves away and we drop back down.
 
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I don't like the up and down weather either. But last winter was brutally cold and dragged on into May for us. We burned a lot more wood than normal. I'm hoping for a mild winter this year. So I'm not complaining too much about our warm spells.
 
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In the 30's this morning and we could see mid-60's this afternoon.
Coals in the fireplace this morning.

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Mulberry and Ash in the VC now. Supposed to get closer to normal tempature wise in the next week. 18' was the wettest year since record keeping began and this was as of November. So basically since the Civil War. Water is just everywhere around here now.
 
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They say a low of around zero tomorrow morning, we had 27 this morning. We'll load the Liberty up with Sugar Maple,Beech and a few rounds of Ironwood and in the other corner we'll run a bag of pellets through the old Yankee. In the morning the basement should be 80 and up here it should be 70.
 
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We had -10 this morning so the temp in the basement was 77 and 67 to 68 up here depending on what room you were in. We have just the Lopi Liberty going this morning with more of the same in it.
 
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It was a balmy 5 degrees this morning. Still burning maple in the Fisher Mama Bear.
 
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I knew it would be a nippy night. Loaded the stove with hard maple and BL. The BL was still in one piece this morning.
 
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I put one of the compressed sawdust bricks in from TSC last night for kicks and giggles. Was somewhat impressed by the efficiency of the burn. Burn time for the one was about 3 hours at half throttle in the Encore, and it kept the cat active to boot.
 
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I've used those compressed bricks from TSC a few years ago and I was surprised by how good they worked. I saw a customer buy a whole pallet of them one time.
 
2 rounds of 31% MC Elm.
1 thick slab of 17% MC Cherry.

2nderies blowing away.

STT @ 685°F
FT @ 395°F
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We should have a low around 18 tonight so we'll burn more sugar & red maple.
 
We had 35 this morning so the Liberty saw more sugar and red maple.
 
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