What Is In Your Stove Right Now?
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Vg3200p
Minister of Fire
Stove room at 66 lows only to 38. Mild tonight ash maple and pine untill morning
Half reload this afternoon and plenty of coals left. Full reload with locust and bricks.
LowbanksArcher
Member
100% ash. For the past few years and for the next several years, ash, ash, and more ash. I'll miss it
Vg3200p
Minister of Fire
House at 62 on reload got 13hr burn out of last load. Lows to 30 tonight with 36 mph winds. Probably gonna have to close 1 of the dampers tonight. Got 3 giant ash peices with some smaller ash and sikvermaple
Half load around 7am since I still had plenty of coals left over from the 10pm full load last night. Couple team members got super concerned with recent lay offs in news and spent all my afternoon tending their feelings... meaning I didn't reload until 4pm. Coals were still decent, thought I would do a half load N/S of short oaks, so by bedtime I have nice bed of coal for a full reload overnight.
Turns out now it's almost 10pm, I still have about 50% of stove full of coal, still have good flames... looks like I'll have to delay bedtime till around 11pm to get a half reload in.
Turns out now it's almost 10pm, I still have about 50% of stove full of coal, still have good flames... looks like I'll have to delay bedtime till around 11pm to get a half reload in.
2/3 load of oak and my personal fav black cherry for the night load. She’s running beautifully
It's 30.9 tonight with the basement temp starting at 75 and the temps up here 69 & 70. Five splits of ash went in the wood stove for the overnight load.
66F in living room with high of low 40s. Lots of coal left from last night so went for another NS load with 10-14in oak splits.
Vg3200p
Minister of Fire
Stove room at 62 for reload. Lows to 28 tonight. Getting consistent 12 hr burns out of this new stove. Very happy about that. Silver maple ash and cherry for overnight
mpaul
Burning Hunk
Loaded a bunch of ash shorties around 4:00. Stove room now at 78. Overnight low forecasted at 30. Debating whether to reload before bed or just let it go cold overnight.
fvhowler
Burning Hunk
After a warm spell this week, it's finally cooling off. Loading the stove with chestnut oak. This will be my overnight burn.
It's 25 tonight with the basement starting off at 70 and the temps up here between 68 - 70. The stove has ash and 1 split of pine in it for the overnight load.
ArtBaldoni
Member
Loaded yesterday at 1700hrs with some old, bottom of the pile red oak and birch that was pretty far gone. Had low water temp this morning at 0700, Stove had the 7/10 split going on. One chunk smoldering on each side with the middle burned down to nothing, Adjusted the logs and the fire roared to life. Added 3 shovels of bituminous coal and should be good for the day. Supposed to be in the 40s today so the OWB will just idle along.
Our outside temp this morning was 24.3, the basement started out at 70 and the temps up here 66 & 67. Another load of ash went in the Liberty.
Do you prefer burning coal or wood? Do you have the strong yellowish sulfur smoke with bituminous coal? Super curious as grew up burning coal in stoves as a kid, and more than one morning I'll wake up to a freezing cold house and a smoke filled living room with parents trying to relight.
Two cherry splits a smaller oak split and 1x red stone brick. These bricks run hot! Vista got to 625 stove top with great secondaries.
Vg3200p
Minister of Fire
Finally just reloaded stove after 16.5 hrburn. Stt still at 130 and enough coals for fast relight. Stovroom is down to 56 now though. Ash cherry pine maple and Bradford Pear tonight
Loaded up with ash and sugar maple about 10:30. Air currently fully closed and ripping along. Will be up awhile yet to let it settle down so I can get to 1/4 open or I'll smoke the glass and have charcoal left instead of coals in the morning. Currently 22 outside, basement was down to 70 but is back up to 74, upstairs was down to 64 and will be getting warmer shortly...
Thinking about changing my stovepipe come spring. Currently have 3 1/2' up, then 3 1/2' horizontal, then 20' insulated liner. I lose draft pretty bad at some point during the overnight. Considering changing to about 2 1/2'+/- up, then have an angled run (guessing about 30 degree), then about 1 1/2' horizontal before the liner. Any of our chimney experts have any comments?
Thinking about changing my stovepipe come spring. Currently have 3 1/2' up, then 3 1/2' horizontal, then 20' insulated liner. I lose draft pretty bad at some point during the overnight. Considering changing to about 2 1/2'+/- up, then have an angled run (guessing about 30 degree), then about 1 1/2' horizontal before the liner. Any of our chimney experts have any comments?
Partial load of N/S red/white oaks.
Recently I've being doing a lot of N/S loads... really enjoy not having a bunch of ashes falling out every time I open the door. Seems burning shorts stacked all the way up to the tubes N/S gives me longer burn time and more efficient fire than a simple partial load with full length splits.
Unfortunately my stove isn't deep enough to load a full 16in split. I have maybe a week worth of 10-14in oak splits left.
Recently I've being doing a lot of N/S loads... really enjoy not having a bunch of ashes falling out every time I open the door. Seems burning shorts stacked all the way up to the tubes N/S gives me longer burn time and more efficient fire than a simple partial load with full length splits.
Unfortunately my stove isn't deep enough to load a full 16in split. I have maybe a week worth of 10-14in oak splits left.
PAbeech
Burning Hunk
I'm thinking the same. I Just cut some ash and beech trees that were down to 12 inches and less so I can load next year n/s exclusively
Stratford II in the Northwoods is way happier n/s. I also started cutting short for up there...12"+/-. Stacking is not nearly as friendly as 16" though. Cribs at the end are tough and 4' high stacks aren't very stable.
