What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

[Dieselhead]

It’s been a lot of the usual suspects lately, hardwoods on the overnights and spruce during the daytime. Decent solar gain during the day has led to black box mode at night. I think i saw were supposed to reach upper 40s for a brief stint this week, that will feel good for sure as we are working hard for this spring time, no doubt.

 

[MRD1985]

Last nights and this mornings. Oak and beech, mostly, with a little sugar maple.

 

[ctreitzell]

Again, it’s not cold
Yet we have a cooling trend at the moment
Overnight will be around zero Celsius/ 32F

But it’s 14C/ 57F in the lounge so lit up the Délice
Some of my kindling is a bit high moisture, but most is just right

1chestnut/1 Wht oak
Chunk of Siberian Elm
Kindled with mostly hazel and Wht oak

 

[thewoodlands]

We've been burning ash, maple with ironwood at night, during the day it has been soft maple with ironwood if it's cold enough.

 

[MRD1985]

Oak, ash and a little hickory tonight

 

[all night moe]

Pole shed builder let me keep the steel cover sheets from the build. 10 - 37"x8-12' ribbed steel pieces will allow me to start top covering my outside stacks 😁. I might put eye bolts in them and tie them down rather than trying to weight them down...?

I vote or weighing them down. If you come around to building a woodshed, you can use these panels for the roof. No preexisting holes to worry about.

 

[NickW]

Daytime highs in the mid 40's with sun and overnights in the upper teens and low 20's has reduced wood consumption. Easy peasy heating. Load of cherry and white ash going currently. Tomorrow night is supposed to stay in the 30's. Cool down with weather expected mid week...

 

[MRD1985]

Oak, beech, ash, and little sugar maple to start the day

 

[ctreitzell]

Woke up to a smattering of snow over the landscape…it stuck around until about 1300 and now it’s heavy drizzle…no sun at all expected today and Jim’s asking for heat

Salon is 14C/57F so burning more beautiful garbage is the smart play

I split a round of Poplar to ensure a cracklin start
1chestnut/ 1 holly
Short fatty of S Elm kindled with hazel/holly/poplar/Wht oak with a touch of cherry…that “bigger” quarter in the center is chestnut as well

 

[stoveliker]

I arrived home from a work trip to CA yesterday around noon.
This morning I started a fire if mostly silver maple, plus two uglies of oak. 34 outside, 68 upstairs.

 

[begreen]

We're back to full stove loads of fir in 10-12 hr burn cycles. I've got it timed so that the most heat is from around 7am to 11am. The stove temp then does a downward temperature glide until 6 or 7pm. This is timing well with the sun gradually taking over the bulk of heating for the second half of the day. After the sun fades and temps drop outside it's time for the evening reload. This keeps the core house temps in the 70-74º range.

 

[all night moe]

Been burning mostly ash. That's after digging it out of snow drifts. The bad part of having your wood in a windy area.
Down to 2 loads per day and 2 at night. Rationing what I have. Still clutching the petrified oak. Only roasted 5 splits the other evening when temps dipped into the single digits.

I've had enough of this winter.
Are we there yet?

 

[Tar13]

Wrapping up a 24 hour Locust burn..the stove will get a break this week as we will be seeing temps knocking on 60 degrees all week..be a good time to get the flue cleaned...and I am ready for a break...lol

 

[stoveliker]

Outside 33 and light snow soon
Upstairs 70.
Reload with some odd pieces of red oak, so quite some space between.

 

[MRD1985]

Oak, ash, beech, sugar maple, usual mix as of late.

 

[MRD1985]

@Turbo89 used almost half of my other picture in that one load

 

[Turbo89]

Those two top right splits are pretty nice! My stove only got a little heat in her this weekend, kiddo and Vday had me running all around. Hopeful to get her gong again soon.

 

[MRD1985]

Those two top right splits are pretty nice! My stove only got a little heat in her this weekend, kiddo and Vday had me running all around. Hopeful to get her gong again soon.

One is ash, one is sugar maple. Just trying to show the volume of wood I can fit in one load, which was about half of that previous photos stack.

 

[stoveliker]

Last night's 9.20 load is done, 18 hrs.
36 outside, 71 upstairs.

Three small splits of silver maple and three small splits of spruce for now.

 

[stoveliker]

29 outside, 70 upstairs.
Reloaded with red oak.

 

[Dieselhead]

Yesterday’s 5:55am load of hardwood was actually still doing pretty good. I think there was another 4 hours of coals to burn down. That would have put the load at 29 hours but I dumped some spruce on top as I’ll be out of town for a good part of the day. Stat was at 2:45 position which is really a sweet spot for long burns in these milder temps.

 

[NickW]

It's been warmer. Overnight loads of cherry and white ash with the occasional birch chunk. Aspen and black ash first thing in the morning on the coals then let it go out and do a cold start small load in the evening to prepare for the overnight load.

Weather advisory for ice, sleet, rain and snow starting this evening through noon tomorrow. I guess the driveway isn't enough of a slushy icy mess... Forecast is that we are returning to more "normal" weather with more snow and colder temperatures coming. The last week has been very nice for February and allowed me to de-ice all the trailers that had been outdoors so they can be moved into the new pole shed this afternoon.

 

[Rebarn]

Just taking the chill off. 50 outside 70 in. Burning coal.

 

[ctreitzell]

55F in the living room was too cold, so lit up the Panadero around 1730

1 chestnut/ 1 Wht oak
Short chunk of Elm
Kindled with hazel/ oak/ poplar

Jim was in front of it in minutes

 

[stoveliker]

Last night's 9.20 pm load is done, 15 minutes shy of 20 hrs.
A split of spruce, a thin piece of a thick pitch pine branch, and two silver maple splits for tonight.
I'll let the stove go cold given the forecast and use the mini split the next few days.
Unless I want an evening fire. We'll see.