What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

[MRD1985]

Reloaded after about 12.5 hours stove temp just a touch under 150 degrees with mostly cherry along with a piece of Norway maple and white oak. Had some decent coals, but gave it some help anyway . Not bad for this Drolet.

 

[all night moe]

I do miss running a regular stove. The wood furnace isn't as satisfying.

 

[MRD1985]

I do miss running a regular stove. The wood furnace isn't as satisfying.

You can always find a way to have both! 😁

 

[NickW]

6 splits on a nice coal bed have the NC30 full. Some real mongo chunks in there. 2 beech & 4 ash. 25 degrees outside with the wind finally dying down.

 

[thewoodlands]

It's 36.5 out tonight, the basement temp is starting out at 77 with the temps up here 70 & 71. Tonight I went with a load of pine, before I call it a night, I'll shut the fan off.

 

[all night moe]

You can always find a way to have both! 😁

Thousands later, I could. Long story.

 

[MongoMongoson]

The morning after the change from shoulder season wood to good hardwood is like an early Chrismas morning. After a couple of months of pine, spruce, sycamore, and box elder I loaded it up with red elm last night.

This morning, instead of a small pile of coals in the ashes, the firebox floor was full of big red solid coals after a 10 hour burn. Like, 4" diameter coals covering the whole bottom. That, and it was nice and warm downstairs in the morning.

Every year it is a surprise, for some reason. I just forget how good it is to burn better wood.

We still have a little bit of shoulder wood left but will probably do mixed loads from this point to use it up. Right now I have shoulder wood on too of those coals.

 

[MongoMongoson]

Never burnt or worked with sycamore, how do you like it?

Sycamore burns like box elder. It is fine and if it was dropped in my yard I would be happy with it.

Branches seem much more dense and I left some as rounds. I get some OK coals from those rounds. They seemed to dry just fine but they were stacked for 2 1/2 years or so. Splits will season fast... in one summer, even.

It is a pain to split, though. The trees I have processed were twisty and stringy. When cutting/bucking it, the bark gives off some fibrous irritant particles that make me cough like crazy. Last time, I was helping a coworker clean up his yard. After day 1, I started wearing a mask while limbing and bucking and loading it in the truck.

By the time I got it home and started splitting, the irritation was no longer an issue.

 

[all night moe]

When cutting/bucking it, the bark gives off some fibrous irritant particles that make me cough like crazy. Last time, I was helping a coworker clean up his yard. After day 1, I started wearing a mask while limbing and bucking ad loading it in the truck.

By the time I got it home and started splitting, the irritation was no longer an issue.

aka sickamore. We always used to say, ''It'll make ya sick.''

 

[MRD1985]

11 hour coals, some nice big chunks from the cherry last night. Reloaded with all cherry this morning with a stove temp around 150. Held the torch for 10 seconds on the coals and off it went.

 

[Pinesmoke]

aka sickamore. We always used to say, ''It'll make ya sick.''

Before wood slabs were the rage we were cutting them out of a wood dump. The trunks we cut were big enough they couldn't handle them so we got them on the cheap, $100 per trailer load. There was lots of sycamore over 3' in diameter and the wood finishes with a very unique sparkle in the grain. Cut, plane and sand to get it to finishing was always an exercise of near misery but we'll worth it in the end.

 

[thewoodlands]

We had a low this morning of 30.7 the basement temp started out at 70 with the temps up here 68 & 69. Another shoulder season fire (pine) was started before the first cup of coffee this morning.

 

[Haltoni]

Maple and some ironwood

 

[Dieselhead]

No ironwood in my area I’d like to try it someday. I’ve seen it while hiking up north.

 

[all night moe]

No ironwood in my area I’d like to try it someday. I’ve seen it while hiking up north.

It's right up there with hickory and black locust.

 

[Wildflush]

Cold night. Loaded with 2 big splits of cherry, 1 big chunk of maple and a medium split of red oak with a smaller split of maple on the raked forward coals to get it all going. Wild secondaries with a good draft.

Edit: Main floor 77 now upstairs 71. House will retain heat until morning.

 

[begreen]

The T6 is getting its first full loads with the cold descending on us too. Just Doug fir. That will be our primary fuel this winter as usual.

 

[MRD1985]

Let the stove go out over the course of the day. Was warm in here at some points, had doors and windows open for a bit haha. House cooled to 66–67. Load of cherry and a couple pieces of birch for the night

 

[Dajolu]

Just lit up a half load of red oak to watch as I sip on some scotch. First time using a 1/4 round of super cedars to start the fire. I’m impressed.

 

[thewoodlands]

We have an outside temp of 30.7 tonight, the basement is starting out at 75 with the temps up here 69 & 70. I have a load of cherry going in the wood stove for our overnight heat.

 

[all night moe]

Busy day..... got home from work and loaded in some ash on top of coals. Hour and a half later, more ash, couple soft maple splits, and a piece of cherry. Just came up from the overnight load at 11PM. She's eating some ash, birch, soft maple, cherry, and couple splits of sugar maple. I may visit again before some much needed shut eye. Lows hitting the low 30s tonight.

 

[Kodiak]

In my stove (this morning) were some 10 hour coals, nice. But…..we were all needing to leave the house with him the hour and wouldn’t be home for another 4 hours or so. Don’t want to fill it and leave as we wouldn’t be home long enough to get it going and monitor and close air down to reasonable level, I wasn’t about to waste those coals.

I pulled all the coals up the front and laid a nice flat east west piece over top of coals and another 2 small splits north south with the butts up on top of the east west, and closed the air all the way up.

Basically made a coal blanket. Now I’m not proud of smouldering the fire for 4 hours but I came home and tbe east west piece was still coaling and the 2 ns splits were charred a bit…..I opened the air, filled it up and off she went, a real nice fire. No relight needed.

Ok, hit me with the comments, how much am I bunging up my pipe doing this technique from time to time? Hate to waste those good coals, ya know?!
( I know think we can all agree, not having to relight is really nice).

 

[thewoodlands]

It's 32.9 out this morning, I haven't been in the basement yet so I'm not sure of the temp (72?) up here the temps are 69 & 70.

We won't have a fire until later this afternoon, Happy Thanksgiving.

 

[all night moe]

Never went down for another visit last night. Up this morning at 6:30. So 7hrs later, huge bed of coals, with the fan limit switch just under it's differential range. Outside temp @35* with ''real feel'' riding 32*. Dusting of snow outside. More to fall throughout the day.

Loaded the furnace up with 8-10 splits of mixed hardwoods. No high BTU species, just the same stuff she's been dieting on. It was still warm in the house, save the back 2 rooms. Our living room is one of them. Temps are cruising back up now. Half hour after reload.

 

[Dieselhead]

I went to work last night around 4 and the house was 73. There were remnants of a load of spruce from the morning. This am arrived home and the house was 65 and the heat pump was cycling. I now have another full load of spruce going with today being cold and rainy. I imagine the oven going for 4 hours+ cooking today will help as well.
Happy thanksgiving all! 🦃🍗