What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

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MRD1985 said:
@Stelcom66 This cherry is about 2 years. Does feel quite hard handling it, It is very nice stuff. It’s black cherry.

It would be have been fine to use after a year I think.
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We get a lot of black cherry here. It is one of my favorites, because of how good it smells when it burns. Often what we get is a tree that was cut because it was not doing well, or fence line trees from a farm. I find black cherry to be the one species where we most commonly see carpenter ants. Not a problem now that my wood is always seasoned.

There was a time, before I knew what I was doing, where I would burn a lot of unseasoned wood. One time I got up in the night to throw more wood on the fire and found hundreds of ants on the floor that I had to vacuum up. I had brought some wood in earlier that day in preparation for a cold night, and they must have come out of the wood when it thawed. That was close to 20 years ago.

As long as it is dry when you bring it in the house, you should not see ants in your wood.
 
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MongoMongoson said:
We get a lot of black cherry here. It is one of my favorites, because of how good it smells when it burns. Often what we get is a tree that was cut because it was not doing well, or fence line trees from a farm. I find black cherry to be the one species where we most commonly see carpenter ants. Not a problem now that my wood is always seasoned.

There was a time, before I knew what I was doing, where I would burn a lot of unseasoned wood. One time I got up in the night to throw more wood on the fire and found hundreds of ants on the floor that I had to vacuum up. I had brought some wood in earlier that day in preparation for a cold night, and they must have come out of the wood when it thawed. That was close to 20 years ago.

As long as it is dry when you bring it in the house, you should not see ants in your wood.
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It does smell really nice. Good burn times and decent heat out of it. 7-8 14” length pieces are usually good for an 8 hour burn with 600-625 STT. Seasons rather quickly too. A lot of what is around here are a 12” trees or smaller. All of what I have has been from my yard I took down.
 
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Accidentally put last night's load report in the "Work Done" thread with the beech discussion. Oops...

3/4 load of ash going right now trying to burn down coals and remove ash later from 1 side.

Cherry is my absolute favorite wood to split. Spend as much time sniffing as splitting!
 
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No fire since about 10 pm Last night. house around 65 currently. Loaded up with white oak, red oak, cherry and birch with some kindling. 25 outside with a wind chill of 17 this morning.
 

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Wisco Shepherd said:
First load of oak ever in this morning. It'll be interesting to see how it compares to the silver maple I've been burning.

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Stove full of heaven.

NickW said:
Accidentally put last night's load report in the "Work Done" thread with the beech discussion. Oops...

3/4 load of ash going right now trying to burn down coals and remove ash later from 1 side.

Cherry is my absolute favorite wood to split. Spend as much time sniffing as splitting!
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I saw that post and knew you were lost.... lol
Me too, loves the smell of freshly split black cherry. For the win, I bought a half gallon of it in ice cream form last night. One of my favourites.
 
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The wood stove has a load of punky cherry in it, that should burn down nice so I have some coals for the overnight load, more cherry.

It's about 26 out tonight heading down to around 20. The basement temp should be 77 or 79, the temps up here are 70 & 71.

So far the Lake Effect stayed south of us, they had called for 4 - 40 inches of snow for us. They changed that a few times, so far we have about three inches of the white stuff.
 
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Pinesmoke said:
I'm sure it will border on shock. Maple-->oak is a new world.

Enjoy Wisco!
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Especially silver maple to oak... Sugar maple is really good, but I haven't had oak in any quantity since I put this stove in and got rid of the smoke dragon. Just the odd chunk or two. Always leaves coals the next morning.
 
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Been burning shorts and uglies of various species with a few med sized splits of ash and a couple black cherry throughout the day. This was to keep the coal bed established as I stacked splits from yesterdays bilco door dump. All stacked now and furnace has a nice bed of coals kicking for the overnight load. Haven't checked temps but it'll be cold tonight. Will hit the sac with mostly ash on the coals. Have some regular sized and some big splits ready. House is comfy for this drafty ole place.
 
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A true medley tonight. Ash, beech, birch, maple & oak. Winds have finally calmed a bit. House temperature has stabilized with that and a couple pine & aspen loads. Real feel/wind chill staying above zero tonight and will almost get above freezing tomorrow.
 
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23* right now with a low of 22. Real feel at 2*
Time to stoke the furnace up. No high BTU/lb wood inside. It's all under snow. I'll be bringing a bunch in tomorrow to dry. Cold all week.
I do have ash and black cherry in the basement. It'll do.
Hickory and honey locust down there too, but that needs to sit in the half cord kiln I'm putting together.
 
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6:38 am House at 68 outside temp -11.9::C
nice bed of coals in the furnace toss in a few splits of ash
not going to get above O ::C so heat all-day
Snowed last night about 5 cm so maybe a little plowing
this morning . Looks like the Great White North now
 
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In our Hearthstone Castleton II - my morning routine is to pile up the coals, if needed remove ashes, add some kindling (all kinds - spruce cutoffs, tree-top sticks, scraps from the woodsplitter (mostly maple), a little birch). In the stove right now, a couple of birch ("little wood" we call it - 2" thick), a small piece of locust - nicely dried. Will burn locust, larger birch, a bit of maple today.
 
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