What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

[gthomas785]

Oak. Heading down to 11 tonight, which looks like the last of the serious cold we'll be seeing this year.

 

[thewoodlands]

It's - 0.5 tonight, we'll burn down the coals in the wood stove and take them out tomorrow morning, they'll go in a metal garbage can. The P.S. is on and will provide the heat for tonight, it's 68 in the living room and 66 in the bedroom.

 

[bigealta]

Oak but it’s that every day since that’s what I’ve been hoarding the last few years.

 

[sweedish]

Ash, pin cherry, black cherry, boxelder.

 

[JamesGuido]

47ºF out now with a high of 53 and rain...
the little dry-ready-to-burn wood i have left i'll save for colder days
So, Ashes are What Is In My Stove Right Now.

kinda looks bored, sitting there with no flames

 

[Gearhead660]

Having a heat wave right now before the front comes through. Let the Tundra go out so I can clean the ashes out. Just loaded Myra up with Hickory and Locust. That should last a while...

 

[thewoodlands]

We had 16.2 this morning, I shut the P.S. off and took out the ash from the wood stove. When I came back in I started a fire with another load of ash going in the Liberty.

It was 70 in the living room and 68 in the sleeper this morning.

 

[Sawset]

Heat wave it is. Close to 50 today, heading to 5.
The midwinter wood is all white oak.
When pulling trailer loads from the woods, I had to be careful of the ice that has formed. Don't just drive on up --- and slide backwards back down.

 

[Marconis]

Oak/maple, just started 15 minutes ago.

 

[JamesGuido]

could not take it any more... had to fire it up.
sick of hearing the furnace kick in...
old dirty mix of some dry hardwood... a piece of non-dry will be added once it heats a bit...
just too damp inside to not do it!

 

[Sawset]

just too damp inside to not do it!

This is the time of year where dry heat really comes in handy.

 

[Gearhead660]

This is the time of year where dry heat really comes in handy.

Especially with the fog and rain we are getting tonight.

 

[MMH]

Refilled the wood for the wifey before I went to work. After hitting nearly 60 everyday last week, we’re back to what looks like typical winter.

 

[thewoodlands]

We just had the one fire this morning with the temp inside still at 67, with the winds picking up tonight, we'll go without a fire so I'll run the furnace for about five minutes before I call it a night.

 

[sweedish]

Mostly cherry with boxelder

 

[thewoodlands]

We had 41 with rain when we had our first cup of coffee, we're back to burning some ash in the wood stove. The temp in the basement is 75 and up here we finally hit 69.

 

[stoveliker]

Not much. I took out some ashes. Saw one or two still glowing coals. 50 out there today...

 

[baseroom]

When we have seasoned Ironwood, we usually burn a face cord a year and January up here in Northern NY was our coldest in about eight years an we heat from the basement so when we were -23 or -26 we needed it.

We also have a pellet stove in the opposite corner in the basement, we burn that at night with the wood stove during the coldest months. We burn 50 bags a year in the old Yankee Pellet Stove.

How has your winter been in the Rochester area?

not very harsh until the beginning of January...Then normal for here, cold and snowy....good ole Lake Ontario adding to the fun. I have plenty of dry ash that I burn most of the time. I break out the hickory and locust for the coldest nights. only gets to about -10 here. Not like where you are

 

[TheBigIron]

Came home plowing snow after a 12 hour shift, wife has the stove blazing with honey locust mulberry and some red oak.

 

[thewoodlands]

We had a chit load of rain today (still raining hard out) it's 35.2 out tonight, 70 up here with a load of Ash and some Ironwood going in later for the overnight load.

 

[clancey]

From a little bit I know Ash sounds real good to me and to put some ironwood with it for longer burning sounds just perfect...clancey

 

[Grizzerbear]

Its 11 out now with a full load of hickory and post oak. Expecting a high of the mid 40s today.

 

[JamesGuido]

9º with sunny skies at 7:45 Friday morning... my last day off of work from hip surgery...
at least until April 25th (1st full day of retirement)

anyway, Jøtul filled with some mixed hunks of dirty hardwoods...
about out in the house, gonna have to drag some in here soon.
gonna be a cold weekend

 

[stoveliker]

Just started the stove. Power is out since 3.37 am. Predicted restoration with crew onsite is 4 pm. 55 F this morning. 43 now. 23 for a low.
Time to get the basement up to temperature for the overnight fire.

 

[thewoodlands]

It was 9.5 this morning (still is) I loaded up the wood stove with more Ironwood and Ash. We also received five inches of snow with more coming in.

It looks like we'll have a second system coming in with more wind and snow.