Unburnt log after over night burn

[woodhog73]

First time this has ever happened. It's getting warmer here so I lit the insert ( quadra fire) last night to get the chill out of the house. 2 year seasoned oak. Put in 4 splits. Put another 2 splits in 4 hours later and went to bed.

Woke up and I have about 50 percent of an unburnt log left. The air was set 3/4 closed as usual. There were a couple of hot coals left this morning so I opened the air up in hopes to burn off that log. But I'm not sure if it will reignite.it's dense oak still remaining and only a couple of red embers. It's going to be in the 60s today so I have no plans on lighting the stove.

I've never had this happen. Ever. I always get complete burns.

Thoughts why this happened ?

 

[Beer Belly]

I've had that happen, but with semi seasoned wood. I leave it for the next burn. Maybe throttled back too far, too soon ?

 

[tarzan]

Could be because, as you said, "it's getting warmer." The draft setting you use in colder weather will actually be a lower setting in warm weather.

 

[begreen]

Yes, could be a log that didn't fully season at its core or the fire needs more air at milder temps, or both.

 

[woodhog73]

Thanks this makes sense. I just got home and the log is now half of what it was this morning. But still some left. To be fair I only had 3 or 4 red embers left when I shoved them under the unburnt log and opened the air. So after I left it must have slowly burned a little more until it finally went out.

Oh well my stoves out for the Spring and summer now. Too warm to use it so I'll throw that log into my fire pit

 

[realstihl]

Oh well my stoves out for the Spring and summer now.

I hope we're done. Not much of a winter.

 

[begreen]

39F this morning at 6:30am with predictions of cloudy and a high of 52F, so I started a 6 split fire. Now at 1:30pm they have changed the forecast to partly sunny and 58F for a high. Sure glad I didn't fill the firebox.

 

[heavy hammer]

This weekend looks great but still kinda chilly at night. The warming up might be affecting the draft as others have said. Some small kindling pieces will help burn that stuff up, that's what we have been doing to just clean up the stuff in the garage. I to hope we're done with winter.

 

[Dobish]

we are expecting 1-4 feet....

 

[baseroom]

uh oh.....I'll be in Denver next week.....hope it melts.

 

[Dobish]

It will either melt our be washed away with the rain

 

[woodhog73]

I'm done with snow . It's 72 degrees out and I'm burning my outdoor fire pit. Cleaning up the downed twigs from winter and burning my fire pit. Cold beer. Breeze blowing. Wildlife paying a visit including a bald eagle who keeps flying over head and perching high on a tree looking for dinner, and a few geese and ducks on the lake.

Life is good. And warm screw winter lol

 

[heavy hammer]

I'm with you woodhog73 been in the seventies the last two days. I hope winter is over ready for stuff to start turning green and warming up. Nothing better than spending all day outside in shorts and a tee shirt. I hope the cold is done!

 

[Dobish]

Only four inches today, but expecting 10 to 28 tonight.... In my bathrobe drinking tequila by the fire after eating chili and building a snowman at the brewery. What month is this again? Stove room is 77 and getting warmer.