What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

[ozarkoak]

Woke up to 71 inside 19 out. Full load of oak 570STT and aired down. 1-3 inches tomorrow and one inch Friday so it will be a few days before a warm up around here.

 

[all night moe]

Woke up to 71 inside 19 out. Full load of oak 570STT and aired down. 1-3 inches tomorrow and one inch Friday so it will be a few days before a warm up around here.

Supposed to warm up around here. That's if you call a halt of winds a warm up.... LOL.

 

[stoveliker]

Yesterday's 9.30 load is done. Cherry and pine for the day.

26 and still very windy outside, real feel 15.
69 upstairs, a high forecast of 30.

 

[thewoodlands]

Love that little Boss V you have. Is that on the side by side?

Thanks, it's on our Kubota RTV.

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How are these on steep hills in low, we're looking at one with a cab, a/c and heat with a Boss V-Plow. The motor is in the back compared to the front on the Rhino. The rtv is also an HST so you'll lose some power.

The Rhino takes the hills without a problem but since it has high mileage (just over 7500) and the RTV would be something the wife could plow the driveway with if anything happened to me.

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[thewoodlands]

It's still only 5 out with some winds, the basement is 81 with the temps up here both 69. I think the wife burned a load of beech with maple when I was outside.

 

[NickW]

18 with a light breeze outside with a full load of ash & 1 birch just going in. We'll see if this gets to the overnight load or if I will need a shoulder season load later. I did get a little ash out. 68 downstairs, 65 upstairs; so the morning 3/4 load was only so-so effective.

 

[Wildflush]

Woke up at 7 and house was 67. Outside temp 19 and single digit windchills . Lots of wind again today. Been loading mostly oak and got ashes almost to the glass. Switching to cherry and maple now. House is 77 and upstairs 71. Even at 77 I don’t feel hot.

 

[thewoodlands]

I'm burning down some bigger longer soft maple splits, we have a bunch of these so that's what I'll be burning until tonight. I didn't take any ashes out so we might just go with the furnace tonight because of the ash buildup.

 

[stoveliker]

That's what you get for burning maple.
I am steering away from that. Too much hassle with the endless ashes.

 

[weee123]

Well looks like the englanders door gasket is bad after only 2 seasons of burning. Kind of disappointed in that. How long does everyone get out of theirs usually?

 

[burning VC]

It's cold in the nwNC foothills....

At 6am, last nights load of Oak, Maple and Oak was still competing with Jack Frost....as the sun rose at 8am, the far corners of the house was plumb nippy.....although the STT was 275....the cold crept ahead in the race.....

I went pine all day.
White pine in the morning,
yellow(/or southern) pine and white pine for the 6pm EST load....

It's STT around 525F consistently all day, with draft much more open....just cruising along....
Grandpa Bear is barely working.....but he clearly has much, MUCH more in reserve...


As Grandpa Bear got to work, the fierce focus of his eye noticed the birds, not alight but settled in the treetops, not flying....oddly......
this signals a on-coming storm.....

The Red Oak is piled by the door, ready to feed Grandpa before midnight.....four wedges should get through the night, just as last night did....
Currently 27F out, low of 15F.

The bear failed to notice below the trees at the rivers edge, the ice from each side grows closer toward the middle......and even was ice slagged atop the lower waterfall.....as if it might freeze the waterfall...if it stays cold like this....

 

[Wildflush]

I'm burning down some bigger longer soft maple splits, we have a bunch of these so that's what I'll be burning until tonight. I didn't take any ashes out so we might just go with the furnace tonight because of the ash buildup.

Same here so many ashes and stove has been running nonstop. Only a 1.6 firebox so can only hold so many ashes. Furnace will kick in tonight and shovel ashes out in the morning.

 

[Wildflush]

Well looks like the englanders door gasket is bad after only 2 seasons of burning. Kind of disappointed in that. How long does everyone get out of theirs usually?

On season 3 with my Vista and my gasket is still good.

 

[weee123]

On season 3 with my Vista and my gasket is still good.

Well I originally tested it with a dollar bill a few weeks ago and the hinge side was looser than the latch side but was still creating somewhat of a seal.

I just now today tested it with a lighter with a fire going and the lighter went towards the door on the hinge side. Then I just tested with a smoldering piece of paper and that looked to blow smoke away from the door. Hmmm

 

[NickW]

My Englander NC30 door gasket is still good in season 5.

3/4 load of shoulder season wood ripping along. Will burn hot to get down to ready for the overnight load and try to get the inside temps up a little more.

I'm considering cruising at a slightly hotter temperature later on the overnight load to see if maybe it keeps things a little warmer with a little less coals in the morning...

 

[all night moe]

That's what you get for burning maple.
I am steering away from that. Too much hassle with the endless ashes.

But the sugar maple is sooo worth it.

 

[thewoodlands]

Same here so many ashes and stove has been running nonstop. Only a 1.6 firebox so can only hold so many ashes. Furnace will kick in tonight and shovel ashes out in the morning.

We might have some winds tomorrow, last I looked they were saying possible 40 mph wind gust so hopefully one of the garbage cans I put ashes in, has room.

 

[Pinesmoke]

So my phone went off with texts a few ago and my wife called immediately with questions.

She was concerned a little on the cat temp and was burning coals down some to night load in an hour.

Ok cats are running hard so the embers are off gassing alot still I explained. Not ready to load, too hot and ready to rock

Then she sent this pic.

Remember Monday I said I wondered what I would find when I got home for coals?

Lol yeah the girl's cookin. Told her 30%air and let the cats fall. Yeah no where near hit loading oak. It would go off like a bottle rocket.

 

[all night moe]

Remember Monday I said I wondered what I would find when I got home for coals?

🤣

 

[thewoodlands]

It's 8.6 out tonight, the basement temp is 77, I just shut the fan off on the wood stove for the night. Tomorrow I'll take some ashes out and then we'll start heating with firewood again.

Tomorrow it looks like I'll make some homemade tomato soup, the wife will be in charge of the grilled cheese sandwiches. Another soup is on the list and then after that some stuffed manicotti.

 

[weee123]

21 out, real feel of 5. Stove room at 75 and upstairs at 68. Load of oak for the night.
So along with the magnet blocking 60% of the secondary air I still need to use the key damper when it’s this cold and high winds.

Stoves running great now without the run up like it did yesterday at this outside temp. Got up to around 720 and I just let it do it’s thing without closing the damper. I figured at that point I might as well leave it open to allow heat bleed off up the chimney instead of trying to kill draft and trap even more heat in the stove.

Todays burn

 

[stoveliker]

The 11.45 am load of cherry and pine is done. Cherry so much more BTU than pine - or at least so it seemed. Took a long time. Burned down the coals twice and still have more left than I wanted.

Reload with red oak and some locust.
21 outside, real feel 7. Upstairs 71 (I burned higher because I could see it wouldn't be done in time for bedtime...)

Reload with red and white oak and a bit of locust

 

[NickW]

8 degrees and calm. Bottom row of ash, top row of beech and ironwood. 66 upstairs bedrooms, 68 upstairs living room, 62 downstairs bedrooms, 72 downstairs stove room. Never realized how cold these downstairs bedrooms stay when it's cold out until we moved down here for the remodel... Tough to get air to move back there. Might start setting up a box fan in the hallway to push the cold air out during the day.