What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

[MRD1985]

Will be a bit colder up this way. My girl said something about some nighttime negative temps.
I'll be doing the same. Bringing in some high BTU dense wood. Have some red oak rounds of dead limb wood. Dry as a bone, about 4-5'' diam. Some white oak splits, and locust. Some of the dense stuff I have in the basement is ready to burn. I drop them on the concrete to check. If the ring and bounce they're GTG.

32/10 for Saturday and 21/8 here for Sunday. A tad warmer Monday but only by a few degrees or so. I’ll reload the on deck rack Friday for that.

 

[all night moe]

Mother nature has been showing signs of a cold winter since mid Sept. At that point, the apples had already fallen. Fall came early.

 

[MRD1985]

This red oak load sure is nice. 675 STT and I have it chocked way down .

 

[Todd]

28 this morning. Most of our snow has melted but looking at a few inches on Thursday. 30 lbs of Oak into the stove. Cabin temp at 72. I’ve been losing about 8 degrees in the cabin with this 12 hour burning schedule. After a few hours she gets up to 78-80 then slowly drops down to 70-72 or so. Colder weather moving in end of week, I will have to adjust burning schedule.

 

[MRD1985]

55 this morning. Still 71-72 from last nights fire so no fire today. Down to 33 tonight so I’ll have an overnight fire.

 

[NickW]

31 degrees, cloudy and windy. Last night's small hardwood fire was inadequate. House temperature is down and coals are cold. A little paper and small stuff to warm the flue and get the charcoal going after scooping some ash, then l think I'll go with a 3/4 hardwood load.

 

[Wildflush]

Nice and clean.

 

[all night moe]

Haven't even visited the dragon since 9-9:30 last night. That was my overnight load. About 7 splits of ash, cherry, and sugar maple.
House is still warm 12hrs later with temps in the 40s outside.

 

[thewoodlands]

We had 44 this morning before the temp started to drop, we had some appointments today so the first fire has been going for about an hour, cherry with more chit wood. The furnace did kick on this morning during my first cup of coffee.

 

[Dieselhead]

Experiment successful; I heated my home for with 2 buckets of (dry!) branches for 5 hours.
Burning down the coals now with a split of pine.

No matter the species or size it’s all BTUs in the end.

I loaded oak yesterday around 4 and came home this am to the house at 70 and the cat meter at 12:00. I lowered the thermostat to carry the load low and slow until tonight when I may do a load of spruce as it will only be in the 30s overnight.

 

[ctreitzell]

So I did a little test.
Apparently 4 years ago I was thinking that I'd be in need of kindling. So I now found an vein of sticks in my stacks.
I had some good coals and put two buckets of sticks in th stove.

I burn small stuff all the time
When I first got to France, I was surprised to see folks holding onto small sticks for firewood…Well, out here in the countryside this stuff gets cut back annually. It burns great and is free beyond the excessive time it takes to organise it.

I mean, tonight, at least half of what I will burn is bug kill hazel, oak, walnut and maple…total pith oak…burns great

I use it also to burn into smouldering coals which also works well

 

[ctreitzell]

It’s not freezing weather here, but it is too cold inside at around 13C/ mid 50s F

Just fired up the Panadero and it’s knocking the edge off

Oak/ Chestnut/ Elm

Poplar kindling splits and apple twigs

 

[ctreitzell]

No matter the species or size it’s all BTUs in the end.

As much as Iove this, I will not be putting any Elder in the wood burner! That’s like throwing a bucket of water in the firebox…There are others not recommended …I just can’t think of any at the moment

 

[NickW]

As much as Iove this, I will not be putting any Elder in the wood burner! That’s like throwing a bucket of water in the firebox…There are others not recommended …I just can’t think of any at the moment

Just did a quick Google search on elder. I wonder how it would be on a good hot bed of coals in a secondary combustion or catalytic stove...?

 

[Dieselhead]

As much as Iove this, I will not be putting any Elder in the wood burner!

Here in the states putting your elder’s in the wood burner is frowned upon.

 

[thewoodlands]

I just started a fire in the Liberty, this load is maple.

 

[NickW]

I have a second shoulder season load burning down right now.

 

[all night moe]

Not long after I posted here, I cleaned a bunch of ashes out. I used @stoveliker 's idea with the wire cat litter scoop. Separated a bunch of still glowing coals to the side. I then decided to stuff in a bunch if silver maple splits to keep the coals going.
Now there's a couple ash splits, and cherry.

 

[Todd]

30 lb load of Red and White Oak. Outside temp 25, suppose to get down into the teens.

 

[MRD1985]

Loaded up with all red oak for the night with some pine kindling.

Looked like a little paint was peeling at the pack of the inside of the fire box so pulled all the firebrick out wire brushed the loose stuff off and touched up with SBI paint. Took out the andirons as they have been a hinderance more than anything. Cleaned up the glass with some ash too. No pics of that sorry.

 

[stoveliker]

are you sure you have paint *inside* the firebox? (i.e. where flame can touch?)
I would think that burns off. I have no paint inside, and have never seen a stove with paint inside it.

(My firebox does have peeling layers inside, but that's creosote... because a cat stove.)

 

[MRD1985]

are you sure you have paint *inside* the firebox? (i.e. where flame can touch?)
I would think that burns off. I have no paint inside, and have never seen a stove with paint inside it.

(My firebox does have peeling layers inside, but that's creosote... because a cat stove.)

I’m sure. It’s painted black. It was flaking right off and could see bare steel behind it. Some behind the fire brick, some not. It definitely was not bare steel when I bought it.

 

[stoveliker]

Okay. Strange.
Maybe it's some powder coating (bbq like) stuff.
Regular stove paint won't survive.

All stoves I know of have bare insides.

I'd say you can just leave it be.

 

[thewoodlands]

It's 36.1 tonight, the basement temp started off at 74 with the temps up here 69 & 71. I had coals that needed burning down but decided to start the overnight fire with another load of maple, that took off nice.

 

[MrCampbellAHS]

Wife wanted some more heat (of all people!!) so I gladly threw 4 pieces of cherry in. Previous load wasn’t quite done so had to break up what was left into big coal chunks. It was 70 in the house so I was holding out trying not to overheat the house and make my wife hot but I’ll certainly oblige when asked!

I just came into some cherry. I haven't gotten it split yet to get a good test on it so I'm not sure I'll be burning it this year. It was dead fall from 6 months to a year ago though so we'll see. I'm curious to see how it burns though as I've heard conflicting takes.