POLL: How long does your wood last? - Burn time survey

[Vermontster]

I have been obsessed with trying to match Lopi's claims of an 18 burn time. I don't think I will ever meet that, but I couldn't help but wonder how you all do on your burn times.


1) Whats your longest burn time?

2) What is your normal burn time?

3) What kinda wood?

4) Stove Brand - Cat or non Cat?

and What do you consider "Burned out"? (a minimum stove temp? amount of coals?)


me first...

1) a pretty solid 9 hours

2) 6 hours

3) Beech and Maple

4) Lopi Leyden - no cat

burned out = can't start a fire from the coals and I can put my hand on the stove (pretty scientific huh?)

 

[North of 60]

1) No one will believe me.
2) Ditto.
3) Lodgepole Yukon pine & poplar
4)Opposite to a PE Summit
5) Will not restart with 3" rounds & Cat thermometer is reading in the inactive zone.

 

[jason1238]

Ok, here goes:

1)almost 10hrs (stove PACKED with black locust and red oak)

2)about 8hrs

3)normally feeding it with red oak, hard maple, and ash, but I don't turn any wood down!

4)Quadrafire 3100 Millenium--non cat

I consider it burned out when there aren't enough coals to restart with a handful of kindling.

Quad claims "up to" 10hr burn with this stove, and so far, I believe it's possible but not very practical. On that one long burn, it actually scared me as it climbed quickly to 850 degrees stovetop temp :bug: . It leveled out at about 650 after about an hour and a half. Seems to me that getting that long burn is kinda' like driving a compact car at 100mph....it might do it, but it pushes it right to the edge. I'd rather not...



I don't know much about the Lopi, but 18hrs seems like a heluva' long time! More power to you if you can get it...and if you do, I might have a Quad for sale

 

[GeeWizMan]

1) The longest burn I have gotten was around 14 hours.
2) My normal burn time is in the neighborhood of 8 to 9 hours.
3) We use mostly oak with some hickory, cherry, ash, and maple mixed in.
4) We have 2 stoves, the stats I reported were from our cat stove. Our newer non-cat stove... well we are still learning.
5) I consider it burned out if I have to light another match.

George

 

[wg_bent]

I have been obsessed with trying to match Lopi's claims of an 18 burn time. I don't think I will ever meet that, but I couldn't help but wonder how you all do on your burn times.


1) Whats your longest burn time? That produces realistic heat... 7-8 hours with oak or locust

2) What is your normal burn time? Typical burn times with random wood 4-5 hours

3) What kinda wood? Overnight I look for elm, oak, locust(rare for me) apple, or hard maple. During the day, Pine, cedar, soft maple, elm, ash, mulberry, sumac, sasafras (sp?) apple, cherry

4) Stove Brand - Cat or non Cat? Osburn 1800i (non-cat)

and What do you consider "Burned out"? (a minimum stove temp? amount of coals?) After an over night burn, I figure I'm happy when the stove relights, but it's not putting out a lot of heat at that point.


me first...

1) a pretty solid 9 hours

2) 6 hours

3) Beech and Maple

4) Lopi Leyden - no cat

burned out = can't start a fire from the coals and I can put my hand on the stove (pretty scientific huh?)

In general, burn times are super optimal as advertised, plus I believe that it's untrue that the larger the stove that you get a proportionally longer burn. Here's why. Disclaimer: CAT stoves probably do not fall into this thinking and may do a lot better than non-cat. Modern stoves Must meet EPA regulations, thus have secondary air inlets. They are designed to get the load burning, and burning hot. You can't have a load a wood at 900 degrees or hotter that isn't releasing it's gasses and burning them. Doesn't matter if the load is large or small. What a larger stove get's you is a somewhat longer burn, and the potential of a lot more heat.

Mike and Corie being the resident stove builders can probably confirm this with real data.

What does make a big difference is the type of wood. Pine releases large amounts of volitals that burn, then has a short coal stage, and locust, ossage orange, red oak, hickory, all release gas much more slowly, then have a long coal stage. The latter being what you want for long burns, the former for hot quick fires to take the chill off or get a stove up to temp.

 

[gpcollen1]

1) Whats your longest burn time? Over 12 hours

2) What is your normal burn time? I do not know that I have anormal burn time. I go 24/7 from November til Aprilish. Weekedays I do an overnight burn, into a a daytime burn til the wife gets home and then I work the fire at night to get ready for an all nighter. On weekends I play around more often but shoot for 4 - 6 hour burns.

3) What kinda wood? Mostly Red oak but much White Ash and sugar maple mixed in with Black Cherry and Hickory...

4) Stove Brand - Cat or non Cat? Avalon Olympic - Non - Cat.

 

[thephotohound]

1) Whats your longest burn time? 12 hours

2) What is your normal burn time? 8-10 hours

3) What kinda wood? Mostly Red Oak

4) Stove Brand - Cat or non Cat? Cat

 

[fbelec]

longest burn time = 10 hours
at ten hours stove temp = 300
coals = yes, can start new fire with
wood type = 24 inch oak
normal burn time = 7 hours give or take 1 hour
stove = ooooooold defiant 1
firebox = huge. rated at 65 lbs. not sure of the cube rating 3 point something

 

[begreen]

What is burn time? Is there meaningful heat still coming from the stove or just enough coals to restart a fire? What is the stove top temp after 10 hrs?

