What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

[Dieselhead]

Low in the 30s last night and damp. A load of spruce held the house comfortably at 70. I’ve been burning a lot of spruce this year and before reloading last night I used a mirror and flashlight to look up through the bypass into the flue. I usually only sweep once a season but don’t think I’ll be able to get away with it this time. The flue looks a bit chunky already. Instead of my usual top down method I’m going to order a sooteater today and use that for mid season sweeps.

 

[Wisco Shepherd]

Low in the 30s last night and damp. A load of spruce held the house comfortably at 70. I’ve been burning a lot of spruce this year and before reloading last night I used a mirror and flashlight to look up through the bypass into the flue. I usually only sweep once a season but don’t think I’ll be able to get away with it this time. The flue looks a bit chunky already. Instead of my usual top down method I’m going to order a sooteater today and use that for mid season sweeps.

I've had a similar buildup compared to last year sooteater worked great. Nothing too bad but I'm just burning a tiny bit hotter now.

Maple in the stove right now.

 

[MRD1985]

37 degrees this morning, was 70 in the house when we woke up. At work for my 24 hr shift today, so stove will be cold until tomorrow, then not going to let it cool through the weekend. Cold coming this way for the weekend.

 

[Wildflush]

Been too warm here the last few days so stove has been cold. Used the NG when the wife and daughter got up this morning. Switched to mini splits since 40’s today. Dropping tonight to 20’s and then bitter cold until Monday. Staged additional wood and collected more dead sticks and pinecones while we had some nice weather.

 

[Gearhead660]

Myra chewing on some oak as snow falls outside.

 

[Kodiak]

Approx 40 cm of snow here in the last day. Lots of shoveling to keep the driveway cleared. So nice to come in and dryoff and rewarm in front of the T6. Been burning around the clock using my big hemlock splitz. It’s a softwood and fairly quick burning but with the large splitz it last pretty good. Added ( and usually do add) at least a maple or alder split or 2 which leave nice coals as the hemlock doesn’t leave good coals unless it’s got some big knots in it.

21 degrees in the house , -2 deg C outside. Very foggy and lots of moisture. Draft seems fine even in the heavy humidity and fog. Still need to do an ash cleanout. Going to try the kitty litter scooper idea as I don’t want the stove to go cold.

Catch yall later, just started snowing again here.

 

[thewoodlands]

We had a low of 29.1 this morning, the basement temp was 71 this morning with both temps up here at 68. I took some ashes out this morning and then started a fire on some nice coals with some maple splits.

We received three inches of snow overnight, looking at the forecast, it looks like we'll have a White Christmas.

 

[all night moe]

Christmas spirit is failing me a bit this year. Not sure exactly why. Hopefully it will improve as it grows near.
A bit chilly out today. Been running the furnace low and slow. Mostly softwood and smaller uglies. Saving some of the big ones aside for the cold snap. They don't stack well so there's a small pile on the floor. Waiting their turn.

 

[Wildflush]

The bell rang. Outside temp hit my 39 target. Stove cruising with mixed hardwood load at 625.

Heading to 20’s. Single digits Monday and snow Saturday.

 

[burning VC]

....the ghost of Xmas past.....

but as we near the longest night of the year in the N. Hemisphere..


in the nwNorthCarolina foothills...


High 50sF and rain for days, up to almost 70F...so he sat quietly, bored....cleaning his paws....

But today, as squirrels gathered the fallen Red Oak, White Oak acorns, the Beech nuts, and other forage seed...
Grandpa Bear awoke with a start, as his foul mood this past week was as far gone as the recent snow flurries that actually didn't land to ground...

Grandpa Bears lull made him hungry with cold approaching ......

Pops was fed well with a bunch of maple kindling with red oak bark for breakfast and then a White Oak 1/2 round 13" across and 20" deep to cruise for daylight...

Grandpa bit a log the size of a Florida gator...and it ALMOST fit....two other 'chainsaw day' rejects were offered as the colder night approaches, but his stomach was grumbly...so....

A single Red Oak block was split into threes, it was actually only 14x14in wide. maybe 30" long......lol....fits sideways with room to spare....

lots of room....

as the overnight calls for 30F, the Old Bear silently gnaws some trees, and feels Winter's arrival,
down by the trees between two falls of the river..

 

[all night moe]

....the ghost of Xmas past.....

but as we near the longest night of the year in the N. Hemisphere..


in the nwNorthCarolina foothills...


High 50sF and rain for days, up to almost 70F...so he sat quietly, bored....cleaning his paws....

But today, as squirrels gathered the fallen Red Oak, White Oak acorns, the Beech nuts, and other forage seed...
Grandpa Bear awoke with a start, as his foul mood this past week was as far gone as the recent snow flurries that actually didn't land to ground...

Grandpa Bears lull made him hungry with cold approaching ......

Pops was fed well with a bunch of maple kindling with red oak bark for breakfast and then a White Oak 1/2 round 13" across and 20" deep to cruise for daylight...

Grandpa bit a log the size of a Florida gator...and it ALMOST fit....two other 'chainsaw day' rejects were offered as the colder night approaches, but his stomach was grumbly...so....

