What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

[MRD1985]

cold this morning. Upper teens with single digit wind chills. Had very nice coal bed from last night, reloaded with red oak and maple again.

Debating to split some more wood later depending on the temperature.

 

[Gearhead660]

Going to have a record high today, but frosty this morning. Half load of elm.

 

[thewoodlands]

We had a low of minus nine this morning, the furnace did kick on. After the ashes went out this morning, the first load was some ash with beech.

 

[NickW]

5 pieces of shoulder season wood this morning. It was below 30, but it's 40 and sunny already and supposed to hit 50. May be regretting this load and opening a patio door or window as I'm cleaning for an evening showing.

 

[Dieselhead]

Im riding out some coals of last nights load. I had restocked the racks yesterday and had some hardwood shorties kicked off to the side so I arranged those the best I could for overnight. I never do that great with short or odd shape pieces, definitely not photo worthy 😉I think I will be adding some spruce in maybe an hour once these coals finish doing their thing. High today is just below freezing with a light breeze. 👍🏼

 

[MRD1985]

Just reloaded with more red oak and maple.

 

[Dieselhead]

Im riding out some coals of last nights load. I had restocked the racks yesterday and had some hardwood shorties kicked off to the side so I arranged those the best I could for overnight. I never do that great with short or odd shape pieces, definitely not photo worthy 😉I think I will be adding some spruce in maybe an hour once these coals finish doing their thing. High today is just below freezing with a light breeze. 👍🏼

So I never did a spruce load as last nights coals carried pretty well through the day with temps at 31 but full sun. House at 71. Also I quoted my previous post since I said uglies and shorties never seem to allow me to pack a nice box but sometimes the stars align and things fall into place. I have a nice load in for the night of cherry, oak and maple.

Last nights coals

Tonight’s shorties and a Y shape ugly in the mix, behind that curtain of oak there’s a lot of wood;

🍻 time

 

[stoveliker]

I had added 4 short splits at around noon (18 hrs).
Time now for a reload of oak. Most splits a bit short still, 14" instead of 17.5

28 outside now, but slowly warming up to 41 tomorrow morning. 71 upstairs.

 

[fvhowler]

The weather is warm in NC and the stove is cold. Don't mind the break...most of January was very cold and I ran the stove hard.

 

[MRD1985]

Down to 22 tonight. A warm up tomorrow with rain in the low 40s. Oak and maple for the night

 

[thewoodlands]

It's 21.4 out tonight, the basement temp started out at 75 with the temps up here 68 & 70. The wood stove has eight splits in it tonight, seven beech with one split of ash.

 

[NickW]

Stove went cold today. First cold start since mid December. Hit 54 for a high with sun, so the morning shoulder season load was excessive. Fired up the little bit of charcoal a while ago with some kindling and trying to get a 3/4 load of hardwood going. 3 ash, 2 beech and 1 sugar maple.

 

[MRD1985]

Very nice big hot coals from last night in the stove this morning. More oak and maple. Should carry most of the day today.

 

[NickW]

3/4 load of 8-10 small and medium pieces, mostly ash with a couple of beech. Going up to around 40 today.

Side note. Pulled the magnet off that was partially blocking the secondary air because I've been ending up with dirty glass with the warmer weather and smaller loads. Maybe I should have left the damper more open and run some loads that way first, but I decided to go back to stock and try charring more and closing the damper faster. Weather gets colder again next week, so we'll see what happens then.

 

[thewoodlands]

The outside temp this morning was 24.4, the basement temp started out at 73 with the temps up here 67 & 68. The first load this morning had some ash with beech.

 

[stoveliker]

I took some ashes out at 4, added some bark to the remaining coals, and three 10" shorties plus an ugly of oak

 

[stoveliker]

A reload with some knotty pieces and a lot of free space. All white oak. 41 and foggy outside, going down to 34. 71 upstairs.

 

[NickW]

1/2 load of shoulder season wood in to give enough coals for later. Forecast low of 17 tonight, currently 33.

 

[MRD1985]

Red oak and maple for the night. Down to 31 tonight, which will be the high for the day tomorrow morning. Going to get very cold and windy with close to single digit lows tomorrow night without wind. Going to try to keep the house “preheated” as best as possible with more or less a full stove tonight.

 

[MRD1985]

damn near perfect. 675STT. Air just barely cracked open, blower on low.

 

[MRD1985]

Full load of red oak this morning. Still was anbout 250 STT after 10 plus hours. Nice big coals. This load About the same temps as last night.

 

[NickW]

15 and calm. 6 pieces of ash on good coals. Last nights full load ran good and was pretty effective, but took a long time to settle in. Probably should have charred more because it was weak coals and a cool stove.

 

[thewoodlands]

We didn't have an overnight fire last night. The outside temp this morning was 2, the first load has maple with some beech in it.

Accu is calling for minus 11 tomorrow morning with a wind chill of minus 25, that'll be nice.

 

[stoveliker]

We didn't have an overnight fire last night. The outside temp this morning was 2, the first load has maple with some beech in it.

Accu is calling for minus 11 tomorrow morning with a wind chill of minus 25, that'll be nice.

Ironwood time?

 

[thewoodlands]

Ironwood time?

That'll help out some but temps that cold, I'll just set the furnace at 62. Usually with the pellet stove, I would fill the basement with heat and then start up the overnight fire with the wood stove later, the two together with the colder temps worked out good but we didn't buy any pellets this year. We had planned on running the furnace this year since all rooms get the heat.