What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

[Wildflush]

Just reloaded. Small load of medium oak split at the back a smaller maple split on the raked coals and a large oak chunk diagonally across the top. Unless its teens or single digits I reload at 250 STT. When its colder 300-350.

 

[NickW]

Back home and unpacked. Glass cleaned, ash removed, small fire warming the flue and firing up the charcoal.

 

[MRD1985]

Just reloaded. Small load of medium oak split at the back a smaller maple split on the raked coals and a large oak chunk diagonally across the top. Unless its teens or single digits I reload at 250 STT. When its colder 300-350.

I do pretty much the same.

 

[Dieselhead]

Nice load of mixed hardwoods in and off, fan on high to play catchup. Lit it off with the plumbers torch and some cart junk. 7” fluff to contend with, orange k handled it well.

 

[NickW]

First real load is about half done. Pine, aspen and black ash. Was a little more patient with getting it going good before shutting the doors and didn't smoke the glass...

 

[Turbo89]

Overnight reload:

3 big pieces of oak or hickory, 1 big mystery piece (top pic), and little maple pieces to fill holes.

Shop 64, STT 280, CAT settling in at 1120, air a crack past fully closed.

 

[stoveliker]

Outside 26. Upstairs 70.
Another load of red oak shorties plus an E/W longer one.

Tomorrow the stove will go cold as it'll get above 35 around noon, have one hour of 34 in the evening and then up to 51 on Monday. Mini split time.

 

[Dieselhead]

Outside 26. Upstairs 70.
Another load of red oak shorties plus an E/W longer one.

Tomorrow the stove will go cold as it'll get above 35 around noon, have one hour of 34 in the evening and then up to 51 on Monday. Mini split time.

Across the pond we are 10 degrees cooler, I guess the Atlantic and LIS are keeping your temps in check..

 

[MRD1985]

Currently 18, feels like 15. Another 250STT reload for overnight. Oak, ash, and cut offs wherever I could fit them. 72 in main rooms, 68 in our room.

 

[NickW]

I put my post with last night's load in the "Work Done" thread. Oops. Too warm and mind racing to go back to sleep. Won't be reloading for awhile. Weather forecast is for blizzard conditions tonight and somewhere between 4-11" depending on what you want to believe... Currently 32 with fog and drizzle.

 

[MRD1985]

Currently 15 out. 69 main rooms, 66 bedrooms. I think my wife shut the door at some point last night late so the backup heat came on and off starting around 3 am in our room. Oak and ash this morning to warm things up loading at 225 STT

 

[Turbo89]

Overnight burn did ok, got out here just about 12hrs after the reload, STT was 140, shop was 48. Not too bad, as we saw low teens overnight.

Warning up with a piece of hemlock, big piece of ash and 2 mystery logs. STT at 450, just about to engage the CAT…. Don’t mind the filthy glass.

 

[Dieselhead]

I stuffed the king with spruce for today’s load. It was down to 9 when I woke up this am. Still getting the houses core up to temp, it’s amazing if you let it get down to 65 (furnace set temp) for a couple days how long it takes to get it regulated back to my preference temp of 70 where the stove can just loaf along. Not only the air needs to get back to temp but everything inside the building envelope like walls, floors, furniture etc need to get up as well. Until then they just keep sucking the warm air out of the room.

 

[ctreitzell]

My oh my, you all live in cold climates! Yikes.

It’s nowhere near as cold here, it’s still frozen with Thursday’s light powder still lingering, but temps have raises a little today as RealFeel is -3C/ 26.6F
We had a tiny bit of solar, yet continued under freezing makes its condition felt inside.

12C/ 53F is too cold in the salon and adjoining rooms similar, we need to limit the elec cost

Just fired up the little Panadero with
1 chestnut/ 1 wht oak
Siberian Elm/ Wht Oak/ Hazel on top
Apple/hazel/ oak kindled

 

[Turbo89]

Burned the first load on high all morning, warmed the shop up quick, it’s now 70. That cleaned up the glass a little.

Just reloaded with a mix of mystery splits, 1 ash and 1 small maple. STT sitting at 500, CAT 1060 and ramping, air cracked about an 1/8th.

 

[all night moe]

Nice load of mixed hardwoods in and off, fan on high to play catchup. Lit it off with the plumbers torch and some cart junk. 7” fluff to contend with, orange k handled it well.


