What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

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i loaded up with some elm, maple, and a few little pine branches... but the next load will be good... maple, locust and elm, with a sprig of spruce for good measure :)
 
Full belly of Black Locust...
 
Black birch and beech. 13 degrees at the moment.
 
Silver fir and beech. -2C and snowing right now.
 
Pine right now and pine and oak mix tonight.
 
Snow storm! Went with a mix of maple and oak for some coals.
 
Been burning cedar for the last couple of weeks but it's goin' to -7C tonight but lucky me, I found some nice 3 year old maple 6-8'' splits in the middle of the pile - hoping to 14- 16 hours out of it tomorrow...
 
We've had rain/ sleet in the last day with 31* for a high, so I'm using some 2-year-old honey locust that was standing dead back then. It don't get much better than that.... for me
 
After snow a couple days ago, I shut her down today. Got a spike of a warm day into the 70s., supposed to drop back down the next few days. We shall see. On a side note, I got a local tree company to drop me a load of logs today. I came home to find it dumped. I'm pumped to get working on it.
 

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Stove belly is full of basswood. Yes, you heard that right - basswood. Loaded it full at 7:00 this morning and I expect to be reloading at about 11:00. I don't let much of anything go to waste around here. Maybe I should take up whittling...
 
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Cherry and Maple. Just when winter looks like it’s gonna quit, she strikes back. Maybe another snow storm this week? Loaded another cord into the basement today to be safe
 
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I very, very, carefully loaded the stove with cedar....
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Day time temps have been in the 30s-40s with the nights in the 20’s so I’ve been mixing my loads with oak and sassafras. I have to say I like the sassafras. It puts on a great flame show with awesome secondaries and I’m still getting 12-14 hour burns with the big splits of oak in there as well.
 
Day time temps have been in the 30s-40s with the nights in the 20’s so I’ve been mixing my loads with oak and sassafras. I have to say I like the sassafras. It puts on a great flame show with awesome secondaries and I’m still getting 12-14 hour burns with the big splits of oak in there as well.
I like sassafras too. Cuts easy, dries fast, smells great. It's good stuff!
 
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I have been burning sugar maple seasoned two years. I use pine to get the fire going. Waiting on a bunch of cherry to season. Will be ready to burn by august of 2018. Can't wait as I have never burned cherry before.:)
 
Can’t believe I’m saying this on this 18 degree April 8 but a full load of 3 year old cedar. Not bad for this extended shoulder season we’ve been having.
 
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I cut a small standing dead black cherry about a month ago, not for the wood, but just because it needed to come down. It had no bark on it with about an inch of punk all the way around. I didn’t want to touch next years wood so I threw the black cherry rounds into the stove. I did a fresh split test, the center came to 18%. Still better than burning oil!
 
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A few sticks of elm, its warming back up after that crappy weather over the weekend. Mid 30's tonite, mid 60's tomorrow.