What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

[stoveliker]

Reloaded with oak and pine.

 

[thewoodlands]

It's 6.1 tonight, four splits of Ash on the bottom row with another two rounds and two splits of Ironwood on top row. It's 68 in the living room, 66 in the sleeper and 78 in the basement where the stove is.

 

[fvhowler]

Just a chilly 30 degrees this morning. Post oak, red maple and bradford pear keeping the house warm.

 

[JamesGuido]

5º in Raymond Wisconsin.
stove is cold.
time to fix that.

 

[c604]

19 here this morning. Burning a mix of ash, walnut and white oak this morning, Need to cut and split some ash logs today while its frozen outside.

 

[zmender]

Cold starting the stove after a week on the road.

Bottom of the stove is a layer of biobrick (9 bricks). Kindling was the snapped twigs that gathered on driveway and patio past week. Once fire was going I moved onto maple and ash splits. This fire is hot right now.

 

[Grizzerbear]

We had a low of high 20s last night I believe. I had some hickory and post oak for the overnight. We are getting by on the coals left over right now with 36 out and full sunshine.

 

[thewoodlands]

We had a temp of 20.6 this morning with the living room 65, the sleeper was 64 and the basement was 70. The wood stove received another load of ash.

 

[bipsic]

Maple, Oak, and a nice bed of embers from eco logs, which make my life much easier, since I just got my chimney liner installed Feb 1, and I don't have much dry wood yet.

 

[stoveliker]

Nice. That is an insert? What kind?

 

[thewoodlands]

Nice. That is an insert? What kind?

It says Ashley on the bottom right.

 

[bipsic]

It says Ashley on the bottom right.

Ashley, I used to have an old Tremont slammer insert that was 8" so I replaced it with the Ashley (made by Breckwell) with a 6" size and 3 baffles inside across the top. It is 2.6 cu ft, so I can almost make it thru the night with oak splits. Supposed to get down to 19 tonight, so I have a few oak splits saved to keep us warm .

 

[zmender]

18F tonight and everything is wet and slippery from snow spalls this afternoon.

Reloaded with 28% MC oak ( ) and 16% MC locust (). Tomorrow morning 9, 10am when I wake up living room will be around 65F and a bed of coal in stove for reload.

 

[stoveliker]

We're gone for a couple of days. The stove will still be chewing on the oak I stuffed it with this morning. Burning low, so the home should be about 63F.

In the Airbnb there is a nice woodshed outside. A fireplace inside. Fan. And fake flames :-(

Nice place though. Quiet, rural, animals for the kids (daughter while eating some pizza: one of the goats licked my hand - and I think I washed them. All good; good for her immune system.) But the remote control fireplace fake flame electric heater in a wall is not my thing...

 

[thewoodlands]

Accu has a low for our area hitting - 4 so the wood stove is burning down coals and the pellet stove has one bag in it and running for the overnight heat.

 

[zmender]

21F, 63F in house... burnt down faster last night than I expected. Reload with biobricks, wet oak, and locust.

 

[NickW]

Load of aspen to burn down last nights coals and give a quick heat burst in WI northwoods. High of almost 40 today after not seeing 20 for a week and negative mid teens overnights. Will get some ash out after this load burns down.

Big storm with cold temps and wind forecast for Monday afternoon into Wednesday morning. 10-15" of snow.

 

[JamesGuido]

40° right now with a high of 55. Very windy with gusts to 45mph expected...
Stove was cold this morning so I cleaned the glass (1st time since Christmas) and emptied the box of ash.
Started a small fire with dirty mixed hards…

 

[thewoodlands]

We had - 7.4 this morning, I shut the pellet stove off and the Lopi received another load of Ash with the same going in tonight. Our outside temp is 38.1 tonight and the temp up here at 70.

 

[clancey]

I wonder about the use of the different types of wood to use and why ash because I thought oak was better in the way of btu"s and I believe Pine burns quicker and for a shorter time and oak gives you longer burning. So why Ash wood what makes this so good in burning for cold weather. ? clancey

 

[zmender]

seems white ash almost comparable to red oak in BTUs: https://www.firewood-for-life.com/firewood-btu.html

 

[clancey]

That is neat information---thank you...clancey

 

[thewoodlands]

I wonder about the use of the different types of wood to use and why ash because I thought oak was better in the way of btu"s and I believe Pine burns quicker and for a shorter time and oak gives you longer burning. So why Ash wood what makes this so good in burning for cold weather. ? clancey

We usually burn beech, ironwood or sugar maple during our coldest temps but the beech and sugar maple will get more time seasoning, that will be ready for our coldest months in 2022-2023 . Mixing in some ironwood with ash makes for nice heat and overnight burn.

Even when we've had some minus nights lately, the day temps are on the rise so ash is what we'll burn. Since the EAB was found in our county, I started felling ash to heat with.

We use the pellet stove on colder nights too for the constant heat, last year we burned 50 bags and this year we'll burn 53 if we use what we have here.

We had 35.3 this morning with the temp in the basement at 71, up here in the living room 68 and the bedroom 67.

 

[MMH]

Got off work last night pretty late so we let the propane go, wides been using it for the 5 days I was at work which hurts the rear…highs in the 30s today with snow off and on for a few days, lows headed for 10 or below through this cold front. Started up with pine and Dorothy is off to the races again.

 

[JamesGuido]

today was the first day since dec23 this stove wasn't lit in the morning...
had to return to work after recuperating from hip replacement surgery...
and lemme tell'ya it was tough.

anyway, fired up the Jøtul with some mellow dylan to ease thru the next 8 weeks... retirement on the horizon
dirty oak and perhaps some filthy maple too inside.
thanks for viewin'