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I just love the pics of the King eating. I bet it can be memorizing to view in person.

 

[all night moe]

I stuffed the king with spruce for today’s load. It was down to 9 when I woke up this am. Still getting the houses core up to temp, it’s amazing if you let it get down to 65 (furnace set temp) for a couple days how long it takes to get it regulated back to my preference temp of 70 where the stove can just loaf along. Not only the air needs to get back to temp but everything inside the building envelope like walls, floors, furniture etc need to get up as well. Until then they just keep sucking the warm air out of the room.

I battle this phenomenon here regularly. With a 5hr max window of the dragon feasting, plus super cold with winds, and this drafty house...
I find it better to feed her 5-8 splits about every 3 hrs. A big coal bed with these splits keeps most of the house comfy.... kinda sorta. LOL

5hrs plus will leave little coals. Just enough for an easy relight. Not to bad when it's above freezing.

 

[all night moe]

Left Fri night for the storm and returned home about 8am. Tended the dragon's fancy and cleared the driveway of snow. It was pretty cold yesterday and kept feeding splits of mixed hardwoods topped with some premiums for maintaining the coal bed. Premiums were red oak, black and honey locusts, and some split limb wood of pignut hickory. I was up for a bit over 36hrs before konking out.

Bit warmer today. Same feed for the dragon but just less frequent. Cleared more snow around the "woodyard" with the plow before bringing the truck back. Now I'm here with you guys.

 

[Dieselhead]

I just love the pics of the King eating. I bet it can be memorizing to view in person.

Often there just isn’t much to view. Other times there is occasional whisps of flame as the thermostat flap opens and introduces some extra air to satisfy its settings requirements. Theres the cat glowing brightly as it reflects orange off the floor lighting up the room. Sometimes tiny flames dance around between the flame shield and the face of the cat. It is pretty cool when it’s in black box mode and the logs are burning just like a cigar. You look through the glass (if possible 🤣) and observe splits of wood that have been in the stove for 10hours+ and somehow are remarkably intact. You can make out most of the features from earlier when loading the stove. Bark and splinters still attached somehow not burnt off, really no flame and very minimal glowing coals visible but somehow it’s putting out heat and the chimney isn’t smoking. Right now she’s rolling fire much like I would imagine the dragon of yours does, I’m charring a load of 5 mixed hardwoods and 2 nice size hunks of spruce. I’ll be dialing back shortly and hitting the sack.

 

[Turbo89]

Tonight’s reload starts with a really nice coal bed:

This is all 2 yr stacked and split hickory, with maybe 1 piece of oak in it.

Shop sitting at 71, STT 400, CAT settling in around 1,000 with the air all the way turned off.

 

[Dieselhead]

Tonight’s reload starts with a really nice coal bed:

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This is all 2 yr stacked and split hickory, with maybe 1 piece of oak in it.

Shop sitting at 71, STT 400, CAT settling in around 1,000 with the air all the way turned off.

Hickory coals unbelievably. One year I had a couple cord in a row of shagbark and really had to work to get the coals to burn down. I can hear that picture of the coals and the noise they make haha!

 

[Turbo89]

Hickory coals unbelievably. One year I had a couple cord in a row of shagbark and really had to work to get the coals to burn down. I can hear that picture of the coals and the noise they make haha!

I actually think those coals are locust (per your ID on the other thread), with maybe a piece of hickory mixed in. I tossed a few pieces on at like 5:30 to keep a good coal bed for the night, hopefully I come out to a full box in the am.

 

[MRD1985]

Some oak, ash, and maple tonight. Going to be warm tomorrow, may let the stove go cold to clean out some ash tomorrow before the temps plummet tomorrow night.

 

[NickW]

Stuffed full with cherry and white ash. Temperature drop coming through tonight to freeze the wet heavy snow nice and solid 🙄. High of 15 tomorrow, Wednesday night is supposed to be -12.

 

[Crab]

Temps rose all night, 54 here at 8am with some wind, that wind is forecasted to increase all day and overnight.... F45/hearth maintenance/cleanup today. Temps to drop later but perhaps not enuff to have to burn. .dug out some precious hickory to store in garage for the lower than normal(for us) temps predicted. "Only" some high teens for lows. Below zero temps here are very rare here, they only occur when you are building a house and living in a motorhome next to the unbuilt house as we did in 1994.