What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

[weee123]

Oak and some aspen heating up the stove right now. Supposed to get some snow later in the day that’s supposed to turn to rain overnight. Don’t see how that works seeing as how it doesn’t get warmer overnight

 

[Turbo89]

Waited a bit too long, about 13-1/2 hrs or so. Still some coals, but stove was like 100 degrees.

Some kindling and a log on now to get her back up to temp:

 

[Turbo89]

I forgot to clean the glass… it was cold? Lol

She’s cooking now, I tossed another log on, I’ll let her run hot for the next hour or so and see if It cleans up a bit!

 

[Tar13]

Welcome! to Hearth.com @Tar13 So glad to have you....

i am not really new here...I went by Tar12 before but had issues logging in...but thanks for the welcome..

 

[thewoodlands]

This morning the outside temp was 16.8, the basement temp started out at 72 with both temps up here 66. The first load had five splits of ash going in the wood stove. After plowing about three or four inches off the driveway and some areas in the woods, I put another five splits of ash in the wood stove, I should've burned down the coals more but I'll deal with that later.

Tomorrow my pick is the Eagles, I'm hoping Saquon Barkley is the difference maker.

 

[VirginiaIron]

Some left over scrub limbs and beefy squaw branches to nice to push in the woods and could be stackable. Now, we’re finally burning it before moving on to the top shelf stuff.

 

[NickW]

8 pieces of ash and 1 birch just went in after burning down with a small shoulder season load this morning and removing ash just now. Should have coals when we get home later tonight.

 

[burning VC]

i am not really new here...I went by Tar12 before but had issues logging in...

Ahem. Welcome back to Hearth.com😆

my pick is the Eagles, I'm hoping Saquon Barkley is the difference maker.

The Chiefs got a few Tom Brady calls last week...just saying.
between not giving allen the 1st down, and the 'catch' that hit the ground for the chiefs..
seems like they wanted to say Threepeat all week, and so did Pat Riley.
Eagles have been grinding all year, and Barkley is supremely gifted. Eagles defense is better.




GrandpaBear has been cold a few days, so took him to the Vet and got his chimney cleaned today...that will show him.
fed him some very small kindling of red oak, some white pin oak. along with smaller beech limbs, some pine limbs and thick red oak bark. STT400F

It's 54F out, low tonight 51F so i'm not running myself out. Monday the seasonal average is forecast so it's time to build heat into the structure and embankments again.


Overall the chimney was super clean, and most of the buildup was fluffy grey.....the stovepipe had a bit of buildup, but thats probably from all the pine early on.

The draft is better, and just managing the BTUs to slowly gain latent heat.
The house is chilly without heat for a few days...fixing that now..

 

[MRD1985]

Threw a few splits in the aquarium of fire. 1 ash, 1 oak, 1 maple.

 

[stoveliker]

Yesterday's load of exclusive red oak is done after 22 hrs.
Slightly late,.only few coals left. But got it going with oak odds and ends

 

[Turbo89]

22 hrs is impressive, what stove is that?

 

[stoveliker]

More importantly: It is a 825 sq ft basement where the stove is, and the 1700 sq ft above that.
The basement is finished and insulated, except for the floor (finished but not insulated). The rest is 1970s r13 insulation in the walls, the most energy efficient windows you can get, and excellent air sealing in the attic with r58.

But the weather today was reasonable, 23 for the low early morning, and 34 for the high today. Not much solar gain though. But no wind either.

That all means I didn't need much BTUs, thus allowing to stretch the large number of BTUs in a well-packed oak load over a large number of hours of low output.

That said, it is a BK Chinook 30.2

 

[Turbo89]

More importantly: It is a 825 sq ft basement where the stove is, and the 1700 sq ft above that.
The basement is finished and insulated, except for the floor (finished but not insulated). The rest is 1970s r13 insulation in the walls, the most energy efficient windows you can get, and excellent air sealing in the attic with r58.

But the weather today was reasonable, 23 for the low early morning, and 34 for the high today. Not much solar gain though. But no wind either.

That all means I didn't need much BTUs, thus allowing to stretch the large number of BTUs in a well-packed oak load over a large number of hours of low output.

That said, it is a BK Chinook 30.2

Impressive still, 2.9 cu-ft fire box is nice, my encores 2.3 feels a little small, but once I finish the shop insulation I think it’ll be perfect (about 1,000 square-ft, but 13’ ceilings).

 

[all night moe]

A few loads of softwoods today. 4 I think....wasn't really counting. Warmer today with a high in the upper 20s and a slight periodic breeze.
Overnight will be H and B locusts, along with some red oak. Will be feeding that to the dragon late. I should be leaving to plow snow in the early am. Hoping it misses us.

Will be burning some ash and norway maple before the overnight.

 

[Turbo89]

Just tossed in 4 massive oak slabs, and 1 small maple split. She’s settling in for the long sleep now.

 

[MRD1985]

More oak and maple with a big split of ash for tonight. Snow coming in tonight, and of course, I have to work tomorrow .

 

[Todd]

Looks like we will be seeing below zero lows for the next week. Currently -16 just loaded 25lbs of Red Oak in the stove.

 

[Turbo89]

About 13hrs on my burn from last night, had a good amount of coals, just tossed a few small pieces of birch and oak on it to build up some coals for day.

 

[thewoodlands]

I didn't have a fire last night, set the furnace so it wouldn't kick on but I ran it this morning for about seven minutes. The ashes went out and the first fire has been going, all ash.

 

[Turbo89]

She’s cruising now, just put on 3 oak splits and shops at 65. Cat around 1350, STT around 650.

 

[johneh]

The old homestead is rather warm. Better half baking. So
pellet stove is off. The furnace is just in idle mode 2 small
splits of sugar maple. outside is the warmest it has been
since late November 6

 

[Dieselhead]

A full load of Cherry, maple and oak are in today, I have it on low and slow as I wont be home until tomorrow morning to reload. Propane furnace will pick up any slack if needed. May be good as it shouldn’t get below 20.

 

[all night moe]

Got home around 9:30am from plowing. Over night was set at 1:30am. That overnight of locusts and red oak left some coals in the dragon's belly 8hrs later. Plowed us out 1st then put a fresh load of softwood splits in. Almost 2pm and I haven't gone down to see the dragon's progress. I just got up .....LOL

 

[Turbo89]

Some oak burning, getting some secondary combustion while listening to November Rain:

 

[stoveliker]

3 small Spruce splits and a piece of red oak from 5 pm to get me to the night reload.

The flames are completely blue but my phone messes up the color balance.