What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

[MangoMcMango]

Making a small fire. House is 65 and outside is 44. Three cherry splits

 

[Burnin Since 1991]

Same. Small fire. 3 splits of oak 40 feels like 35 cold enough. Welcome back to shoulder season!

70 inside.

 

[Dieselhead]

I just finished putting in a little more than a few splits. It cooled off pretty quick after the sun went down and the house went from 70 to 69 so I see the writing on the wall. I’ll go low and slow with this one, should hold me over til tomorrow night. 👍🏼

 

[MRD1985]

Feeling cheap with electricity and gas so loaded up with ash. May even get me to tomorrow night we shall see.

 

[stoveliker]

The cat dropped out of the active zone around 4.30, so the stove is going cold now.
Likely next lighting on Thursday - seems to be going to be a longer stretch then.

Burning some solar electrons (well, net metering bookkeeping-wise at least, as the sun is down...)

 

[Dieselhead]

Feeling cheap with electricity and gas so loaded up with ash.

No shame in that game. I can be burning propane or running the heat pump but why?

 

[MRD1985]

No shame in that game. I can be burning propane or running the heat pump but why?

Exactly!

Which is why I gave the stove a 3/4 load of ash to carry the day. Was down to about 70 this morning.

 

[Burnin Since 1991]

This is January? Right?
39 headed for 50 today. Small load this morning of maple. Next fire this evening, unless we get windy and my honey gets cold.

 

[Dieselhead]

This is January? Right?
39 headed for 50 today. Small load this morning of maple. Next fire this evening, unless we get windy and my honey gets cold.

A little bit of cold coming up Thursday night into Friday I see. Then next week we freeze up again.

 

[MRD1985]

Yup. Going to be cold starting Thursday night for a good while after. We’ll be going up to NH for a few days this weekend so won’t running the stove. Another excuse to use it now 😂

 

[NickW]

9 degrees with a real feel of -18. Yes, it's WINDY! My fires have been the same old story... Pine, aspen and black ash during the day; usually 2 loads. Cherry, white ash and a premium or two depending on the temperature overnight. We have 2 colder days with highs in the teens and lows near zero, then a one day warmup Friday, then the deep freeze returns with single digit highs most days and negatives, some double digit, overnight.

I've been doing better with not smoking the glass as much with the 16" pine gone that had to be loaded e/w and being more patient with charring. The black ash I have right now is also 16" that needs to be loaded e/w but doesn't smoke the glass like the pine did unless I don't char it well enough and get the flue warm enough to pull the air through the OAK.

 

[Todd]

3/72 had a nice little warm up the last couple days, got close to 40! Back to reality with some snow on the way tomorrow then below zero lows pretty much all next week. No more low and slow burns for awhile. 23 lbs of Maple in the stove this morning.

 

[ctreitzell]

15C / 58F in the salon is just at the line
It isn’t cold here and had some solar today

But fire is so much more inexpensive and effective at taking the edge off.

1 Chesnut/ 2 dead dry holly
Lots of hazel
Chunk of Siberian Elm/ Wht oak
And some bone dry apple twigs

 

[bigealta]

Oak with a cherry on top.

 

[Dieselhead]

It’s nice weather for spruce

 

[MRD1985]

Load of ash tonight

 

[MRD1985]

Giant chunk of knotty ash, a piece of pinky cherry, and a couple of shorty ash splits for the day. Warm enough in here right now but temps dropping tonight and I won’t be home tonight, working. Figured it would be a good time to burn this big ash when I don’t need to reload the stove in a timely manner.

 

[Burnin Since 1991]

3/72 had a nice little warm up the last couple days, got close to 40! Back to reality with some snow on the way tomorrow then below zero lows pretty much all next week. No more low and slow burns for awhile. 23 lbs of Maple in the stove this morning.

I've been wanting to ask you how you weigh your wood?

42 and rainy/ drizzly here. 71 inside. Oak and Maple low and slow.

 

[NickW]

1 degree and calm. Tons of coals from last nights load. Typical pine, aspen and black ash is going. Tomorrow is supposed to warm up to almost 30, so I may do all pine and aspen in the morning and let it go cold to get ash out before the frigid returns for what looks like a month...

 

[MattA311]

The BK Sirocco 30.2 is loaded full of white ash and red oak splits. It’s 15F this morning, the stove ran all night at about 60-70% throttle and kept the 2100 sq foot two story house above 70 degrees. I got a 12 hour burn time with the fan on matched to about 60-70% throttle.

 

[bigealta]

Temps already dropping this AM.
The Burn marathon begins.
House starting at 57f so got to get the battery recharged.
Oak with another cherry on top.
Edit stove top up to 650F. The 3 year oak is burning great.

 

[Todd]

I've been wanting to ask you how you weigh your wood?

42 and rainy/ drizzly here. 71 inside. Oak and Maple low and slow.

I bring my wood inside from my front porch in a canvas tote then place it on a scale

 

[Burnin Since 1991]

I bring my wood inside from my front porch in a canvas tote then place it on a scale

figured it was something along those line.

 

[ctreitzell]

Well, it isn’t cold here, but it ain’t warm neither. Weather is deteriorating; I had a little solar earlier today yet cloud cover and winds most of the day and with nightfall rain has started chucking down. As usual, need to save on as much electricity as possible, so the Délice got lit.

Chestnut, holly, hazel, elm, oak, Poplar and apple

 

[stoveliker]

It was briefly 44 F today. Currently 36, and dropping to 21 overnight.
So we have lift-off, erm, light-off again.
Two splits of pine, two splits of catalpa (what a beautiful wood is that when dry, a little like sassafras, but darker brown) to heat up the basement.