What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

[jwatkinson2]

-25 this morning. Got the Princess loaded with black spruce.

 

[heavy hammer]

We will probably be using the furnace here and there as well for the next week. The girls bedrooms are on the far side of the house over the garage. When it gets this cold it get difficult to keep them warm so the furnace helps out here and there. Gonna be a week of burning a lot of locust.

 

[moosetrek]

Warm days here but down into the 20s (nothing for some of you!); oak and some ponderosa with no overnight fire. Hope you all are staying warm too.

 

[thewoodlands]

It's 23.7 tonight with a load of sugar maple, red maple and some cherry in the Liberty.

 

[Grizzerbear]

Its 31 out with 26 for a low and a more post oak in the 74. The deep freeze is coming lol.

 

[Caw]

Warm night here with a low of 27. Tossed some cherry and ash into the 1600. Also brought some of the good maple and red oak into the basement in prep for the upcoming cold this week. Secondaries rolling, time for bed.

 

[NickW]

Big ol chunks of beech and ash tonight. Another nice tetris. Baseboards will probably be kicking in overnight starting tomorrow night and for the next week overnight...

 

[JimBear]

9* this morning, more Osage in today. It sounds as though this may be the high temp for the next 7 days. The guessers are calling for 3”-8” snow over the next 3 days.

 

[sweedish]

Lows in the single digits/0 this week. Currently about 12. Better than some, I read that the lakes are keeping Michigan 20 degrees warmer than Wisconsin/Minnesota.
High graded the wood stack for Cherry and better.

 

[thewoodlands]

We had a low of 18.4 this morning with more sugar maple and some limb wood going in the wood stove. I just through on some junky limb wood to help burn down some coals.

 

[baseroom]

Sitting under some cold Lake effect snow now. 6” of fluff on top of the snowpack. Headed for at least a week in the singles and teens. Got into a vein of Bradford Pear ! Mixing it with the maple and locust!

 

[Grizzerbear]

Its 32 with some light snow and a small load of post and hickory going in the stove to carry us till the overnight. We woke up to 26 this morning and as I was doing water samples in town it got to 38 but the first phase of the cold fronts has pushed through and the temps are falling.

 

[Caw]

Nothing for me right now. Reloaded at 6:45 am with a load of ash/ cherry and I've let it go out. It's 45/sunny outside and 70 inside so the sun is keeping the temp steady.

I'll likely make a tiny starter fire around 7 pm so i can reload on coals for overnight. I hate starting an overnight fire in a cold stove... you waste too much energy heating up the box.

 

[JimBear]

Got home @ 5:15 this afternoon after reloading @ 5:30 this morning. We had a high temp of 15* & 4” of snow today, the stove room was still 78* & I still have plenty of coals for a restart at about 6:30 or so this evening. The Century & the Osage that is seasoned 35-40 years is doing quite well keeping the old shack warm.

 

[Caw]

Got home @ 5:15 this afternoon after reloading @ 5:30 this morning. We had a high temp of 15* & 4” of snow today, the stove room was still 78* & I still have plenty of coals for a restart at about 6:30 or so this evening. The Century & the Osage that is seasoned 35-40 years is doing quite well keeping the old shack warm.

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35 years of seasoning??? Holy mackerel. How did you manage that? I feel good about myself having 3 years worth of wood on property lol.

 

[JimBear]

35 years of seasoning??? Holy mackerel. How did you manage that? I feel good about myself having 3 years worth of wood on property lol.

Lol, they were old fence posts. I wrangle as many of them as I can when I know a fence is getting taken out. I have several cut up that I helped my dad put in when I was kid. I have scored a few that are well over 50years old.

 

[thewoodlands]

It's 17.4 tonight with a forecast low of 11, the Liberty has a load of sugar maple, beech and ironwood in it.

We'll put in another two loads of beech and sugar maple tomorrow before our cold snap hits and then I can finish plowing.

 

[Grizzerbear]

It's 22 out now with a low of 14 tonight. I just put a load of red white and post oak in the buck for the night.

 

[MMH]

Low in the 20s with the feels like in the teens more pine tonight

 

[Grizzerbear]

Woke up this morning to 8 degrees out. I put another mixed oak load in the stove.

 

[whtl4856]

8 degrees right now. Another load of ash in the stove, all I’ll be burning for the next 2 weeks or so. I’ve been burning smaller splits since this cold snap started and couldn’t be happier with my stove performance. I’m not sure if it’s because it’s a different batch of wood or that I’m able to utilize more of the firebox and really pack them in there tight.

I used to do 6 or so large splits and maybe a smaller or medium one to fill in gaps, now I’m able to do maybe 1 or 2 large splits and 8-10 smaller ones (4” across +/-1). This is the first time I’ve burned mostly small splits like this and might be splitting my wood smaller in the future now. Will experiment some more and see.

 

[Gearhead660]

A brisk -12 outside. Loaded furnace at 5am with whatever was in the pile, probably ash and what I think was hickory. Currently burning a piece of pine in the stove to help burn down the coals.

 

[whtl4856]

A brisk -12 outside.

Makes the -5 in our forecast for next week seem not so bad!

 

[JimBear]

It’s 0* here, @7:30 I put in a 6” & 12” Cedar round & some 1”-3” Elm & Mulberry I found in the pile.

 

[thewoodlands]

We had 10.4 this morning with more of the maples going in the Lopi. This afternoon I'll be taking out some ash, it feels good to burn better wood.

With all the plowing I did yesterday, we never did get the two loads of beech and sugar maple in so that will go in today.