What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

[MRD1985]

We got home around 530 yesterday, put some beech and big ash splits loaded NS to set me up for my 11ish reload…that I slept right through. More tired than I thought I was. Boiler carried the load for the night at 65. Woke up this morning and loaded up with birch and black cherry. Still had good coals this morning, stove was still very warm. Beech coals seem to stay the hottest, the longest out of anything I have burned.

 

[Pinesmoke]

Stove's cold this nothing. Gonna be warm the next few days.

Just gonna make a few electrons work in the HP.

Stay warm.

 

[NickW]

Beech coals seem to stay the hottest, the longest out of anything I have burned.

Ironwood is the only one I've had that coals better, although honey locust is pretty close. I don't get a ton of either, so when I get some it's a welcome addition to the woodpile. I won't live here when all that honey locust I got is ready to burn which is a bummer.

34 degrees and foggy. Fog and rain for the foreseeable future with temperatures in the 30's & 40's. Likely looking at 3/4 combo fires during the days and 3/4 to full hardwood fires overnights depending on how warm the house is. Nice coals firing up right now, ash and aspen going in shortly. 68 downstairs and 67 upstairs currently.

 

[all night moe]

Got up at 4am for a reload. Hardwoods of ash, sugar, and cherry. Switched to soft maples at 7am. 8:30 am the dragon got a mix of everything listed above. Mid 20s out again, and the house has been warmed.

 

[Wildflush]

Got up at 7:30 stove was cold since house was too hot when I went to bed between cooking and the fire so did not reload. Furnace kicked in at 64. Upper 20’s so loaded with some bigger splits of elm, cherry and oak. House 70 now. STT 600

 

[stoveliker]

Yesterday's load from 9 pm was done at 4 pm today, so 19 hrs.
I burned down some coals a few times with some maple bark once, a split of pine and a 6"*6"*6" oak shorty, and one more time with that, and then with another split of pine and two oak shorties to extend the time until reload now

The high was 35 today. It's 27 now, the forecast low is 20.
Upstairs is 71.

Now a reload with red oak shorties.

 

[mpaul]

Going down to 14 tonight. Loaded up with a massive split of red oak on top of a massive split of ash which took up the whole back. Followed by two smaller splits of ash one white oak split and another red oak split to completely fill the box. Dry wood on a hot bed of coals took off before I could shut the door.

 

[thewoodlands]

Our outside temp tonight is 19.4 heading down to 0 if Accu is correct, the basement temp is starting off at 75 with the temps up here 68 & 69. The wood stove has three longer maple splits (east/west load) in it, tomorrow I'll be taking out some ashes.

 

[all night moe]

Getting down into the low teens tonight. Nice coal bed is built up in the dragon's belly with some ash and sugar shorties. Burned through most of the soft maple today. It's out of the way for more hardwood in the lair. There is some more soft maple and river birch in a rear stack along the wall. That's waiting for the spring shoulder.

I'm feeding hardwoods moderately, like a large wood stove. Leaving much unused space in the firebox, save spreading coals.

 

[MRD1985]

Loaded with birch, black cherry and a piece of red oak for the night. Low of 19 tonight.

 

[NickW]

I am reflecting on the overnight load... House is still 70. Outside is 37 and temperature is rising. Stove is down to coals. Leaning towards a 3/4 load of shoulder season wood with maybe a piece of hardwood to hopefully have some salvageable coals in the morning...?