What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

[MRD1985]

24 with feels like of 19 right now. What’s left of 6 splits of white oak after 10+ hours. Had some nice big coals and the the stove took off on its own putting some wood in after only a minute or 2. Reloaded with red and white oak and a piece of Norway maple plus a couple cut offs.

House at 66-67 right before reloading

 

[Wisco Shepherd]

That oak load yesterday was awesome, going to fill up the racks with that stuff later today. More maple right now......
Also have the stock tank heater going lately, mostly tossing in some uglies and box elder. We have an electric tank heater in one paddock but can't get power out to this bunch of sheep so this works well.

 

[thewoodlands]

We had a low of 21.2 this morning, the basement temp started off at 70 with the temps up here 67 & 68. We have a load of cherry with some pine going this morning.

 

[Dieselhead]

Outdoor thermometer read 16 this am. I had the stove loaded with oak around 11 yesterday am. Came home this morning to a nice coal bed and cat probe at 10:30 position. Threw on a full load of spruce to load up some daytime btu’s, most likely another load of oak tonight with lows forecasted in the low 20’s.

 

[MRD1985]

Didn’t quite turn the air down enough before I walked my son to the bus. Came back after about 10 minutes and STT was at 750, turned the air all the way down, blower on full speed and came down to 700 after a few minutes and cruising at 700. Nice stuff on this load.

Worst case i crack the door if this fails and temps keep rising but didn’t have to this time

 

[NickW]

1/2 load of shoulder season wood. Trying to burn down coals and get ash out today.

 

[ctreitzell]

16C / 60F in the living room…
RealFeel is 2C / 35F outside

It’s just that much too cool in here

Just made a quick top-down of mostly elm-piece of oak and plenty of apple twigs…the gas torch is a wonderful addition for starting!

 

[burning VC]

at 1pm we hit the reduced forecast high of 43F.... low in the high teens tonight...4mph wind..

In the nwNC foothills, I fed Grandpa Bear some prime Red Oak, and white oak on top of the coals from White Pine from the morning load..

He growled into the below average cold, and stared.
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[MRD1985]

Tossed a piece of Norway maple, a piece of white oak and a sliver of cherry in for a little boost. Still had monster chunks after 8-9 hours and stove was still 250-300*, but worked outside a bunch today and wanted a little boost in heat. This will be a toasty reload before bed.

Lots of blue flame on this stuff. Pictures dont really do it justice.

 

[stoveliker]

Being in Boston this week, the wife texted that the (her!) Sunday night 11 pm reload ran until Monday 5 pm.
Not bad!

It was (and is) red oak shorties.

 

[NickW]

Another 1/2 load of aspen just went in for a quick heat boost and to burn the embers in the ash off on one side.

 

[MrCampbellAHS]

I've noticed on several threads that a lot of folks burn "Sugar Maple," I have never thought of that as a good burning wood. I am guessing that when properly seasoned it burns hot and fast?

 

[dcl]

Temp is going to be 14* tonight here in northern Illinois. Stove is putting along with a mix of cherry and white oak.

 

[NickW]

I've noticed on several threads that a lot of folks burn "Sugar Maple," I have never thought of that as a good burning wood. I am guessing that when properly seasoned it burns hot and fast?

Sugar maple is equivalent to red oak in the BTU charts. I find it to burn hot and long. With the many species of maple there can be issues with identification (see my thread with trying to ID some tree service wood). Red maple is often thought to be sugar maple (true red maple, not the dark red/purple leaf yard tree). There's sugar, red, Norway, black, big leaf, silver...and box elder is a member of the maple family and higher than silver in BTU's but still not great.

 

[MRD1985]

Temp is going to be 14* tonight here in northern Illinois. Stove is putting along with a mix of cherry and white oak.

Sounds familiar 👍 been burning a lot of that combo recently.

 

[thewoodlands]

I have some pine that is burning down, that should give me some nice coals for the overnight load.

 

[MRD1985]

Full stove tonight. A mix of red/white oak, black cherry and birch. Currently 28* with forecasted low of 22

 

[thewoodlands]

It's 25 out tonight, the basement temp started out at 75 with the temps up here 69 & 70. The Liberty is loaded up with cherry for the overnight heat.

 

[Kodiak]

Didn’t quite turn the air down enough before I walked my son to the bus. Came back after about 10 minutes and STT was at 750, turned the air all the way down, blower on full speed and came down to 700 after a few minutes and cruising at 700. Nice stuff on this load.

Worst case i crack the door if this fails and temps keep rising but didn’t have to this time

The blower or a fan really does help to cool off. I had a big load in the T6 last night and I under estimated the air closing and it got hot hot hot. It was colder out side than I’ve experienced with this stove so I think the draft the played a roll. But it got hot enough that I think I hit a high temp that the paint curing hadn’t hit yet bc I could smell it. Need my giant step ladder to get up to my smoke alarm on the 12 foot ceiling. Turned on my giant 18 inch fan and it cooled down from pinned at 750 to 650 really quick.

Anyway, paint is cured now and a good test of the smoke alarms. The whole house was going off.

Couple Doug for splits and 2 hemlock and one birch. Cruising at 600. 23.5 degrees c inside here and 0 degrees c outside, foggy and wet out there, dry and cozy in here.

Love it.

 

[30WCF]

Just a mixed bag of oak, pear, and maple.
Woke up to about .75 inch of snow and 24*F.

 

[burning VC]

didnt see the flurries in the nwNC foothills...but feelings the chill.


GrandpaBear digested his red oak last night...I swept the ash, made a bed of pine limbs and beech and opened both drafts full while i made coffee and checked the forecast.

It got to 19 F overnight, it's 32 now at 10:15a......high of 40F, low of 17F tonight.

GB was kicking a fit, STT of 550F in about 30 mins from basically a cold start and greenish limbage.

So I choked him out, closed up one side...so he don't run me outta here when i get back...

I put a heart crotch of Red Oak(spanish swamp oak), a few White Oak limbs about 4 inch thick, and some Oak Bark in front to light it off...


a lion may be king of the jungle, but imho a bear is king of the forest....
He just gave me a look in his eye, I LIVE for this.....and ignored the two deer in the front yard this morning down by the trees near the river...

 

[thewoodlands]

We had a low this morning of 24.1, the basement temp started out at 72 with both temps up here at 68. We started burning on October 6, today I took out half a pail of ashes.

I finally started a fire at 10, 8 splits of cherry with 2 splits of pine.

 

[ctreitzell]

Tossed a piece of Norway maple, a piece of white oak and a sliver of cherry in for a little boost. Still had monster chunks after 8-9 hours and stove was still 250-300*

My goodness do I wish I could do this!

I gotta dig in and find out if we can go back to large fire boxes...I think the EU has done an about face on EcoDesign 2022...I just haven't gotten around to to reading the latest regs

 

[ctreitzell]

Well, Yahoo sez 6C/ 42F with RealFeel at 4C/ 40F, but man alive it feels colder than that! There’s something about 4C/40F that just vibrates at a frequency that feels frigid. There’s not much wind and clear skies with -1C / 31F forecast overnight

So, now I got this down with the gas torch and my kindling sorted!
Poplar/hazel/elm on bottom;
Kindling is elm/ beech/poplar/apple

Been burning every night and glass is staying clean…so nothing but well cured going in

 

[NickW]

Load of uglies and scraps just went on the coals from this mornings ash & beech load instead of my normal afternoon shoulder season load. We'll see what it leaves me later.