What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

[MMH]

Currently low 30s out, house is 71. Took advantage of the higher temps and did a quick hot clean, reloaded with a couple pine splits and a piece of elm to tide us over until tonight. I’ll throw some more pine and red elm in for tonight with the lows headed for teens-low 20s.

 

[stoveliker]

The devil pine ain’t so bad after all.

Exactly. It's dry wood. It'll burn and provides heat.

 

[NickW]

Not a fan of E/W pine in the Strattford II up north. Keeps smoking the glass. Getting better about it, but it's still kind of finicky.

Back home with the NC30 loaded up with ash.

 

[MEngineer24]

Overnight load of black locust and red oak just went in on coals from earlier today. Supposed to dip down in the low 20’s tonight.

 

[bigealta]

Overnight load of black locust and red oak just went in on coals from earlier today. Supposed to dip down in the low 20’s tonight.

How do you like the rangely?

 

[MEngineer24]

How do you like the rangely?

It’s been an excellent heater so far. This is our second year with it and it heats our 2500 sqft ranch with ease. I don’t really use the top loading door as the stove runs best for me N/S. I bought this stove from the original owner who kept it in perfect condition. Only thing I’ve had to do to her so far is change gaskets.

 

[MEngineer24]

Another load of red oak and black locust to start the morning. We are sitting at 20F.

 

[BrownT10]

More red oak. 25° here and home for the next 6 days so will chew through the pile a bit. Going to start cutting up the monster black oak, I have my work cut out for me, but perfect weather to work out in, sunny and about 30°, doesn't get any better than that.

 

[stoveliker]

35 now, 36 high today. Reloaded with 2 ill-fitting oak cookies to get me to tonight's reload

 

[Grizzerbear]

After last night and this mornings load of red oak and hickory the stove some embers left and that's it. I took out the ashes a few minutes ago and I won't be firing her up again until Wednesday night it looks like.

It got to 55 here today and tonight's low is only 51. Expecting a high of 71 here tomorrow. I think the weather man said this was the second warmest december so far on record and that winter temps have increased by 3.4 degrees since 1970.

 

[stoveliker]

Just reloaded with oak; splits and branch wood. (And two slivers of pine to fill out the top.)

 

[MEngineer24]

Reloaded some white and red oak splits with a few rounds of black locust on top for the overnight.

 

[MMH]

Low headed for around 20. Had rain and snow today but nothing stuck, snow for the next week as well. A full load of pine for tonight.

 

[MEngineer24]

Low headed for around 20. Had rain and snow today but nothing stuck, snow for the next week as well. A full load of pine for tonight.
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I’m sure all that precipitation you are getting out there is well received considering how dry of a year you’ve had. Enjoy it!

 

[thewoodlands]

On single digit nights, we've been burning the pellet stove and the wood stove during the day. The warmer temps that we have are perfect for the wood we're burning, soft maple and cherry.

 

[stoveliker]

35 now, 38 max today. Had first 3/4" of snow on the ground this morning, most melted away by now.
Just reloaded with some crooked pine pieces and an old maple cookie to tide me over to the evening major reload.

It seems that tomorrow I'll let the stove go out; tonight minimum 33, tomorrow max 47, tomorrow night min 41, Sunday max 45. Those are minisplit temps. Sunday night 35 and Monday 38, so late in the afternoon on Sunday depending on when it starts cooling down, I'll restart the stove.

Will take some ashes out tomorrow when the stove is still warm.

 

[MMH]

Currently in the 20s out with winds gusting around 30, threw a couple small knarly pieces of juniper and mahogany in this morning, will add a couple more and a twisted piece of pinyon pine in to hold it over until tonight’s load.

 

[thewoodlands]

We have 23 tonight with some snow moving in but ice, sleet and rain coming in behind that. The wood stove has some soft maple and hard maple in it tonight.

 

[stoveliker]

Just reloaded with pine. 32 outside, but going up from here to 47 tomorrow.

 

[thewoodlands]

Just reloaded with pine. 32 outside, but going up from here to 47 tomorrow.

Are those normal temps for your area at this time of year?

 

[BrownT10]

Same old red oak for me. After a day of loading cutoffs and cookies, I put 6 splits in for overnight. 27° outside now and a balmy 72° inside. A bit warm for me, but nor back heating from the basement in a day in the low to mid 20's just idling Ozzy along.

 

[MMH]

Lows headed for teens, another load of pine for tonight.

 

[stoveliker]

Are those normal temps for your area at this time of year?

The 47 is not, I think. But I have only lived in this part of the US since Dec. '17. So my sense of normal with respect to the weather is not yet reliable, I think.

It does seem to fluctuate a lot here; wind coming from your side and it gets cold, wind from over the water or from e.g. the Carolinas and it gets warm.

 

[woodey]

Loaded 5 splits tonight in the Kuuma Vapor Fire. First picture at loading 10:54, second picture at 11:03, and third at 11:07, at which point the computer shuts down to pilot mode and the furnace is in full gasification mode. You can’t see the flames from the gasification burn as they take place in the chamber above the door. All sugar maple tonight.

 

[stoveliker]

Cool. Seems quite similar to (how I operate) my cat stove. Char the load, and then glowing stuff and an orange cat.