What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

[Todd]

-25/73 Looking forward to a slight warm up this week then back to average next weekend. One Oak round and five Maple splits for the evening load.

 

[burning VC]

in the nw N.C. foothills...

it's been a long cold snap of winter days, weeks... too many to count since i last went to check on
Grandpa Bear.
Wood, plentiful ...stacked and ready, yet not a sign of life from him.

As the Icestorm of '26 laid it's worst down, the house was cold soaked....and HVAC was surrounded and cutoff by Frosty Ghosts, outnumbered helplessly and looking grim...

There was a deep, groaning sound like a vault door grinding open, and I found myself standing in front of ol' Grandpa...in a 54F basement...

In went the twigs, then some sticks,, a few limbs...and some Dominos pizza boxes soaked in grease...

After that, it was a day of yellow and white pine, some sassafras trunk sections and beech.... basically the shoulder season, mild weather wood that was never touched.....the oak is in the long term area, never brought up to house...

It took all day to warm the floor, walls and ceiling even with 675F stt.

Just put it more yellow pine splits...as it emptied quickly, draft opened up...

but at least for one day, Grandpa Bear got up and snarled, and stomped for a few hours....
scaring the Frosty Ghosts back outside..
..banished into the glassy iced woodlands, amongst the shivering trees standing in the ice above the riverside....


It felt like victory letting the big guy eat again....

 

[NickW]

-7 with a load of cherry, white ash and 1 each of hickory and sugar maple. -20 by morning...

 

[MRD1985]

Got dumped on here for snow today. I’ll have to get a total tomorrow. I’d guess around 18”.

Was cold all day with temps in single digits with feels like as cold as -12. After this mornings load I put in a load of oak shorties NS and some sugar maple EW. The beech has been getting me in trouble with coals. Those coals last forever, might as well be anthracite. Between last night and this morning, it jammed me up for the rest of the day. Could only fit a couple splits in at a time, or cut offs. So did several small loads throughout the day and then let as much as them burn down as much as possible. Ended up with nearly 3/4 stove full of straight coals. Emptied an entire 5 gallon bucket of hot coals to make room for a full load of ash tonight.

 

[Tar13]

Its going from bad to worse here in central Indiana...11 inches of fresh snow fall and plummeting temperatures for us...been feeding the BK Princess 8-10 inch splits of locust and not having any trouble keeping the stove room in the mid to upper 70s over night...but that might change as the upcoming over night temps will be in the minus single digit category...I realize thats mild for some of you guys but it pretty darn cold for us! 🤣 oh so glad I am setting on so much seasoned locust!

 

[Todd]

-32/72 burning hot this morning with a mix of oak and maple.

 

[Crab]

24 degF. Yesterday 5" snow + 2" sleet + looks like 1/4" of ice on the trees. Only scattered power outages on the Eastern Shore, so far so good here. Gale warning on the Chesapeake Bay, so we will get wind shortly. Oak in the F45, 71 in the family room. Be safe all in these conditions.

 

[NickW]

-20 with the box stuffed full of pine and aspen. Indoor stores dwindling, will be bringing in a few totes from outside again. Hoping the pole shed will be done by the end of the week so I can load up the new storage area in the attached garage before we get a bunch of snow.

 

[weee123]

Running mix of oak criss cross for the first fire of the day to get the heat up. 650 stt

 

[MRD1985]

More ash this morning. 15 feels like 2. Snow blowed the driveway twice yesterday needs another one today. Going to be a cold week coming up looking at the forecast.

 

[ctreitzell]

RealFeel is 3C/ 37F; no solar gains and it’s perpetually 14C/ 57F in these stone walls

Unless the Délice gets lit; which I just did.

Usual daily cold start with a big split of chestnut and regular Wht oak in the bottom with hazel sticks filling the void between the splits; customary Siberian Elm chunk kindled with oak/ hazel/ holly

My domesticated wild animal has heard the prattle of the build and smells the smoke of heat thus has joined the party with the tiny stomach on legs. More are arriving as I type.

