What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

[all night moe]

Come to the dark side.. we have flames too 😉


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Seriously, read my thread. Not a lot of posts, although some of mine are long....as usual. LOL
It's still under recent activity.

 

[Dieselhead]

Seriously, read my thread. Not a lot of posts, although some of mine are long....as usual. LOL
It's still under recent activity.

I was reading through earlier. I don’t know any other stoves very well to properly recommend one for your situation though.. can’t wait to see what you decide however 👍🏼

 

[MRD1985]

Just loaded up for the night. Massive chunk of ash (probably 8x8) , big chunk of oak (8-9” split) , along with some smaller splits of ash and oak. And a touch of dogwood. Just a small dead branch. Currently 15 feels like 8, with a forecasted low of 6 tomorrow morning with a -5 wind chill.

 

[all night moe]

Dragon just got it's midnight snack. R oak, R oak, 4'' split of beech, R oak, R oak, "smallish" split of pignut, and more R oak. Got tired waiting for it all to blaze up so I added 1 good sized split of black cherry delight, E/W at the base up front. Started taking off nicely.

With the door closed, I can look through the small gap around the rod for the bypass damper. I watched the lazy rolling blue flames above the snack. The dragon breathing it's fire. She's a happy girl.

Edit/add on: still pushing coals to the back of stove, and raking some up front for heating primary air. It doesn't take long to burn down the coals in the back leaving a void in the bed. Tomorrow I'm going to try another tactic. Placing two splits there, E/W, on top of those coals. We'll see if that keeps the coals fed to the secondary combustion. And yes, it does have secondary air source at that location. Although primitive.

 

[all night moe]

Edit above.

 

[MRD1985]

Cruising along at 675+ STT with blower on max.

 

[all night moe]

Cruising along at 675+ STT with blower on max.

In the pic, just above the far left split, what's that ring looking thing?
There's even a flame that appears to be rolling out of it.

 

[all night moe]

I was reading through earlier. I don’t know any other stoves very well to properly recommend one for your situation though.. can’t wait to see what you decide however 👍🏼

I'll end up deciding but won't make the move for some time. The parlor stove will be the last purchase of the four. Mudroom may come after or not. Many depending factors here. OWB is priority along with the kitchen wood stove.

 

[Wildflush]

6 outside. Got heat running for the wife and daughter this morning. Started a mix sized cold start load of oak. Strong draft took off fast. Stove still warm from evening load so did not need to warm the flue.

Flame 🔥 thrower secondaries this morning. Air closed.

Edit: pushing the Vista this morning. Added a few larger chunks of oak and elm. STT is 600 and climbing. House 67 now and slowly warming up.

Edit: running STT at 700 now. Nice rolling flames.

 

[all night moe]

Got up a bit after 6am. Temp outside is -6* with the real feel at -9*. Dragon's burning sugar splits and couple pieces or norway maple. I like the norway even though coals don't last long. Takes of quick and gives a good heat burst. 1 piece of B cherry in there too. Going to throw in a couple R oak splits. Was a bit chilly in the house.

 

[NickW]

5 ash & 1 beech. 6 degrees already outside! Haven't seen that high of a temperature since Saturday I think.

Last nights experiment was a success. Not sure if I'm at the final location of the magnet yet; but it was a good, controllable burn.

 

[Wildflush]

5 ash & 1 beech. 6 degrees already outside! Haven't seen that high of a temperature since Saturday I think.

Last nights experiment was a success. Not sure if I'm at the final location of the magnet yet; but it was a good, controllable burn.

What was your STT?

 

[MRD1985]

In the pic, just above the far left split, what's that ring looking thing?
There's even a flame that appears to be rolling out of it.

Small piece of dogwood.

 

[MRD1985]

Woke up to 5 degrees with a feels like of -4. Still was 69 in the main rooms, with a STT of 250. Still had giant chunks of the big oak split from last night. Reloaded with oak, ash and beech and a little dogwood. This has been nice and hot, just what the house needs. Crusing at 730 STT blower on high.

 

[NickW]

What was your STT?

I think it topped out at 620 stt and 780 flue.

 

[Wildflush]

I think it topped out at 620 stt and 780 flue.

Good STT. I don’t have a flue probe for mine. I have telescopic Excel stove pipe that I don’t want to mess with. It runs under 36” to a 90 and a short run to the thru wall thimble. My STT ranges from 550-700 depending on my needs.

 

[Dieselhead]

Oak, maple and cherry uglies. Took off too quick on last nights coal bed to snap a pic. -2 out this am with teens again today. Time to heat soak for tonight. A change of pace from my usual daytime spruce loads.

☕️👍🏼

 

[stoveliker]

15 out now, 12+ hrs and the locust and oak load is gone.
69 upstairs.
Locust and oak uglies going in
21 for the high tiday

 

[weee123]

Real feel of 3 degree outside. At work warming up inside currently. Sitting in a boom reach basket on the shady side of a building isn’t very fun right now

 

[Gearhead660]

I wish! After adding the damper it got better, but still is usually 150 degrees different flue over stt (with the blower running on high). Flue at 10% open air 1/4 open with a full hardwood load I'm over 800 flue and 620-650 stt.

There's several people here that are regular posters who have the NC30. Any of you guys able to run stt equal to or higher than flue?

In the name of science I am going to see if I can get this to happen with the damper closed as far as I can, the air open, and keep it running (with the magnet off the secondary air that I just put on...) It's still -5 out and I'm not going outside, so I might as well do some playing with it.

I should remind everyone about my flue situation too. 24' total flue height, 4' horizontal run 42" above the stove. It seems like I fight weak draft until it's HOT, then it gets really strong when it's hot, then lose it badly as it cools. I did a bunch of experimenting when I first installed the damper and I think it was @Gearhead660 who at one point suggested to try shutting the damper before the air control, which was better than shutting air down first.

With the load going right now, got flue at 580*, stove at 640*. Flue monitored with Auber. Verified magnet thermometer with IR gun.
I have been shutting damper down first, then shut down primary air. Has worked great. End up with primary 3/4 closed. I shoot for 600-650* flue temps. Before the damper install, I would have flue temps around 750* and up. Sometimes would run away and get close to 900*.

 

[Gearhead660]

Been burning elm for the past week or so. Taking a break from oak.

 

[all night moe]

Real feel of 3 degree outside. At work warming up inside currently. Sitting in a boom reach basket on the shady side of a building isn’t very fun right now

I feel for you. So glad I'm not riding the ball today.

 

[weee123]

I feel for you. So glad I'm not riding the ball today.

Yea installing louvers on a building. Just holding onto the frozen aluminum louver during install completely sucks all the heat from your hands even through gloves. The rest of me is fine just my hands are frozen😂

 

[MRD1985]

Just reloaded with cherry, ash, oak and maple. About 275 STT.

 

[all night moe]

1 piece of wax

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