What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

[weee123]

Got some big fat rounds and chunks of oak in for the overnight burn. Running at steady 650 STT should get 9 hours hopefully.

 

[all night moe]

Big coals and a big load in at about 8pm last night. Repeat 4hrs later. Cold has set back in with a real feel hitting at 5*
1st load had some river birch mixed in with ash, cherry, sugar, and bit of apple. 2nd load all of the same hardwoods. Should be good till early morning. The dogs like to get up about 4:30. I should keep them up for a bit. Maybe they'll want to sleep in for awhile. LOL

 

[30WCF]

Two slivers of oak before bed.

 

[all night moe]

Two slivers of oak before bed.

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1:04 am ...... good morning.
Yunck, yunck, yunck.

 

[MRD1985]

Had large bed of hot beautiful coals this morning after about 9 hours. Reloaded before work with Ash, maple and a piece of oak. Cold and wind continues again today. Currently 25 feels like 17.

 

[Pinesmoke]

Was 21 when I got up to the normal bed of coals from the oak and beech rounds. Tossed some oak uglies in and the girl is quietly talking to me as she wakes up.

Need another coffee.

 

[Todd]

-3 outside 68 inside the cabin. 30lb load of Oak this morning probably another near full load later this afternoon. Going to be a cold single digit windy day. At least the sun is supposed to be out today. I’m tired of having to run my generator to charge my solar batteries.

 

[MRD1985]

-3 outside 68 inside the cabin. 30lb load of Oak this morning probably another near full load later this afternoon. Going to be a cold single digit windy day. At least the sun is supposed to be out today. I’m tired of having to run my generator to charge my solar batteries.

Going to gain over 60 minutes of daylight this month so solar should slowly improve! I’m in the same boat for solar, but not off grid

 

[weee123]

27 currently with a real feel of 14. Woke up to this

And now have this

Red oak to rewarm up the house

 

[ctreitzell]

My mercury sez -1C/ 30F
Yahoo RealFeel reads -7C/ 19F
Rain has just started and is forecast to fall for the next 14hrs

Well, that’s outside

Inside the lounge is just under 12C/ 53F
My little red tabby crawled into bed under the covers this morning and slept with his head on the pillow…and he likes it cold and wet

Anyway, my usual chestnut/ oak/ elm splits kindled with Poplar/ elm/ oak/ hazel/apple top down just started

I’m so out on the overnight fire…it has been dying out at about 0600 daily. Wood consumption is way, way down

Looks like

Which looks quite similar to yesterday’s cold start

 

[Wisco Shepherd]

Had lots of coals from last night so reloaded with mostly elm a few silver maple pieces. Really liking elm this is my first few days burning it.

 

[thewoodlands]

We had a low of 7.1 this morning, the basement temp started out at 73 but after burning down coals for 30 minutes, the temp hit 76. The temps up here were 65 & 66 this morning. The first load this morning was some smaller splits of ash and maple, ashes will be going out before I start the plowing.

 

[stoveliker]

Given that we're showing morning status of the stove, this is mine now after the 11 pm reload of pine last night. Will take a few more hours.
29 outside, real feel 23, windy. 69 upstairs.

 

[NickW]

4 outside with real feel of -10. Last nights beech and ironwood fire was great! Controllable, burned fine. I charred it more than a normal load. Oddly less coals than I normally have. Guessing that's because I didn't have to shut the air down as much as usual early in the burn to control it. Might try to char a normal load more tonight. Unfortunately because I started it so early and the wife let me sleep in the heaters were kicking on as she built a fire this morning. Ripping a mixed load right now.

 

[Dieselhead]

In the 20s this am with a high in the low 30s and sun today. We still have a pretty decent wind out there today. House starting off at 68. Last nights load of oak went well and left ample coals to keep the cat active and provide a start for this daytime load of spruce I am charring in before backing off the T-stat. Looks like it will be clean glass all week, no black box mode on the future cast. ☕️ time!

 

[Wildflush]

In the 20s this am with a high in the low 30s and sun today. We still have a pretty decent wind out there today. House starting off at 68. Last nights load of oak went well and left ample coals to keep the cat active and provide a start for this daytime load of spruce I am charring in before backing off the T-stat. Looks like it will be clean glass all week, no black box mode on the future cast. ☕️ time!



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Great pic! 👍

 

[Wildflush]

Was playing catch up this morning and slept in. Went to bed at 11 last night with house at 75. Was too lazy to reload and woke up at 8:00 with the house cold at 64. 20’s and a slight wind outside. Got a nice oak and ash fire going this morning and house is 73 now. Just reloaded with the biggest cherry split that took up most of my 1.6 firebox. Added a nice oak split with it. Feel like @30WCF with his mega chunks! Cherry is about 10 years old from my folks house. Still solid.

 

[30WCF]

I had it cooking this morning. At 0700 I loaded 4-5 small splits that warmed the place right up.

 

[Duncan]

Just finished making the Kindling for the next couple of weeks, filling the log basket and setting the fire for the evening. Burning oak felled three years ago, split and stacked two years ago and burning really nicely now.

 

[stoveliker]

Last night's load of pine is not yet done but I gotta go.
Added some pine and one oak ugly to get me to tonight's reload.

Btw, time to take some ashes out tomorrow.

 

[weee123]

Stoves coming down off a fresh reload was sitting at 700 once the wood hit it’s peak off gas and now cruising down to 670.

On another note, pretty cool watching the manometer take off from .1 and get pulled to .2 when a very strong gust of wind comes through. Really shows you how much wind affects your draft

 

[ctreitzell]

Had lots of coals from last night so reloaded with mostly elm a few silver maple pieces. Really liking elm this is my first few days burning it.

elm is wonderful to burn; I love it
albeit extremely difficult to process

 

[30WCF]

Trying Holly out to burn down coals for the evening. I cut several big holly trees down several years back. Feels like balsa wood it’s so light and dry.

 

[all night moe]

Pooph.

 

[thewoodlands]

It's 18 out at the moment with a forecast low of 11 according to Accu, the basement temp is 81 with the temps up here 68 & 70. The load in the wood stove is burning down so the overnight load should be going in at or 10 or after.