What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

[burning VC]

@burning VC hows gramps?

in the nwNC foothills....
...same as everyone else.....a colder than recent January's.......much like the days of old...
the last 9 consecutive days High Temps below freezing...tonights low is 18F

the ole Grey Grizzled GrandpaBear began the week grumbling you could see his ribs.....
trust me, with what he's eaten since Winter 24/25 began...
you couldn't see his ribs on an X-ray from two Black Hole Supernova's merging...👀

He whines he's burning off the calories! 🐻‍❄️

(In back, not visible)
3 White Oak splits from deadfall

(l to r)
Top- White Pine, yellow pine rearward, White Pine, White oak entering from right mid.
Bottom-White Oak x2, Spanish Swamp Oak(red) , Maple limb / Beech stage right.
turned into

cause it takes alot to feed a cold and hungry Bear,
down the mountain... down in the trees....by a river...

Scattered snow flurries and snow showers possible this evening. Becoming clear later. Continued cold. Winds light and variable. Chance of snow 30%.

 

[weee123]

in the nwNC foothills....
...same as everyone else.....a colder than recent January's.......much like the days of old...
the last 9 consecutive days High Temps below freezing...tonights low is 18F

the ole Grey Grizzled GrandpaBear began the week grumbling you could see his ribs.....
trust me, with what he's eaten since Winter 24/25 began...
you couldn't see his ribs on an X-ray from two Black Hole Supernova's merging...👀

He whines he's burning off the calories! 🐻‍❄️



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(In back, not visible)
3 White Oak splits from deadfall

(l to r)
Top- White Pine, yellow pine rearward, White Pine, White oak entering from right mid.
Bottom-White Oak x2, Spanish Swamp Oak(red) , Maple limb / Beech stage right.
turned into
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cause it takes alot to feed a cold and hungry Bear,
down the mountain... down in the trees....by a river...

Scattered snow flurries and snow showers possible this evening. Becoming clear later. Continued cold. Winds light and variable. Chance of snow 30%.

That’s a massive amount of wood you can stuff in there! I’m always amazed how much I can fit inside my Fisher insert in my pole barn. How long does a load like that last you?

 

[Pinesmoke]

Got home a bit ago, 35 headed to 20 tonight. Warming the girl up with some big yellow pine splits. Good to be out of the frigid north.

 

[Dieselhead]

This mornings 745 am spruce load is kaput, in with tonight’s oak, maple and cherry load. 🍻

Couple shortys in there n/s with room for a e/w in front

 

[KMW]

Another night of single digit temps here in ne PA. Full load of chestnut oak going in the PI29. 73F in the stove room, 68F in the living room and 65F in the bedrooms.

 

[stoveliker]

So, 10 hrs and 45 minutes after the 6 splits, I reloaded with white oak. Still tow chunky coals of 10" long and 3" wide left - but I didn't want to wait any longer. The bed is calling.
You can maybe see the front of the splits is higher than normal as the coals were up to the edge of the brick. 6" deeper into the stove it's 1.5" of ashes, so the splits angle down towards the back.

28 outside, going down to 18. 70 upstairs.

 

[thewoodlands]

We have an outside temp of minus 2.4, the basement temp started out at 75 with the temps up here 67 & 68. The wood stove has eight splits of beech going in it.

 

[burning VC]

That’s a massive amount of wood you can stuff in there! I’m always amazed how much I can fit inside my Fisher insert in my pole barn. How long does a load like that last you?

It truly depends on mainly the output you call for.

Do you buy a Supercharged 6.2HEMI Dodge Challenger Hellcat SRT Demon 170 for the economy, sir?

Five white Oak splits, one Red Oak split half for the night...

 

[NickW]

This afternoon's load was 6 ash splits. Was still experimenting with air settings and it went great. Got home late to a bunch of coals. Burned them down for awhile with a couple of loads of bark. Trying the same settings with 4 ash splits, 2 beech and 1 ironwood for the overnight. Going well so far. If it doesn't take off bad on me in the next half hour I'm going to bed...

