What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

[MRD1985]

Back from a nice weekend in the white mountains and back at it. Cleaned out a little ash, and got the stove going. Boiler turned off. Load of ash burning about 50% open to
Heat things up

 

[Turbo89]

Had to run around a bit tonight so tossed the overnight load on at around 6:30, mix of ash and hickory. I don’t have high hopes for tomorrow morning, but I guess we’ll see. I left the heat set to 45, so at least nothing will freeze.

 

[Todd]

Packed tight for the evening with a 28 lb mix of Maple and Red Oak.

 

[NickW]

-13 with a real feel of -36. Finally getting coals burned down enough for a full load. Cherry, birch, white ash and 1 ironwood going in shortly...

 

[stoveliker]

25 outside going down to 19.
69 upstairs and after a spruce split and three maple uglies now a reload of red oak.

 

[begreen]

Packed tight for the evening with a 28 lb mix of Maple and Red Oak.

Da-yum, that's cold! 🥶 The Fireview is earning its keep tonight.

 

[MRD1985]

Low of 14 tonight. Ash, a split of hickory and a couple of 2x4 ends I had from a recent project.

 

[NickW]

-17 with a -36 real feel, a little colder than forecast. Wife was up before me and threw some little stuff in for some quick BTU's. Will be a couple of loads this morning to keep the secondaries firing until the inside temperature is up a bit. Supposed to get above 0 today.

 

[Todd]

-29/72 way too many coals this morning, should of burned hotter or slept in lol. I had the furnace on to help out because I knew it was going to be a cold one.

 

[MRD1985]

Some more ash and some 2x4 cut offs this morning. Single digit real feel currently with temps in the teens. House now at 74. ☕️

 

[Turbo89]

Overnight burn did pretty good, came out about 14hrs later to an 80 deg stove, but shop was 57 still. Not too bad, as it was low teens overnight here.

Back up and running with some maple and ash.

 

[stoveliker]

A bit after noon it's 21 outside, feels like 16
Last night's load of oak is almost done after 14 ish hrs. I put two larger maple uglies, a short split of sassafras,.and two 8" long small pieces of locust on.

 

[NickW]

Up to -5. I think the load I just put in was #4 for the day. Great room is up to almost 70, but the back hall hasn't moved yet. Loads have been 3 black ash e/w on a mound of coals with a trench for the boost air. Can't get anymore in unless I use the shorter stuff n/s and I might as well use up the 16"+ seeing as outside work is limited to short amounts of time. Hoping the smaller loads in theory will help keep the coal pile down... Theory isn't working so well. Sun is coming around and starting to get the solar gains which will help.

 

[stoveliker]

Another two oddly shaped maple splits, and an oak split for now on the locust coals. Going to be a low of 14, so want to do a night reload later.
20 outside now, feels like 14, upstairs 69.
Glass has been cleaning up today 😁

 

[Dieselhead]

Glass has been cleaning up today 😁

Ha yup, I’m in the self cleaning oven club today too. A few spruce splits in around 4pm to get me to an overnight load.

 

[stoveliker]

Almost too hot for my hands to take a pic

 

[Dieselhead]

Night time load of hardwoods are in and charring. I’ll have the ‘stat set at 3:00 and the fan around 40%. Low of 8 according to the weather app.

 

[Todd]

-2/72 Overnight load of Oak and Maple. Supposed to stay above zero tonight and have a little snow by morning. It warmed up to 10 today but didn’t feel like it with a stiff west wind. Thankfully the wind has died down, it really makes a difference on retaining heat in the cabin. I think this is my 4th load today but the others were a little smaller and burned hotter than this one.

 

[stoveliker]

18 outside, 70 upstairs.
Reload of red oak.
Tomorrow it'll warm up to 39, and tomorrow night 33, Thursday 43 after which the bottom drops out.

So I'll let the stove go cold tomorrow until when it cools down on Thursday. I burned a bunch of maple these last two days knowing I'd have time to get the ashes out tomorrow.

Edit, video 15 mins in. This is the setting for tonight. Flue is 500 but that's high because I've been dialing down.

 

[MRD1985]

Ran a load of cut offs this afternoon (second pic), did a good job holding me over until now. Full load of ash for tonight’s. Currently 13, low of 5 forecasted.

 

[bigealta]

Midnight reload with 3 year red oak, been loading the f400 every 3-5 hours all day and night. Will catch a break with 1 1/2 day warm up starting later today. Then back to the deep freeze (well it's cold for us anyway, probably "warm" for some of u all.)

 

[ctreitzell]

No solar just makes most people around here unhappy; fire seems to take that edge off.

Last night’s cold start

 

[MRD1985]

Oak doing its thing this morning. 7 feels like -1. Off too work this morning so so will be cold later on.

 

[Todd]

No solar just makes most people around here unhappy; fire seems to take that edge off.

Last night’s cold start
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I can’t relate since I’m off grid and rely on solar power. At least we’re slowly on the upswing for daylight hours.

 

[all night moe]

Last night's meal was 2 small W pine splits topped with 4 W oak, 2 petrified R oak rounds, a split of norway and a split of sugar maples. Also 2 B locust and 1 honey.
This ''overnight'' meal was served at 2:30am.

Up this morning at 6. Dog dancing in my face to to go out. Dragon was still feasting a little. Bunch of coal and some coaled remains of resembling slits. Temps at 8am said 9 withthe real at -5*. Must have been evn colder when I walked the dog. My face was freezing and the double coated haired dog did his business quickly. Extra fur or not, he ain't no dummy. Fed a breakfast of 2 fat pine splits, a little W oak, some maple and cherry, and lastly some ash.

Are we there yet?