What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

[thewoodlands]

I'm burning down coals from the last fire, the overnight load will be all ash. The temps up here are 69 & 70 with the outside temp at 19.

 

[NickW]

-11 this morning and the house is down to thermostat setting. Last nights load of cherry, birch, white ash, beech and ironwood was down to a few coals and charcoal; so fired them up and loaded some cherry, white ash and aspen.

I've noticed that even after a week in the heated basement the tarped wood from outside isn't as good as what had been indoors. Slower to take off and occasional sizzling 😡. Looks like the remainder of this burning season will involve a bit more air for longer.

 

[MRD1985]

Never got around to posting this morning, home sick today. Oak, beech, sugar maple, mulberry. Going to throw a few uglies in in a little bit to keep the fire going

 

[ctreitzell]

You don't keep the torch that close to the stove during the burn cycle, do you?

Of course not; I’m just showing the tools used for the cold start

 

[NickW]

Currently 22 only going down to 15 tonight. A little snow coming tomorrow. House got chilly while I was outside this afternoon. Full load of aspen is in bringing the temperature up and establishing a coal base after taking a little ash out.

 

[Dieselhead]

This morning I loaded the stove around 545 before heading out the door. It was a load that went just right, pieces dropped into place. Shoulda got a pic of that. There was a lot of weight in the wood cart, I’m not sure what species but man…I gotta add air to the tires haha. Wife’s on stove patrol tonight, should be a pretty easy job based on this am’s load and where I left the ‘stat set.

 

[stoveliker]

Last night's 7 pm load was done at 5 pm. I added three small (2-3", and 10" long) red oak splits at that time.
Ran the mini split upstairs to keep temps. Outside went up to 30.

Now it's 25 going down to 15. 70 upstairs.
Reload with oak shorties. 85% full box, including two pieces on the sill leaning in...

 

[MRD1985]

Oak, ash and sugar maple.

 

[all night moe]

Some norway splits, sugar maple short, 2 pieces of black cherry with one wild, and 1 each of red, white, and black, oaks to ease the dragon's hunger. I find the black oak seems to dry the quickest. It ignited fairly quickly and was split last Oct. All of this meal came from the pile I mentioned that's in a windy spot.

Tonight's low of 16 is already reached with a real of 8*
Tomorrow will be spent in the wood yard. Will be preparing for this weekend's deep freeze. I heard wind chills of -35 are forecasted. I will be processing dead ash I put into rounds last fall and more red/black oaks of old. The oaks are smaller rounds that have been sitting for 2yrs. A little time in the lair with air circulation should do the trick. The weekend will be interesting feeding the old girl.

 

[ctreitzell]

Well, yesterday was forecast as the only dry day for the foreseeable, thus I set out to sweep. All was going great and then the rod broke. I told the missus it was a fatal error. That’s never happened to me before and not something I’d ever been called upon to rectify. I wasn’t going to say anything on this forum, until I discovered how often such a scenario occurs. One thing was for sure, after 6 weeks, I did not need to sweep. Looks like I can get away with at least 10 weeks.

Another thing was for sure: I didn’t have enough rod, so I drove off to the local hardware store (Bricomarché). I purchased most of what was on display (€60 worth) part of a kit was a chimney brush. I figured that with enough rod, I could run a rope through the 7 meter section. I tested to see if I had enough rod; yep, plenty. That worked, but rod broke when I tried to pull it back down. That was fine, cuz I had so much rod.

Second time , I ran a rope and then tried to pull the rest of the rod out the top walking up the hill behind the house. Rod broke. Hey, at least I never put a cap on this flue! Thank goodness.

Ok, rope run thru, now to cut down a new brush. The cap on the flue is a reducer, so I needed to cut down to about 3” diameter. Then it was dark and really started chucking it down so I abandoned and waited for next day.

Today, I tied the cut down brush to the rope and tied the rope to itself in loop in case first time wasn’t a charm. I was surprised, brush went right down the reduced cap opening and brought the seized brush and rod down with the first pull.

Fortunately there was just enough dry weather to re-assemble

I did see retrieval hooks online, but although more expensive, my idea did work. Certainly my brush is too big and, I will always tie á rope to the brush in future.

So, I was able to cold start this evening. We need it with feels like hovering around freezing.

1 chestnut/ 1 Wht oak
Fat short of apple; kindled with hazel/ oak/ elm/ tilia

Ignition spreading, cold start tools removed (as per usual)

 

[Todd]

Nice break today with it currently 32. Full load of Oak this morning will last til this evening keeping the cabin in the lower 70’s.

 

[jcjohnston]

split and stacked for five years, red oak, standing dead with no bark when dropped

 

[Dieselhead]

Spruce tonight, I’d prefer not to have a huge coal bed in the AM as I’d like to do a cleanout.

 

[Tar13]

Its been a very long cold stretch for us and is going to extend into next week before we see temps above freezing....until then the Princess will be fed her daily diet of Black Locust...life is good.

 

[stoveliker]

Last night's 8.30 load was done around 4 pm. Cleaned some ashes out (burned a few maple splits the past week...), put a piece of pine and three oak shorties on the remaining coals.
Those are done now and it's a reload of red oak.

24 outside, going down to 17.
Upstairs 71,

Got two wheelbarrows of wood into the garage.
That started the Last (of 5) stacks in my shed for this year...

Sunday I'm flying out for a week in CA for work.
I hope the wife can keep the stove going until Tuesday after which the mini split will take over. Coldest weekend this winter so far is what they say

 

[NickW]

Currently 26 degrees and rising. About 8:00 tomorrow morning it will start dropping (all day) and be below 0 again tomorrow night. Overnight load of cherry, birch and white ash will go in soon. Heading down to SE WI either tomorrow night or Saturday morning for a going away party Saturday and a Super Bowl party Sunday.

 

[thewoodlands]

We have -3 tonight with the temps up here at 67 and the basement at 72. The overnight load is ash and ironwood.

 

[Todd]

31/71 love these moderate temps. 12 hour reloads til tomorrow.

 

[Dieselhead]

Ashes out, daytime spruce and one messy oak split in. I cleaned out for maximum capacity for the deep freeze this weekend. This was about 1030 am.

 

[Dieselhead]

That load is done, onto tonight’s load. 90% sugar maple, 5% shagbark hickory, 5% red oak.

 

[Turbo89]

Shops been warming up with some maple and ash since I got in from work. Getting her warmed up for the snow and weekend.

 

[NickW]

Load of aspen is in to keep the inside temperature up as the outside temperature tumbles. 9 degrees and going below 0 again tonight. Will be my typical mixed hardwood load overnight.

 

[Turbo89]

Just tossed the overnight load on, 21 outside 65 inside, STT 340. CAT 613 and ramping up still.

Mix of hickory, ash and some limb logs which I think are red maple. We’ll see how she does overnight.

 

[stoveliker]

The load of last night was done at 3 pm. Used the mini split for a bit at 28-30 F. Stretching my wood...

Then at 7 started the stove with a thin split of pine and two oak sticks.
Now a reload of red oak.
23 outside going down to 21 at 5 am.
70 upstairs

 

[MRD1985]

Been out of commission the past few days being sick, starting to feel better today. Been burning most oak, ash and hickory this week. Here’s a few samples….

Cold moving in tonight with some snow and bitter cold the next few days then a warm up on Tuesday.