What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

[Crab]

-40/75 coldest I’ve seen in 4 or 5 years! Got up early to feed the stove some Oak. Still I’d rather have this cold than what’s going on down south! Be safe out there people!

Woke up to a mear 11 deg. with moderate wind .....F45 rolling along with oak and some precious hickory . Unfortunately the latest weather guess puts us in a band of heavy freezing rain tomorrow late after some inches of snow. Looks eerily similar to the 1994 ice storm here when we were building this house and living in a borrowed 34' motorhome. Had 22 deg downpours, then 3 days of negative lows. Incredible tree damage, even the oaks were fracturing. Some poor people in the county were without power for 2 weeks. Prepped plenty of primo oak and hickory in garage, generator is in the ready position. But alas not a whole house generac., just a 6400w Coleman. Temps here much less cold than NE and mid west but will stay below freezing for a week with some stiff winds...Best to all in this mess.

 

[NickW]

Not quite sure how this is, but AccuWeather says we're -35 with a real feel of -22. Wife had the coals fired up for me and I loaded up with cherry, white ash and black ash.

 

[stoveliker]

11 hours in I underestimated the wind. It is 9 F and a real feel of -6.
Home cooled down to 64. Hard to know the right thermostat setting for BTU needs that I don't see often.

Stove still giving good heat but I need to catch up. So two splits of pine and two of sassafras on the coals now.

 

[Dieselhead]

11 hours in I underestimated the wind. It is 9 F and a real feel of -6.
Home cooled down to 64. Hard to know the right thermostat setting for BTU needs that I don't see often.

Stove still giving good heat but I need to catch up. So two splits of pine and two of sassafras on the coals now.

I’ll be running higher settings and inside temps today so if it cools down at night we will be back to where we normally are.

 

[weee123]

Cold one in NJ. Stoking the stove like a locomotive. Running 700 STT 73 in stove room real feel outside -2. Running mix of white and red oak.

 

[ohlongarmisle]

Temps were in the 20's this morning. I woke up and checked the firebox of my All Nighter Moe, which I found still had some coals from last nights overnight burn. I tossed in a few pieces of pine to get it started up again, shortly followed by a link or two of cherry which coal up real nice, and topped off with some ash splits to last a few hours.

I vary my wood types by time of day, outside/inside temps, and length of burn. What is in your stove right now?

Shag hickory east west ,with a row of black locust on top east west, -20 here,8 hours is all i can get on full throttle with BK, Parlor however, I'm okay with that,the colder and windier it gets the more wood any unit burns, house has never dropped below 70.

 

[bigealta]

Been loading / Reloading all night. Gonna keep this up for looking like at least 10 days.
Here at NJ shore forecast is very unpredictable. On shore winds, and when they turn on shore, make predictions difficult.
Probably get snow, then sleet, than ice.

 

[Todd]

Not quite sure how this is, but AccuWeather says we're -35 with a real feel of -22. Wife had the coals fired up for me and I loaded up with cherry, white ash and black ash.

Yeah I noticed the same thing here with AccuWeather saying the wind chill was less than actual temp. 🤷

 

[stoveliker]

This can happen if winds are low and humidity high.
But I don't think that is the case now...

 

[all night moe]

3 loads of splits in the dragon since I got up this morning. Mostly all R oak, that's still in the truck. Average of 7-9 splits each. Last load I took a pic of the large bed of coals. about 30'' front to back and 22ish wide. Including some ash underneath, they're piled 6-8'' high. There's roughly 18'' of floor space in the back of the box I am not using. Trying to keep ash well away from the flue that begins near the floor. If I don't I end up with a lot of fly ash in the 5' of horizontal stove pipe. There's also 2' more additional pipe through the foundation.

Freakin cold out. I'm not looking at the weather app. I don't want to get discouraged from going out there. Have to open up the first part of the lair and empty the truck. Fill the truck up again, park it, and open up the interior door of the lair to move the R oak I'm about to toss down. Then toss in the 2nd. Move that and close it all up. Perhaps get a 3rd load ready to toss in tomorrow morning. If I do, I'll keep drawing from the truck till morning.

 

[stoveliker]

House is back up to 68.
Refill with 3 red oak short wedges (this was before I gave shorties to my neighbors) and a biiig wide oak ugly split,.with one wide oak on top.

Refilled the garage rack. Another face cord of freaking 12 " shorties. A lot less BTUs in these stacks. Stupid me 5 yrs ago.

Moved the generator today the sun room so I don't have to carry it out of the garage, up the hill and on the deck with ice on the ground. If that happens.
Didn't want to start on the deck but after an hour in the sun I'm the sunroom (36 f there) it ran fine.