A single Red Oak block was split into threes, it was actually only 14x14in wide. maybe 30" long......lol....fits sideways with room to spare....

lots of room....

as the overnight calls for 30F, the Old Bear silently gnaws some trees, and feels Winter's arrival,
down by the trees between two falls of the river..

Thank you for sharing posts like these.
It helps alive my dull winter's mood in the mountainous countryside.

 

[MRD1985]

....the ghost of Xmas past.....

but as we near the longest night of the year in the N. Hemisphere..


in the nwNorthCarolina foothills...


High 50sF and rain for days, up to almost 70F...so he sat quietly, bored....cleaning his paws....

But today, as squirrels gathered the fallen Red Oak, White Oak acorns, the Beech nuts, and other forage seed...
Grandpa Bear awoke with a start, as his foul mood this past week was as far gone as the recent snow flurries that actually didn't land to ground...

Grandpa Bears lull made him hungry with cold approaching ......

Pops was fed well with a bunch of maple kindling with red oak bark for breakfast and then a White Oak 1/2 round 13" across and 20" deep to cruise for daylight...

Grandpa bit a log the size of a Florida gator...and it ALMOST fit....two other 'chainsaw day' rejects were offered as the colder night approaches, but his stomach was grumbly...so....

A single Red Oak block was split into threes, it was actually only 14x14in wide. maybe 30" long......lol....fits sideways with room to spare....

lots of room....

as the overnight calls for 30F, the Old Bear silently gnaws some trees, and feels Winter's arrival,
down by the trees between two falls of the river..

Very animated posts. Very entertaining. Thanks for taking the time to do these, makes for an interesting read.

 

[thewoodlands]

15.8 out at the moment, the basement temp is 75 with the temps up here 68 & 70. I'm burning down coals from my last load of maple with some ironwood, everything should be ready for the overnight load.

 

[stoveliker]

Last night's load of oak shorties is done. Almost 22 hrs. Upstairs was 71.5-71.8 all the time.
Outside went down to 36, up to 1 hr of 46, the rest lower.
37 now.

Indeed it was a bit warmer outside than I would like for my stove.

Reload with red oak shorties again. Won't last as long as the temps tomorrow will only top out at 34. 32 for the low tonight.

 

[NickW]

Nice coals from the hardwood load 10 1/2 hours ago. Ash, birch, beech, mulberry, oak and sugar maple tonight.

 

[thewoodlands]

I loaded up the Liberty with five splits of maple and three splits of ironwood.

 

[all night moe]

Load in right now has a different taste for the normal diet. Norms are sugar maple, ash, black cherry, and a split of red maple. The red is one of the 2 softs I've been feeding. The new taste is a big gnarly ugly of apple.

 

[Todd]

15 this morning. Had 2” snow yesterday with a high in the upper teens. Just passed 1 cord burned with this morning’s load of oak. I still haven’t needed to clean the glass on this stove, something that has really impressed me.

 

[NickW]

3/4 load of all ash is in this morning. Going to try to get the temperature inside up while I shovel & snowblow, then burn some shoulder season wood and get some ash out before the big temperature drop tonight. Looks like we got 4-5".

 

[all night moe]

My internal alarm failed me and woke me up at 2am ...LOL. Decided to check the furnace since I woke anyway. The apple uglie was a beautiful chunk of off gassing coal. Everything else that was surrounding it was broken down into normal coals. Makes me glad I did wakeup. I hadn't planned on it. I usually can set that internal clock with my mind. I've NEVER needed an alarm clock. Partly do to myself being a light sleeper. So, I added a bunch of splits and remained awake for a half hour. Nice little coal bed this morning awaiting more ash and sugar maple. Chilly outside at 25* with a real feel of 21. House is comfy

 

[MRD1985]

Lit the stove around 915 this morning. Chilly outside today. A mix of red oak, paper birch and black cherry. A little stubborn to get going on this load. Needed a lot more air for much longer to finally take off. A lot of this stuff was toward the bottom of the stacks outside closest to the ground, so I’m sure that has something to do with it. Once it got going giving off nice heat.

 

[mpaul]

I’ve been burning loads of ash for the past few weeks. With the cold snap coming in, I brought in a load of red oak. If this afternoon load goes as expected I’ll load my inside log holder up and get me stocked up for the bitter cold weekend. Snowing and 30f now. Dropping to 4f by Sunday.

 

[thewoodlands]

The first fire of the day (12:30) was started off some nice coals from last night, the basement was 72 this morning when I shut the fan off with the temps up here 67 & 68. The first load today was maple with some ironwood.

Our low this morning was 15.6.

 

[MRD1985]

Hot reload, even though fire wasn’t done yet after about 4 hours and STT about 400 degrees. We’ll be out for several hours this afternoon/evening and wanted some nice hot coals for this evening to set up for the overnight fire. This is red oak, white ash, black cherry, and paper birch with a couple cut offs.

 

[NickW]

I’ve been burning loads of ash for the past few weeks. With the cold snap coming in, I brought in a load of red oak. If this afternoon load goes as expected I’ll load my inside log holder up and get me stocked up for the bitter cold weekend. Snowing and 30f now. Dropping to 4f by Sunday.

Yeah, we get that starting tonight.