What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

[weee123]

(Though this might deserve its own thread) How tall is your chimney?
Sometimes it can help better control the stove in such cases if you dial down the air sooner upon a reload.

It’s 21’ tall. I think my main problem is I’m used to loading on a full hot bed of coals for e/w loading and with n/s I’ve found it takes off way faster than I’m used to. So I’ll either need to dial it back faster or just burn the coals down more.

 

[boomfire]

Ash and Oak mixture with Pine for kindling. Someone is enjoying the fruits of my labor [it's her new favorite spot now]

 

[stoveliker]

Last night's 3/4 load is done for. The cat dropped out of the active range around 1.30 this afternoon. So warm ashes only now.

A few days of minisplit ahead. Thursday afternoon I'll likely light up again.

 

[thewoodlands]

Our low this morning was 17.8, our temp up here was 69 or 70 depending what room you were in. I shut the pellet stove off (basement temp was 75) and started burning pine.

The temp up here is between 70-72.

 

[thewoodlands]

We had 30.2 for a low this morning, we ran the pellet stove overnight, the temps up here are between 70 & 71 and the basement temp was 78.

I shut the pellet stove off this morning and started a pine fire, when the basement hit 83, I shut the fan off on the wood stove.

 

[Gearhead660]

Got our first measurable snow yesterday/ last night.

Loaded Myra with oak, elm and a chunk of buckthorn.

 

[kennyp2339]

Black widow cherry.. for real, always wear your gloves when pulling from the stacks until it gets below freezing.

 

[Kevin Weis]

White Oak and English Walnut mix. 35 out right now. Sunday night supposedly down to 17.

 

[thewoodlands]

It's 27.7 tonight with NOAA forecasting a low of 22. I just loaded up the wood stove with some yellow birch, the basement temp is 77 and the rooms up here are 70.

 

[dafattkidd]

Oak, pine and walnut. 38° headed down to 35°.

 

[Isaac Carlson]

A bit of silver maple until the weekend temps hit zero, then we get into the oak, elm, and locust. I have some hackberry somewhere in the stacks too. Sorry, no window on the cookstove, so no pics.

 

[Vg3200p]

Ash and maple. Both me and wife were gone late. Then I had to go back to work for salting. Loading schedule got outta wack. Stove room at 51f. For morning reload.

 

[PAbeech]

Ash and maple. Both me and wife were gone late. Then I had to go back to work for salting. Loading schedule got outta wack. Stove room at 51f. For morning reload.

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I'm curious do you have any issues loading and burning wood so close to your glass door?

 

[Vg3200p]

I'm curious do you have any issues loading and burning wood so close to your glass door?

Not yet. Its not ideal but only have .1.6cf firebox trying to heat old drafty 3k sqft house. So I have to stuff it as full as possible. When we upgrade to bigger stove I won't load this way

 

[dafattkidd]

Upper 30s last night. Oak and walnut.

 

[PAbeech]

Not yet. Its not ideal but only have .1.6cf firebox trying to heat old drafty 3k sqft house. So I have to stuff it as full as possible. When we upgrade to bigger stove I won't load this way

Ok I have a 1.6cf box as well and I'm always super worried about burning the gasket. I have to get super strategic loading it up at night, should I not be as worried if coals and wood end up on the glass and gasket?

 

[stoveliker]

The gasked won't burn.
I have wood sometimes within 1/2" of the window. The window will get black there, but it does not matter for safety purposes (if you don't have to open the window while the wood is not yet burned down...). This holds for N/S loading. E/W loading has its own issues with rolling splits. (In that case, have a triangular one at the front, sloping down towards the back, to have the stack fall into the stove rather than to the window.)

 

[Vg3200p]

Cherry. Bradford pear. Ash. Maple for the overnight. lows go to 22 tonight. Stove room at 57. Gonna get cold in here tonight

 

[Vg3200p]

Ok I have a 1.6cf box as well and I'm always super worried about burning the gasket. I have to get super strategic loading it up at night, should I not be as worried if coals and wood end up on the glass and gasket?

I'm not gonna recommend this at all. But I have crammed wood in this stove so hard that when I closed the door it cracked a rear firebrick but not the glass. I wouldn't worry to much about a piece lightly touching the glass from my experience

 

[thewoodlands]

We had 25.2 this morning, it was nice loading up some pine on yellow birch coals from the overnight burn. Before our first fire this morning, the basement was 73 and the temps up here was 69.

We might drop below 20 in the morning so I'm thinking we'll go with the pellet stove tonight.

 

[PAbeech]

I'm not gonna recommend this at all. But I have crammed wood in this stove so hard that when I closed the door it cracked a rear firebrick but not the glass. I wouldn't worry to much about a piece lightly touching the glass from my experience

Tha

The gasked won't burn.
I have wood sometimes within 1/2" of the window. The window will get black there, but it does not matter for safety purposes (if you don't have to open the window while the wood is not yet burned down...). This holds for N/S loading. E/W loading has its own issues with rolling splits. (In that case, have a triangular one at the front, sloping down towards the back, to have the stack fall into the stove rather than to the window.)

Great thanks for that. That'll make it a lot easier for me

 

[BrownT10]

About 2/3 load of mosley oak and a couple pieces of cherry. A balmy upstairs, so loaded enough to leave some coals in the morning. A huge difference since adding a bunch of rigid insulation to the concrete walls. Much more heat upstairs and even the second floor is 67 without using propane.

 

[stoveliker]

Pine. Including the Largest block I (ever) had. Near 8". More or less square. Barely fit between the bricks at 18" long, so positioning is not perfect with the hole at the bottom right.

40 now, 33 for a low.
71 upstairs, 81 at the ceiling of the basement.

 

[Qvist]

Going down to 26 tonight. Ash and Walnut mix. The attic was insulated in the spring it's making a big difference. I've gone from a fire barely keeping up to overheating the house.

 

[NickW]

20 degrees and windy. Burning down the coals a little to load in some box elder. Back home for a couple of weeks. Days are box elder from what I am seeing right now and ash overnight. Sure is nice running the NC30 at home compared to the Stratford II in the Northwoods...