What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

[thewoodlands]

It's 33.3 out tonight, the basement was 72 with the temps up here 70 & 69. We have a load of shoulder season wood burning down, the overnight load will be a combo of cherry & pine.

 

[thewoodlands]

We had a low of 36.9 this morning, the basement temp started out at 72 with both temps up here at 69. Another load of pine is going in the wood stove.

 

[MRD1985]

Cold with the wind here today. Put a mixed load of cherry, oak and Norway maple this morning.

 

[Dieselhead]

A couple pics from last nights spruce load

 

[Wildflush]

Warm here. Almost 60 today. Front moving in lower 30’s tonight. Will have an evening fire.

 

[MRD1985]

Some Norway maple, red oak and might be 1 piece of white oak in this mix for the night

 

[thewoodlands]

It's 32.5 tonight, I'm not sure what the basement temp is but the temps up here are 69 & 71. We won't have an overnight fire so I'll run the furnace about 7 - 10 minutes before I call it a night.

 

[NickW]

Made a shoulder season fire this afternoon to warm up the house a little for a showing. Now the house is a little too warm for an overnight fire. Probably have one in the morning. Possible snow Thursday...

 

[Kodiak]

First time post to this thread, first snow to the valley bottom here in the mountains in BC, -2 deg C and my first fire in my newly installed t6. Very happy to have the wood burning again.

It’s been 4 years since we moved into our new house and left our Enviro Kodiak behind.

3 small splits: 1 hemlock, 1 maple, 1 birch. Low and slow burn in fire. Gentle wafts of new stove smell. God I’ve missed this.

 

[all night moe]

Started a fire this evening with some maple splits. Half dozen or less. Tossed these in on some coals from last night's fire. Almost 24hrs and still had some decent coals in the ashes. Little stir with some air again is all it took.

I had gotten home from work and started the new fire with those splits. Ate dinner and went back down to tend the furnace. Oddly quiet as i headed down and, I could smell the dust cooking. i knew right away the fan limit switch was maxed out. Checked the furnace switch and then the fuse. Both good. The blower motor is burned out. Same as when we moved in 4yrs ago. I let it all die out after chocking the air intake low. I REALLY didn't need this expense right now.

On the positive note, I'm saving a few furnace loads of wood for the next few days.

 

[Gearhead660]

Oak of the red variety.

 

[NickW]

Mid size mixed load this morning. Down to a pile of coal already. House feels nice after coming in from splitting for a short break.

 

[weee123]

I’ve been running mixed loads of white pine and white/red oak and really enjoying how it burns. The white pine gets the stove up to temp faster than oak would alone, and then the oak gives the long steady heat once the pine is used up.

 

[GG Woody]

First time post to this thread, first snow to the valley bottom here in the mountains in BC, -2 deg C and my first fire in my newly installed t6. Very happy to have the wood burning again.

It’s been 4 years since we moved into our new house and left our Enviro Kodiak behind.

3 small splits: 1 hemlock, 1 maple, 1 birch. Low and slow burn in fire. Gentle wafts of new stove smell. God I’ve missed this.

Snow here in BC as well (just east of Vernon). I also left an Enviro Kodiak behind (insert) at our last house. It was a good stove, Next (current) house came with a PE insert, I do think I like the PE a bit more. New Blaze King loaded yesterday and ready for it's first burn this weekend. I can't imagine living in B.C. surrounded by forests and not burning wood. Upstairs insert has been doing daily afternoon burns, burned yesterday overnight.

 

[MRD1985]

Heat pump today. Highs in the upper 50s with lows in the low 40s. Probably have one tomorrow during the day and Friday, supposed to be 40s and rain. Colder weather moving in for the long term it looks like after thanksgiving.

 

[stoveliker]

My plan has been to only have a fire if it's below 45 F for 24 hrs or more (given my type of stove and it being a basement dweller where I need to heat up 825 sqft before that heat is going up the stairs).

So far no fire this year, which is late.

But it seems that Thursday. night will be 38, Friday 45 and cloudy/rainy (so no solar gain), and Friday n ight 37.
So it's likely that the stove will be lit Thursday night - if the forecast does not change.
The minisplit does fine and I have plenty solar kWhs in the bank.
I'm itching for a fire though...

 

[NickW]

Just threw a half load of shoulder season wood in to get me to later for the overnight load. Flurries overnight and a weather advisory for tomorrow morning.

 

[bigealta]

Gonna rain tonight and tomorrow with winds. Will get a good fire going to keep the flue dry, and it's 61F here inside now so even if temps are mid to low 50s, with the rain and wind, a fire will be the way to go.

 

[all night moe]

No fire now. Furnace is still down. Haven't had time to start diagnosing the problem. Thinking of having a couple smaller loads in it to burn. Let some heat loft up through the duct work while leaving the basement door open for the return. It'll also warm up part of the house through the wide plank floors. Take off some of the chill lingering here.

 

[burning VC]

Tonight in the northern NC foothills, autumn makes it's late arrival known with a howling wind escort.
37F low with a 30mph wind...

In tonight's course of flame, we began during day hours with maple and beech limbs of the inch variety.

Adding a few 199yo+ Spanish Swamp Oak 1-2" splits atop produced a lovely coaling to build the night course.

For the sake of combustion purity, and in light of the atmospheric Artic river of Santa probing the defenses of Chimney's nationwide,
we choose to concentrate on a pure red oak experience, and added 4 more splits off of the original 5 foot diameter Spanish Swamp Oak round we enjoyed earlier, albeit much larger splits at 5-6".


For the midnight snack, it's again the SSO, and pardon my mistake earlier as i omitted the Red Oak in tonight's event, is seasoned four complete years and 4 months.

Tonight the Fisher Grandpa Bear is lazily strolling about, digging here and there and looking around in a nonchalant manner as the wind whips through the trees along the river.

 

[thewoodlands]

It's 43.5 tonight, we had two small pine fires after supper that has the temps up here 70 & 71.

 

[NickW]

Second full hardwood load of the season. 1 beech, 5 ash & 1 I'm not sure but might be walnut on a good coal bed. Took off before I was done loading 😁. 30 outside with wind and flurries, 69 degrees up & down. Will be mid 70's downstairs shortly...

 

[Wisco Shepherd]

28 with flurries. We have a 3/4 load of ash and Maple in. Going to try and get the house warm before we leave tomorrow before I leave to do medical coverage at the state football championship.

 

[shortys7777]

I've been burning nightly loads of oak/birch. Still not quiet cold enough for a full 24hr burn yet.

 

[NickW]

28 degrees with howling winds and a couple inches of snow on the ground. Firing up the coals and going to go with a full load of hardwood I think.