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.