What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

[stoveliker]

Reload with a mixed bag of oak, some white, some red, some knots so some free space, some branch wood, some 1-footers.
71 upstairs, 38 outside which seems to be the low for tonight.
Tomorrow morning 40, tomorrow 44, but 21 tomorrow night so not letting my basement go cold. I'll run low and slow.

 

[NickW]

6 ash, 1 each beech, honey locust & sugar maple. Pretty full load.

 

[thewoodlands]

The last I looked it was 30 out, I would give you some inside temps but the power has been going off & on so once it stayed on for a bit, I ran the furnace. I did make an overnight fire, three beech with two splits of ash, if the power goes out, the heat from running the furnace should be enough until morning.

We've been getting some wet heavy snow since after 6 tonight.

 

[MRD1985]

Maple and red oak for the night.

 

[stoveliker]

Maple and red oak for the night.

Very nice load

 

[all night moe]

Fed the dragon 2 nights ago. Emptied ash and prepped coals. Turned to grab splits and waddaya know? The dragon had company. Another reptile, an eastern milk snake, Coiled up sitting on a pallet near the dragon's heat. We put this little guy in a tank and left to get a heat pad at the pet store, which ended up being closed. Grabbed some take out dinner and headed home. Normally a 2hr round trip, was extended from driving home in a snow storm. We put a space heater next to the tank and hoped for the best. My plan was to keep it until the weather broke for the better, then release him near our garden shed. He was dead the next morning.

Fed the dragon a good load of mixed hardwoods in the morning as well. GF let it burn down as it warmed up outdoors throughout the day. I got home around 4:30 and prepped for an evening burn of more mixed, lit off from buried coals about 7pm. An additional mixed load around 9pm and I couldn't stay awake any longer.

No breakfast this morning but the dragon will have lunch as temps are dropping into the upper 20's. The break of slaving the dragon was heaven sent.

On another note, I ranted earlier about wasted heat from carelessness. come to find out, the 26R value foam board has been removed at the top of the attic stairs for the last few days. Loosing heat through there and I'm standing firm. The horse doesn't want to drink the water. LOL

 

[Dieselhead]

I got wrapped up in a YouTube show I was watching so never made a post, but last night was fairly mild right around freezing so I went with a load of spruce instead of the usual overnight hardwood load. House is at 71 this am and the highs are forecast to be in the upper 30s so no am load, may throw some on later in the day as the overnight load is still going.

 

[NickW]

13 degrees, 2 wind chill. High of 21 forecast, coldest day until next week. Awesome coals this morning. Full shoulder season load. Sun is out so will get solar gains today. Basement was still 72 but upstairs was down to 66.

 

[MRD1985]

More oak and maple this morning. Had a high of 43 today but supposed to go to 16 degrees tonight. Very windy and temperature dropping quickly as of now.

 

[MRD1985]

Very nice load

Was a hot one! Still had great big coals after 10-11 hours. Still 250STT at 9 this morning when I loaded the stove. Loaded the stove around 1030 the previous night.

 

[Dieselhead]

More oak and maple this morning. Had a high of 43 today but supposed to go to 16 degrees tonight. Very windy and temperature dropping quickly as of now.

Heat soak that house atta boy! We got the same for tonight it seems.

 

[stoveliker]

added some oak knotty uglies now on the coals from last night. Very windy here too. Going down to 20 tonight, 40 now after a high of 43.

 

[MRD1985]

Heat soak that house atta boy! We got the same for tonight it seems.

Yup! Currently 73 in main rooms, 69-71 in bedrooms

 

[thewoodlands]

This morning we had an outside temp of 20.2, the basement temp started off at 72 with the temps up here 67 & 68. The first load had maple and some ash.

 

[all night moe]

I've been home today. No morning load. GF had the space heater going in the living room when I got up 6 amish. Was still ''warm'' outside in the low 30s. I turned off the space heater around 9 and readied the dragon for the upcoming temp drop. 1st shoulder season load of soft maples at 11. 2 more followed throughout the day. Each load had a couple splits of ash for BTU boost and the dragon's pleasure.

 

[begreen]

The T6 has been running 24/7 for a couple of weeks now. We are alternating between NW big leaf maple and doug fir with 10-12 hr burn times typical. On some milder days I have been 3/4 loading, then I add a few splits around 4pm to carry it until around 10pm, then load up for the night.

 

[all night moe]

The T6 has been running 24/7 for a couple of weeks now. We are alternating between NW big leaf maple and doug fir with 10-12 hr burn times typical. On some milder days I have been 3/4 loading, then I add a few splits around 4pm to carry it until around 10pm, then load up for the night.

So many stoves to love.

 

[stoveliker]

Being a monostovist does not add virtue to a person

 

[Slabongrade]

Sugar maple and ironwood rolling tonight. Making the Benjamin pump some hot water

 

[stoveliker]

Oak and more oak. Red and white. (No blue pine, though I have some).
31 and windy. Going down to 21. Upstairs is 72.

Correction, 73 upstairs.
And my daughter was in the couch with a blanket...?!🤔🤷‍♂️🥵

 

[NickW]

Full stove. Mostly ash, couple of beech and a sugar maple. Bad feeling about how this load is going to settle in. Only so-so coals and one side really took off and the other did nothing. Ran it up pretty high trying to get the side that didn't light to char up.

 

[MRD1985]

Mostly full stove tonight of oak and maple. Had some odd shaped pieces with knots that wouldn’t let me stack exactly how I wanted. It’ll throw some heat regardless, no doubt.

 

[all night moe]

Full stove. Mostly ash, couple of beech and a sugar maple. Bad feeling about how this load is going to settle in. Only so-so coals and one side really took off and the other did nothing. Ran it up pretty high trying to get the side that didn't light to char up.

Seems ash takes off slower than some. Beech and maple are good igniters.

 

[NickW]

Seems ash takes off slower than some. Beech and maple are good igniters.

Ash usually takes off like a rocket for me. A full load of ash is my hardest load to control. Beech is usually pretty good for ignition, but hard maple (sugar) not so much.

I loaded without thinking. Right side typically lights and burns better than the left and I put the pieces with more "strings" on the right and more solid on the left... User error.

 

[MRD1985]

And we’re cooking.