What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

[MRD1985]

Mid 20s tonight so back at it. Cherry and ash.

 

[MRD1985]

some more cherry and ash to start the day. Probably another fire tonight we’ll see

 

[stoveliker]

I had one more fire last night. Started with a split of spruce, one of pine, and one of silver maple. Reloaded at 10 pm with red oak.
Ran it full open throttle to crisp up any creosote in the firebox so I can brush it out later (well, that's with the dial around 5 pm when 6 pm is full open, given that I think I am otherwise overdrafting). This morning at 9 it was getting ready to drop out of the active zone of the cat. 45 and sunny today, so minisplit weather.

That's 10.5 hrs (almost) wide open. Upstairs was 77 ... Glad I kept my bedroom door closed so it was nice and cool there.

 

[shortys7777]

Birch. Running low, but I should make it to the end of the season.

 

[MRD1985]

Ash, a big chunk of oak, and some oak cut offs to fill gaps for tonight

 

[Ryan_C]

Mainly beech, a little plum for easy start, and some oak to keep it going longer.

 

[Crab]

Wednesday was my last burn of the year. I would have burned yesterday(30 f low temp) but wasn't home. The F45 did well to keep us warm and lower the oil/electric bills.

 

[MRD1985]

Looks like last fire of the season will be tomorrow night. Then that’s a wrap. Stove cold tonight,

 

[NickW]

30 degrees with a load of mostly birch and one white ash. Will probably be burning off and on for a while yet with overnight lows in the upper 20's and low 30's still coming for the next month or so. Sometimes I just have an aspen and black ash fire in the morning to take the chill out when the overnight stays in the 40's.

 

[Turbo89]

I was burning hemlock and poplar, with a mix of maple off cuts all day. Nice thing about the cat stove is I warmed the shop up in the am, let it smolder all afternoon and tossed a bit more on when it dropped into the 40s again. Beautiful afternoon though, I had the shop door open for a bit.

 

[MRD1985]

Last fire of the 25-26 heating season. Ash and a little cherry.

 

[Jsjac1]

Lit a fire last night. Reloaded the stove this morning because it is 29°f.
I put a couple of maple, hickory and oak pieces in the stove.
Could be the last fire for a little while. Temps are supposed to stay in the 50s at night for the next few days.

 

[NickW]

No fire in about a week. Currently 76 but dropping to upper 20's by morning. Sunday night to Monday morning is expected to be in the teens... A little snow expected tomorrow, but not much accumulation. So..., fire in the morning and probably through Monday morning at least.

 

[NickW]

29 degrees, cloudy and windy. Firing up the charcoal with some kindling then will be a load of aspen and black ash. High of 39 forecast today. Will probably reload this afternoon with the same and have a hardwood load overnight.

 

[Dieselhead]

29 degrees, cloudy and windy. Firing up the charcoal with some kindling then will be a load of aspen and black ash. High of 39 forecast today. Will probably reload this afternoon with the same and have a hardwood load overnight.

It sounds like we will have your weather Monday into Tuesday this week. May have to run up a load or 2 of spruce for the king to munch on.

 

[Stelcom66]

It sounds like we will have your weather Monday into Tuesday this week. May have to run up a load or 2 of spruce for the king to munch on.

Yes, and it's kind of unusual to still be using the stove after mowing the lawn for the first time this year, which I did Thursday. I guess the wood stove season isn't quite over yet in Conn.

 

[NickW]

Full hardwood load is in. Mostly birch with a couple of red maple and one white ash.

 

[Dieselhead]

2/3 load of hardwoods load in, maple, white oak and hickory. I haven’t loaded the porch rack in weeks so I’ve been wheelbarrowing loads over as needed. After loading I filled the wood cart again. It’s 40s, cloudy, windy and damp today. Cool again tonight, tomorrow and tomorrow night low 30s.

 

[NickW]

Mid 20's this morning so loaded up with aspen and black ash. High of 36 forecast, but the sun is out and just put a turkey in the nesco so probably a cold start tonight.

Down to high teens to 20 tonight, then starting to warm up. Supposedly in the 70's W & Th, then cooler again with overnights in the lower 30's. This burning season is lingering, but it's fairly typical here. I used to burn overnight into May in SE WI, so here in the Northwoods I should expect the same except we have a real furnace here and not the electric baseboards. I've kinda made the policy of no fire unless it's in the 30's before bedtime.

 

[Turbo89]

From earlier, it was in the 40s so burning some more hemlock, poplar and 1 piece of very dry maple.

 

[MRD1985]

If I was home I would probably be lighting the stove. Heat pump is on, we’re out camping for the week. Cold and damp. Low of 30 here in northwest RI tonight and tomorrow. Slight warm up after that, but not much. Furnace is on in the camper tonight! Have an electric fire in it but chose to burn some propane tonight.

 

[NickW]

29 degrees with a load of mostly birch, a couple red maple and one white ash.

 

[Jsjac1]

Below freezing again.
Have a load of hickory and maple in the stove tonight.
I thought we were done for the season but I guess not.

 

[Stelcom66]

Same here, but in the 30s now, will be below freezing tonight. The stove has been going the last 2 nights. Have a small firewood holder for weird shaped pieces during the winter. That's now holding a small supply of 'normal' wood since I put the main firewood holder away.
That replaced with a pedestal fan last week, because it was like 88º !

 

[Dieselhead]

It was 26 when I got up for work this morning. I loaded last night but was exhausted so didn’t end up posting. Cat will be pulled for replacement even though it’s lighting off well, this is the end of season 4. It drops out in the lower end where a new one would not.