 

[Dieselhead]

House is back up to 68.
Refill with 3 red oak short wedges (this was before I gave shorties to my neighbors) and a biiig wide oak ugly split,.with one wide oak on top.

Refilled the garage rack. Another face cord of freaking 12 " shorties. A lot less BTUs in these stacks. Stupid me 5 yrs ago.

Moved the generator today the sun room so I don't have to carry it out of the garage, up the hill and on the deck with ice on the ground. If that happens.
Didn't want to start on the deck but after an hour in the sun I'm the sunroom (36 f there) it ran fine.

I dislike scrounging pre cut rounds for that reason. The tree guys or homeowner think they are doing you a favor by pre cutting it but how do they know what you need? It seems like you may of committed that sin (😂) but in general I love me some log length.

 

[ctreitzell]

Wow, code orange on the other side of the pond! Again, bon courage

Over here, it’s bacon hawt at ReelFeel at 1C/ 33F. I went out and collected a car load of oak from my orchard to top up the home supply as temps are supposed to hover around freezing for the next 10 days.

I just lit the Délice with mostly white oak including customary 1 chestnut
And plenty of hazel

 

[crstrode]

"What's in your stove right now?"

FIRE!

To keep the fire going, I burn Ponderosa pine.

Living in a Ponderosa Pine forest, I figger that is the best choice. At midnight I tossed three splits onto the coals, and this morning at 10:30 it was glowing bright and blowing hot with a bed of coals that lit-off thee more splits. The Blaze King Sirocco insert (SC25) only hold a small load of wood, but it is one of the best ideas I have ever had to keep the house warm, and my wife happy.

Thank you, Blaze King

 

[stoveliker]

I dislike scrounging pre cut rounds for that reason. The tree guys or homeowner think they are doing you a favor by pre cutting it but how do they know what you need? It seems like you may of committed that sin (😂) but in general I love me some log length.

Yes. Those were the early days
I now get 10-12 ft logs delivered and any short end pieces or knotty uglies go to my neighbors. Straight splits mostly for me.

 

[stoveliker]

Cat pegged at max, flue at 600. Not seen that in a while.

Front of the door is 500, pad, reaching 20" in front of the stove, is max 150, vinyl plank in front of that max 117.

Stove top (convection deck top) max at 500 or so.
Flue collar under the convection deck is 717...

 

[Dieselhead]

Yes. Those were the early days
I now get 10-12 ft logs delivered and any short end pieces or knotty uglies go to my neighbors. Straight splits mostly for me.

It seems we have become wood snobs 🤣

 

[Riff]

Currently 17F, real feel of 9F. Just waiting for the snow to arrive in the next few hours. We're expecting 6-10" and a layer of sleet. Currently have a load of maple going, will switch to osage orange and chestnut oak during the evening to overnight burns.
Hope everyone here stays warm and no pipes break.

 

[MRD1985]

Got home from work this morning after doing an early morning grocery shopping and got the stove going. Loaded up with mostly ash and a split of oak, burned hot at 50% air with blower on max. Then put a load of oak shorties in around 2. Going to toss some cut offs on in a little bit I think too. House at 73. Currently 13 feels like 1.

 

[stoveliker]

Went to a friend's birthday. Came home and upstairs is 67.5
Downstairs many coals, because oak.
So a split of sassafras first.

 

[Todd]

-24/71 getting tired of this below zero stuff! 2 spits of Red Oak and 3 splits of Maple for the evening.

 

[stoveliker]

A reload of red and white oak. Didn't work out well with fitting off but big pieces on remaining coals.
4 splits, one 6" thick half round, one chunk, and one slab of about a square foot and 3" thick.
And too much air.
It is what it is
5 deg warmer tonight and no wind

Still not clear on potential ice tomorrow.
Snow starts at 7 am. 6-12", but if ice, snow will be less.

 

[MRD1985]

Sugar maple, beech, oak, and a split of mulberry, stuffed full. Curious to see how hot this one will get. Currently 8 feels like -2

 

[FaithfulWoodsman]

Currently burning all cherry. CSS just 3 weeks ago. Dead standing and dry as bones. Most of it’s less than 15% fresh split at room temp. Cherry would not be my pick for this weather, but it was an abnormally dense tree and putting out fantastic heat. Very thankful for the stove tonight.

 

[NickW]

Just got home after leaving shortly after noon. Got some ash out and firing up the coals. Had left the furnace set at 68 so the house temperature is fine. Loading up with cherry, white ash, 1 each beech and ironwood. Last chunk of ironwood I have, don't know if I'll find any up here...