but still missing the burning, eh? Have to check in here to satisfy the craving while on the beach
What Is In Your Stove Right Now?
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but still missing the burning, eh? Have to check in here to satisfy the craving while on the beach
You know it!but still missing the burning, eh? Have to check in here to satisfy the craving while on the beach
heavy hammer
Minister of Fire
A few big rounds of ash and some locust here and there. I did load both stoves up this morning with some large splits of locust since we would be gone all day working. 14 hours later and the basement is still 71.
Reloaded with sassafras and I got some oak from another stack because it'll be 28 tonight - coldest yet this season.
22 here right now. cruzing with maple and oak. 72 in the house. haven't heard the boiler.
Grizzerbear
Minister of Fire
After a overnight load of hickory and with a low of 39 right now we will make it to 60 today so right now I'm letting the stove go cold. The house is 74. It's only supposed to get down to 45 tonight then high forties the next two nights with highs around 70 Wednesday and Thursday. We will be flirting with record highs here. Looks like the stove will rest until Friday.
28 now. Still chewing through the oak and sassafras from yesterday. I noticed again how much more energy there is in a box full of oak vs pine or sassafras; it's not yet halfway done...
We had 21.2 this morning with some ashes being taken out of the wood stove, we loaded it up with yellow birch, cherry, red and sugar maple.
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Crazy nice here the last few days and according to the forecast its looking like its going to stay that way for the next at least week or so. Supposed to be close to 80 by Thursday :O Needless to say the stove is quite. I may think about another break-in fire by the time its cold enough to fire up again.
Pinus strobus
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It’s 37 here in NW PA and there are 3 splits of oak in the Kuuma VF 100. With the warm temps, I let the coals burn way down before repeating process. Getting around 5 hours of heat per load in my 2000sq ft home. Seems like a waste of good oak. Looking forward to some arctic air.
I am just about to reload. I have been running 24/7 pretty much, morning load hemlock, afternoon load hemlock and night load (mainly) hard maple. The maple will carry the load with nice big coals til around 9:00am with the cat sitting at around 500*.
Put a few "tide-over" pieces in around 5 pm after the 10.45 pm load of yesterday. Granted I dialled down the thermostat a bit, but I kept the house at 68 from 10.45 pm until 5 pm on that sassafras and oak load. Will reload with sassafras and pine tonight.
Then will let the stove go out tomorrow; 40 during the night and 50 ish during the day Thursday and Friday. Friday end of the day will be the next fire.
Then will let the stove go out tomorrow; 40 during the night and 50 ish during the day Thursday and Friday. Friday end of the day will be the next fire.
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Sometimes with the BK I have a hard time finding a good reload timing. Not quite I get the 24h reloads. It is ok if my initial fire is started come night time. I just loose few hrs every day, which is fine. But if I start the initial fire in the morning, then my next morning is an early one.
Not a bad problem to have. With the VC it is like a cloak, morning load, afternoon load, night load.
Yes. I generally start fires in the afternoon because it gets colder during the night triggering the need for a fire. I can and have had 24-26 hr reloads but that is just for kicks. Heating from the basement, and having a minisplit for milder weather means I don't often run at the 20-30 hr reload schedule. So, sometimes I have to burn things down quickly before bedtime, and sometimes I have to put smaller loads in or have a few pieces like now to get me to the reload with a decent amount of coals.
Each stove has its wishes
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Grizzerbear
Minister of Fire
Well call me a liar. When the wife got home she started giving me a bunch of guff on why I didn't have a fire started. I said, "its 51 out". She says "I don't care it's cold". Okay.
48 out now with 46 for the low.
48 out now with 46 for the low.
Grizzerbear
Minister of Fire
Lol....it ain't always that clean. I just cleaned it before this load for the first time in about a week. After around a full week of burning the bottom left side of the glass will be hazed over.
Lol. When I told my wife and kids that tomorrow I'd let the fire burn out, they looked at me in a way that suggests I might be following you in the liar's ranks...
Anyway, reload with pine and sassafras now. 38 tonight.
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It's 29.1 tonight with a low of 27, I have a small load of yellow birch, red & sugar maple in the Liberty.
I saw a temp of 29.5 this morning with more of the same going in the wood stove. With Accu forecasting just over 0.25 inches of rain tomorrow, we'll put some wood in today and I'll clear the inch of snow off the driveway in hopes that the rain will melt what's packed down underneath the new snow.
I hope we don't have a winter of a snow/rain cycle.
I hope we don't have a winter of a snow/rain cycle.
So, the stove slumbered on today after last night's reload. But the (what my daughter calls "puppy dog"-) look of my wife made me a liar too.
"Can you still refill?" Yes, but it's warm and we can use the minisplit. "But at least for tonight?"
I guess @clancey will be happy ...
Sassafras is going. A bunch of too long splits (the old DutchWest took longer ones) E/W. Good for a long slow burn.
Hit 35 here in the northwoods today, down to 33 tonight. Been burning a mix of punky honey locust shorts and pine to bring the temp up and keep the gas furnace from kicking in and help drywall mud cure. Used a big old beech short last night with the punky honey locust and pine for the overnight and still had a few embers this morning.
Hoping the wife and kids are being successful at home with the NC30...
Hoping the wife and kids are being successful at home with the NC30...
We're at 26.2 tonight with NOAA calling for a low of 26, more soft & sugar maple are putting out the heat for the night.
BrownT10
Burning Hunk
More oak going in now for overnight. 28° now and started to get this stove dialed in better.
I had a some running around the needed to get done so after that was done I started a fire around 10:15, out in the real world it's 42 but back here we were just over 36.