For meaningful heat - stove above 300 degrees - I would say 4-5 hrs. (longer with bio-bricks and I suspect good hardwood)
For having coals left over - stove at about 200 degrees - 8 hrs.
For no coals and able to put my hand on it - 10 hrs.

Jotul F400, non-cat burning NW softwood maple

 

[Henz]

My Avalon Olympic claims 12 hour burn time, I think I have maxed out at 9 hours
usually 7 hours of good burn
Start a fire from coals, cant stand to touch the stove so thereofre it is actually still putting out some kind of heat.
Typically Hard Maple, red oak and some soft maple

 

[kevinlp]

1) Whats your longest burn time? 10 hours

2) What is your normal burn time? 8 hours

3) What kinda wood? Random Hardwood

4) Stove Brand - Cat or non Cat? Non-Cat

burned out = can’t start a fire from the coals

 

[hfjeff]

I'm new to the stove world so still figuring things out. I haven't had to really crank it up yet.

1) Whats your longest burn time? 7 hours jammed full of oak, air partially closed

2) What is your normal burn time? 3-4 hours

3) What kinda wood? prefer oak without bark

4) Stove Brand - Cat or non Cat? Regency Non-Cat

burned out = can’t start a fire from the coals

 

[thechimneysweep]

1) Whats your longest burn time? 14 hrs

2) What is your normal burn time? 10 hours

3) What kinda wood? White Birch, Maple

4) Stove Brand Pacific Spectrum Non-Cat

burned out = can’t start a fire from the coals

Anecdotal Addendum. I let the fire go out to clean out the ashes one time, and dug up hot coals 21 hours later. Didn't try to start a new fire with them, but probably could have. SUPER tight fireboxes on these things.

 

[Todd]

1. Longest burn time- 16 hrs
2. Normal burn time- 8-12hr reload schedule, depends on how cold it is and how much heat I want.
3. What kind of wood- Mostly Oak, some Maple, and Black Locust
4. Stove brand- Woodstock Fireview

I consider burn time ending when I have enough coals to just throw more splits on top and it takes right off without kindling. If I went by the last burnt out coal under the ash I could say over 20hrs. My stove top temp is usually around 250-300 during reload and I like to get it around 550-650 on a full load on a cold day.

 

[Jimbob]

1) Whats your longest burn time? 14 hrs on Tamarak and Ash.

2) What is your normal burn time? It varies, 5-10 hours

3) What kinda wood? Poplar, Manitoba Maple, Ash, Tamarack, Spruce

4) Stove Brand Pacific Energy Summit Non-Cat

burned out = can start a fire from the coals, and can't touch top of stove.

It usually takes over 16 hours for the stove to cool down enough to be able to touch stove top, if we've loaded it right up with the harder of the woods previously menthioned.

When it's really cold out, we re-load while there is still a GOOD bed of coals, except when the ashes build up too much, then we have to let it cool off a bit to make it easier to sort the ashes from the embers.

To get a long burn, I use the poker to move the larger embers to the extreme RH side of the stove, then push the ashes out through the trap toward the LH side of the stove. I then fill the stove with bigger pieces of Ash and Tamarack and close the door. I leave the control on HIGH to let the pieces on the RH side of the catch fire and the stove to heat up, then I turn it down.
The fire spreads to the tops of all the pieces in the stove, and when they are burning good, I turn it the rest of the way down.

 

[eernest4]

QUOTE;

" . It leveled out at about 650 after about an hour and a half. Seems to me that getting that long burn is kinda' like driving a compact car at 100mph....it might do it, but it pushes it right to the edge. I'd rather not... "
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hey jason1238,


I cant help but wonder what you would think of a compact car that does 160mph at 6,300 rpm and still has 1/3 of the way more for the gas pedel to reach the floor as well as 2000 more rpms to reach the red line. fyi 1.8 liter 4cylinder engine with 4spd automatic
overdrive xmission.

see red avatar, upper left hand coner.

btw , i share your opinion, faster than that,I'd rather not.... 160 was scary enough, even though the car tracks like it was a train on rails.

PS thanks for the opening :coolsmile:

2004 toyota celica GTS, w agressive appearance package
some other GTS 'es make mine look like its dragging a steamship ancor behind it (as seen on tv), but their mods cost more than the car did new.
They put 10 sec qtr miles , mine 14 sec. all stock-no mods.

Oh--I almost forget, this is a wood stove forum, ok, no prob.
Believe it or not....but its really true, I have a trailer hitch on the back of the celi & I hook up my 4x8 utility trailer to it. I used it to bring my pellet stove home from the dealer, and to pick up pellets when I buy them buy the ton, but it takes 2 trips, 1000lbs per trip and I use it
to scrounge free wood.

People giving away wood freak when they see the car but I tell them I paid for it with the money I saved by not burning oil & burning wood instead. Then the say"give me the wood back." And is say Too Late, you already gave it to me. What car I drive has nothing to do with it. :lol: ;-P

 

[Rob From Wisconsin]

1) Whats your longest burn time? 4 hrs

2) What is your normal burn time? 2-3 hours

3) What kinda wood? Medium Hardwoods

4) Stove type? Non-Cat

-can usually find coals to re-start fire

We have a really small stove, and using a
damper this year seems to make a big difference!
We're getting an extra hour of burn from our stove,
along w/ having coals to restart: burns remain "clean".
Having a good chimney w/ a strong draft is a must...