What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

[Solarguy3500]

Put in a load of cherry for the night.

I may let it go out tomorrow because the temps are supposed to go up into the 40s and I need to shovel the stove out anyway.

 

[Wildflush]

Little stove still at 200 STT at 7:30. 24 outside temp. Voda fan still running on stovetop. House still 67 downstairs. Nice that I don’t need an overnight load to keep the heat from callling. Saves wood. Had some coals but not much. Did a bottom up fire this AM since flue nice and warm. 4x smaller oak splits and a biobrick to get things going. Nice secondary’s STT almost 600 now.

Update: almost 2 hours since I started the stove and 72 downstairs now. 28 outside temp now.

 

[zmender]

26F overnight. Living room dropped down to 61F overnight. Running stove with mostly locust with a few splits of ash and oak. High today will be only 40F, so today will probably need 3 full reloads....

 

[Ashful]

I’m coming up on 1.5 cords so far this season, almost entirely hickory. I never burned solely hickory before, in the past the most I ever had was a little mixed in with my usual diet of oak, so I’m really just noticing for the first time the absolutely INSANE amount of ash this wood produces. I could do well to empty the ash out of the firebox after every 2-3 loads on hickory, whereas I normally go 14-16 loads with oak before even thinking about it. Never seen anything like this.

On the plus side, it’s dense and heavy wood, even after 4 years drying in a shed. I haven’t bothered looking up the numbers on it, but I can tell by how warm our house is, that packs a solid BTU punch. This stuff is split larger than normally split my oak, knowing it’d be drying 3-4 years under roof, so I’m getting a lot of pounds into each load

 

[thewoodlands]

We had a low of 13.8 this morning, the basement was 70 with the temps up here 63 & 64. The first pine fire had the basement where the couch is at 77.

I did run the propane fireplace/insert this morning after coffee, the temps up here are 66 & 68.

We usually run the pellet stove at night with a low we had this morning but I'm holding off until December......except for a test run.

 

[NickW]

Got up this morning and the wife had a shoulder season fire ripping along with a flue temp over 850, stt coming up 👍. I mentioned that I don't usually take it that high and she said very matter of factly "I do". I guess she told me...😂

 

[Caw]

Got up this morning and the wife had a shoulder season fire ripping along with a flue temp over 850, stt coming up 👍. I mentioned that I don't usually take it that high and she said very matter of factly "I do". I guess she told me...😂

I often have conversations in my head that go like "Well I'm glad she started it. She's doing something slightly wrong or id prefer another way but if I say something I know what's going to happen". 10 out of 10 times it's easier to deal with my own thoughts after than actually saying something. Is say I only say something now 2/10 times and regret it every time lol. Room for improvement!

 

[Caw]

Today just have a little half load going adding a log at a time while the sun warms up. I was bringing up wood from the basement and threw a split in my back. The bark flew off (awesome dry wood) but to my surprise like 100 alive carpenter ants also exploded into my log bag. Yikes. I'm glad I threw it in the bag not my rack upstairs. This is 3 year old maple they were happy as a clam in there. Maybe being in the warm basement for a few days woke them from dormancy. I took the bag out back dumped it out and brought the wood back in, all set! Never know what you'll find in the wood stacks. Bugs, rodents, snakes, etc. Always a surprise.

 

[xshmoox]

I’m coming up on 1.5 cords so far this season, almost entirely hickory. I never burned solely hickory before, in the past the most I ever had was a little mixed in with my usual diet of oak, so I’m really just noticing for the first time the absolutely INSANE amount of ash this wood produces. I could do well to empty the ash out of the firebox after every 2-3 loads on hickory, whereas I normally go 14-16 loads with oak before even thinking about it. Never seen anything like this.

On the plus side, it’s dense and heavy wood, even after 4 years drying in a shed. I haven’t bothered looking up the numbers on it, but I can tell by how warm our house is, that packs a solid BTU punch. This stuff is split larger than normally split my oak, knowing it’d be drying 3-4 years under roof, so I’m getting a lot of pounds into each load

Yeah I started into my hickory stack and noticed the same. Mine as well call it ash but yes very dense and lots of btus and long burning

 

[Caw]

That's how I feel when I hit a streak of red maple in my stacks. Clean the stove out just about daily versus once a week with oak.

