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…..

 

[NickW]

And finally the overnight load. 2 ironwood, 3 beech, 2 ash and a sugar maple...

 

[Kodiak]

I’m going to have to stay up late so I can reload. SST at 625f and cruising nicely. 3 maple and 2 birch and 2 hearty hemlock splitz.

It’s 23deg C in here on main floor and 20 degrees c upstairs. Loving this stove.

Weird how we Canadians are on the metric system but we ( well my generation anyway ) still use a combo of metric and imperial.

( the white st the back of my hearth is where I need to finish tiling the last row and make relief cuts to fit tile around my OAK. Maybe next week. And then the mantle and point the wall and, and, and. It never ends. But I’m ok with that.

Have a cozy night yall.

 

[all night moe]

I got home from work last night around 7PM. With a 12hr run in the furnace, I didn't have A lot of coals left on a smaller load of ash, cherry, and sugar maple. With a small pile of coals pulled forwards, got her lit on 2 cherry splits and a hand full of splitter slag. Filled up the belly heavy with the same as the morning's load.

Woke up 1AM with the howling winds and drafts wafting through the house. Big bed of coals in the belly and another repeat load. Going down now to feed the old dragon again.

 

[MongoMongoson]

Coals, coals, coals, coals....

This is where I am at. I worked from home yesterday morning and while I was here, kept feeding the fire... on top of an already healthy bed of coals.

Now I have 1/2 of a firebox of some very nice coals. It is kind of comical. I don't think they will be burned down until Saturday when I will be able to feed lightly with small stuff and stir with the primary air open. It will be warmer Saturday so I won't need to push it.

2 degrees this morning, and I threw in a few small sycamore sticks. I will follow that up in about 45 mins with some more coal makers.

 

[Wildflush]

Loaded last might and house was 75 when I went to bed. 24 outside. House 66 this morning and heat won’t call until 64. Loaded with mix load of ash, oak and maple. STT650. House 70 now.

 

[Dieselhead]

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...

Fight fire with fire!

 

[MRD1985]

Just loaded up with mostly white oak, a good size piece of cherry and a medium split of red oak. Along with a few cutoffs. About 11 hours since last fire, a torch to the coals for about 20-25 seconds and that’s all it needed.

Going to sit and enjoy my coffee with a view for a bit now that the wife and kids are out of the house at school and have some quiet before chores today.

 

[Todd]

-19 this morning! I woke up at 2am and it felt a little nippy in the cabin at 67 so threw three splits in the stove and set the air to medium. At 6am cabin at 68 and coal bed was just about right for another load. With this weather I’m going to have to burn smaller loads hotter to keep my cabin in the 70’s.

 

[Wildflush]

Just loaded up with mostly white oak, a good size piece of cherry and a medium split of red oak. Along with a few cutoffs. About 11 hours since last fire, a torch to the coals for about 20-25 seconds and that’s all it needed.

Going to sit and enjoy my coffee with a view for a bit now that the wife and kids are out of the house at school and have some quiet before chores today.

Doing the same thing today. Wife and kids out of the house and I have the day off. Enjoying my alone time.

 

[Wildflush]

-19 this morning! I woke up at 2am and it felt a little nippy in the cabin at 67 so threw three splits in the stove and set the air to medium. At 6am cabin at 68 and coal bed was just about right for another load. With this weather I’m going to have to burn smaller loads hotter to keep my cabin in the 70’s.

Now that’s cold!! Please don’t send it my way!

 

[thewoodlands]

I started the overnight load last night a little early so the furnace kicked on this morning, we had 15.1 for a low.

I had a load of cherry with maple going this morning before I headed outside to plow, hopefully there's some coals left. Another load of cherry will be our next load.

 

[Kodiak]

Doing the same thing today. Wife and kids out of the house and I have the day off. Enjoying my alone time.

If I could double like I would have. Same for me. Everyone’s out the door enjoying a coffee, some quiet and waking up slow.

(I just did a reload on the load i posted a pic of. I fell asleep and never reloaded , figured id cold start in the morning. But there were enough coals to relight. I’m really impressed with how long the coals hang in there. Basically getting 12 hour cycled reloads on a medium sized load in -5 to 0 deg C weather. Looking forward to to Ben colder weather so I can fill it to full capacity and see what we get for burn times in real cold. And house was still holding at 18 deg C. )

 

[Kodiak]

Ha Just glanced at my profile header. It’s my 10 year Hearth.com anniversary!
I’ll be sure to celebrate with some good birch splitz today.

 

[NickW]

Wife made a combo fire this morning. Burned it down enough to load up again a while ago, letting it settle in, heading for the Northwoods... Betting there will be coals yet buried in the ash Sunday night when we get home.

 

[all night moe]

Wife made a combo fire this morning. Burned it down enough to load up again a while ago, letting it settle in, heading for the Northwoods... Betting there will be coals yet buried in the ash Sunday night when we get home.

Wow! Still coals in 48ish hours. Small coals and buried in ash but still....
Which stove in your sig is this?

 

[NickW]

Wow! Still coals in 48ish hours. Small coals and buried in ash but still....
Which stove in your sig is this?

NC30. Tube stove and not a notorious long burner, but I have such a pile of ash and coals in there right now from the cold snap that I won't be surprised if I do. They won't be producing any heat, but it will be like throwing hot coals in an ash can and 2 days later starting your garbage can on fire (which I don't do).

 

[30WCF]

I did a sweep today, so what’s not in my stove is about 1-1/2 cups of the good stuff.

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The color of that isn't great (black and shiny).

Are those large oak pieces dry enough?

Yeah. That was a sarcastic “good stuff”. I’ll split one and check it, but I can’t imagine it isn’t dry.

I hate to bust this one up. I could probably get a night out of this one, but inquiring minds need to know.
It will be good to know what one of the chunks measures. Brought another load up in the back of the wood-mobile and held this one out when I stacked it on the porch so we can split, warm and meter one.

 

[stoveliker]

I'm burning some 14% red oak here. 7" across or so at max. Shorties for now but I have some 19" long ones later.
It's a dream!