What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

[Dieselhead]

Fresh load of spruce in for the daytime load.

 

[NickW]

7 degrees this morning and stretched last night's load by sleeping in. Load of aspen taking the chill out.

 

[vatmark]

I had the stove going all day until the evening. Had to let it die down due to high wind gusts. Started to get smoke smell in the house.

 

[weee123]

Another load of oak in stove room 72 and outside real feel of -5.

 

[stoveliker]

The real feel this morning was -1. 13 but high winds
12 hrs on that load. Now a split of sassafras,.and likely one more,.and I'll try to get some ashes out.

 

[Todd]

I had the stove going all day until the evening. Had to let it die down due to high wind gusts. Started to get smoke smell in the house.View attachment 345896

Great looking install!

 

[Turbo89]

Forgot to grab a pic when I relit it this morning. About 12 hrs on the burn, STT was 160, had a few coals left to restart with some splitter slash and paper.

She’s running some maple, pine and a few pieces of poplar to warm up. STT 500 and climbing, air wide open. 18 outside, 53 inside.

 

[MRD1985]

Late to post this morning. Got home from work, cleaned out some ash, wiped the glass down and loaded up with ash, beech and some sugar maple and hickory . Burning 75% open for quick heat. Currently 13 feels like -8

 

[ctreitzell]

Again, cold starts are cheaper than elec and so much more heat delivered

There’s something about feels like 4C/ 40F that goes right thru…

Anyway, supposed to be raining…but it ain’t hoorah

1 beech and a couple small splits of chestnut
The rest is Wht oak and hazel

 

[bigealta]

Too much...... has been in my stove this year. I'm crushing the woodpiles.
Now i'm not even sure i'll have enough good stuff to burn this year. I'll have lots of will be 2 year (cut standing dead) for next year, But that was supposed to be for year 3 not next year. Gonna have to find some more dead fallen dry stuff pretty soon to help next years supply.

Maybe the 2 year oak will test ok after this summer?

 

[Todd]

Too much...... has been in my stove this year. I'm crushing the woodpiles.
Now i'm not even sure i'll have enough good stuff to burn this year. I'll have lots of will be 2 year (cut standing dead) for next year, But that was supposed to be for year 3 not next year. Gonna have to find some more dead fallen dry stuff pretty soon to help next years supply.

Maybe the 2 year oak will test ok after this summer?

Yeah I went through a lot more wood than expected with this last cold snap but I think I have enough sauna wood in reserve if I don't.

Usually my oak is good to go with two summers in the woodshed but I did run across some Maple that wasn’t quite there.

 

[MRD1985]

afternoon reload. Oak, hickory, beech, ash, mulberry and sugar maple. Currently 20 feels like 2

Nice and toasty at 750+ STT

 

[Turbo89]

Probably the last load of the weekend, she’s been eating wood the last two days with these chilly temps and windchills.

Mix of ash, maple and hickory. 20 outside, 66 inside, STT at 530, CAT 960 and ramping. Going to turn her on 1/4 air while I finish up
a few things.

 

[Dieselhead]

I set the overnight load for tonight on today’s spruce coals. Mixed hardwoods in and charring. Low around 10 for tonight.

 

[stoveliker]

I had put in a 2/3 load of shorties around 11.15. That's done now.

Outside is 20, and feels like 10. Forecast goes down to 13.
Upstairs is 69.
Red oak, and the last half-stick of mulberry for the night.

 

[Turbo89]

I set the overnight load for tonight on today’s spruce coals. Mixed hardwoods in and charring. Low around 10 for tonight.




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Nice Tetris, I thought those top 3 were 1 piece when I first looked!

 

[stoveliker]

Nice Tetris, I thought those top 3 were 1 piece when I first looked!

That would have been one major slab ..

 

[Turbo89]

That would have been one major slab ..

Yea it would have been a monster!

 

[MRD1985]

Almost fell asleep….

More of the previous combo as of late. Oak, hickory, mulberry, ash, sugar maple, beech.

 

[Max W]

At 10PM I put a single 3 inch split of maple on a thick bed of coals in the cookstove.. That will burn down enough in an hour to put in a couple of large pieces of maybe oak to get going and set for the night. I’ll reload around 3:00 or when ever I wake for a head call. With so many cold days and with nights hovering around 0 this last stretch, the heat pump is mostly turned off. Nice to see how well the stove has been heating our 800 ft2 first floor on its own despite its 1.2 cu ft firebox.

Recently got some advice here from bgreen and Burnin Since 1991 that has made a real difference. I stopped emptying my ash pan which stopped coals from dropping through the grate allowing for a thick and lasting coal beds. Now I just shovel out a small amount of ash at a time.

 

[thewoodlands]

We have -9 tonight, the basement started off at 70 with the temps up here 67. We have beech & ironwood going for the overnight fire.

 

[EbS-P]

Dry wood! Near record low Feb 1 temps tonight. I don’t have time to think about species. Wil that fit N/S in the downstairs stove? Yes,No? Didn’t leave the sink dripping? Check. Do I have wood for the upstairs stove I side for the morning? No. uggg. Maybe I’ll find my slippers on the way to bed. Secondaries just lit off on the up stairs stove. I can’t find go to bed in 20 minutes. Downstairs stove is over 900 flue gas temps. That’s fine I just added two splits to a raging hot fire that was coals. I wish I had the finances at the time to buy BKs.

Bedroom hallway is 70. Living room 75. Basement??? Not freezing. Basement stove topped out at 954F on its way down now.

It at this point that I curse the previous owner who put in a 3 ton heatpump. WTF. It is a two stage. You couldn’t afford the 4 ton? Maybe spend less on the kitchen. No wait I like the kitchen and my stoves.

Both stoves will be easy relights in the AM. Duke sent out a plea to conserve electricity in the morning. Rolling blackouts may be a slim possibility. But our house won’t be cold!

Keep warm!

 

[Todd]

13/73 loaded up about 3/4 load of red oak. Teens for a high today then going below zero overnight. Forecast for Thursday says 30’s! It’s been awhile since we were above freezing.

 

[MRD1985]

Another load of the same this morning. Burning hot, house was down to thermostat setting of 67. I don’t think the blower has been anything other than max the past few weeks. 750+ STT does the trick.

Currently 15 feels like 10

 

[stoveliker]

Last night's load is done after 12 hrs.
20 outside now and it was windy all night. Home cooled down to 64... This morning we ran the mini split to give a boost. It was 14 outside and the home was up to 70 in 45 minutes.

Now a reload of some ash and oak uglies.