 

[NHWS]

High 20s dF overnight temps here, with low-to-mid 40s daytimes. Clear and sunny (the weather must be imported from California). Expecting the same at least through mid-week.

Stove kept the inside temps in the mid-60s overnight, even on minimum air, and low-70s daytime on 1/4 air, loaded with hemlock and alder.

Just starting to learn the flue temp patterns shown on the Auber thermometer.

 

[Dieselhead]

I’m coming up on 1.5 cords so far this season, almost entirely hickory. I never burned solely hickory before, in the past the most I ever had was a little mixed in with my usual diet of oak, so I’m really just noticing for the first time the absolutely INSANE amount of ash this wood produces. I could do well to empty the ash out of the firebox after every 2-3 loads on hickory, whereas I normally go 14-16 loads with oak before even thinking about it. Never seen anything like this.

On the plus side, it’s dense and heavy wood, even after 4 years drying in a shed. I haven’t bothered looking up the numbers on it, but I can tell by how warm our house is, that packs a solid BTU punch. This stuff is split larger than normally split my oak, knowing it’d be drying 3-4 years under roof, so I’m getting a lot of pounds into each load

Funny timing, I just made a post in the BK forum. This shagbark hickory is something else. I have about a cord at least to go. If there was a ash vac that could take everything out of the king in one shot hot coals and all I’d buy one. Even if it was a grand. That fine dust is like sanding Sheetrock.

Anyhow I brought it down to the bricks and started up again with some of the same.

 

[thewoodlands]

It's 29.1 tonight with the basement temp starting out at 75, the temps up here are 68 to 70. The overnight load is all ash.

 

[zmender]

It’s going to be 25 tonight. Living room at 67. Reloaded fully with ash around 8, and just topped off with 3 locust splits.

 

[joop]

4 am started cold put 5 splits, of whatever lol burning nice . small fire to get chill out.

 

[thewoodlands]

We had a low of 27.5 this morning, the basement started off at 70 with the temps up here 66, 67 & 68. I loaded up the Liberty with pine this morning.

 

[Caw]

Threw some oak in just now. She's roaring away and I'm trapped under 200 lbs of dog.

 

[JKE28]

Red and white oak along with big beech splits for overnight.

I see a lot of folks burning pine I was thinking about splitting some southern yellow pine logs to see how it goes.

 

[JKE28]

Just got the stove going for the evening, it has a load of pine.

We had a winter storm almost 3 years ago snap a bunch of 6+" branches off the pine trees so I cut it up for pit wood. Darn if that stuff hasn't made me a fan of burning pine during shoulder season.

I am in Virginia as well. Are you burning southern yellow pine? I was considering trying to burn it. I have 6 huge logs of it. I have only ever burned hardwood.

 

[zmender]

Woke up 30F outside, 59F in living room (strangely cold). About 1/3 of burnt out coal towards the back of the firebox.

Got a full load of ash going right now. Is it possible I need to keep throttle a little more open after fixing the leaky doors?

 

[Caw]

Is it possible I need to keep throttle a little more open after fixing the leaky doors?

Absolutely. A faulty gasket would let more air in so you need to replace that air to get your usual burning conditions.

 

[joop]

Threw some oak in just now. She's roaring away and I'm trapped under 200 lbs of dog.

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[joop]

Woke up 30F outside, 59F in living room (strangely cold). About 1/3 of burnt out coal towards the back of the firebox.

Got a full load of ash going right now. Is it possible I need to keep throttle a little more open after fixing the leaky doors?

possible,but should get enough air from inside house

 

[Niro]

75% Ash 25% Oak. Threw some Oak in as it got down to 26° over night.

 

[Riff]

I am in Virginia as well. Are you burning southern yellow pine? I was considering trying to burn it. I have 6 huge logs of it. I have only ever burned hardwood.

Phew, old post. That was a couple of homes ago but I want to say yes that was one of the species of pines known as southern yellow, most likely shortleaf pine. Since then I've burned a couple of cords of pine, mostly white and red pine. Just make sure that I keep the chimney clean, give it time to properly dry, and monitor the temperature of the stove. Haven't had an issue with it.