What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

[Pinesmoke]

Stove is cold. Gonna burn electrons for a couple of days

It was 58 today dropping to 45 tonight. HP for the win 😁.

I work next week up north and gonna be highs in the low singles. I feel for you guys. 🥃

 

[thewoodlands]

We have an outside temp of 28.9 tonight, the basement temp started out at 75 with the temps up here 69 & 70. The overnight load has five splits of beech with two splits of maple in the wood stove.

 

[MRD1985]

Just loaded up with ash, a split of sugar maple, and 1 split of beech for the night.

Edit. Hot one tonight. Been sitting at 750 STT for a while now with blower on max and air intake all the way closed.

 

[NickW]

All ash tonight. Not packed super tight but a decent load. House is still pretty warm, so I don't want to bake us out. Probably be chilly in here in the morning.

 

[Ashful]

Crap. I was just about to shut down work for the night and head to bed, when I think, "gee... it's getting a little cold in here!"

I did a half load after dinner, my third of the day, thinking I'd burn that down and then stuff a full reload into the stove around 10pm. But between loading the other stove and getting busy with some work stuff, I totally forgot. Guess I'm not headed to bed, as I had planned.

 

[bigealta]

Well 7 hours later and no top down this morning. Found this pile which is pretty rare for me after 7 hours.
so i reloaded and it took off immediately.... 5 minutes later, and already at cruising with draft down to 1/2 open and nice secondaries. Must have hit a nice vein of good oak in the stack.
Stovetop 570F in middle 460F at top's sides at 10 minutes in.
Split just rolled onto glass. Got a few coals roll out onto the ash lip. All good now after i pushed it back and scoped up the stragglers.

 

[MRD1985]

3/4 load of ash with a split of beech this morning. Supposed to get to low 40s today so probably won’t reload until bed, we shall see.

 

[all night moe]

Just loaded up with ash, a split of sugar maple, and 1 split of beech for the night.

Edit. Hot one tonight. Been sitting at 750 STT for a while now with blower on max and air intake all the way closed.

"What is your stove?" Yunck, yunck, yunck.


Seriously though, as another previously noted, your burner always has some of the best flame pics. Time to create your sig, my friend.

 

[all night moe]

Loaded the dragon's belly about 5:30 last night. I stuffed it full, of sugar, ash, and a couple cherry splits on the bottom for igniters. Had to be close to 20 splits, 16'' standard single stack. Let her gobble some air for 10-15mins and throttled back on air. Tried keeping it just under a 1/4'' open. Came back to check on it 5mins later. The bottom splits and partway up all had a char and glowing. Top splits were not. Firebox walls were black but not shiny and gooey. Gave a little more air and checked again before heading out with the GF for the night. All looked well.

Got home about just before 1am. Small bed of coals to kick off a new fire. Same species of 6-8 splits. Got up around 3:30 to add more. And again at 8am. Morning all. How's your coffee?

 

[Dieselhead]

Cup-o-Joe #1 down, another on the horizon. Building up my motivation today. On the list:
Finish splitting spruce pile
Move firewood to racks
Get plow on tractor for upcoming snow event.

We will see how much I get done before rain moves in this afternoon. May have to do some tomorrow am as well, we shall see.

2/3 load of spruce this am lit off last nights spruce coals. 30s today I believe, house is currently at 68. This load should do pretty good through this evening.

 

[Wildflush]

Up at 6am this morning and 20’s outside. Nice hot oak and maple fire to warm the place up. Going to 43 today so only reloading once than mini splits if needed. First storm of the season Sunday night 3-6”. Going out soon to move wood to my under the deck racks and stage some more inside. Getting gas for the blower. Going to be very cold here midweek.

 

[NickW]

Last nights load of ash did surprisingly well. Stirred things up first thing and let it simmer while we did the Saturday house cleaning, firing up the coals again now for a 3/4 load of ash. Solar gains look to be decent today so maybe I can have enough time between loads to take a scoop or two out to stay ahead of the next 4 days when I probably won't be able to get any ash out. Monday's forecast high keeps changing, yesterday said high of -5 today it's saying high of 1.

 

[weee123]

Just loaded up with ash, a split of sugar maple, and 1 split of beech for the night.

Edit. Hot one tonight. Been sitting at 750 STT for a while now with blower on max and air intake all the way closed.