 

[stoveliker]

I was too busy yesterday to post.
I'd been burning a half load of red oak from 10 am yesterday or so.
Then since yesterday 5 pm one split of sassafras and two split of pine to burn down some coals.
At 9 a reload with red oak (see pic). Shorties again... a lot less BTUs in my stacks for this year than I expected.

29 now (it's gone up 6 F in the last two hours).
Going up to 30, then down to 24 early morning.

Shoveled 12.5" + 4" and there's another 3" on the ground...

edit Monday morning: it was a bit more than 3" so totaling about 20".

Last night's reload is done after 15 hrs. A reload of red oak shorties now.
19 outside. Cloudy. Going up to 26 around 4 pm then down to 12.

 

[Turbo89]

Been a hectic day here, I bet we’ve gotten 20”+ of snow, and it’s still going. Probably a mild storm compared to some of our northern friends, lol.

Stoves still rippin, keeping the shop and snow removal equipment warm. Although overnight I got a few icicles forming on the chimney. I can see through the cap, so it’s not clogged, but my suspicions of wet wood yesterday were right. I’ll have to keep my eye on it and give it a quick sweep this week when things calm down.

Stoves got some ash and maple in it right now, STT 450, shop 68, outside air 28.

 

[MRD1985]

Load number 2 of the day. Mulberry, ash, sugar maple and a split of oak. Still 19 degrees feels like 7

 

[Dieselhead]

The King’s been in self cleaning oven mode since the clean out I did last week. I’ve been doing about 2 loads a day. Norway spruce at day and hardwoods overnight. It hasn’t been above freezing in a while and it does not look like it will be for this week. Snow is gonna be sticking around for a bit. I have tonight’s load in already as I’m planning to hit the sack a bit early. It’s a load of not so great semi punky-ish/oddball size stuff I’d been putting aside. I’ll be up for work around 545 tomorrow so this will do until then. The glass has been clean by BK standards with a whispy flame show durning most of the burn cycles.

 

[stoveliker]

The shorties from 11.45 are done - to the point that the 24, light snow, real feel of 7 outside is winning from the BTU output of the stove.
So first a split of oak on the coals raked forward (one split burns down quite a bit more coals than it produces) to postpone the reload and get some BTUs.

 

[Riff]

Currently 16F with a real feel of 5F. Going down to 6F tonight with an expected real feel of -1F. Some chilly nights ahead.

The stove has been going all afternoon, just threw in a load of osage and chestnut oak in it. It's been helping keep the house cozy and the kids happy.

 

[thewoodlands]

I'm not sure what the temp was this morning but we had a cup of coffee, plug in the block heaters, have another cup of coffee and build a fire with beech and ironwood.

 

[stoveliker]

Reload with red oak, two smaller white oak splits and a 3" split of mulberry.

Edit; 18 outside, windy, real feel 5. Upstairs 69.

 

[Turbo89]

Reload of maple and hickory.

18 outside, 66 inside, CAT settling in around 980 with the air a crack past full close.

 

[TreeCo]

We load from our woodshed and toss into a Toyota truck bed/trailer we park near the back door. The cover is a full sized truck bed liner and the sides are metal roofing. I've got the Honda 2200w generator out of the weather in it now. I sit it out on the bench when running, which was for a couple of hours yesterday. Luckily power was only off for that couple of hours.

We burn wood as it comes out of our 'wood wagon' and we are into a streak of yellow pine. The video is 100% pine and was taken a couple of hours ago. I was trying to get a good video of secondary combustion. I leave light weight wood splits a little larger than hardwood splits.

It's 19°F with 12mph winds feels like 6°F as I type.

Here's the video of 100% pine:

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[NickW]

1 above real feel -16. Typical cherry & white ash load with a hickory and sugar maple kicker.

 

[MRD1985]

Ash, sugar maple, mulberry for tonight. 17 feels like -6. Low of 4 tonight.

 

[Todd]

-1/71 full load of Maple in the firebox. 30 degrees warmer than yesterday morning.

 

[NickW]

-2, -16 real feel, inside is at thermostat setting of 66. First load of pine and aspen going.