What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

[stoveliker]

So,.15 hrs later that load with too much air is done.
Some 6" short (...!) red oak, 2 small red oak uglies, and a half maple cookie (6" thick, 15" dia) to get me to tonight's full reload.

70 upstairs for all this 15 hrs, currently again 31 outside.

So running a 75%(ish) load for 15 hrs does keep the window clean; only minor spots in the lower corners.

 

[ctreitzell]

It is currently 0C/ 32F via Yahoo and RealFeel corresponds…my mercury sez -0.5C

Inside is too cold, Living Room is 12C/ 53.6F

I worked my wood pile a bit today, I’ve got some elm rounds on the bottom which need to get stacked better and some white French oak that needs to be sorted through cuz the smaller branches are ready

Started with Oak/Apple/Chestnut on the bottom
Poplar, oak, elm, apple kindling and the old apple twigs to start

 

[sixer]

It's been cold here ever since the "monsoon" mid-week. Low of 21F this morning, only 30-ish for a high, and getting into the mid-teens tonight.
I've been burning a mixture of red oak and white birch splits and some cherry/misc chunks and knots. I can get a stellar overnight burn if I rake modest coals forward, put a dense chunk or a short, fat round E-W in the back, then stack splits and small rounds N-S on top. It starts cruising quickly and I can have the air down to minimum in about 15min or so. 10 hours and STT still around 250-300. Of course I don't always have a good candidate chunk but I've been trying to save em.

I work days and the wife doesn't like to work the stove so a morning load when it's cold like this is almost the same as an overnight burn.

 

[Pinesmoke]

Warmed up some today and started is drop toward chilly. Tiny pile of pine coals and a charred pine split left. Opened the door and it was up and burning. A couple of pine splits and warming the girl back up for the evening.

 

[MRD1985]

after 7 hours stove was still about 275* with huge pieces of coals in resemblance of splits. Broke them up and added some smaller splits of red oak, 1 decent size split of red oak (not pictured) along with some cherry for a boost in heat and carry it to the overnight load. Cold all day today and tonight.

 

[NickW]

Made it up to the Northwoods for a short evening hunt. Got in a little while ago and fired up the Stratford 2 with some pine and aspen to warm it up. It's not as user friendly as the NC30 as it is a zc with an OAK, but it does pretty well once up to temperature and the air shut down which takes a long time. I wish I could install a flue probe without voiding the class A UL rating. It's still 12 degrees out which is a heat wave compared to yesterday.

 

[30WCF]

A piece of oaks and some cut-offs.

 

[all night moe]

A piece of oaks and some cut-offs.

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What do you get for burn times on that little guy? Not on the monster splits you sometimes feed it, but say packed with good sized splits on a small coal bed?

 

[30WCF]

What do you get for burn times on that little guy? Not on the monster splits you sometimes feed it, but say packed with good sized splits on a small coal bed?

It’s not a straight answer.
On average, 4 hrs of producing enough heat to be useful if it’s nice and cold out. I either need to start scooping coals out or burn shorter loads of pine to manage the coaling.

The automatic damper doesn’t open back up soon enough, so it coals up and cools off. I might need to shorten the chain one ball at a time and see if I can get the air to open back up earlier.

As far as overnight burns 6-8 hrs I’ll still have plenty of coals to just load on, but the SST will be 150-200. Crack the door for a little air and you can run it back up to 300 or so. Today I was dancing around 200 in the flue with a big pile of coals. I cracked the door 1/16” and went back to work “computer work in the same room” and the flue worked back up to 350 for a couple more hours mid day and it brought the room temp up a little before I fed it again in the afternoon.

If it’s cold out, about 4 hrs between loads.
If it’s warmer out, 5-6 hrs maybe.
All nighters have plenty of coals, but are not pushing much heat in the AM if you don’t feed it at 4am.

 

[thewoodlands]

It's 16.7 out tonight, the basement temp is 77 with the temps up here 69 & 71. I'm burning down a hunk of yellow birch and then I'll go with maple for the overnight fire.

 

[NickW]

White ash, black ash & cherry in the Stratford 2.

 

[thewoodlands]

Five nice hunks of maple are going in the wood stove for the overnight fire.

