What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

[all night moe]

@MRD1985 I too find hickory can burn a bit fast for it's density. BTU rating is lovely.
I do think shag burns a little slower than pignut.

 

[Pinesmoke]

Been across the road since 430. I had tossed a couple of big oak slabs in before we went and am dealing with the coal with some pine. Dropping to 20 so the old staple, oak and beech.

Stay warm y'all.

 

[thewoodlands]

We have an outside temp of minus one at the moment, the basement temp started out at 75 with the temps up here both 69.

The wood stove has seven rounds or splits of ironwood in it for the overnight load.

 

[MRD1985]

Loaded up with hickory and beech tonight. Been feeding the stove cut offs and had 1 load of hickory in between today. Currently 19 feels like 6, with a low of 11 tonight. Starting off at 72 in the house.

 

[MRD1985]

@MRD1985 I too find hickory can burn a bit fast for it's density. BTU rating is lovely.
I do think shag burns a little slower than pignut.

Definitely burns HOT!

Nice blue flame hickory gives off. As always pics don’t do it full justice.

Drafting hard tonight even with a short chimney. Air all the way closed already with blower on max. Might have to put a little less fuel in next time. 😳. Still haven’t hit the 800 mark. Close though. 780. A bit too warm for comfort but not a panic moment. If I see 800 the door carefully is going open.

Edit: hit the 800 mark so opened the door to stop secondary combustion and cool the stove. It did work. I think hickory burns a bit hotter than oak. Very rare when I have burned oak in the past it gets this hot with a similar sized load. All loads of hickory I’ve done have hit very close to this temp with ease, with air closed down all the way.

 

[all night moe]

Definitely burns HOT!

Nice blue flame hickory gives off. As always pics don’t do it full justice.

Drafting hard tonight even with a short chimney. Air all the way closed already with blower on max. Might have to put a little less fuel in next time. 😳. Still haven’t hit the 800 mark. Close though. 780. A bit too warm for comfort but not a panic moment. If I see 800 the door carefully is going open.

Edit: hit the 800 mark so opened the door to stop secondary combustion and cool the stove. It did work. I think hickory burns a bit hotter than oak. Very rare when I have burned oak in the past it gets this hot with a similar sized load. All loads of hickory I’ve done have hit very close to this temp with ease, with air closed down all the way.

Yes, I hoard hickory as do our member here. Hickoryhoarder.
Tis one of the hottest burning.

 

[all night moe]

Awoke at midnight. A reload of mostly red oak on top of a 8'' deep coal bed. Leveled off at 24'wide and 30ish inches front to back. A big sugar split along with two smaller on top. There's some honey locust splits mixed in and one black locust. A bunch of red oak shorts in the foreground. She's burning hot with a gleam in the dragon's eye the feasting frenzy of the night has begun.

 

[Pinesmoke]

Woke up to 18 outside with a deep bed of coals. Raked em around and tossed a pine ugly in. A whole lot of pinging and cracking going on. The girl must be warming up.

Time for coffee.

 

[MRD1985]

Temp was 10 degrees with a feels like of -2 this morning. House dropped to 65-66 by 7 am. Boiler kicked on for my son’s room, so must have dropped to 63 or colder in there. Never kicked on for the big room. Still tons of coals this morning, stove was still 250+ degrees. Have a huge coal bed/ash bed built up, it’s being a small hinderance with loading the stove but not bad. Loaded up with beech, a piece of oak and hickory this morning. Nice blue flame off the beech. House warming up quickly with a STT a bit over 725

 

[MongoMongoson]

Edit: hit the 800 mark so opened the door to stop secondary combustion and cool the stove. It did work.

There have been 2 times since I installed the key damper that the stove still wanted to run away. The solution for me has been to walk over and turn on the range hood exhaust. On high, that is over 600 cfm. That brought the stove back under control immediately and only had to be on for a couple of minutes.

Our kitchen is on the other side of the room from the wood stove.

 

[all night moe]

Morning broke with, -1* with a real feel of -19*

The dragon's slave I become
the work is never done.

She feeds throughout the night
and never puts up a fight.
In the end she treats us right,
with heat throughout the night.

