What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

[CheapBassTurd]

Ash,
You have a great thing going. I'd be quite pleased being "stuck"with ash n' oak too !!
I was just given full scrounge rights on 10-20C bucked red oak !! Been sitting there for
two years and only the pieces touching the ground aren't ready to burn.

Did a test run on all oak, mini splits today. Nice. Very nice.
Steady heat, big coals to drop some splits onto, little ash buildup. I see why you guys, and now me
think this stuff is Cadillac. Cruise control....... LOL
I've mixed it but never ran on a load of only oak before today.

 

[Berner]

Still running through all of my spruce. Added a massive oak chunk in hopes to have some embers for morning. Temperature is 22 outside and 74 inside, life is good.

 

[StihlKicking]

Switched over to oak and hickory now. I'm burning a little poplar along in the day time.

 

[Ashful]

Just uncovered a cedar and a sassafras in my piles CSS'd in 2013. I'll be slumming it, for a few days.

 

[Adabiviak]

A surprisingly large Pyracantha log at the moment (my first time burning this after I got some sizable "rounds" from my parent's house). I started with manzanita, eucalyptus, oak, and pine, but they're the coals roasting this log now.

 

[FaithfulWoodsman]

Teens here tonight for the first time. Threw a few chunks of my 2yr beech on tonight. Deff tell the btu difference. A good 100-200 degrees on the dial. It'll be fun loading up with it when -? Comes in to play.

 

[Dobish]

i threw in some elm, some russian olive and a 2x4 this morning....

 

[CheapBassTurd]

36 and windy. Oak over "scrounge mix" pulling the night shift.

Edit: 2 hrs later and added 3 pine knots, turning air way down and crash time.

 

[Dobish]

i threw in some pine and elm this morning... wow that dried pine catches quick!

 

[kennyp2339]

Got some oak and maple going, love that combo

 

[CheapBassTurd]

Wire brushed out the firebox (that's a new thread in itself) and fed the pig
a bed of kindle under pallet factory scrap, under ash. After coaling oak has the night shift.

 

[Dobish]

I went with a mix of pine, red cedar and elm tonight.

 

[Tom123]

There's a 20 lb turkey in my stove and it's wishing everyone a Happy Thanksgiving.

 

[CheapBassTurd]

It's flippin' cold in here.
Firing the oak, and 1/2 box at that.
Pine under oak n' ash is this season's life saver.
Gonna get this thing glowin'.

Cheap but about to be warm

 

[Diabel]

More bloody hemlock!

 

[ZZ Tom]

Cruisin on a load of pine, elm and ugly chunks

 

[HisTreeNut]

Sweltering under some punky pine...forgot to cut the air back and it is now down mid-80's in the Den. Was 89 at one point...Whew! ! !
That being said, the wifey is again toasty and happy.

 

[Firefighter938]

Silver maple and I threw on a couple of pieces of standing dead red elm. Not that cold in central Indiana so one or two fires a day is all it takes to heat the house.

 

[warno]

I'm cooking 2 pieces of hedge on top of some pieces of mulberry. only getting into the 40s-50s during the day but nights are seeing low 30s, so I've been burning one load at night.

 

[Ashful]

A bizarre mix of oak and cedar. Had some cedar trees fall in my yard during hurricane Sandy, most of which was processed for kindling, before I got lazy and tired and just started splitting them as normal splits. Just getting to those stacks, now.

 

[D8Chumley]

Cherry, black walnut, ash

 

[Komatsu350]

Lots of ash for the next few years.

 

[FaithfulWoodsman]

Solid load of cherry. Smelled good on the final reload for the night.

 

[Jay106n]

A bizarre mix of oak and cedar. Had some cedar trees fall in my yard during hurricane Sandy, most of which was processed for kindling, before I got lazy and tired and just started splitting them as normal splits. Just getting to those stacks, now.

Doesn't that like, explode? lol I have 2 pallets of cedar in normal splits that a friend had taken down in his yard, I have never tossed any in my stove just because of how sparky and poppy they are in the fire pit.

 

[mwhitnee]

Not sure, because I'm horrible at wood ID and got a small stash from my neighbor and am finishing that up. Looked like a big mixture. It was sitting under a tarp for years, and surprisingly didn't feel that dry.

But I am starting to work on some Norway maple split in July last year and right behind that is Shagbark Hickory, which I can't wait to burn. The maple coals quite a bit. The hickory is good timing as It's getting colder...

I wonder if I'm going to run out of wood. I have a 4 cord stash for next year but it's red oak, split this summer. I need to start using wood from the uglies pile...