 

[all night moe]

The dragon's overnight course meal: 6 average sized R oak splits, 2 large sugar maple, 1 ;large and 1 average beech splits, 3 R oak rounds, 1 W oak round, 4 chunks of both oaks in the forward base, and 1 pignut average sized split.

That should keep the dragon busy till morning.

She's got a gleam in her eye
with a belly full of premiums
she heats with a fiery breath

 

[Pinesmoke]

Woke up to 14 this morning. Stirred the girl to life and have some pine warming things up.

 

[all night moe]

Nice pile, of coals this morning. Big chunky coals. Tossed in some river birch, soft maple, ash, and norway maple.
They fired right up off the coals. House up to a nice temp. This was an hour and a half ago.

 

[MRD1985]

Came home from work this morning and gave the stove a full load of hickory with some pine kindling. Teens out with single digit wind chill.

 

[NickW]

Massive coal logs on the sides, not enough heat, 3 pieces of pine & aspen in the middle and ripping... Today's going to be mid 30's and sunny. Going to get the temperature up, burn coals down, and hopefully get some ash out. Down to 10 tonight, but after that daytime temperature will be upper 20's to upper 30's and overnights will mostly stay in the 20's.

Doing a lot of documentation of loads, temperatures, and weather to try to get an idea of exactly how effectively we heat, how easy it is to maintain temperature versus how difficult it is to raise temperature upstairs, etc. for new owners to reference when the house finally sells.

 

[all night moe]

Doing a lot of documentation of loads, temperatures, and weather to try to get an idea of exactly how effectively we heat, how easy it is to maintain temperature versus how difficult it is to raise temperature upstairs, etc. for new owners to reference when the house finally sells.

That's practically a monumental task alone.
Especially when the new generations seem to not appreciate wood heat. Automation, is almost a curse...LOL

 

[NickW]

That's practically a monumental task alone.
Especially when the new generations seem to not appreciate wood heat. Automation, is almost a curse...LOL

Correct... And the wife is seeming a bit grumpy towards me about it...

It is amazing how much solar gains can help raise the upstairs temperature during the day, but if it's allowed to drop as the sun goes down it's tough to recover. Obviously very weather dependent on how quickly it drops as the sun goes down. Windy = Bad, windy & cold = very bad. Stove room downstairs is much more stable temperature wise.

 

[thewoodlands]

We had 0.3 outside this morning, the basement temp started out at 73 with the temps up here 66 & 67. Some ashes went out in the garbage pail by the outside fireplace this morning before the first fire got going. Hopefully I'm getting at the end of this not so great maple and birch.

 

[thewoodlands]

More of the not so great firewood went in before a treadmill workout, who stacks this chit!

 

[MRD1985]

Just reloaded with some red oak.

 

[Dieselhead]

More of the not so great firewood went in before a treadmill workout, who stacks this chit!

It’s all BTU’s in the end…

 

[thewoodlands]

It’s all BTU’s in the end…

One more load left, I've had it inside for a month plus, once the colder weather moved in, we started burning beech. It would've been nice for burning down coals but it was on the bottom of the rack.

 

[stoveliker]

Just added 4 white oak uglies after 19 hrs.
Pretty warm today with sun,. mostly blue sky, and touching 32 for one hr.

 

[NickW]

8 ash & 2 beech going right now. Only a couple bigger pieces. Hoping the coal pile isn't too insane when I get home later. I did get some ash out today.

Tomorrow I'll be around more (unless I get a message while at Church about another showing again this week...), so it'll be lots of small shoulder season loads to burn down coals and remove ash. Once I get caught up I should be able to keep up for the foreseeable future with the current weather forecast.

 

[Pinesmoke]

More of the not so great firewood went in before a treadmill workout, who stacks this chit!

We all have that in our stack. Seemed like a good idea at the time.

 

[stoveliker]

We all have that in our stack. Seemed like a good idea at the time.

Here too, slightly different though. Solid wood but 40% was shorties 8-10" long, and a lot of knotty chunks that are by no means suitable for loading the box up. I put them in during the day and do proper splits for the evening reload.
Solid wood but a hassle. I don't stack that any more. But 5 years ago I took all that I could get. Now I make it small and give it to my neighbors. They happy and me happy.