What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

[barmstrong2]

Pretty mild here, but, enough of a chill for a fire. Cedar is burning down now with a couple pieces of elm on deck.

 

[Burn Time]

So I am a little envious of the stocked wood pantry all you firewood haorders have! Hearing you all talk...it sounds like a cooking show adding different spices to a recipe. Two splits of oak...a side of cherry, a dash of pine, a sprinkling of apple, and top it off with some maple. Heat to lazy rolling secondaries and enjoy!

Even if I had that much wood to select from, I don't think I could ever get that organized to be able to pull all those different kinds together for a burn. I do have about 5 cords of wood at the moment, but here's what I have to choose from:
Ash - seasoned 2 years
Ash - Seasoned 1 year
Ash - split/stacked last month
Ash - stacked in rounds yet to be split
Ash - in neighbors yard waiting for me to have the time and pick it up for processing
Ash - standing dead on back of property line waiting for AEP to come through and take it down for me

Okay...I do have a little bit of pine for variety but other than that, it's 1 ingredient for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert for me!

Ash. Here in Wisconsin ash is dying quickly from the ash borer. Before it was room, killed by the fungus. So, it's whatever is dying. I hope the white oak survive. Magnetic trees.

 

[Firefighter938]

More sycamore and silver maple for me tonight. A steady diet of these two woods twice a day.

 

[Ashful]

Got 'em lit again tonight. Woo hoo! Mostly ash in both, right now.

Bring on the cold. I am so tired of mowing the lawn!

 

[LocustPocust]

Ash and BL again tonight. It's the first time in 2 days that I've run the stove. I've long run out of my lesser quality shoulder season wood and from the looks of the forecast, other than some "less warm" weather this weekend I won't need too much of a fire through at least New Years.

The early call is 62 in Christmas Eve, 57 on Christmas Day. Unbelievable!

 

[Jay106n]

Not that cold tonight, but our December summer has ended, for now, and the temps dropped from 50 to 35 in a matter of hours. Plus it is very windy out. Just enough to suck the warm air out of the house and dropped the house to 60 degrees....so after giving the stove a few days off, I fired up a few pine logs for the next few hours.

 

[firefighterjake]

Had some snow yesterday . . . nothing stuck . . . getting cooler. Saving my truly good stuff for later in the year (i.e. oak, beech, etc.), but I have been burning some red maple, cherry, white birch and ash.

 

[ZZ Tom]

I ran the snow thrower at my in-laws house yesterday, 14 inches. Fifteen miles away at my place about 4 inches. Still burning that elm, 26 F outside.

 

[rippinryno]

a mixture of maple and hedge, man you can tell when the hedge is ripping!

 

[warno]

A couple small pieces of hedge and some maple. Supposed to be 26* F after wind chill tonight. Then back up to 40s tomorrow. We are showing high 40s and some 50s for the next week, with 6 days of 60% showers late next week.

 

[mass_burner]

Still working on the ugly bin. Haven't even touched the covered wood shed supply.

 

[PA. Woodsman]

Cold ashes right now.....been so mild here I haven't lit him up in days....

 

[Jay106n]

Its a rainy day and temps outside temps are hovering around 50 degrees. Although not that cold outside, the house temp dropped to 58 degrees around noon, so I fired up the stove. Mostly pine loads with a stick of cherry on each load. The house is now at a nice 70 degrees.

 

[sen166]

For tonight, I'm using a mix of box elder and elm. It's 32 degrees out right now with a windchill of 22 degrees. Saving all of that red oak for the when the real cold hits. Propane pig is still at around 70% and hasn't been filled since the end of last winter!

 

[Ashful]

Cold ashes right now.....been so mild here I haven't lit him up in days....

I loaded both stoves yesterday. Reloaded one this morning and this evening. Holding 73-75F first floor, 70F second, 65F third. It's not that warm out, here!

 

[Jay106n]

I loaded both stoves yesterday. Reloaded one this morning and this evening. Holding 73-75F first floor, 70F second, 65F third. It's not that warm out, here!

Exactly! It warm, but not that warm! My house got colder today in 40-50 degree weather than it does when its 20 degrees out!

 

[FaithfulWoodsman]

First fire in what seems like a week tonight. The trio for me this fall.....cherry, elm and ash. Got a couple pieces of red oak saved for tomorrow night. Coldest we've been in weeks.

 

[Firefighter938]

Same sycamore and silver maple, but I also threw in a stick of mulberry. I love to hear it pop.

 

[Trktrd]

Pine and Elm

 

[Cervidae]

Burned only my second fire of this winter season last night. Mostly maple. Burned my first ever piece of properly seasoned black locust, and man that was nice. I have about a cord of seasoned black locust for this winter. Should be comfy.

 

[PA. Woodsman]

Up and running again as it finally got cold, burning Maple, Black Locust and Hickory tonight. Tomorrow is supposed to be windy and cold so he'll be rolling then too....then they want 66 degrees for Christmas Eve.

Really?.......

 

[HisTreeNut]

Got some maple, ash, & pine keeping the chill off tonight.

 

[xman23]

Burning my favorite oak, rock and white. Only had a few below freezing nights like this so far this year.

 

[Firefighter938]

I stepped up my game a little tonight. We are down to 27 so I am burning some red bud and mulberry. In the morning it will be another load of silver maple.

 

[FaithfulWoodsman]

Down to 19 tonight. 74 in the house. 500' stove temp. All too easy with 2yr red oak. Split small and under 20%.