What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

[JamesGuido]

About 4 year old super dry oak
Check out these flames…

 

[MRD1985]

Put on a big knotty chunk of oak and a small split of maple

 

[MRD1985]

4 small splits of silver maple to hold the stove over for a few hours.

 

[Dieselhead]

Maple and cherry tonight. That middle piece of maple had some weight to it! Lows in the 20s tonight, cloudy and 40s tomorrow.

 

[stoveliker]

A reload with pitch pine. Burning up some small splits that have been in my garage for a few years.
29 outside going down to 26. Upstairs is 71.
Tomorrow the stove will go cold: 45/40, minisplit time.

 

[NickW]

Ash, beech and sugar maple again

 

[MRD1985]

For what could be the coldest night for a while, I threw the kitchen sink at it. Hickory, oak, red maple, silver maple and ash tonight.

 

[ctreitzell]

Currently my stove is cold with a small amount of ashes.

Ok, so, last I was here, I was being admonished for my loose use of the term “topping” a tree. So, I went to the tip/ dump this morning. I messed up and it was a closed morning so I had some time to drive around and take photos.

It’s a very good time because everyone here is scrambling to get everything cut before the onslaught of spring.

I would say, at least 75% of the oaks around fields in this area (Mayenne, France) are palliard. I mean it’s everywhere! And obviously in varying cycles.

And it’s the oaks that are mainly done this way. I’ll share some pics after I get home or over the next few weeks and will certainly start a new thread on the subject of palliard and coppice; terms I did not previously know, but we’ve all seen it.

 

[MRD1985]

Hot one to start the day today. Hotter than anticipated. Mix of red, Norway and silver maple with a little oak. This should hold the day with ease I would think.

 

[NickW]

42, calm and rain. Just going to let the coals simmer, still 72 downstairs and 70 upstairs.

 

[thewoodlands]

We just had our first fire in....... I'm not sure how many days. My sister was up so we went with the furnace. I've been running the roads since Sunday but that just ended.

I finally made a fire this morning with four beech splits with about five birch splits & rounds, The outside temp at the moment is 37 with rain coming in around 1 this afternoon.

 

[thewoodlands]

I have another fire going, this fire is all birch.

 

[NickW]

Inside temps are starting to drop, outside is also starting to drop but it's still 47. Rain is getting closer again. Firing up the coals and going to put a small shoulder season load together.

 

[Wildflush]

20’s this morning. Had one early morning fire this morning. Load ran hot 750 STT. House got up to 73 and since outside temps were going to rise let it die out. End of the season so using up the emergency cord from under my deck. Will replenish later this month. Will be getting a cord or two in a few weeks.

 

[thewoodlands]

It's 32 degrees out tonight, the basement started off at 75 with the temps up here at 69. The overnight load is six splits of beech.

 

[thewoodlands]

We had 35 degrees this morning, the basement temp started out at 70 with the temps up here 67 & 68. The first load this morning was birch with a nice size split of cherry.

 

[NickW]

Rain and falling temperatures, currently 36. 3/4 shoulder season load right now. Wind advisory later with temperature around 20 by tomorrow morning. Minimal snow expected here, but northern WI is supposed to get hit pretty good again.

 

[all night moe]

Mix of premiums in the dragon. The lesser splits have already burned down from almost 2hrs ago. H locust, R oak, and some sugar still going. The sugar maple is from a dead top brought home yesterday. Burning with some authority.

 

[thewoodlands]

It's 42.1 outside tonight, the basement is starting off at 70 with the temps up here 68 & 69. The overnight load has five splits of beech with two limb rounds of birch going in the wood stove.

 

[NickW]

24 with a wind chill of 4. Will be around 20 with the wind chill still around 4 by morning. 6 ash splits and rounds and 1 big old beech half round tonight. I must have the walls warmed up pretty well after the warmer weather earlier this week because I'm having no problems keeping the house temperature up even with the wind today.

 

[Todd]

-5/71 I was surprised to see we were below zero again. Also had 6” snow yesterday. It was pretty windy last night so I had the pipe damper completely shut on the Fireview. Still had plenty of coals and a warm stove this morning after 12 hours.

 

[MongoMongoson]

We have finished burning through our allotment of hardwood for this season and have worked our way to the spring shoulder wood.

It looks like we will have burned about 4 cords by the end of the season. Last year we did about 3... but the shoulder wood I had for this season was a lot of spruce and pine. It goes quick.

This morning I have a firebox full of big spruce spits with some sycamore sticks filling the gaps.

Currently, a stove pipe probe temperature of 670 with all the flames on top of the load.

 

[NickW]

21 and breezy, sun is peeking out. Mix of ash and shoulder season wood is in. Looks like the stove will go cold at least during the day early next week.

 

[thewoodlands]

It was 34.2 this morning, the basement started out at 72 with both temps up here at 68. The first load this morning was all birch.

 

[thewoodlands]

We still had some nice coals from a second fire but with the temps heading down to 16 tonight, I put in a nice size split of beech and ironwood on the bottom row with a round of ironwood on the top row.