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.