What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

[Vg3200p]

Giant piece of silvermaple. Some ash pine and maybe Norway maple in there to. Running over loading and operation with Mrs. Shell be running the stove solo for a day or 2 if we get the forecast amount of snow

 

[zmender]

Giant piece of silvermaple. Some ash pine and maybe Norway maple in there to. Running over loading and operation with Mrs. Shell be running the stove solo for a day or 2 if we get the forecast amount of snow

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That's a monstrosity, hope you've got enough coals to keep up the stove temp!

 

[zmender]

This morning I loaded N/S with oaks. By 2pm the front half of stove was pretty much burnt out with back half still heavily coaled. This is what I've being doing....
load a medium sized split at front; on top of this split tightly stack 6 biobricks. Amazing heat from bricks, while rest of coal burns. All in all gave me about 7 hours of heat (STT going from 500s down to 300s) and even front/back bricks for next reload.

For night reload I'll probably do full reload of pure dried locust in 15min from now.

 

[Kevin Weis]

Ash and getting into some Apple now. Be interesting to see how the Apple coals up.

 

[MMH]

Lows headed for 13 tonight. Have been burning down coals all day and will do a full load of pine for tonight.

 

[thewoodlands]

It's 25.5 out tonight with the basement starting out at 75 and the temps up here at 70.

Another load of ash went in the wood stove for our overnight heat.

 

[Jeremy B.]

2 yr seasoned maple...ash i cut down a month ago...some cherry and white birch from fall...and what my grandfather called "Case Hardened" elm that was standing dead. some apple and poplar in the shed as well as some yellow birch...and all the scrap wood i can burn from the woodshop. I'm pretty sure i can burn whatever i throw in the old fisher papa bear.

 

[JamesGuido]

only 34°F outside but don't want the furnace to run if i don't hafta... so i loaded the Jøtul with oak.
only oak.
well, it's all i got.

 

[thewoodlands]

We had 15.8 outside this morning, the basement temp started out at 73, the sleeper 67 and the rest of the rooms 68.

Another load of ash went in the wood stove this morning.

 

[Kevin Weis]

More Ash and Apple tonite. Have found the Apple doesn’t coal that well and not high in btu's. So will continue to mix it with other wood.

 

[zmender]

only 34°F outside but don't want the furnace to run if i don't hafta... so i loaded the Jøtul with oak.
only oak.
well, it's all i got.

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Wow, this picture is absolutely perfectly photogenic! amazing.

 

[zmender]

Burning dow the coals from 4pm NS load. Gonna load it with locust and biobricks once I have more room open.

 

[MMH]

More Ash and Apple tonite. Have found the Apple doesn’t coal that well and not high in btu's. So will continue to mix it with other wood.

Interesting. I’ve never had apple but my understanding was it was relatively high in btu, upwards of 26-27 depending on what source.

 

[MMH]

Lows headed for 15. Another load of pine in for that.

 

[thewoodlands]

It's 25.9 out tonight with the basement temp starting out at 73 and the rooms up here at 69.

The wood stove has a load of yellow birch with three rounds of ash in it for the overnight load.

 

[zmender]

Heading to 30s tonight and looking very wet. I don’t want to stay up anymore so loaded beech, locust and bricks onto a thick coal bed. Next 24-48hrs I’m gonna have to clean out ashes…

 

[thewoodlands]

We went from 28.4 to 32.8 with the snow changing to rain and then back down to 28.2 so it's snowing some again. The basement temp started out at 72 and the temps up here were 67 & 68.

A load of yellow birch and some ash rounds went in the wood stove this morning.

 

[JamesGuido]

Wow, this picture is absolutely perfectly photogenic! amazing.

really??! w0w! thanks

 

[Gearhead660]

really??! w0w! thanks

Your setup is very nice. Beautiful brick hearth and I like how the stove is out in the open.

 

[GrumpyDad]

Giant piece of silvermaple. Some ash pine and maybe Norway maple in there to. Running over loading and operation with Mrs. Shell be running the stove solo for a day or 2 if we get the forecast amount of snow

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how did it go?

 

[GrumpyDad]

only 34°F outside but don't want the furnace to run if i don't hafta... so i loaded the Jøtul with oak.
only oak.
well, it's all i got.

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This looks like an ad for Jotul!

 

[JamesGuido]

This looks like an ad for Jotul!

i'm open for biness :D

Your setup is very nice. Beautiful brick hearth and I like how the stove is out in the open.

thanks, I did replace the other brick hearth with these old bricks, some from an old building in Milwaukee and some of Chicago Common Brick

 

[MMH]

Currently 11 out, house is 71. Threw in some more pine and a long odd elm split.

 

[GrumpyDad]

Currently 11 out, house is 71. Threw in some more pine and a long odd elm split.

send some of that cold my way. We've yet to see a decent snowfall this year. And we really havent had cold hold on long enough for us to open up ice skating/hockey on the pond. Last year at this time, we've already sharpened our skates once and lost a dozen or so pucks until spring. The ski slopes are nothing but ground up ice. We need snow/cold!

 

[zmender]

Outside temp around ~50F outside when I woke up, living romo 70F. Is this still Jan in CT!?

Idled the stove until around 4pm, still had an inch of coal. Reloaded about 75% with N/S short splits. By 11pm I'll proabably have 2, 3in of coal for an easy reload.