What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

[weee123]

Thanks. ..Straight up stovepiping?

No Up about 2’ then 45* to the wall, 90* once outside and then 18’ straight up

 

[MRD1985]

6am reload. More oak and hickory. Was very impressed with the heat last night from
This wood. Peaked at 830STT and held
Over 700 STT for 2 hours with blower on max. Opened the air at least 50% before I went to bed and left blower on 3/4 speed. Still had some wood left I had to break up into coals this morning. Dry Hickory and oak are hard to beat.

 

[Todd]

Sorry I sent all this cold weather to you guys out east! 😂 14/69 load of oak will be burning low and slow today. Looks like highs in the low 30’s all this week.

 

[all night moe]

Sorry I sent all this cold weather to you guys out east! 😂 14/69 load of oak will be burning low and slow today. Looks like highs in the low 30’s all this week.

You deserve it compared to what you've recently already endured. Enjoy, my friend.

No Up about 2’ then 45* to the wall, 90* once outside and then 18’ straight up

That was the same setup of stove pipe I had on my Moe, with additional outside height of another 10-12'.
Stove drafted well.

 

[all night moe]

6am reload. More oak and hickory. Was very impressed with the heat last night from
This wood. Peaked at 830STT and held
Over 700 STT for 2 hours with blower on max. Opened the air at least 50% before I went to bed and left blower on 3/4 speed. Still had some wood left I had to break up into coals this morning. Dry Hickory and oak are hard to beat.

Definitely members of the premiums. Hickory being my absolute favorite.
For coaling BTU hitters we can add sugar maple, locusts, ironwood, and perhaps wild cherry seems decent too.

EDIT: Had to come back and add on beech! @MRD1985 .....how could I forget? LOL. Just threw a biggie in the dragon.

 

[all night moe]

I stayed up with the dragon answering her cries. 2 loads of red oak and white oak, on top of the belly churning coal bed. The 2nd filling received a W pine split to burn off the coals and ignite the new load. 1st load had a bit of B locust too.

Haven't checked the temps. I can tell you it was ''take your breath away cold'' when I walked the dog at 7am ish. Funny how much a doubled coated haired dog likes being out in this weather.

Edit/add on: Kitchen water lines froze. My guess is under the living rm crawlspace after where the ductwork ends and before the adjacent kitchen crawlspace. Lines under the kitchen are heat taped and well insulated.

 

[Turbo89]

Came out to a cold stone (108 on my auber), shop was 43. Not terrible with overnight Lows, and I left the secondary heat off.

Back up and running with some pine, maple and hemlock. Air wide open, and will be for a few hours.

 

[stoveliker]

Last night's 11 pm load was done around 8. Lots of coals so one split of sassafras on top.
At 9.30 I reloaded with locust shorties and two splits of oak. 6 F outside, 70 upstairs - having been aided by an hour of minisplit blowing 109 F when it was 3 outside.

Leaving for 83 F weather in California now ..
Wife will run into Tuesday and then will use the minisplits.

 

[ctreitzell]

Definitely members of the premiums. Hickory being my absolute favorite.
For coaling BTU hitters we can add sugar maple, locusts, ironwood, and perhaps wild cherry seems decent too.

EDIT: Had to come back and add on beech! @MRD1985 .....how could I forget? LOL. Just threw a biggie in the dragon.

I’m west coast born and raised and there are a couple great firewood species there which I never hear about on this forum, yet certainly have in mind from when I lived there. I’ve never had the pleasure of burning ironwood or hickory. And never really had access to ash or chestnut (obviously chestnut is poor firewood).

Madrone and Manzanita are fantastic firewood; Manzanita potentially damaging to even cast iron because it burns so hot.

Not that anyone needs a fire in Cali today! Pretty warm over there.

 

[ctreitzell]

I just lit up the Délice. It’s not cold here, yet at dusk it’s nice to have the warmth for the evening and turn the elec off.

