What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

[GG Woody]

Seems like the BK was happy with a few days off, a glass rub, and a cat suck. It's cat is back to more active. Guess I should vacuum the cat more often.
Some Doug Fir and some 2x4 scrap for top down start up.

 

[stoveliker]

Yesterday's maple was almost done. Cleaned out the ashes, added 4 shorties/uglies of oak.

39 outside, a high forecast of 43. 71 upstairs.

 

[Turbo89]

Afternoon reload, 2 more of the good mystery logs. Should keep the shop warm well into the evening, so probably the last load for the day.

CAT at 860, still ramping, shops 72, warmed up to 34 outside, STT at 500. Stoves going a crack past closed when CAT finishes ramping.

 

[Burnin Since 1991]

Interesting, will grab a few from under neighbor's trees and try them... I only have a handful of pines here. Thanks for the reply.

I have been using pine cones this season. Mine have been drying for about a month and work fine as do the ones I just picked up the other day. The ones on the ground seem to be stickier that the ones that have been "seasoning" @MRD1985

 

[Burnin Since 1991]

I’ve been using that crap paper Amazon stuffs in the boxes and the cheap Amazon paper bags. They must be waxed because they go up fantastic and between the wife and kidos it feels like and endless supply!🤣

I use that too! I fold them about 18 inches long and then twist them. Works well.

 

[stoveliker]

37 outside, going down to 27. Upstairs 71.
Reload of red oak and two tiny maple splits on top to fill some holes.

One split got stuck and I couldn't push it farther, so it's less than an inch from the window.

 

[Turbo89]

I ended up having a little time to fix a filing cabinet draw, so I glued and clamped it and decided to keep the shop warm overnight to ensure the glue sets.

Captures a few good videos of the reload and secondary burn action.

 

[Dieselhead]

Ok back in town after a couple days. Stove back in action after a quick ash removal, probably a couple gallons. There were a few coals but nothing worth sorting, out they went. 1st cleanout of the season. I guess we have some cold weather showing up this week so full capacity of the kings innards is nice when old man winter shows his face.
Mostly hardwoods with some spruce on top starting the load off with some cart junk and a small piece of pine scrap.

 

[NickW]

-6 and calm. Threw some small cherry sticks and one mid size piece of aspen in to get me a little later for the overnight load. Expecting 6-10" Tuesday night.

 

[thewoodlands]

It's 10.3 tonight, the basement started out at 75 with the temps up here at 70. The overnight load is seven splits of ash, colder temps coming at us so we'll be going with beech tomorrow night.

 

[NickW]

Weather app can't decide if it's -4 or -10, but anyway you look at it IT'S COLD! Load of cherry, black ash, white ash and 1 hickory.

 

[MRD1985]

Almost slept through my overnight…

Tossed in 5 splits around 415 to get me to now. Cherry and some oak. Tonight is heavy on the oak with some cherry, ash and 1 maple and some cut offs. Currently 71-72 in here (was 75 earlier!, wife was making sure I knew it was too warm!) temps going to plummet tomorrow with very cold temps tomorrow night into Tuesday.

 

[Todd]

65/-11 turned out much colder than forecasted and I should of burned a little hotter last night. Winter storm watches out for Tuesday.

 

[Burnin Since 1991]

22 / 64 this morning at 6am. Feels like is 9 and the high today is 23 with tomorrow morning at around 3 degrees F. Keep those stove hot!

I tossed in a load of various chunks to bring the room back up to 68 now and climbing!

 

[Crab]

Winter storm watches out for Tuesday.

Saw that for you all. 6 to 10? Then some more frigid days. Maybe a dusting here today then "cold for us" tonight, in the teens. No snowstorms in the foreseeable future, temps up and down but colder then average. F45 will be mostly loping along with just small to medium loads as I don't need the btu's that 600 or 700 stt provide. 450 to 500 stt is usually enough.

 

[Turbo89]

Was able to run out and check the shop before work today, about 13 hrs post load, I had visible flames and STT of 280 and the shop was 55. That mystery wood is burning well!

I tossed two more on and left the air cracked at 1/4 air to finish drying the glue. I’ll check on her again in 10hrs or so.

 

[MRD1985]

Still had lots of coals this morning from last night. To the point I spent an hour burning them down. House was still 72 and bedrooms 67 so wasn’t like I needed heat NOW. Loaded up around 745. Cold and windy today with feels like temps upper single digits currently. Mostly oak with some cherry and cut offs.

 

[Dieselhead]

A daytime load of spruce which took of like a match on top of last nights coals.

 

[Riff]

Second snow of the winter hit this morning. Some estimates of 3-5" and temps are expected to just trend downwards all day with lows in the teens tonight. Have a load of maple with a split of oak to start, will switch over to oak as the day goes on and the temps go down.

We adopted a dog on Friday. He's currently loving the idea of crashing in front of the fire in between zoomies

 

[Burnin Since 1991]

Second snow of the winter hit this morning. Some estimates of 3-5" and temps are expected to just trend downwards all day with lows in the teens tonight. Have a load of maple with a split of oak to start, will switch over to oak as the day goes on and the temps go down.

We adopted a dog on Friday. He's currently loving the idea of crashing in front of the fire in between zoomies

You have to post a pic of the dog and your stove!

 

[stoveliker]

Very windy and 28 F outside, 70 upstairs.
Last night's red oak is done after 18 hrs.
Half a load now consisting of one short split of locust, and some spruce and red oak.

 

[thewoodlands]

We had 3 degrees this morning, another load of ash went in the Liberty. The basement temp started out at 70 with the temps up here 66 & 67.

I picked up another 8 bags of sand (60 lb bags) for the driveway after the rain stops on Thursday. It either starts Tuesday night or Wednesday with snow.

 

[Todd]

I got to get out of the low and slow burn routine. It’s like I hit a wall when temps go below zero. 8 and 12 hour reload schedules are fine when temps are in the teens and above but below that it seems to be better burning smaller hotter fires about every 4-5 hours then load up for an overnight burn at a lower air setting. Not looking forward to this weekend where they’re forecasting us possibly not getting above 0 on Saturday! 🥶

 

[NickW]

-7 when I got up this morning, 12 above currently. 2nd load of aspen, pine and black ash just went in. Haven't cleaned the glass in a couple of days and it's not too bad...

 

[NickW]

I got to get out of the low and slow burn routine. It’s like I hit a wall when temps go below zero. 8 and 12 hour reload schedules are fine when temps are in the teens and above but below that it seems to be better burning smaller hotter fires about every 4-5 hours then load up for an overnight burn at a lower air setting. Not looking forward to this weekend where they’re forecasting us possibly not getting above 0 on Saturday! 🥶

Yeah, looks like the deep freeze is coming...