What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

[30WCF]

Maple to get my coals ready for the overnighter.

 

[MRD1985]

Maple to get my coals ready for the overnighter.

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Nice blue flames there.

 

[Pinesmoke]

The wife been running the stove all week so I imagine she's getting ready to pack in the night oak. I'll be back tomorrow.

Burning gas in the fireplace here, does that count?

 

[30WCF]

Nice blue flames there.

That’s some dry wood. Can hardly get it placed on the coals and it lights off.

 

[burning VC]

in the nwNC foothills....it's 32F a 9p EST, forecast low of 16F....and 5-20mph winds before dawn...

I swept the chimney at lunchtime, after letting the overnight flame out completely...so it is in it's best condition of the year....cleaned the stovepipe from the rear vent Grandpa, swept the firebox after scraping a bit...


The weather was 47F at 9a today, and dropped starting at 12:30p until it's hitting the overnight low....
Just weird how it was warmer at 9a than the afternoon...


So I burned more hurricane limbs to burn hot and fast, build up some temps and get coals for the main day load, hurricane fresh White Pine, as before.

I've been burning wood like a coal powered steam locomotive all day....open the door, rake HUGE bed of coals, throw in reload of White Pine, and they ERUPTED into flames in seconds, the draft roaring away, flames laying flat towards the flue...shut the door.....

STT over 650F, draft with the clean flue and super cold temps is combusting and cranking some BTU's...

Down in the trees by the river, Old Man Grandpa Bear snarled and gnashed some teeth....without the reaction he wanted, he briefly ran and stopped....a mere bluff charged to remind everyone of his powerful ability....even the trees shivered in the wind..


tldr; straight White pine, homie!

 

[30WCF]

Over correction. Now a piece of pine to burn the coals down a bit so I can load it for the nite.
Two pictures snapped back to back as soon as I tossed the pine in.

 

[MRD1985]

Full stove tonight. Wisconsin’s cold coming in tonight and thru the next 24-48 hours. White oak mostly with a bit of black cherry and a few cutoffs to fill the gaps.

 

[Gearhead660]

Got Myra and the insert cruising along for the night with red oak. Stay warm out there.

 

[30WCF]

28, headed for a low of 22.
68 in the hallway now.

 

[NickW]

28, headed for a low of 22. 68 in the hallway.
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Oh my!

 

[MRD1985]

28, headed for a low of 22.
68 in the hallway now.
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Big chunk of ash??

 

[30WCF]

Oh my!

I’ll want to feed it again at 4-5 if I’m up since it’s in the low 20s.

 

[30WCF]

Big chunk of ash??

I think that was oak. I really didn’t even look. I don’t think I had any ash that old, in that stack.

 

[MRD1985]

I think that was oak. I really didn’t even look. I don’t think I had any ash that old, in that stack.

Ahh ok. Tough to tell, from the bark almost looked like ash. Must be white oak? Doesn’t look quite like red oak.

 

[30WCF]

Ahh ok. Tough to tell, from the bark almost looked like ash. Must be white oak? Doesn’t look quite like red oak.

I can pull it back out and take a look.
Jk

I’m going with oak. I just can’t remember having ash, especially a decent size one, that would have been under the shed.

Up until this year, I think my stacks are oak, hickory, maple, persimmon, peach, pine, pear. This year I got into some cedar, gum and ash, but all that is still in a big uncovered pile.

 

[NickW]

Couple of ironwood, big beech top middle, rest is ash.

 

[30WCF]

Couple of ironwood, big beech top middle, rest is ash.
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I need a stove I can load like that.

 

[30WCF]

1 hr in, 446 in the pipe, 68in the hall, 26 outside. She’s burning steady on that one chunk.

 

[patrickk222]

Atm its 15 outside with 25 mph wind and burning white oak

 

[Wildflush]

28 outside with windchill in the teens, did not load before bed and house was still 65 downstairs so heat never called. Started with a mix load of oak, maple and elm with cutoffs and smaller uglies. Cruising at 600 house 70 now.

 

[johneh]

7 am -10 outside real feel -19
Furnace chugging along with a load of 16% Ash
House and better half happy at 21
Going to be a cold windy day. There is more snow tomorrow
Stay warm

 

[30WCF]

Had coals to relight off of this morning. I slept a little longer than I meant to. The heat was on (thermostat set at 65). Got two big oak splits shoved in there about 6:30 and now we are back above thermostat territory.
18 outside this morning.
About 600 in the pipe.

 

[thewoodlands]

I still felt like chit last night so no overnight fire, I did set the furnace which kicked on early this morning. We had a low of 15.4 this morning, the basement temp started out at 68 with the temps up here at 69 because of the furnace.

After coffee, I made a fire in the Liberty, we have some cherry, soft maple with a nice hunk of sugar maple.

 

[MRD1985]

I still felt like chit last night so no overnight fire, I did set the furnace which kicked on early this morning. We had a low of 15.4 this morning, the basement temp started out at 68 with the temps up here at 69 because of the furnace.

After coffee, I made a fire in the Liberty, we have some cherry, soft maple with a nice hunk of sugar maple.

Feel better my friend!

 

[thewoodlands]

Feel better my friend!

Thanks @MRD1985 , I'm hoping the little bit of progress I made overnight means I'm turning the corner.