What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

[shortys7777]

Oak an ash. I feel like this will be my biggest year since burning 7 years ago. It's been cold all winter.

 

[bigealta]

Yeah all the neighbors that say wow you have "Sooo Much" firewood have no clue.
5 cords CSS in the yard at this point is woefully inadequate.

Don't Believe the Hype!

 

[MRD1985]

Reload number 2. More of the same. Only got about 5.5-6 hours out this mornings since I ran it near wide open the whole time.

 

[vatmark]

Started her up this morning. Today is not suppose to be as cold as previous days. Suppose to get up to 40 today. Maybe the last fire for a bit as temps during the day are going to climb into the 50's after Thursday with some temps in the upper 50's.

 

[vatmark]

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.

What stove is this? Its lovely. Is that soapstone?

 

[ctreitzell]

Daily cold start, 13C/ 55F is too cold inside
I started late after a day of installing new mattresses and levelling á bed

All kinds in the little Delice
Wht oak/ chestnut
Chunk of apple and hazel to light it up

 

[NickW]

Heating is so much nicer when it's almost 20 degrees and sunny. 3rd aspen load for the day just went in and will get me to the overnight load. Going down close to 0 tonight but another mid teens day coming tomorrow.

 

[MRD1985]

Heating is so much nicer when it's almost 20 degrees and sunny. 3rd aspen load for the day just went in and will get me to the overnight load. Going down close to 0 tonight but another mid teens day coming tomorrow.

I agree! I overestimated the amount of heat needed today. Currently 74-75 inside..

Temp is supposed to plummet tonight though. Going to go from about 33 to 0

 

[Todd]

What stove is this? Its lovely. Is that soapstone?

Woodstock Soapstone Fireview

 

[MRD1985]

Kind of an odd pack for the night. Some “uglies” in the mix prevented tight packing. Had to stuff a bunch of cut offs in spots to fill it. Mulberry, ash, hickory, beech and a little oak tonight. Low of 0.

 

[stoveliker]

Outside is 27 going down to 13.
Upstairs is 70.
To conserve some wood I ran the half load of ash and oak uglies from this morning quite low and ran the mini split upstairs as the main heat source. Kept the stove and basement warm so I could have the stove take over now without having to ramp up.

Reload of red oak. Not full (a bit short and some not well fitting ones) but enough.

 

[MRD1985]

Outside is 27 going down to 13.
Upstairs is 70.
To conserve some wood I ran the half load of ash and oak uglies from this morning quite low and ran the mini split upstairs as the main heat source. Kept the stove and basement warm so I could have the stove take over now without having to ramp up.

Reload of red oak. Not full (a bit short and some not well fitting ones) but enough.

Running that low on wood for the season??

 

[stoveliker]

Yes, I have about two cords per year and I burned 4/5 of that.
I do have some "emergency" wood that's dry,. mostly silver maple and spruce (and an odd stick of oak and locust left overs from previous years), so I'll be fine. But running this low at the start of February is new for me.

Next week I'll have a work trip to CA and I think the wife will burn Sun- Tue, and then use the mini split,.so that saves some too.

We'll see how it goes.

 

[NickW]

So I lied earlier, sun went down and house temperature started dropping so I did a 4th load of aspen about 6. Full load of cherry, white ash and a chunk of beech.

 

[MRD1985]

Oak, mulberry and beech this morning

 

[Dieselhead]

I did a morning and late afternoon load of spruce yesterday then a 12am spruce load this morning now a daytime load of all spruce. Not a normal loading schedule for me but work got in the way. Damn work 🤷🏻‍♂👎🏻🤣. Now back to our normal programming…off to load the wood racks. Heat wave expected today, high around freezing 🥵

 

[MRD1985]

I did a morning and late afternoon load of spruce yesterday then a 12am spruce load this morning now a daytime load of all spruce. Not a normal loading schedule for me but work got in the way. Damn work 🤷🏻‍♂👎🏻🤣. Now back to our normal programming…off to load the wood racks. Heat wave expected today, high around freezing 🥵

Definitely feels like sweatshirt weather compared to what we’ve had!

 

[NickW]

2nd load of aspen is in. Another nice sunny day right now, currently 9 above and forecast to hit 17. Back below 0 again tonight.

 

[ctreitzell]

Daily cold start
Plus, later, the fire brokers feline social calm and the white lion is starting to stop being so concerned with my originals.

1stick chestnut/ 1 Wht oak
chunk of Siberian Elm and little round of holly
The rest is Wht oak and hazel except for the beech spatula which finally made it into the stove

 

[NickW]

Daily cold start
Plus, later, the fire brokers feline social calm and the white lion is starting to stop being so concerned with my originals.

1stick chestnut/ 1 Wht oak
chunk of Siberian Elm and little round of holly
The rest is Wht oak and hazel except for the beech spatula which finally made it into the stove
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You don't keep the torch that close to the stove during the burn cycle, do you?

 

[shortys7777]

More oak

 

[stoveliker]

It was 30 outside today, so I dialed down the stove and ran very low to keep it warm. Mini split upstairs.

23 hrs in a reload of red oak shorties. Tomorrow likely the same, as it'll be 33 or so, but colder tomorrow night
23 for the low overnight tonight.

 

[all night moe]

Well, lately I've been feeding the dragon whatever I can find that won't spit at us. I'm "out" of good seasoned wood.
I have a stuffed wheelbarrow's worth of 2yr seasoned red oak set aside in the lair. What's left of the heavy half cord I had before the big snow storm. It was cold out and the dragon loved it. Another year of seasoning would have been better but, she didn't complain.

I have another 3 heavy wheelbarrow loads worth of petrified, dead R oak limb wood. Some 8'' around that I either halved or split into thirds. This stuff still enjoying the winds outside. There's a pile of splits from last Oct. Some of its GTG. I piled it ontop of some logs in a full wind spot. The Norway maple and black cherry splits are ret and ready. Most likely around 22-23% MC.

I found a pile of oak limbs/logs that have been sitting off the ground for 3 yrs. I cut and split some and let it sit for 2 days. Burned okay. Biggest dia was about 8''.

The dragon won't starve but, gourmet meals are done for the season. I'm saving the good R oak I have for those cold dips. One coming this weekend.

 

[Todd]

It was colder than expected this morning at -10 so I was playing catch up burning a couple hot loads of Oak and Maple. Ended up being a nice sunny day and 20. Temps are dropping fast now at 8:30 pm already -4, getting ready for a mix load of oak and maple for the overnight.

 

[MRD1985]

Oak, beech, mulberry and a little sugar maple. Low of 9 tonight