What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

[all night moe]

-2* with a real feel of -8. Some light snow forecasted for the evening and a high of 20* by 10pm.
Loaded the dragon this morning with 4 splits of ash. 2 on a big bed of off gassing chunky coals, and 2 more topping off a load of red oak and a few honey locusts. One fat split of silver found its way in there too.

Did the fan limit switch trick again. Air draft is full open. She's burning hot on breakfast served.
Now eat!

 

[thewoodlands]

We had a low of minus 16.2 this morning, I set the furnace at 59 so it never kicked on, the temps up here were 63 & 65 with the basement temp at 72.

The first load this morning was 4 splits of beech with 3 ironwood rounds.

 

[weee123]

A couple oak splits, an aspen split, and a cherry on top to fire up the stove this morning

 

[Dieselhead]

Come home from work this am and stove was stone cold and propane had the house at 65. I did a quick clean out since it was convenient, probably had only a couple gallons of ash but I got it down to the bricks. Start over with a load of spruce packed in nice, house at 66 and climbing. Time to play catch up as it’s gonna stay below freezing today.
Time for cup No. 2 ☕️☕️

 

[Dieselhead]

Can't wait for spring. Are we there yet?

The little rodent out in PA says not for another 6 weeks Mr.

 

[Turbo89]

Some more oak, left the stringy maple out… it burned too fast this afternoon!

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This burn worked out well, it’s been about 12 hrs and I had enough coals to re-light itself.

Building up a coal bed now for the days work in the shop:

 

[NickW]

7 pieces of ash just went in. Going to be gone most of the day so should have coals left when we get home. We have been out of the deep freeze here. 30 currently, Wednesday was mid 50's, today about 40 expected. This wee is going to be colder but stay above zero for overnight lows. Coals and ash have been manageable.

 

[Dieselhead]

This burn worked out well, it’s been about 12 hrs and I had enough coals to re-light itself.

Building up a coal bed now for the days work in the shop:
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Cool stove, what is it? Don’t see to many on here with andirons…

 

[all night moe]

Cool stove, what is it? Don’t see to many on here with andirons…

My guess is a VC.

 

[Turbo89]

Cool stove, what is it? Don’t see to many on here with andirons…

It’s an encore VC 2040 CAT-C, I’m heating about a 1,000 sq-ft shop with 13’ ceilings with it.

Right now it’s barely keeping up; but I’m picking away at insulation, so eventually I think it will be perfect.

 

[all night moe]

What'd I win?
What'd I win?!

 

[Turbo89]

What'd I win?
What'd I win?!

You cheated and read all my posts!!🤣

 

[all night moe]

You cheated and read all my posts!!🤣

Bwaaaahaha!

Nope! I identified it by the andiron.

Truthfully I've been looking at a lot of stoves in selecting 3 to add to my Moe. Looked at VC line up too. Beautiful stoves but, they're not worth the finickyness to me.

 

[Turbo89]

Bwaaaahaha!

Nope! I identified it by the andiron.

Truthfully I've been looking at a lot of stoves in selecting 3 to add to my Moe. Looked at VC line up too. Beautiful stoves but, they're not worth the finickyness to me.

Yea, it’s my first CAT stove and it’s a learning experience relative to all my other stoves.

I can’t complain, I got it cheap on market place because I wanted to try one before committing to a CAT stove in my basement. It will probably be the perfect size for the shop, once it’s insulated well.

 

[stoveliker]

23 outside, 69 upstairs.
Added 4 mulberry cut offs (4" dia, 6" long, split in half - found a few sticks in my stack that I'll keep for a colder day), two 2.5" branches of oak, and two 1 ft split of oak.

 

[stoveliker]

29 out now and snowing, 3/4" on the ground.
It didn't get above freezing today, the warm up will happen tonight: 35 at 6 am.
Upstairs is 71, a reload of some red oak, a knotty piece of white oak and some branch wood.

Debating whether to let the stove go cold tomorrow: 43 for the high and 37 for the low, with Tuesday 45 (and a low of 21).
Not sure yet.

 

[thewoodlands]

Our outside temp tonight is 17.2, the basement temp started out at 75 with the temps up here 68 & 69. The wood stove has seven splits of beech in it for the night.

 

[MRD1985]

Never got around to post this yesterday but gave it a load of red oak with a little maple. Was very cold yesterday morning. 0 with wind chill. I’ll be going home later to clean some ash out and load up the stove

 

[Dieselhead]

Nothing too crazy last night, I think 4 splits that were on the bigger side of mostly hard maple and an oak. I believe it only got down to around 28 so that on top of the days spruce coals did well. We received 3” of fresh snow overnight. We are expecting a high of 42 today so I will let last nights load coal a little more and probably throw some more spruce on to keep the stove going for tonight.
☕️ then some snow removal.👍🏼

 

[MRD1985]

More of the same this morning. Red oak and maple with pine kindling for cold start.

 

[NickW]

Just coals simmering right now. Must have been calm last night because the inside temperature was up this morning from when I went to bed. Last day above freezing today for the foreseeable future and temps are holding steady for a few hours yet before dropping this afternoon. Will be burning down coals and removing ash later.

 

[Dieselhead]

Early afternoon load of spruce, loosely thrown. Cloudy today so not much solar gain. It’s around 40 out. This should help!

 

[NickW]

First load of the day, 3/4 load of shoulder season wood.

 

[thewoodlands]

The outside temp this morning was 25.3, the basement temp started out at 73 with both temps up here 66. The first load had maple, ash and some beech.

 

[stoveliker]

Added a split of pine to burn down some coals from the load 20 hrs ago. It was 42 today, so the stove ran low. The snow mostly melted except for the piles that we shoveled.
72 upstairs.