What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

[stoveliker]

I had a some running around the needed to get done so after that was done I started a fire around 10:15, out in the real world it's 42 but back here we were just over 36.

In this particular part of the real world it is an unreal 57 F today. No reloading here. So I at least partially keep my word...

 

[Caw]

62 outside right now. It was 30 when I woke up so I threw 2 maple splits on the coals to take the edge off but I don't think we'll be burning until tomorrow. Overnight temps are gonna be 40+ so we'll be good. Heat pump can work if need be.

62 in December in New England. W T F.

 

[thewoodlands]

In this particular part of the real world it is an unreal 57 F today. No reloading here. So I at least partially keep my word...

We hit our high of the day so far, 40.1 with NOAA calling for a low of 23 tonight,18 for a low on Friday and 14 for a low on Saturday. Sunday NOAA has a forecast low of 31 with a high of 40.

We'll see how much snow we have left after the rains come on Sunday night and Monday.

 

[Grizzerbear]

Its 75 here now.....a new record. Only going down to 50 tonight then 73 tomorrow with a late evening cold front coming in to bring us down to 43 for a low tomorrow night. No burning here until tomorrow night or Saturday morning.....I ain't lying this time folks.

 

[EbS-P]

We maxed out at 72 today forecast is for 75 tomorrow. looking like I will not be burning for at least a week.

 

[Gearhead660]

Just ashes today. Let it burn out last night. Will clean out stove and light it back up tonight. Been a mild week, even rode bike to work a couple times.

 

[JamesGuido]

The usual oak I always burn… but I brought home some palm bark I picked up from the beach the other day from Sanibel Island… used it as kindling…

 

[Vg3200p]

Oak maple ash and pallets. My wood pile is all mixed together so I never know what I'm gonna get.

 

[thewoodlands]

The temp is at 32 tonight with a forecast low of 22, the wood stove has a load of cherry and red maple going tonight.

 

[MMH]

Another 12 days off so I’m back to rescue the stove from the wife and propane. Tonight’s lows headed for upper 20s, started this evening around 5 with some odd juniper ends, then stuffed dorothy full of pine for the over night fire.

 

[Caw]

Was 65 degrees outside yesterday and the house got to 70 from the sun so overnight I decided to leave the stove cold. Woke up to a 62 degree house so she's loaded up with red maple getting up to temp.

 

[BrownT10]

I ran the sooteater up the chimney and cleaned most stuff off to where I could see the orange or the clay liner. Cleaned out stove and cleaned glass and lit a fire this evening. Will run it all weekend, but supposed to have 60° on Monday. Will put a load of oak in overnight.

 

[stoveliker]

Started the stove again. Used the last 2*4 cut offs I had from my shed roof built to get it nice and hot quick before the night reload.

 

[rottiman]

Got up to a high of 23 here today currently sitting @ 19 with a predicted low of 9 overnight. Ole' Black Betty rollin' on with a diet of Red Oak, Maple and Beechwood. A pleasant 73 here in the nest. 1st major snow incident scheduled for sunday/monday with up to 10" predicted with 40 mph winds predicted from the NW. Monday it is supposed to be a one day heat wave with temps reaching 45 and rain before it really snaps down cold starting tuesday. A really stupid winter so far.

 

[thewoodlands]

We have 16.2 tonight with NOAA calling for a low of 11, we'll burn the pellet stove tonight and take some ashes out of the wood stove tomorrow morning and start burning firewood again.

 

[fvhowler]

Stove is cold now. The 70s have returned and may not burn until next Wednesday. I'm okay with a little break before winter really sets in.

 

[Grizzerbear]

Stove is cold here as well. Hit 73 today as me and my father hit the lake and did a little crappie fishing. A cold(er) front is moving through late tonight that will have the stove fired back up tomorrow evening.

 

[MMH]

Low headed for low-mid 20s, more pine for dorothy; also a weird December here haven’t started burning 24/7 yet with highs hitting 50s still, had 60 the other day.

 

[stoveliker]

39 now, 34 low, 45 tomorrow. Pine and sassafras carrying the load.

 

[stoveliker]

Interesting observation: after that stack of 2*4 cut offs (11 about a ft long) burning nice and hot, I noticed quite a few big dark gray clinkers in my ashes when I reloaded.

Suggests that existing ashes (a significant part from sassafras) can be re- configured (for lack of a better term) into clinkers when a subsequent fire is hot enough. I.e. clinkers don't only form in fresh ashes. Makes sense, but I had not thought of that myself yet.

 

[sweedish]

Cherry and pine uglies. I’m around today to do more frequent reloads, so I’ll burn those and some punky stuff also.

 

[Caw]

25 out this morning, cherry and maple doing work.

 

[WiscWoody]

And just like that . . . good bye fall and hello winter temps.

Switching over to the better wood (i.e. my woodshed splits and rounds) vs. the punks, chunks, uglies and softwood I have been burning up to this point.

Yes the low Monday evening is supposed to be -7 so I can hopefully burn up a lot of the scraps I have around.

 

[MMH]

Was 20 when I got up this morning, threw a couple more splits in until the sun starts putting in the work.

 

[thewoodlands]

Good ole @rottiman sent us his cold weather, we had 8.4 this morning with another load of the maples and yellow birch heating the house. Our temp is at 32.6 this afternoon.