What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

[weee123]

Full load of white oak going in. Should have some nice coals in the morning

 

[thewoodlands]

We have an outside temp of 22.1 tonight, the basement temp is starting out at 75 with the temps up here 68 & 69. The overnight load has eight splits of beech providing the heat tonight.

 

[stoveliker]

27 out, slowly warming up to 39 tomorrow. 70 upstairs.
Reload of 4 Maple splits at the bottom right that I found in the stacks when I reloaded the rack in the garage, and a mix of white oak branch wood and red oak splits.

 

[MRD1985]

Reloaded a couple of times throughout the rest of the day. The hickory coals sure are something else. They can be like rocks that hang around indefinitely. Had to scoop quite a bit out to get a decent load in for the overnight, and still was a bit light on wood. Red oak and cherry tonight.

 

[NickW]

Got home after that last load of mostly small and mid size ash with a couple of smaller beech hoping to not have too huge a pile of coals and was greeted by a ton of coals. It was only 6 hours after loading so I'm not real surprised. House temps were pretty good though, so ran some bark to get them down somewhat at least.

Coals mostly shoved to the sides... 2 ash, 4 beech & 1 ironwood went in. Temperature down to 10 with wind chill a little below zero by morning. Tired, not enough sleep again last night, never got a nap today. At least I can be confident in going to bed a half hour to 45 minutes after loading now instead of how long I used to have to wait.

 

[bigealta]

I said f it last night and just thru in 1 oak split on a partially burned small load from a couple hours before.

With temps warming a bit the need to run constantly has diminished.

 

[thewoodlands]

It's 25.3 outside this morning, the basement temp is 73 with both temps up here at 67. The first load hasn't gone in yet, that will happen after coffee.

 

[weee123]

Had enough coals from the white oak load last night to restart some more oak splits to start the day

 

[MRD1985]

Going to get close to 40 today, so probably will not need as much heat as we have been today. Been a long time since it’s been above freezing really. Some black cherry, birch and 1 piece of oak this morning.

 

[Dieselhead]

Last night was a junky load of oaks and maples. Kinda sloppy and nowhere near capacity. Held the temps perfect in the house though. I’m gonna throw some spruce in a little bit on top of them coals, kinda feeling lazy this am.
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[NickW]

Massive coals again this morning. 8 1/2 hours after loading house temps were down a bit but not terrible, heaters not on. Ended up having to stay up longer than expected last night because I tried charring the hardwood load less and it stalled just before getting to my final settings so needed to be opened up a little more for awhile then shut down.

Coals pushed to sides, 7 pieces of shoulder season wood filled it. Sunny and mid to upper 20's today. Going to try some small shoulder season loads run hot and pretty open settings throughout the day to get coals down and some ash out.

 

[Pinesmoke]

Warmed up with some pine this morning. Temp going to 50 today so gonna toss a little pine and oak in to smoker today just for the embers later.

 

[all night moe]

3rd load in this today. All mixed hardwoods. House is a bit chilly. 32* with a real of 18'. Quite windy wish is helping to push some drafts through the house. That and I discovered 3 heat registers were obstructed with people carelessly piling stuff up in front of them. 🙄

I also have been noticing the dragon's exhale is suffering a bit. I think I have an accumulation of fly ash in the 6' section of horizontal pipe and the chimney liner's T. If it's warmer out tomorrow, I'll let it burn down so I can clean it.

 

[stoveliker]

Added three more splits,. because otherwise it wouldn't make it to when we get back, leaving soon.

 

[NickW]

Ashes separated from coals and burned down twice today after the morning shoulder season load. I've been averaging about 3 gallons of ash a week for the last 3 or 4 weeks. Way more than normal. Pretty much pure ash, no charcoal chunks or coals.

Inside temperature held with solar gains but are dropping now with the sun going down and stove temperature dropping. Firing up what's left in there and going to go with a shoulder season load again shortly to give a boost and base for tonight. Upcoming temperatures are going to be higher than they've been, but winds are going to pick up. 50mph gusts maybe tomorrow and wind advisory has been issued.

 

[Dieselhead]

Temps are in the mid 20s tonight and since the house is already at 72 I did a full load of spruce for tonight's load. I blew through 2/3 of a facecord of hardwood last week with the bitter cold so trying to use up some lower grade wood now. Tomorrow should be sunny and 30s so will see what I decide to do in the am. Probably more of the same to keep some coals going throughout the day. See you guys for coffee. ☕️

 

[stoveliker]

28 outside,. going down to 26. 72 upstairs; put too much in this afternoon, tried to burn it down for the night reload but that didn't work out well.
Reload, a bit loose, on many coals, of red and white oak.

 

[MRD1985]

kept the stove going with a few splits here and there during the day today, mostly cherry and black cherry. Overnight received a mixed bag. Knotty oak, black cherry, cherry, and birch. Low 20s for tonight.