What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

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High winds and dropping temps here AGAIN...went out to my Black Locust stash and selected some premium stuff and loaded the stove up..
 
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Burning 2+ year old black birch and red oak...makes for a wonderful fire!
 
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I'm a little off schedule tonight, and we're about to head below zero again, so I'm running a few oak and ash splits to build up a good coal base before packing the stove for bedtime.
 
At home, ash and a mix of different maples (mostly silver), small amounts of elm, oak and cherry are occasionally in the mix as well.
At camp it's a mix of balsam, poplar maple and birch (both white and some yellow), basically we're on anything that got cleared down when we built the cabin.
 
Ran a 50/50 mix of Black Locust and White Oak last night and this morning..good stuff!
 
Making ashes from some 3 year old ELM. This stuff is so dry it is on fire before I have the stove fully loaded.
 
Making ashes from some 3 year old ELM. This stuff is so dry it is on fire before I have the stove fully loaded.
Thats the way my Locust is...by the 3rd piece it is taking off! Thats a good thing as I can shut the stove down much sooner.
 
Small ash rounds Burnin in the box today
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Some cedar slabs, because it was at the front of the wood shed. ;lol
 
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All pine tonight...
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Ran my supply out that was right next to the boiler, and didn't have time to grab some from the next driest stack so I loaded up a wheelbarrow with wood from the next nearest stack.

That was... a mistake.

Boiler ran flat out for 14h solid, never making it above 450F on the outlet (normally 1000-1500F) at any point, and ultimately going cold enough to generate a low water temp warning just as I work up in the morning.

I can't wait until spring so I can finally get ahead on stacking and drying.
 
Absolutely nothing right now have a torn rotator cuff in my shoulder so I'm down an can't do much.

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got some mulberry going right now. ash & a little oak for tonight.
 
Full load of Black Locust tonight...
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It's cold tonight so it is Sugar Maple and Red Oak and
when the temps go up it will be Sugar Maple and Red Oak
Wait a minute that's all I got
 
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BEECH!!!!............it's what's for dinner!