What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

[MRD1985]

? LOL

Wtf??? I didn’t notice that lmao. Autocorrect and fat fingers. Fixed it lmao

 

[NickW]

Half size shoulder season load just went in. Separated some ash & embers to one side and started to melt & deform my welding glove. A bit warmer but cloudy & windy today. House temperature isn't going up much. Might give up on trying to get some ash out...

 

[MRD1985]

? LOL

Was supposed to say 1 piece of each 🤦🏻‍♂️

 

[all night moe]

Separated some ash & embers to one side and started to melt & deform my welding glove

I know that feeling. Some times dragon breath wants to bite my hand, glove or not. Have to toss splits in from 8-10''es away. Kinda like feeding a starved dog bacon.

 

[thewoodlands]

We had a low of minus 10.5 this morning so the furnace kicked on. Since I had other things going on today, the first fire was locked in around 12:15 this afternoon.

I had some not so great maple that should provide us with enough heat and coals until the next fire, beech and ironwood.

 

[vatmark]

More Oak. It's 28 outside. 70 inside.

 

[Wildflush]

Late reload had to go to the market. STT 250 house 71. Oh well. Load of maple and red oak on the coals.

 

[MRD1985]

Just reloaded. Mostly cherry with a little oak. 200 STT.

 

[NickW]

Full shoulder season load. Going to see if I can run damper fully shut or not, how hot it needs to be to do it, and what my air setting needs to be if it will...

 

[stoveliker]

This mornings load of oak and locust knotty pieces wasn't providing enough heat anymore. So I raked the coals to the door and put a long knotty piece on it like I normally do with pine. But this is white oak...
We'll see how it goes. Burns like hell though, currently.

 

[NickW]

Full shoulder season load. Going to see if I can run damper fully shut or not, how hot it needs to be to do it, and what my air setting needs to be if it will...

Nope! At 800 flue stt rising reduced from 25% open to 15% open and flue dropped slowly to 730 stt to 570-580 (air fully open). Bumped back to 25% open and quickly rose to 830 and started shutting air down...

 

[weee123]

Load of red oak and a pitch pine round. Outside temp of 17 inside living room 72.

Running with no secondary blockage just babysitting the manometer and keeping draft at .05-.06”. More robust secondaries and I don’t want to jinx myself but seems to be running very controlled.

I believe my main problem for feeling like the stove couldn’t be controlled was that I wasn’t keeping the draft down from the get go and only adjusting after the fact which was too late at that point. Hopefully I’m not coming back in an hour to say nevermind she started choochin again

 

[thewoodlands]

It's 8.6 out at the moment, not sure what the temps are inside, but I'm warm, the treadmill session with some beech going has things pretty warm in the basement.

National Soup Month continues!

 

[bigealta]

Did a hot ash pan pull and dump. Love the ash pan as 1 minute later stove is ready to go for a big coal reload.
3 splits again and that seems to be how it goes with the splits i have on deck and the big coal beds while driving the f400 reasonably hard.

 

[NickW]

Another shoulder season load is in. Just ripping through them trying to get the house warm.

 

[weee123]

It's 8.6 out at the moment, not sure what the temps are inside, but I'm warm, the treadmill session with some beech going has things pretty warm in the basement.

National Soup Month continues!

Looks good! I was just walking to my living room with a bowl of beef and barley soup and it slipped out of my hand and spilled all over the floor. My disappointment was extreme but my dog got a tasty second dinner

 

[all night moe]

Earlier I stopped feeding. My aim was just to burn down some coals. Every 20-30mins I'd go down into the lair and push a bunch of coals to the back. Between last nights oak, couple morning loads, and a noon time load, the coal bed was rather huge. I had the house up to a good temp and figured I could afford to burn them down while still providing a little heat. After the 4th or 5th time pushing coals back, it happened. I was making great progress, burning them up, and on my way down for the 6th. Reached the bottom of the stairs and all went dark. The power went out. Dragon pronounced DOA. With single digits out things would go south quick.

Grabbed my head lamp and leveled off the remaining coals. Watched the fan limit switch for a bit to see how fast it was climbing. It wasn't rocketing but steadily climbing off the coal bed. Through a half dozen splits in. The duct work would have to work off of convection.

Little over an hour the power was restored. That could have been a bad trip.

 

[all night moe]

Looks good! I was just walking to my living room with a bowl of beef and barley soup and it slipped out of my hand and spilled all over the floor. My disappointment was extreme but my dog got a tasty second dinner

I don't know what button to push.
LMAO, like, or sad .....

 

[MRD1985]

Feeling ambitious and wanted a boost before the overnight, so in went 7 splits of hickory.

 

[all night moe]

Feeling ambitious and wanted a boost before the overnight, so in went 7 splits of hickory.

BTU freight train.

 

[MRD1985]

BTU freight train.

Yeah buddy !

And we’re off.

 

[stoveliker]

You'll be sleeping late if you need to reload after that (and its big pile of coals)

 

[MRD1985]

You'll be sleeping late if you need to reload after that (and its big pile of coals)

I figured I’ll reload around midnight or a bit later. I fully expect lots of coals..

 

[MRD1985]

Earlier I stopped feeding. My aim was just to burn down some coals. Every 20-30mins I'd go down into the lair and push a bunch of coals to the back. Between last nights oak, couple morning loads, and a noon time load, the coal bed was rather huge. I had the house up to a good temp and figured I could afford to burn them down while still providing a little heat. After the 4th or 5th time pushing coals back, it happened. I was making great progress, burning them up, and on my way down for the 6th. Reached the bottom of the stairs and all went dark. The power went out. Dragon pronounced DOA. With single digits out things would go south quick.

Grabbed my head lamp and leveled off the remaining coals. Watched the fan limit switch for a bit to see how fast it was climbing. It wasn't rocketing but steadily climbing off the coal bed. Through a half dozen splits in. The duct work would have to work off of convection.

Little over an hour the power was restored. That could have been a bad trip.

Glad your power came back! I take it no back up generator?

 

[stoveliker]

12 outside, warming up to 16 by tomorrow early am.
71 upstairs.
A reload of mostly white oak, maybe 1 red oak, and one (the last) locust split.