Chestnut/ Wht oak
Elm/ Hazel and a stick of cherry

 

[thewoodlands]

I didn't have an overnight fire, I set the furnace. The temp this morning was - 21, after coffee I started burning again with ash and some ironwood.

 

[Turbo89]

Afternoon reload of uglies, some black birch and ash. Stoves rippin’ STT 600, 15 outside, 68 inside, CAT sitting at 1480.

 

[Stelcom66]

I didn't have an overnight fire, I set the furnace. The temp this morning was - 21, after coffee I started burning again with ash and some ironwood.

Wow... we had it easy in comparison with something below 0, single digits.

 

[all night moe]

I’m west coast born and raised and there are a couple great firewood species there which I never hear about on this forum, yet certainly have in mind from when I lived there. I’ve never had the pleasure of burning ironwood or hickory. And never really had access to ash

East coast/NE benefits.

 

[all night moe]

Wow... we had it easy in comparison with something below 0, single digits.

I saw a neg 35* here with the wind chills last night. It froze our water lines that run to the kitchen. That's never been a problem area for me before this winter.

 

[Stelcom66]

I saw a neg 35* here with the wind chills last night. It froze our water lines that run to the kitchen. That's never been a problem area for me before this winter.

Oh man sorry to hear! I hope the water lines can be thawed before any damage is done. Such crazy weather lately, extreme heat last summer and now this.

 

[bigealta]

Finally starting to get the reloads on coal beds to burn like top down set ups.
Making an almost solid "floor" with bottom row sitting on a center tunneled coal bed.
Then placing solid packed splits on top of that bottom row.
Throw a thinner slab on the top towards the back and close the door.

The air flows under the whole load up the back and fires the secondaries.
Does not always work but tonight it did fire up just right.

 

[all night moe]

Oh man sorry to hear! I hope the water lines can be thawed before any damage is done. Such crazy weather lately, extreme heat last summer and now this.

They're PEX. All will be fine.

 

[all night moe]

Finally starting to get the reloads on coal beds to burn like top down set ups.
Making an almost solid "floor" with bottom row sitting on a center tunneled coal bed.
Then placing solid packed splits on top of that bottom row.
Throw a thinner slab on the top towards the back and close the door.

The air flows under the whole load up the back and fires the secondaries.
Does not always work but tonight it did fire up just right.

We all learn tricks our stoves like.

With the monster coal bed in the dragon's belly, I could light a brick on fire.....LOL

 

[MRD1985]

Came home from work, cleaned up the stove area a bit, removed a bunch of ash and reloaded with ash and hickory.

 

[Burnin Since 1991]

I did the same. Except for the coming home from work part. My stove was cool this morning. It was 7 degrees and 61 in the house at 6:30am. Ready for another day!

18 and 70 now.

You definitely have the cleanest glass on hearth.com @MRD1985

 

[MRD1985]

I did the same. Except for the coming home from work part. My stove was cool this morning. It was 7 degrees and 61 in the house at 6:30am. Ready for another day!

18 and 70 now.

You definitely have the cleanest glass on hearth.com @MRD1985

I hadn’t wiped it down in a couple of weeks. Just gave it a quick wipe this morning, first time stove has been “cool” for over a week 😅

 

[all night moe]

The dragon's dinning mostly on some premiums. A bit warmer today, and a little more after each day passes. At some point, probably tomorrow, the dragon's breath should maintain enough heat in the duct work to heat the crawl space up. Then the water lines should thaw for the kitchen.

 

[ctreitzell]

East coast/NE benefits.

?!? Only benefits? You saying hickory and ironwood are better firewood than Madrone and Manzanita? Hmmmmm

 

[ctreitzell]

Well, I’m much farther east than most y’all…

And It ain’t cold here, yet rain and gray skies are keeping it cool enough to burn for some free heat from essentially garbage

And it’s still cool enough to need to have some heat in the home

Just fired up the the little Panadero
Á little bit of chestnut in amongst the wht oak, hazel, elm and holly