What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

[Dieselhead]

Nice load of red oak in and charring. Lit off nicely from the spruce load I posted about this am. I think we will be in the low 20s most of the night with the wind diminishing. House at 70.
Night, ya’ll.

 

[stoveliker]

29 outside, and windy. A low of 26 is forecast.
Upstairs is 69. The pine and oak ugly were not done as much as I would have liked, but I'm tired from wind and chainsaw noise today. So hacked down the coals , spread them out, and reloaded with red oak shorties now. Hope to sleep in a bit tomorrow.

 

[Todd]

30 lbs of Oak for the evening load. Currently 1 outside and 71 inside. It will be well below zero tonight.

 

[30WCF]

Trying Holly out to burn down coals for the evening. I cut several big holly trees down several years back. Feels like balsa wood it’s so light and dry.

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Well, that didn’t work. The coal bed is 8” and growing. Just tossed in a load of pine. If that doesn’t work I’ll be going at it with a shovel.

 

[thewoodlands]

It's 14.7 out tonight, the basement temp started out at 79 with the temps up here 69 & 70. The overnight load is all beech (seven splits) except for two more smaller pieces of ash limb wood.

 

[Wood1Dennis]

Its a cold night in Wisconsin, single digits tonight so I have a big piece of yellow birch and some maple to hold the fire overnight!

 

[NickW]

Got home from a family gathering to a big pile of coals and a cold house getting close to kicking some heaters on. Firing them up and going to load up with ash, beech and ironwood.

 

[BCB]

-25C here, mostly yellow birch in the stove keeping us toasty.

 

[ctreitzell]

I'm tired from wind and chainsaw noise today.

I don't fire up a chainsaw without one of these on; especially the ear defenders

 

[Todd]

-8 outside 68 inside. Another load of Oak going in the stove. Looks like the temps are going to rise a bit next week.

 

[Wildflush]

25 outside. Loaded with oak and more oak. Cruising at a hot 725 STT to heat the house up. 69 inside now and climbing.

 

[weee123]

Fresh load of red oak to bring the temp up off the furnace setting. Stove went out last night as I was at my buddys for a bonfire. Cleaned out the ash this morning which needed to be done badly.

 

[Dieselhead]

30 lbs of Oak for the evening load. Currently 1 outside and 71 inside. It will be well below zero tonight.

That awesome blue flame should do the trick!

 

[Dieselhead]

House at 68 down from 70 at bedtime, perfect sleeping temps overnight. I have about 1/2 the load of oak left I put in last night. I turned the stat to medium from the medium/low rate I had it on. I’ll keep that rate until tonight or until the load dies out and I’ll throw in some spruce to hold over until the night time load. ☕️’s on.

 

[thewoodlands]

We had a low of 10.4, the basement temp started out at 73 this morning with both temps up here at 66. The first load of the day on some nice beech coals is all soft maple, when the basement temp hit 79, I came upstairs.

 

[all night moe]

The drafts have crept in the house. The Dragon's belly is full, and raging in the lair. Indoor temps are in the mid 60s. Haven't looked at outdoor temps but it's bitter. Last nights overnight was chucked full on top of a massive coal bed. Ash, sugar, bunch of petrified red oak,
and 2 black locust splits.
A repeat load this morning, minus the premiums. Add cherry and apple. Air intake 1/3 open. Going to open her up more so she can breath fire. There's a chill in the house the dragon can't chase away.

 

[NickW]

Full load of ash. Heaters were kicking on again. Should have gotten up when I first woke up and loaded instead of going back to sleep...

 

[Dieselhead]

Full load of ash. Heaters were kicking on again. Should have gotten up when I first woke up and loaded instead of going back to sleep...

Sometimes it’s worth the minimal cost! Hopefully this doesn’t get me banned 😁

 

[Gearhead660]

In the middle of a cold snap. Have had the insert and Myra both burning since Wednesday. Steady diet of oak. Got miscellaneous hardwood uglies burning in the shop.

Prefer to watch the wood stoves. This thing is not much to look at...

 

[MRD1985]

Put the boiler to work last night rather than the mini splits while I was at work. 4 therms used in 12 hours, about 7$ in natural gas. Turned the heat down to 63 and lit the stove about 1030. About 64-65 in the house currently and cold with wind today. Wind chills in mid to low teens today. Oak, ash and maple with pine kindling for cold start.

 

[all night moe]

Prefer to watch the wood stoves. This thing is not much to look at...

I here ya. The dragon isn't much to look at either. Especially with a big air plenum surrounding most of it.
Will be running Moe next season......again, although I love that stove, not much to look at without glass.

 

[Duncan]

The news reports over here are saying that the US is, or is about to be, hit by a once in a decade storm. .. “threatens millions with snow, ice and brutal cold” is the phrase used.

Take care and stay safe everybody.

(Sorry if this should be posted elsewhere. Move or delete if necessary)

 

[Dieselhead]

The news reports over here are saying that the US is, or is about to be, hit by a once in a decade storm. .. “threatens millions with snow, ice and brutal cold” is the phrase used.

Take care and stay safe everybody.

(Sorry if this should be posted elsewhere. Move or delete if necessary)

That’s a lot of hype. Nothing we haven’t seen before.

 

[all night moe]

Winter as usual here.
Carry on.

 

[Duncan]

Like the way you just get on with things. We’d be having a national breakdown if it happened here. 😂

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1mr4pn811xt