What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

[Wildflush]

Beautiful country up there. I love the Wisconsin north woods.

I'm often comparing temps from posts here on Hearth! Today it is snowing like crazy, probably 6" now but more coming.
27 outside, 72 inside. Furnace is happily cruising on it's diet of ash and a stick or two of maple. There is another cold snap coming this week after the snow. Saving some yellow birch for that.

OK, enough of this. I'm off to plow snow.....

You guys in Wisconsin get some extreme temps!I won’t complain when we get teens here.

 

[stoveliker]

Awesome pic! Need a photo contest between a few of you guys.

Lol. And that's talking the two BK guys 🤣

 

[Turbo89]

Shop’s back up and running, for some work tonight and tomorrow in the snow.

Insulation is working well, stove was cold and I had last put wood in her like 20hrs before, but shop was still in the mid 40s….

Edited: yrs to hrs

 

[Wildflush]

Lol. And that's talking the two BK guys 🤣

Sure is! I have nice glass on my stove but can’t get those pics!

 

[Wildflush]

Shop’s back up and running, for some work tonight and tomorrow in the snow.

Insulation is working well, stove was cold and I had last put wood in her like 20yrs before, but shop was still in the mid 40s….

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What kind of stove?

 

[Turbo89]

What kind of stove?

VC encore, CAT-C.

Best I’ve done with her was about 14-1/2hr burn, with enough coals to re-light. Yesterday i wasn’t really really stacking for a long burn, shop was like 74 at one point so i had to back off🤣

 

[Dieselhead]

Awesome pic! Need a photo contest between a few of you guys.

I know who will be getting first place and it ain’t me!

>@MRD1985 <

😛

Lol. And that's talking the two BK guys 🤣

Gotta hurry up and take that pic, they won’t have visible flames for long!

 

[all night moe]

Insulation is working well, stove was cold and I had last put wood in her like 20yrs before

Sooo, how many hours does that equate to?

 

[Turbo89]

Haha! Good catch! Hrs***

 

[vatmark]

Might have said this before, beautiful stove. My wife commented on it.

Thank you!

 

[stoveliker]

31 outside, got about an inch of snow. Will turn to rain soon. Temps going slowly up to 36 at 8 am, and then all the way to 50 tomorrow. So I'll let it burn out. Running so low that I don't overheat the home while it's 50 outside may give draft issues...

71 upstairs

So I reloaded after 12 hrs with spruce, and a small pine shaving in front.
I find that blocking some of the air wash from reaching the dry spruce (aka paper wood...) by increasing some turbulence, will help with it taking off so fast.

Although I already started turning down after 2 minutes...

 

[Turbo89]

Just tossed in 2 pieces of oak and I think a straggling piece of pine. Its snowing like a b*stard out there, trying to keep the shop warm until the rain comes in the am. I’ll just re-light it, if it’s cold.

It’s gonna be warm here tomorrow, so I’ll try to actually clean my stove glass and burn off some punky wood!

 

[Wildflush]

26 outside temp. Reloaded the stove earlier with two maple and two red oak medium splits. STT just shy of 700. House 77 now but does not feel like we are getting cooked out. Snowing since 7pm getting up to 4” in my area then changing to rain early tomorrow. Messy stuff since slush clogs my blower. Should be fun tomorrow.

 

[NickW]

23/15. 4 ash, 2 beech and 1 ironwood tonight.

 

[all night moe]

Coming up from the lair, the dragon salivates on the overnight load. A 6'' barkless round of black ash with well checkered ends. 4 splits of honey locust accompanying 2 of black. With some splits of red oak are 2 pignut scrappers. Sandwiched in between are 2 splits of white ash for filler. All on a good coal bed of a small load of earlier mixed and premium hardwoods. I memorized the dancing blue flames before the overnight. What a show.

I forgot the bib.

 

[Tar13]

Running a mixture of locust and ash this evening in this milder weather..looking at low single digits all next week so I will be bringing in a bunch of locust..

 

[Wildflush]

House stayed warm from last nights load. 67 inside temp. Cold start with larger oak and maple on the bottom. Two small ash splits diagonally with fatwood piece in between. Kindling and pinecone. Cherry and oak on top of those. Off and running now.

Mess outside, time for coffee. No hurry to get outside. Will sit by the stove.

Edit: going to 46 today so will get some melting but lower 20’s tonight and wind so what does not melt freeze. One reload than going cold. Hard to get ice melt here. News runs a report on low stock levels and people hoard it!

 

[NickW]

20 degrees and breezy, wind chill in the single digits. 3/4 load of 6 ash with ash and embers off to one side. Today will be the last day to get some ash out until the end of the week...

 

[stoveliker]

Stove still going for a few hours, from what I see inside, but I switched off the fan that aids in getting heat up.as it'll be 49 today. 33 and rain now
Will start again later afternoon or early evening.

 

[all night moe]

Nice pile of chunky coals this morning with a minimal chill in the house. That was about 7am. Tossed some ash, norway maple, and a split of cherry down the dragon's throat. I'm sure it's due for more now.

 

[Turbo89]

That random piece of pine and 2 oaks burned great (must be the big ash bed in the stove).

Came out to this after about 15hrs or so, STT around 160, put some dry pieces on and she lit right up!

I just tossed on some questionable punky wood, shops just below 50.

 

[Pinesmoke]

I stepped out on the patio this morning for a coffee, it was 60. Temps falling like a rock, it's 40 now headed below freezing by sundown and low 20s tonight.

Sticks and limb wood right now and going from there.

 

[Turbo89]

She’s back rippin’ punky wood took off

 

[thewoodlands]

I didn't even have a fire last night, I set the furnace at 54 (the wife was happy!) so it never kicked on. We're back burning beech today.

I'm not sure what the temps have been, the wireless needed charging and the indoor receiver needed new batteries so that's finally done.

 

[mpaul]

. Hard to get ice melt here. News runs a report on low stock levels and people hoard it!

worse comes to worse use water softener salt. Salt is salt and it will melt the ice.