Was up 3 times with intermittent sleep. The dense splits were coals by 3:30 am. Fed the normal diet back in the dragon with a little emphasis on Sugar maple. Back up at 4:30 for another hand full of splits, then at 8 because I can't be late.

 

[thewoodlands]

We had minus two this morning, the basement temp started off at 72 with both temps up here at 66. I didn't hear the furnace kick on but I'm thinking it did.

The first load of the day is maple with ironwood.

 

[Gearhead660]

A balmy 20* this morning. Slept in, so the boiler kicked on, meaning we were down to 67* in the house. Got the insert chewing on limb wood. Myra eating some oak. Shorties and uglies burning in the shop. Off of work for a bit so tending 3 burners isnt too much of a chore. House up to 71* already. Time to go work in the shop!

 

[NickW]

Slept in, house is still 65 and a big pile of coals from the ironwood Firing them up and will do a 3/4 load of mixed hardwood. Temps rose overnight and it's 13 already. Cold snap is over. This one was not as cold and windy as the last so it was much easier to keep up.

 

[stoveliker]

13 F this morning, windy, feels like 6.
Yesterday's load of white oak is gone after 12 hrs. Upstairs was 69 this morning.
A partial load of pine as I may be going to cut down some dead pine this afternoon, so I would then want to reload a full load at around noon to get me to 10 pm. We'll see how it goes.

 

[mpaul]

Keeping the red oak going. Woke up around 4am. It was 7 degrees out with a real feel of minus 2. Loaded her up, dialed her down and went back to bed. Woke back up around 7 to the house in the mid to upper 60s. Just put my second load of red oak in around 10. House up to 72 now. Finally getting there. Today’s high will be 20 with lots of solar gains. Tonight low going down to 3.

 

[MRD1985]

Going to stick to 4-5 hour reloads today to keep house temps up. Reloaded with mostly hickory and some ash.

 

[MRD1985]

13 F this morning, windy, feels like 6.
Yesterday's load of white oak is gone after 12 hrs. Upstairs was 69 this morning.
A partial load of pine as I may be going to cut down some dead pine this afternoon, so I would then want to reload a full load at around noon to get me to 10 pm. We'll see how it goes.

Cold working outside today!

 

[weee123]

Got a full load of red oak on right now that just settled in STT around 700 real feel of 21 outside. Stove room at 75 and upstairs at 68. Didn’t have enough coals to restoke this morning since I slept late so had to restart with a small load to build up a bed of coals for this load

 

[Greenleaf4902]

Coal. Only use coal when it's quite cold , typically at or below freezing. Otherwise I use the wood burner.

 

[mpaul]

Got the house up to 74 then spent the last hour trying to burn the coals down. House dropped to 70 and I switched over to a load of ash to get me through the evening. Will go back to red oak for the overnight. Although not much difference on the btu scale between the two. I might start mixing them to give me some better burn quality.

 

[NickW]

Got the house up to 74 then spent the last hour trying to burn the coals down. House dropped to 70 and I switched over to a load of ash to get me through the evening. Will go back to red oak for the overnight. Although not much difference on the btu scale between the two. I might start mixing them to give me some better burn quality.

I love mixed loads. Ash for a quick start, something else for longer coals.

 

[mpaul]

I love mixed loads. Ash for a quick start, something else for longer coals.

Might have to give that a try tonight for my overnight load.

 

[Wildflush]

Loaded stove around 10 last night and woke up at 2am could not sleep. House was 72, teens outside. Loaded the stove. Went back to bed at 3:15 after house temp rose to 74. Woke up at 7:30 11 outside and house was 70 which surprised me.

Got a load of oak and maple in now cruising at 675.

Wife making @thewoodlands soup recipe now 😊

 

[thewoodlands]

Loaded stove around 10 last night and woke up at 2am could not sleep. House was 72, teens outside. Loaded the stove. Went back to bed at 3:15 after house temp rose to 74. Woke up at 7:30 11 outside and house was 70 which surprised me.

Got a load of oak and maple in now cruising at 675.

Wife making @thewoodlands soup recipe now 😊

I can't take credit for it, I saw it on a cooking show on TV. We really liked it so much we've made it twice............or the wife just likes watching me cook!