What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

[all night moe]

Yes, Happy Thanksgiving to all.

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! 🦃🍗

Nice for burning spruce.
I'll say it again, King me.

 

[mpaul]

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).

Why not just cover the coals with ash? They’ll insulate the coals until you’re ready to use them later in the day and then you don’t need to worry about the smoldering all day. The smoldering all day is inefficient and to your point will only cause build up in your chimney. Yes, cold starts are a pain but I’d rather do the hard right than easy wrong that could result in a clogged chimney.

 

[Pinesmoke]

Last night was in the high 40s and just dropped in a couple of pine splits to keep the stove warm. Just a small ember pile this morning. We have a big carry in feast today down off the hill so I'm just gonna clean the stove out and get it ready to light back up when we get home. Night time temps gonna be falling into the mid teens by the weekend.

I guess winter is here now.

Happy Thanksgiving y'all.

 

[MRD1985]

Woke up around 730 and the stove was still hot with great coals after the 10pm fire last night. Still around 70 degrees in the house so no fire until later tonight more than likely we’ll be out for thanksgiving.

Happy thanksgiving everyone

 

[Kodiak]

Why not just cover the coals with ash? They’ll insulate the coals until you’re ready to use them later in the day and then you don’t need to worry about the smoldering all day. The smoldering all day is inefficient and to your point will only cause build up in your chimney. Yes, cold starts are a pain but I’d rather do the hard right than easy wrong that could result in a clogged chimney.

Well now there’s a thought! Yeah bury my coals in ash and push them all to a back corner nice and deep. I’m pretty impressed with how long this stove holds the coals. I put in a loosely loaded 75% load of soft wood ( hemlock and Doug fir ) and 12 hours later I wake up to a warm ( but cooling ) house and good amount of coals for a relight. Still haven’t really done a full full load and had her choochin yet. Not cold enough out.

Love this stove.

 

[Dieselhead]

Yes, Happy Thanksgiving to all.


Nice for burning spruce.
I'll say it again, King me.

It’s not usually the norm but either I’d have to try to give it away, haul it away or heat my house with it. I made the smart choice. 12hr burns no problem. I still have about 4 cord of logs to process that I cut down last spring. I need to get to work.

 

[begreen]

We just completed the first 24hr burn. It's nice to have the stove fall into the groove again.

 

[Stelcom66]

Glad I brought some wood into the garage late yesterday afternoon, raining pretty good all day as predicted. Just re-started the stove without needing a match. Coat, hat and shoes by the stove drying out.

Happy Thanksgiving!

 

[BCB]

Wet and humid here, some short ends from processing wood in the stove, white/yellow birch.

Happy turkey day all.

 

[MongoMongoson]

The forecast says it will be 17 in the morning and 11 Saturday morning. I have a load of ash and popple in the old Quaker tonight.

 

[Wildflush]

Mild and rain all day here. No fire just using the mini splits. Happy Thanksgiving. 🦃

 

[MRD1985]

House down to 65 when we got home around 6 so go the stove going, might throw a few more pieces on late before I go to bed. Some more cherry and birch for this load.

 

[stoveliker]

55 during the day. Minisplit (and oven heat ) time.
But the forecast has us cooling down to 37 overnight and a high of 46 tomorrow.

As it's cloudy tomorrow I started the stove after having a bite of the bird. It'll run until my wife lets it die out as I'm traveling from Sunday morning.

Two 4" thick 8" dis pine cut offs and two small pine splits plus some wood working trash the n get it warmed up before a proper load.

 

[Pinesmoke]

Mid 30s and low cruising some beech, I hadn't burned any yet and I like the way it burns.

 

[stoveliker]

Maple with the remainder of the pine cookies in front.

Maple was too long, so e/w.
3/4 of a load; lotsa space in the front.

 

[thewoodlands]

It's 31.8 out tonight, the basement temp is starting out at 75 from a fire earlier, the temps up here are 69 & 70. The wood stove has four splits of pine with another five splits of cherry in it for the overnight heat.

 

[MrCampbellAHS]

Had to clean cats, so we let our go out while traveling yesterday, but I'm working on a relight with primarily White Ash. That's also what I'll burn most of this season, with a little thorn mixed in.

 

[thewoodlands]

The basement temp started out at 72 with both temps up here at 69. No fire yet but that should be going by 8, more pine.

 

[mpaul]

Maple with the remainder of the pine cookies in front.

Maple was too long, so e/w.
3/4 of a load; lotsa space in the front.

Brings up an interesting question. If doing smaller loads does it matter how you load? You loaded mostly in the back of your stove. I typically keep it level from front to back and just don’t stack as high.
Does it make any difference?

 

[Wisco Shepherd]

Brings up an interesting question. If doing smaller loads does it matter how you load? You loaded mostly in the back of your stove. I typically keep it level from front to back and just don’t stack as high.
Does it make any difference?

For small loads I like N/S for the first layer then criss cross all the way up. I try to make sure I get high in the stove as possible not a wide flat load.

 

[Gearhead660]

First real cold snap for our area. Temps outside in the teens. Woke up to house at 65*. Got Myra cranking with some Hickory and locust.

 

[all night moe]

Got Myra cranking with some Hickory and locust.

BTU heaven.

 

[all night moe]

Haven't been down to the furnace since about 1am. Had gotten home from plowing snow, loaded up on a big bed of coals, and went for shut eye. Got up this morning at 8:30. House feel s warm like around 65ish. Don't have a thermometer in the house, save the girlfriend.
It's either reading, "I'm cold" or "I'm so friggin Hot." .....LOL

 

[Dieselhead]

Won’t be home for 24 hrs, high in the low 40s today with mid 20s overnight tonight. A full load of red oak went in at 530am with the ‘stat set at 2:00 settled in nice for a 24hr burn.

 

[NickW]

Got home much later than expected last night so the stove was cold with no coals left and some of the baseboard heaters kicking on. Pulled the ash, quick kindling fire to get the charcoal left going, loaded up with 4 ash 2 ironwood and 2 beech. Lots of coals this morning but the house is chilly so a full load of pine, aspen and silver maple. It almost exploded on the coals.