I think it’s safe to say she was definitely choochin hard in that last pic. Without the blower I’d bet you would’ve been over 800 STT. I’ve been there before on my osburn with bad glass gasket. It was a rather nerve racking and not fun experience.

 

[MRD1985]

I think it’s safe to say she was definitely choochin hard in that last pic. Without the blower I’d bet you would’ve been over 800 STT. I’ve been there before on my osburn with bad glass gasket. It was a rather nerve racking and not fun experience.

Easily over 800 without the blower, probably closer to 850. The blower makes a massive difference

 

[weee123]

Easily over 800 without the blower, probably closer to 850. The blower makes a massive difference

That’s definitely overfire territory imo. Are you shutting the air down soon enough or does it just always run up like that no matter what?

 

[MRD1985]

That’s definitely overfire territory imo. Are you shutting the air down soon enough or does it just always run up like that no matter what?

Depends on the wood and how full a load I pack it with . I did start turning it down early (350-400 STT) I could tell it was going to get hot by how fast it took off before I could even finish loading it. But still got hot. I adjusted the door gasket this morning. Had a tiny gap in a couple of spots into the firebox I noticed last night. Barely visible, had to be at the angle to see it in pitch darkness. Still got to 700-725 after this mornings load for a bit., but did not have the blower more than half speed.

 

[highanddryinco]

Pretty chilly in Denver for the next 3-4 days so...everything that I have.
I've been saving the Locust from my brother-in-law's tornado clean up a year and a half ago. I've been saving it for days such as these. There's one heaped wheelbarrow full of that left, then it's back to rip-roaring pine loads.

 

[MRD1985]

three splits of ash and one split of sugar maple about 20 minutes ago

 

[weee123]

Depends on the wood and how full a load I pack it with . I did start turning it down early (350-400 STT) I could tell it was going to get hot by how fast it took off before I could even finish loading it. But still got hot. I adjusted the door gasket this morning. Had a tiny gap in a couple of spots into the firebox I noticed last night. Barely visible, had to be at the angle to see it in pitch darkness. Still got to 700-725 after this mornings load for a bit., but did not have the blower more than half speed.

Do you have anyway of determining flue temp? That’s usually the best indicator of when to turn down. STT usually lags way behind that

 

[MRD1985]

Do you have anyway of determining flue temp? That’s usually the best indicator of when to turn down. STT usually lags way behind that

I do not.

 

[Wildflush]

Depends on the wood and how full a load I pack it with . I did start turning it down early (350-400 STT) I could tell it was going to get hot by how fast it took off before I could even finish loading it. But still got hot. I adjusted the door gasket this morning. Had a tiny gap in a couple of spots into the firebox I noticed last night. Barely visible, had to be at the angle to see it in pitch darkness. Still got to 700-725 after this mornings load for a bit., but did not have the blower more than half speed.

You got a hell of a draft for a relatively short chimney!

 

[Wildflush]

Filled my emergency wood rack under the deck near my walkout basement door today. I use this wood during storms. It holds just over a 1/3 cord at 9 feet long. Used 2/3 of a cord so far this season. 40’s and rain now so no fire. Using up the first 35lb box of LL Bean Fatwood which will get me well into February. Good stuff since 3rd season with the first box. I use just one piece and a pinecone from my property with some lumber scraps for my cold starts.

 

[Ashful]

I was looking at next-week's forecast. Oof! Lots of 3F - 4F degree mornings coming up, which isn't super common here near Philly, and I think our high for all of next week is something like 17F. Given the dynamics of my house, and the way I've been ripping thru 5 loads per day at temperatures 15F warmer, I could go thru some serious wood next week if I actually try to keep atop that on a mostly-wood diet.

In reality, I think the boiler will be running a lot more. There are limits to my ambition, in this area.

 

[NickW]

First load since this mornings ash load just went in. Got some ash out but temperature is down to 15 already outside. Inside is OK from solar gains and a slow cooker going. Full shoulder season load.

 

[MRD1985]

You got a hell of a draft for a relatively short chimney!

Sure do. I think a combination of it being straight up, insulated the full length, the chimney being 3-4 feet higher than any other point of the roof, and being on top of a hill with prevailing winds out of the north and a clear shot to my house with no obstructions.

Probably the reason why my chimney is always clean. I probably didn’t even have to clean it last year, and it’s still spotless.