What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

[stoveliker]

After 18 hrs last night's load is done. Living floors are 70.5.
A few more pieces of oak as I have to bring my son to something now.
Maybe some pine after that or, if late enough, the night reload.

 

[Pinesmoke]

We just got home from a week without fire. 29 outside and the first order of business was a pile of pine and some beech on top.

The girl yawned and smiled.

 

[NickW]

Burned down the coals from the ash load this morning and took out some ash. 3/4 shoulder season load on top of the coals with more ash & embers off to the side to remove later. Big temperature drop tonight.

 

[all night moe]

Temps are supposed to be a bit cooler here in the NE hills. 3rd load in the stove since the dragon had breakfast. All small loads to maintain coals and keep the NE chill at bay. Each load I have been increasing split size a bit and species with good coaling characteristics. She's got fire in her belly and feeding on the current normal diet. Time to check on her again. She's a hungry dragon. The weekend forecasted lows, with the overnight of single digits, she'll be feasting.

 

[Wildflush]

Had two loads this morning and let it die out when temps rose to upper 30’s house stayed at 73. 69 inside now. Just restarted since snowing out and heading to 22 tonight. Oaks splits got the Vista cruising at 700 STT. Strong draft tonight and completely shut air down. Secondaries are wild.

Single digits Monday.

 

[Pinesmoke]

Secondaries been running for a half hour now. Tossed a couple of 4" oak branches on top. Cats are 1200 and climbing hard. I like to bring this big rock up from cold slowly but usually inside an hours she's happy 😁.

 

[Dajolu]

We just got home from a week without fire. 29 outside and the first order of business was a pile of pine and some beech on top.

The girl yawned and smiled.

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Pretty stove

 

[Dajolu]

Red oak in the GM60.

 

[fvhowler]

Small fire with some white oak and river birch for the night. Will crank it up later this weekend when chilly air returns to central NC.

 

[Todd]

Going to be a cold one tonight, already -4! Full load of oak in the stove. Gonna burn it medium low and reload at 6am. Should be plenty of coals for the morning reload.

 

[mpaul]

Got my second full load of red oak in for the overnight burn. Getting down to low 20s tonight so still running the stove low with cat temps running around 1200 and slowly climbing. Working to keep the home warm ahead of the deep freeze coming tomorrow.

 

[thewoodlands]

We have an outside temp of 15.4 tonight, the basement temp is starting out at 73 with the temps up here 68 & 69. The overnight load is maple with some ironwood.

 

[MRD1985]

Some beech, hickory and white ash for the night. Back to E/W loads with these, don’t really want to cut this down to size for N/S loads.

 

[all night moe]

don’t really want to cut this down to size for N/S loads.

Lol that'd be like 40'' s for the dragon. She's a big girl.
I feed it normal sized splits, 8-12 for a cold night 5 hour run. 4-6 at a pop, in the 30s, to keep her eating during the day.....unless I'm away.

 

[MRD1985]

Lol that'd be like 40'' s for the dragon. She's a big girl.
I feed it normal sized splits, 8-12 for a cold night 5 hour run. 4-6 at a pop, in the 30s, to keep her eating during the day.....unless I'm away.

lol I meant length wise. These are about 19” length. I’d have a TON of cut offs of premium stuff if I cut this all for NS loads. Just going to use it how I cut it for the good stuff. I probably have 8ish splits in there, pretty full load.

This load already at 700 and chocked all the way down. Stuff burns hot. Should have coals in the morning for a reload.

 

[stoveliker]

Half a load of oak shorties with three pitch pine splits in front. Have to leave tomorrow for a bit and I think it'll work better if I reload early then; doing it too late may make the important evening reload difficult to plan. It'll get cold tomorrow night.

 

[all night moe]

I meant length wise.

Me too

 

[MRD1985]

Me too

Re read your post a couple of times. Finally caught up 🤦🏻‍♂️. Long day and a bit delirious haha

Cruising at 715 or so blower on medium air all the way down in photo

 

[NickW]

2 ash, 1 sugar maple, 2 beech & 2 ironwood. Going down to around 2. Not quite what Todd has in NW WI though.

 

[burning VC]

nestled in the foothills of nw North Carolina...near the bend in the river, where the water falls...

'twas the last night of Autumn and all through the house,
one creature stood out, and it wasn't a mouse.
It was in the basement, the ol' Grandpa Bear,
Leaving the scent of Red Oak, Maple, and Pine in the still outside air..

the last hour of Autumn'24 34F was nary a fright,
leading to temps just under freezing, at 30F overnight.
Tommorrow the morning brings First Breath of Winter Air,
business as usual, for a 49yo Fisher Grandpa Bear....
..

@all_night_moe Hey buddy, i threw another log on the fire. Just hang out with us, til ya warm up a bit..

 

[all night moe]

With 3 bells tolls, I woke to the dragon full of coals.

19* out with a feel of -3*. I originally woke at 2 with a toasty house. Got another hour's sleep and fed the coals 2 ash splits. Will be topping off with sugar splits, cherry, and more ash.

 

[Todd]

-13 outside, 66 inside. Getting her fired up this morning. Looks like a good warm up on the way next week.

 

[MRD1985]

That last nights load was HOT. Topped out at 775 and held there for a while with blower on max and air all the way closed. This stuff burns really hot. First time burning ash, hickory and beech. I have to get the air down quick, I think that was my issue last night, not getting chocked down fast enough.

Had nice big coals this morning after about 9 hours. STT still 200 degrees. House at 67. Reloaded with the same mix for this morning. Got the air closed down earlier and it’s more controllable this morning. Bitter cold the next few days. Currently 24 feels like 16, supposed to drop as the day goes on with wind increasing, wind chills a bit below 0. I’ll probably turn the mini split off today and turn on the boiler for back up for the next few days. Don’t want to beat the snot out of the compressor outside with it this cold unless absolutely necessary (though it is rated down to -22*F.)

 

[NickW]

-1 and calm. 9 hr & 15 min later both ironwood rounds in last nights load (right side) were both still in log form. Solid coals that broke up. Beech was broken apart but still good coals. House temps are down but heaters aren't on. Load of hardwood going in.

I think I have decided I like the ironwood, beech or oak on top so they can off gas longer keeping the secondaries firing longer and not get buried in ash ash. @MRD1985 may want to play with what goes where in those loads? Ash lights easily and burns really well but doesn't coal really long, what I call premiums take more to get going but burn hot and coal long (ironwood, oak, beech, hickory, locust...). Last nights load with only 2 ash was super controlled.

 

[Dieselhead]

Emptied out the ash this am to get maximum firebox space available for the incoming cold front. There wasn’t much, maybe 4 inches but that’s useable space when it’s hovering near 0. Reload with a bunch of uglies and shorties, no species left behind on this reload!