What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

[Todd]

-9 this evening, gonna be a cold one. Final load for the evening 35lbs Red Oak.

 

[NickW]

Coals, coals, coals, coals... Burning down the coals (use whatever tune you want to sing this). House temps are dropping, huge pile of coals. 3 pieces of bark, flue temp 841, burning down the coals... Stt to 480, burning down the coals. Flue temp is dropping, burning down the coals. Add more bark, burning down the coals...

 

[Dajolu]

Small ambiance fire, red oak and a split of Doug fir.

 

[stoveliker]

31 outside, decreasing to 25. 70 upstairs.

Reload with two white oak splits left and right bottom. Three too long red oak splits (1 left, 2 right) on their top. Shorties of red oak in the middle.
Had gloves on but burned my sleeve when putting the shorties in ...

Too much air between them, but 4.5 years ago I was getting ahead and didn't care about shape or length. So now I can't load my box tightly.

The long ones are less than an inch from my window ...

 

[MRD1985]

Big chunks of white oak for the night along with some cut offs to fill the gaps. Should have nice coals in the morning. 29 out down to 21 tonight. Current feels like temp is 23.

 

[Wood1Dennis]

It is cold here. We were -3 this morning. The cold snap gives me a chance to burn some nice yellow birch I have been saving for just such an occasion! Yellow birch is some of the best firewood I get here!

 

[Kodiak]

Are you taking a college writing course? Your posts have been giving me a chuckle...

I like the prose. It’s very poetic. Keep it going….The cold stillness of winter slows the pulse of the earth while we ruminate on the year past. Wood smoke rolls and wafts slowly into the dense cold night air. The first few snowflakes fall undecidedly onto the branches of a nearby fir. My soul stirs with warmth…..