Some Red Oak and Mulberry in the Intrepid.
What Is In Your Stove Right Now?
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PAbeech
Burning Hunk
Beech wood loaded up. going to be around 20 degrees tonight
Cleaned out the firebox late afternoon - must've gotten out about 2in at least ash+ coal combined, and I have at least 2, 3in coals remained. I use a pair of welding gloves when operating stove, and the radiant heat from the coals were so strong that I had to take off the gloves because the leather was getting too hot.
Partial reload with oak and locust around 5pm, and stuffed couple more 4, 5in-ish logs of assorted oaks and locust just now. Outside temperature 39F, inside living room a toasty 70F.
Partial reload with oak and locust around 5pm, and stuffed couple more 4, 5in-ish logs of assorted oaks and locust just now. Outside temperature 39F, inside living room a toasty 70F.
Caw
Minister of Fire
Hate burning some oak. It's only 35 degrees and I just want to go to bed I'm exhausted from work but I'm not paying $0.42/kWh. National Grid can pound sand.
Pine again. 4degrees headed toward 0 at sunrise with 19 as predicted high of day. Coffees hot now, dogs happy with fire, me too! 66 inside house headed up.
Vg3200p
Minister of Fire
Outside 25 with high winds overnight. Stovroom was at 49. Back of the house cold enough to see breath inside. Lots of ash for stoves diet today.
Dieselhead
Minister of Fire
I loaded the stove yesterday at 6am with shagbark hickory and let the load go overnight into this am. the house was 63 at 8am and a few coals remained. I cleaned out the 3” of ash and loaded the stove east/west with some long pine I had to get rid of. House is up to 65 and climbing. Will be at 70 by evening reload time about 8pm.
Thick bed of coal around 9am for a reload of oak and locust. I'll try look for more poplar or birch in my wood pile this afternoon to bun down coals.
We had 31.8 again this morning, more ash and pine went in the Liberty. Our day time temps up here have been 70 & 71 and in the morning 68 & 69.
White Oak and Locust is the flavor of the day and for the days to come with this polar air moving in..
Alas pine! 2 degrees outside, high was12 today, so more Pine. Was a typical Wyoming clear blue sky with bright sunshine day so that makes it great winter weather.
Vg3200p
Minister of Fire
Lows at 19 tonight. Stove room at 59. Ash for the overnight
It's 26.4 tonight with NOAA calling for a low of 21, up here is 70 and the sleeper is 69. The overnight load is two splits of pine with the rest ash, the stove room should be 79 headed north.
Fire just about ran out about 5 this morning (more wind than expected, 20F outside, 63F inside). I woke up to footsteps and some banging around. Found my wife (not a morning person) in the furnace room restarting the fire. Gave her a kiss and asked if she wanted to go back to bed while I started the fire. Kindling was kiln dried 20 year old pine from the woodshop, then barkless white oak slabwood from the veneer plant. Cherry splits for the majority of the day.
JamesGuido
Feeling the Heat
18° F now.
Single digit windchill.
Oak all night and gonna be oak all day.
Single digit windchill.
Oak all night and gonna be oak all day.
We had 20.1 this morning with the temps up here between 67 and 68 with the basement temp still 73. I loaded up the wood stove with ash and then spent the day outside moving snow, with the possibility of rain, snow and wind with the next storm, I'll be moving more snow from just off the driveway.
Burning 90% Ash and 10% Slabwood. (Pretty sure it is oak)
JamesGuido
Feeling the Heat
Most likely the only thing I love about this time of year….
Finally into my oak now. Some white oak and the last of the walnut, loded on a red hot bed of coals.
mpaul
Burning Hunk
Mild weather today in the upper 30s and sunny all day. House has a lot of south facing windows which kept the house at 74. Spent the day cleaning all the ash and glass.
Supposed to get down to 10 later this week.
Supposed to get down to 10 later this week.
Vg3200p
Minister of Fire
Lows to 14 tonight stove room at 55 ash maple and cherry for overnight
Burning down the coals. Ash, cherry and one big old chunk of beech going in shortly. Going below zero tonight in the Northwoods, single digits now.
Had the first fire of the season yesterday, couple piles of kindling over the course of two hours then a slow climb into cat operating territory. Wanted to give the chimney plenty of time to dry out from any summer time moisture it may have soaked up. Stove ran perfectly...which is good considering the heat pump puked a few weeks ago.