 

[stoveliker]

Reload with... Red oak shorties. It is what it is.
I do look forward to proper splits although these chunks do burn well.

Much less wood than yesterday's night load. Won't last 15 hrs...

Took the pic with the door open.
I got a lot of those sparks that appear in the middle of the air and don't shoot out of the stove while glowing when the coals were spread out and before I added wood.

AND one that did shoot out of the firebox while glowing after I added wood. ... Lucky shot.

 

[MRD1985]

Just loaded up with a full mix of stuff for the night. White oak, red oak, good size piece of black cherry, a piece of Norway maple and a red oak cut off. Coals were very hot. Wood caught shortly after loading the bottom row had to quickly load the rest without toasting my hands. Stay warm everyone, cold up this way tonight!

 

[stoveliker]

Just loaded up with a full mix of stuff for the night. White oak, red oak, good size piece of black cherry, a piece of Norway maple and a red oak cut off. Coals were very hot. Wood caught shortly after loading the bottom row had to quickly load the rest without toasting my hands. Stay warm everyone, cold up this way tonight!

Leather welding gloves are your friend.
(Until you are trying to arrange shorties vertically in the back of a 19" firebox ...or leading E/W in a deep firebox.)

 

[MRD1985]

Leather welding gloves are your friend.
(Until you are trying to arrange shorties vertically in the back of a 19" firebox ...or leading E/W in a deep firebox.)

I have some leather yard gloves, I may bring home my welding gloves from work and use those, or pick up a second set

 

[all night moe]

14* here in the hills. With a 4mph wind the real feel is 6*
Just fed the furnace sugar splits to accompany, the cherry, ash, and the 2 red oak splits of crotch wood. The red oak was standing dead cut in early Sept. It was cut into rounds in a couple weeks there after. Split during "Splitter Fest '24," of late Oct. They have been laying in my basement stacks, for a few weeks now, resting up on top at the ceiling. I let them bounce of the concrete floor with a nice ring report. They took right off into flame in the coals.

Furnace air intake is open right now as I'm here typing. GOing back down to choke it off for the overnight. Can't wait for spring with a full night's sleep. Are we there yet?

 

[MRD1985]

Trip to NYC today so put the stove on before we are leaving. Hopefully will have some coals when we get back late tonight, if not, oh well. Heat pump on just in case. White oak, red oak, paper birch, and cherry with some cut offs

Currently 17 degrees feels like 11

 

[all night moe]

Just came up from another reload. Mountain of coals got leveled off to receive ash, cherry, and a couple silver splits. Oh, and some sugar splits.

Warm in the house, kitchen is froze, and outside temp is 12* with a real feel of 10.

 

[Todd]

18 this morning, better than -18 like yesterday. Back to 12 hour reloading schedule with a full load of Oak.

Two days with below 0 temps was a wake up call. Needed to burn pretty hot to keep the cabin in the 70’s!

 

[NickW]

18* in the Northwoods, load of pine and aspen going.

 

[Wildflush]

It's been cold here ever since the "monsoon" mid-week. Low of 21F this morning, only 30-ish for a high, and getting into the mid-teens tonight.
I've been burning a mixture of red oak and white birch splits and some cherry/misc chunks and knots. I can get a stellar overnight burn if I rake modest coals forward, put a dense chunk or a short, fat round E-W in the back, then stack splits and small rounds N-S on top. It starts cruising quickly and I can have the air down to minimum in about 15min or so. 10 hours and STT still around 250-300. Of course I don't always have a good candidate chunk but I've been trying to save em.

I work days and the wife doesn't like to work the stove so a morning load when it's cold like this is almost the same as an overnight burn.

Welcome fellow Masser. I have the baby PE Vista so don’t get overnight burns. House is efficient, so many times the evening load keeps the thermostat from calling until I wake up in the morning.

 

[Wildflush]

House 64. Low 20’s this morning so loaded with oak and ash. Great draft so had to turn things down quickly.

 

[Dieselhead]

Overnight load of oak got gobble up pretty quickly with a low of 12 and a breeze. House still at 65 and a nice load of spruce went in on the load of oak coals and the fan on low. Reevaluate tonight, probably. Load of oak again.

 

[Dieselhead]

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.



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Nice kindling box! I have a similar flea market find for mine.