What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

[stoveliker]

29 outside, feels like 20, going down to 20. 71 upstairs.

A properly tetrised load of red oak and two triangular white oak splits. Two short slabs on the bottom behind the coals.

 

[stoveliker]

It's burning hot tonight...

 

[MRD1985]

Been a busy day…
Loaded up this morning before opening gifts with oak and ash. Then did a hot reload about 5 hours later with some huge knotty ash chunks before we went to my brother in laws. Got home around 5ish and then did another hot reload with some more big ash chunks/odd shaped pieces. Then spent a few hours burning down coals. Loaded all oak tonight, cold and windy, currently 20 feels like -2 with 11 for a low. First pic is this morning, last is tonight. Stuffed tonight! Draft is very strong tonight. Heated up quick with a STT of 760 and climbing 🔥.

 

[thewoodlands]

It's 3 outside tonight with the basement starting off at 75, the living room is 69 and the sleeper is 68.

The bottom row in the wood stove is 4 splits of beech, the top row has 2 splits of ash and 2 of yellow birch.

 

[ctreitzell]

RealFeel is -9C/15F outside
Inside, most rooms at around 11C/ 51F

1Kw/2Kw elec rads help, but they can barely keep up. Most of my rooms are around 500sqft and 2 elec rads on 1Kw either side of the room works well enough…that’s how the office is heated

We have clear blue skies and solar is certainly a boon.

First order of business was to light the Délice. I was surprised to find it still warm. Cleaned it out and there were still orange coals I started burning some 3 yr white oak and the coaling lasts.

1 chestnut/ 1 white oak
Siberian elm/ Wht oak on top
Kindled with apple, Poplar, hazel

Lit right up after my customary 6 min flue pre-heat with the GHD hair dryer.

 

[MRD1985]

paired with the very strong draft and some nice oak, STT on last nights load creasted 800, peaking around 825STT. I think that may have been the hottest this stove has gotten. I cracked the doors couple times to bring it back down to 800 but still crept up a bit to around 815, but it was still short lived at that temperature. Probably only 20 minutes tops. Then settled around 790 and held there for a while. Rest of the stove along the front was 600 degrees, but over along the top was 790-825 at peak temperature. Hot! Never saw any glowing anywhere and no “hot stove” smell. The top plate is 5/16” steel so it’s pretty thick. Although hot, I welcomed those temps with last nights cold. House needed it even though I heat soaked the house all day yesterday. Was 13 feels like-2 at 7 this morning.

This morning was mostly oak with a little ash. Around 750 STT. Going to be very cold next few days with some snow moving in tonight. At work today so after the stove cools (unless my wife gets ambitious) the boiler will take over. Won’t be a bad thing I need to clean out some coals and ash. That has been limiting my loads the last day or so.

 

[stoveliker]

21 outside, feels like 10. Windy. Going to snow later today.
69 upstairs.

12.5 hr, a bit short but I could have gone an hour more. But I have to leave. Nice clean window too 😄

Some E/W splits on the bottom , some shorties N/S on top.
The. E/W ones were more brown and heavy than my red oak, and darker than the white oak I have.
Not sure what they are.
It'll burn.