What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

[all night moe]

Loaded the furnace with heavy hitters around 12:30am. It's -3* out with red oak, honey and black locusts, some sugar and ash splits, with a couple pieces of cherry. The ash and cherry are the underdog here in this loads BTU output. Just a couple to light off the heavies.

 

[30WCF]

3:20AM
22 out
66 inside and LP just kicked in.
Added an oak split on the coals for a hot reloaded to take off.

 

[MRD1985]

Loaded up with all hickory plus a split of beech before work to give the house a little boost. 65 in the house, boiler kicked on for my sons and our room for a bit last night. Currently 7 feels like -3.

 

[all night moe]

-5* and real feel at -6*. Supposed to be in single digits all day. About 20 splits in the furnace of ash, sugar and cherry. May be a bit of apple in there too. GF beat me to the mornings feast.

 

[Wildflush]

Woke up at 4am with just a little coals. House 67 single digits outside. Did a top down start to make sure things got going fast. Fell asleep in my chair coaling now with a 400 STT. Doing a hot reload want the heat house 70 freezing outside. Big oak splits. Shutting air down quickly.

Shot to 600 STT quickly and climbing

700STT now air shut down

 

[johneh]

7 am The house is at 16 outside -18 windchill-29
Pulled the ash forward and added 4 good splits of Sugar maple
20 min. ago blower just came on, the house will be 21 in No time
Calling for 24 cm of the white stuff over the next 24 hours
So a white Christmas

 

[mpaul]

Slept through the night and woke up to the heat kicking on. Set point is 58 so it was a bit cold in the house. Outside is 0 with a real feel of minus 3. It was nice that my entire coal bed burned down allowing me room back again to load her up. House temps are quickly climbing back up.

 

[Pinesmoke]

25 out and the coffee is hot. I tossed 3 small pine limbs in while the coffee was running. I just raked the coals up and loaded a pine split, 1/2 of a 12"trunk east west on the coals. Sounds like the girl is waking up.

 

[30WCF]

 

[NickW]

32 degrees out and pretty calm. 67 downstairs, 68 upstairs, big pile of coals & charcoal (left the air just a little more closed than normal with it calm out as an experiment). Firing them up and will have a small shoulder season fire. Wife took the day off to bake cookies, so good day for small fires as needed and get some ash out.

 

[30WCF]

Time to slow this one down. I dampered it down at 650 flue and dialed the intake when it hit 750 in the pipe and 850 STT
She turned right around and started a slow, steady decent.

 

[Wildflush]

Time to slow this one down. I dampered it down at 650 flue and dialed the intake when it hit 750 in the pipe and 850 STT
She turned right around and started a slow, steady decent.
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That’s HOT!!

 

[MRD1985]

Time to slow this one down. I dampered it down at 650 flue and dialed the intake when it hit 750 in the pipe and 850 STT
She turned right around and started a slow, steady decent.
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Mine has been running hotter than usual with this cold too. 700-750 no problem. I had to open the door to stop secondary combustion once as it hit 800

 

[all night moe]

Since I still have a bunch of silver maple in the lair, I wanted to experiment. Loaded 14 splits. Most average sized, with 2 clunkers, and a couple baseball bat sized. All at 16'' on top of a large coal bed. Of course I leveled that out first. Will see how well it burns down coals some while providing heat, and for how long.

 

[30WCF]

That’s HOT!!

Hot enough to fry an egg.

 

[stoveliker]

Reload with oak shorties and the left-over (redstone) sawdust bricks. This morning the temps upstairs were 70, still a 12 (okay 11.45 ) hour run with that load of white oak.

 

[thewoodlands]

We had a low of minus nine before the temp started the other way, I set the furnace last night so the house was nice and warm. The ashes went outside this morning but we still had enough coals for the first load to start off, it was a load of ironwood.

Two loads of beech will come inside pretty soon and then the cooking with some Christmas music will begin.

 

[30WCF]

Mine has been running hotter than usual with this cold too. 700-750 no problem. I had to open the door to stop secondary combustion once as it hit 800

Yeah. I’d have let it play out longer. This stove has seen 900 plenty of times. Problem was the family was already in the car waiting to step out for the day. I just closed the air down enough to turn it around so we could leave.

 

[all night moe]

40 mins in and those splits are coaled up. The 2 smaller ones are more or less turned to "coals."
Air was 3/4 open with warm air continuous blowing from heat register. This is from uninsulated duct in cold crawlspace. I choked air down to 1/4 open.

 

[all night moe]

we still had enough coals for the first load to start off, it was a load of ironwood.

I've noticed with black locust, it does not burn well by itself. Unless tossed on a large bed of coals. Does iron wood share the same traits?
I've burned some but was always accompanied by other species.

 

[NickW]

I've noticed with black locust, it does not burn well by itself. Unless tossed on a large bed of coals. Does iron wood share the same traits?
I've burned some but was always accompanied by other species.

Yes, ironwood by itself is sluggish taking off unless on a good hot bed of coals.

 

[all night moe]

2 hours into that load of silver left me the same size mountain of coals. Wash, rinse, and repeat with a few additional splits in number. Since I'm home today, I can tend the furnace like this. Glad to be making room in the lair. Still have 5 pickup loads outside, with very little softwood in that pile. Need the room to stack it up..... when it's warm enough outside to open up the lair to the outdoors.

 

[Dieselhead]

Currently 11 out feels like 0. My ridiculous pile of coals. Stove will cool off tomorrow since I’ll be at work so I’ll clean it out on Tuesday. You can see the depth by how high against the fire brick in the back. A big chunk of ash, beech and some hickory for this load. Won’t be surprised if this one hits 800 before I go to bed.

You need some softwood in your stacks to burn them coals down.

 

[Dieselhead]

I’ve been running hard the last 2 days mainly 10-12hr reloads on oak. Basement furnace chit the bed so it’s been cold down there which robs BTUs from the main and 2nd floor. Electric heater (1600w) keeping it around 50…new transducer on the way for that, should be here tomorrow.

 

[all night moe]

You need some softwood in your stacks to burn them coals down.

I, myself, just found silver maple doesn't do that well. Left me with the same sized coal bed. Difference is those silver coals are not burning as hot as hardwoods. Although, I will assume if I left the new coal bed, it would burn down quicker like the splits.