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Elm and oak IN the stove. Eggs ON the stove.
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Up to 7/-3. 3 shoulder season splits went in early so I could get out snowblowing. Last nights coal pile only allowed 5 big splits for the overnight, but because it was pretty early this morning there was still quite the pile. Sun is out so I'm going to do the old small shoulder season load, burn down coals and ash routine today. Below zero tonight again with wind, so by this afternoon I will need to start heat soaking the house before the sun goes down.
 
Back on the HP for a couple of days. Pushing into the 50s today and it finally stopped raining. We got 3 inches in the last 24 hours and it was getting tiring to keep a burn going through all that.

Gonna clean the stove out and get ready for the wife feeding the rock next week.
 
I hope your wood pile in the house is stocked well........cold air is on the way!!! ;lol

It's in used condition, but should be just fine when it gets to you!!!!!
We're loaded up with beech, we even have some ironwood I've never burned since it was brought indoors in December.

Used cold air is fine, that means even though it will be cold, it will be warmer compare to when you had it.

NOAA is saying we should have another 9 to 16 inches of snow by the time everything ends on Monday. The good thing is, our snow storage areas aren't full, one hasn't had any put in it yet, another one received a bunch of snow yesterday and the last one started getting snow stored there at the beginning of the week.
 
The stove got cold sometime overnight.
This morning a bit of minisplit; it was still 69 but it just felt cold.
Outside was drizzling, foggy, snow in the ground.
In the end the.high was 43, not 47. So around 2 pm I started the stove again after vacuuming the cat and taking out ashes
A load of spruce is going up the flue.
71 now upstairs.
 
I reloaded with spruce, two splits of pine, and three of some maple at 9 pm.
Very windy here, 36 going down to 27.
Upstairs is 71.
 
Full of scrub cuts. 32f degrees outside and the stove is sitting at 400f degrees
 

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Good morning all ☕️ getting home from work this am to a nice coal bed from early yesterday am’s load of hardwood and house is at 68. Mid 20s and breeze last night with 32 expected today. I guess we have some snow coming in tomorrow with a change to ice then rain by Sunday.
Spruce for the daytime heat;


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Came home from work and cleaned out some ash to replace a broken fire brick. I think it was my fault, it was at the back of the stove. Might have stuff a piece of wood in there too hard. The replacement firebrick I got is much heavier and solid (pretty expensive too) I believe the original one is pumice. This replacement should reflect much more heat. I purchased 2 to have as a spare. This is one that is an odd size (4x9x1.25). Also gave the glass a quick wipe and loaded with oak and maple with some white pine for a cold start.
 

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Full of scrub cuts. 32f degrees outside and the stove is sitting at 400f degrees
Reading your sig, I'm surprised a Thermo-Control 500 made it all the way down to the middle of Virginia.
That's a big stove.