What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

[Burnin Since 1991]

It feels like July outside! 34 at my place. Cruising at 75 inside. Toasty! Loaded with ash, maple and oak. Looks like the return of normal December weather for now.

 

[weee123]

Few pieces of aspen to burn up real quick. Seems like there’s some strays of it left

 

[MRD1985]

Afternoon reload I never got to post. Some oak, ash and cherry. I’ll be loading the overnight in 2-3 hours . Probably the last 3 load day for a while a few days at least. Small warm up coming.

 

[thewoodlands]

Last night I didn't have an overnight fire, I set the furnace on 62. Our first fire today was started around 2:30 this afternoon, the overnight fire tonight will be all ash.

 

[MEngineer24]

Loaded up for the night with red oak and cherry. Warmer tonight than last at 34F.

 

[stoveliker]

The oak shorties are done. 26 out, 71 upstairs.
A reload of one twisted split of red oak, and the rest maple. A bit short but so be it. I have to get some ashes out tomorrow. It'll be 40 and we'll all be out, so I'll let the stove go cold.
So a 3/4 load maple it is. Likely one of the lesser versions from how it behaves in the stove.

 

[MRD1985]

Overnight load tonight is heavy on the is with a split of ash and cherry each.

 

[all night moe]

Is anyone else getting tired of all the random slivers you find in your fingers and hands during burning season...?

Only one so far this season ,,,...although my season started much later than normal. It was just a couple days ago. A tiny little sucker only visible by magnifying glass. Hold the glass steady, with same hand, while it's propped against something for support, and fine point tweezers in the non dominate hand. Always "microscopic" and always red oak.

 

[all night moe]

The oak shorties are done. 26 out, 71 upstairs.
A reload of one twisted split of red oak, and the rest maple. A bit short but so be it. I have to get some ashes out tomorrow. It'll be 40 and we'll all be out, so I'll let the stove go cold.
So a 3/4 load maple it is. Likely one of the lesser versions from how it behaves in the stove.

I recall last year you were tiring of maple. Burning up old stock or still processing?

It has it's benefits. Dries quick and that sugar maple is on the impressive side for BTUs.

 

[Dieselhead]

Only one so far this season ,,,...although my season started much later than normal. It was just a couple days ago. A tiny little sucker only visible by magnifying glass. Hold the glass steady, with same hand, while it's propped against something for support, and fine point tweezers in the non dominate hand. Always "microscopic" and always red oak.

When I sided my house and garage with rough sawn cedar clapboard those were good times 🤣 lots of splinters usually on the back side of my hands and fingers though. So far so good this year with splinters from firewood at least. Metal slivers are always fun too.

 

[NickW]

Just coals from last nights load yet. Still 70 degrees inside. Mid 20's for a high today. Will load up later at some point based on how the solar gains do.

 

[all night moe]

Been burning shorts of all kinds, mixed with mostly ash splits, some cherry, maples, and a tad of small R oak splits of dead limbs.
Been the dragons diet of the last 2 days.

 

[Dieselhead]

Just coals from last nights load yet. Still 70 degrees inside. Mid 20's for a high today. Will load up later at some point based on how the solar gains do.

Pretty much where we are at, house at 70 and coaling last nights load. Mostly cloudy with a warm up today looks to be around 43 for a high. Back into the 20s tonight. May throw a few spruce on in a little while to keep the stove warm.

 

[MRD1985]

Never got around to posting this morning…
Might be loading the stove again in an hour or so still cool out in 30s and been working outside all day. 70 in main rooms 68 in bedrooms

 

[ctreitzell]

Still not cold here…currently 12C/43F outside. Partly cloudy this mornin and partly ally afternoon nights charged the solar Xmas lights a little today, but the stone barn conversion is 15C /60F inside and wood is free for me

Typical cold start tonight
1 Chestnut/ 2 white oak
Hazel, Siberian elm lit with Poplar and holly

Oh and yesterday I found and purchased an angled fireplace shovel to rake coals from back of the firebox as I do that nightly to make sure everything burns completely after I hit the sack

 

[stoveliker]

I recall last year you were tiring of maple. Burning up old stock or still processing?

It has it's benefits. Dries quick and that sugar maple is on the impressive side for BTUs.

This is 4 or 5 years old.
If there's a stick of maple in a log load I get, I'll add it in (always useful to have some easy going wood to burn down coals), but if it's more than 15% I'll give the rest to my neighbors (for who I get wood, cut it and split it - retired folks).

 

[MRD1985]

Afternoon reload. Probably going to only have enough wood for tonight and maybe one more load or 2 that then I have to refill the rack. But I work tomorrow, and supposed to rain on Friday, so hopefully it’ll stop by the afternoon so I can refill the racks. Luckily supposed to be 46 tomorrow with a low of 42 and a high of 57 Friday! But down to 23 at night. So I’ll probably skip fires tomorrow and won’t build another until the evening on Friday to conserve what wood I have in the house. If weather doesn’t cooperate Friday I’ll get up early Saturday and do it. Wanted to get it done today, but had too many side jobs today.

This one is oak, a little maple and a little cherry

 

[stoveliker]

Took out about 3 gallons of ashes.
Put 2 maple uglies and a red oak ugly in and a handful of splitter trash on the handful of coals and it took off.
Will do an overnight load only because it's 42 outside going down to 29. But tomorrow will get to 48 and tomorrow night it'll only go down to 45.

Friday afternoon or night I'll restart again.

 

[Burnin Since 1991]

I only ran a small fire last night and I cleaned out my stove this morning. Not too bad but my ash bucket is almost full!

Loaded up at 10am and 40 degrees out with the feels like at 25. Still running that load down and it's 70 inside and 39 outside. Still feels cold with the wind blowing. Weather to be reasonably fair for next few days.

 

[NickW]

4:30ish and first load of the day is in re-establishing the coal bed. Small load of cherry, black ash and 1 small chunk of oak lumber. Don't want too much heat just yet, but need the stove warmed up and a coal bed.

 

[weee123]

Big burly hunk of black cherry and some white oak splits to go through the night. Warming up tomorrow into friday to make a big sloppy mess of rain and slush.

 

[Dieselhead]

I dropped in 8 spruce pieces for tonight, mild daytime temps coming up. Should still be chilly in the evenings.

 

[stoveliker]

Maple.

 

[NickW]

Cherry and both white & black ash.

 

[MRD1985]

Ash, oak and a little cherry tonight