What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

[fvhowler]

Stove will get a good cleaning tomorrow. Warm spell in central NC...will be in the 70s this week. I don't think winter is done yet, however.

 

[Dieselhead]

Low around 30 overnight so the choice for the cats meal was spruce. This is the 4th season on this MWH ceramic cat and she’s still lighting off nice. With the amount of hours I burn in a season it’s 9 lives should be up but as you can see that’s not always the case. I did buy one back in the fall but it can continue to sit as far as I’m concerned!

 

[ctreitzell]

Not too cold here, just wet with no sun and continuous yellow and orange flood warnings. Feels like 3C/ 37F outside and high 50s F inside it’s silly not to exchange some junk wood for heat

Groundhog cold start
1 chestnut/ 1 Wht oak
Fat short of elm
Kindled with hazel, holly, Wht oak, poplar

 

[ctreitzell]

RealFeel at -1C/ 31F, my mercury sez 5C out front; 60F inside is just over the limit with no sun all day and hardly any all week

Cats are too cold

Time for a groundhog cold start

Chestnut/Holly/S. Elm as the main chunks kindled with hazel/ holly/ Wht oak/ Poplar

 

[Dieselhead]

Spruce tonight, low of 31.

 

[NickW]

27 degrees, calm and snowing. Forecast was for 1-3", but there's 3-4" already and still coming down. 68 inside with a load of aspen and black ash ramping up. Snow needs to get done soon so I can clean it up and go work at a First Friday Fish Fry this afternoon...

 

[thewoodlands]

Last night I burned some soft maple, beech and ironwood. The outside temp this morning was 31 with temp up here at 68, the basement was 72.

 

[ctreitzell]

Again, it isn’t cold here, yet cool enough to need some heat and inside and burning junk is the best VFM I know of (if my system would allow me to burn slower, that would be an improvement).

So, groundhog cold start
1 Chestnut/ 1 Wht oak
Short chunk of S. Elm
Kindled with hazel, holly, beech, Wht oak, Poplar (a chunk of pith Poplar in the center)

 

[Dieselhead]

A tad bit late posting but here’s this mornings load of red oak and sugar maple. I set it low so it should last through until tomorrow with our continuing mild (30s) for temperatures.

 

[vatmark]

What was in my stove? A dead Bluebird and lots of bird poop. We were away for the week. Thought we had that problem taken care of with Bluebird houses. Past 2 years no birds. It seems early for them as we always got them in March and April. Put the dead bird out by my wood stacks for the fox, opossum or raccoons that come by there. Will make them a nice snack.

 

[ctreitzell]

RealFeel outside is 46F/ 8C
15C/59F in the living room is just over the line

It’s coastal sideways heavy drizzle outside

Groundhog cold start was in order

1chestnut/ 1 Wht oak/ S Elm chunk
Kindled with hazel/ poplar/ holly/ oak/
Junk makes heat

 

[Dieselhead]

here’s a pic of yesterdays 3pm load of oak and hard maple. I took it around 1130 this am so that load went well. One thing that always amazed me with this stove is how wood can be so slowly consumed. This piece was in the stove for around 32 hours but still has some identifiable characteristics from when I had initially placed it in. Low ‘n slow..

 

[MRD1985]

Been off for 4 days in NH. Whole house battling sickness . My white flag is up.

Just in time for a classic big New England blizzard coming in tomorrow night to drop 18/24”of snow with 40-50 mph winds. And I have to work a 48 hr shift Monday am to wed am 🙄. Fun times ahead. I’ll have to bring it some wood tomorrow and move some existing snow away from the house before we get dumped on again.

I’ll be shoveling snow off of the roof and snow blowing my yard for at least a couple of days I’ll bet. I also have to snow blow the entire right half of my front yard to get my camper out for an appointment on March 1. Epic timing for this storm . 🤦🏻‍♂️🏳️

Burning 75% open to warm things op. Oak, ash, sugar maple, beech.

 

[NickW]

Daytime loads of aspen & black ash and overnight loads of cherry, birch and white ash; lather rinse repeat. Below 0 temperatures forecast again overnight Wednesday and next weekend. Temperatures have been seasonal lately with highs in the 20's or 30's and lows in the teens or 20's.

 

[stoveliker]

Started the stove this evening with a split of spruce, one silver maple, and a stick of oak.

Now a reload with two spruce slabs on the floor, red oak on top (and a stick of silver maple top left).

36 outside now, going down to 34, but some snow may start falling overnight and the minisplit gets many defrost cycles when it's below 35 and especially when it's sucking in snow or mist. So starting the stove now to have heat tomorrow morning.

 

[MRD1985]

Oak, ash and beech. Going to be toasty in here in the morning.

 

[Dieselhead]

I placed a load of spruce in last night around 830. Still have a couple hours of heat left from that load, house is 72. I’m gonna get out there and stock the hardwood rack and spruce tote at 9am. I only have a couple days of wood left currently and don’t really feel like dealing with the extra work of shoveling out the piles after the blizzard comes through. Should be an interesting next 48 hours for SNE, stay safe and warm!

 

[MRD1985]

Oak and a little beech this morning

 

[Turbo89]

Got the shop back up and running, came out this morning to a 29 deg shop, warming up with some hemlock and maple. Currently 44 in here.

 

[Turbo89]

Afternoon reload:

Shops warmed up to 63, so stove is sitting on about 1/4 air. STT 530, CAT 1230.

 

[ctreitzell]

Today’s groundhog cold start

 

[fvhowler]

Winter makes a comeback in NC. Lows in the 20s tonight while red oak keeps us warm.

 

[Turbo89]

Overnight reload is a mix of oak, hickory and maple.

31 outside, 68 inside, STT 370, and CAT just passed 840, this storm is causing it creep slowly.

A bit breezy outside and lightly snowing, I guess we’ll see what this blizzard has to offer overnight /tomorrow. I’ll keep the shop burning so all my tools, generator and snowblower are ready.

 

[stoveliker]

Last night's load was not done at 1.15 but I had to drive my son to baseball practice so I added 3 small uglies of oak.
After two times one split of silver maple at 7 and 9 pm,.now a reload of red oak.

5-6" on the ground. Wet sticky stuff
30 outside, 70 upstairs.

 

[MRD1985]

Mixed bag…ash, oak, hickory, mulberry, beech.