What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

[Wisco Shepherd]

We have some pine burning down in the Liberty, the outside temp is 29.1 tonight with the temps up here 68 & 70.

The overnight load will be all cherry.

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[MRD1985]

Way to go number 10,000! Thanks for your contributions @thewoodlands

 

[MRD1985]

Some white oak, red oak, cherry and Norway maple for the night. Low of 34 tonight.

 

[NickW]

Ash, beech and oak. We'll be down around 20 in the morning.

 

[thewoodlands]

The outside temp is 28.6 at the moment, the basement temp is starting off at 77 with the temps up here 68 & 69.

The wood stove has seven splits of cherry in it for the overnight heat.

 

[MRD1985]

I’m off to bed, stove is cruising

 

[all night moe]

Furnace has been on a steady diet of ash, soft and sugar maples, with a bit of cherry and birch. The Thermo-Control dragon breath furnace has been sipping these splits, conserving on fuel. Still feeding her small batches save for the cold nights. Then I feed it twice the volume.

Will be making some changes in the name of efficiency. Also going to use the water coils to bring heat to the kitchen, via heat exchangers.
Bit concerned putting more load on her with fuel consumption. She's a big girl, I know she can eat.....

 

[BCB]

Yellow Birch, locals call it Merisier, great wood. Snow is coming!

 

[Wisco Shepherd]

Had good coals 9 hours later for a relight and put in a 3/4 load of maple. Getting into some totes with more variety after this. I know the BK guys would laugh at 9 hours but I'm happy with that on my little 1.8 cu ft Kuma.

 

[Wildflush]

Rains coming this afternoon. 35 outside. Load of smaller oak and maple splits with uglies to warm up the house.

 

[thewoodlands]

We had a low of 35.6 this morning, the basement temp started off at 72 with both temps up here at 69. Another load of pine is going in the wood stove.

We're getting more rain today, Accu is calling for 0.64 of an inch.

 

[NickW]

Nice bed of coals this morning 10 hours after lighting, but house temps are dropping with 20 degrees and wind. Full load of hardwood went in and is cranking up. Wimped out and skipped the morning hunt...

 

[Pinesmoke]

45 and dark gray out, rained last night. Not supposed to get much warmer so I think it's time for a small pine fire.

 

[johneh]

Yesterday was the first day we were below 0 c wife wanted to fire up the wood furnace
so a load of ash and the old farmhouse was warm as toast overnight some freezing rain
so a good load of ash and this morning a nice bed of coals for you guessed it a load of ash
now the better half is happy with a warm house

 

[Gearhead660]

Woke up to temps in the 20s outside. Got a load of oak cruising along in Myra. 90% of this year's wood is oak...I ain't complaining.

 

[MRD1985]

Some cherry, white oak and Norway maple for this morning with some white pine kindling. Really liking how these north/south loads are burning so probably going to switch my cutting length to do this from now on. Takes off evenly and gets up to temp real quick and lasts just as long if not longer than the E/W loads I have been doing. I’ll modify the cuts as I bring in wood and toss in the cut offs to fill the gaps.

 

[bigealta]

Rain and 53F outside, 59F inside. So load of sticks and branches.

 

[bigealta]

Some cherry, white oak and Norway maple for this morning with some white pine kindling. Really liking how these north/south loads are burning so probably going to switch my cutting length to do this from now on. Takes off evenly and gets up to temp real quick and lasts just as long if not longer than the E/W loads I have been doing. I’ll modify the cuts as I bring in wood and toss in the cut offs to fill the gaps.

Or try combo loads, N/S bottom row or rows with E/W on top or middle row.

What lengths do you need for N/S?

 

[MRD1985]

Or try combo loads, N/S bottom row or rows with E/W on top or middle row.

What lengths do you need for N/S?

15” max. I like to stack them a little tighter than doing criss cross. I find it burns too hot too fast with it stacked like that.

 

[Wildflush]

15” max. I like to stack them a little tighter than doing criss cross. I find it burns too hot too fast with it stacked like that.

I start my stove with two longs E/W on sleepers then two diagonal across them. I add cutoffs and uglies on the sides. The top down start goes up quick which I want when the house is cold. The quicker I get to 600-650 STT the better for me. My reloads are not done this way.

 

[MRD1985]

Stove is still 225 degrees after almost 9 hours. Not too bad. Not going to reload for another few hours or so, still 69-70 in here

 

[NickW]

My stt isn't that high yet but I have a nice pile of coals and the house temps are just starting to drop with the sun going down. 1/2 load of shoulder season wood just went in and taking off.

 

[Wildflush]

Just started the Vista up again after a few morning loads. House got to 73 so let it die out. Dropping to 30’s tonight. Mix of Ash, cherry, oak and maple.

 

[Pinesmoke]

I realized a couple of hours back it was falling to 32 tonight. Stirred the coals around from the the pile I loaded this morning and tossed some more pine in to get the stove temp climbing. Throttled down and cats are active but low. Gonna toss a couple of oak spots in for ember and let it go till overnight oak goes in.

Just firing the girl for the first time this week I'd forgotten how toasty she is.

 

[moresnow]

19F currently. Brr.
Letting coals expire now.
Looks like an arm load of Elm going in soon. Good stuff.