What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

[Stinkpickle]

Alexa says it’s a balmy 17 degrees right now. I loaded the stove with oak anyway.

 

[Jay106n]

Zero again tonight -30 wind chill. My 330am reload of pine slab base, splits of maple and shagbark hickory, and an ash round. Filled all the small gaps with small pine pieces.

 

[Todd67]

-23 now, with a -38 wind chill, with a 5 mph wind. Burning more mixed mystery wood. I think a family of penguins were on my front porch at 3am, asking to come inside because of how cold it is outside

 

[Chas0218]

I cleaned ours after burning about five face cord of pine in the shoulder season, not much came out but it's nice to see what's in the pipe.

I cleaned mine last week because I could see a little build up on the cap. Took about 5 minutes with the soot eater and really didn't need it based on the little amount that came out. Better safe than sorry.

Today was a full load of Ash with the -7 temp. When I drove down the street the car was reading -16 so either way it was cold.

 

[thewoodlands]

We decided to run the furnace last night which was a good thing because we hit -26 for a regular temp. We had an appointment this morning so the furnace was left on 64, I'll get a bag of pellets and get that going before noon.

We're still at - 6 back here in the pines but we should see double digits above zero today.

 

[Sully1515]

When I got home from work last night, the temperature outside was -3ºF (approx. -20ºC). No fire last night as my wife and I both got home from work late. The previous night however, snowing, sleeting and about 2ºF, we were burning hickory, beech and red oak to keep the home very comfortable.

 

[thewoodlands]

I started a small fire that should get us through until I do the overnight fire.

 

[Chas0218]

Loaded the stove to the top with Ash this morning, with the temps being a little higher I'm guessing the house will get pretty toasty.

I burn mostly Ash, is it worth getting some red oak? I know it seasons a little longer but looking at the BTU chart is 24 million vs 23.6 million BTU worth trying a wood that doesn't season as fast? I do have some Iron wood (Hophornbeam) that I'm planning on cutting up for next year or a couple from now along with some beech (same BTU/cord as red oak).

 

[Sully1515]

Loaded the stove to the top with Ash this morning, with the temps being a little higher I'm guessing the house will get pretty toasty.

I burn mostly Ash, is it worth getting some red oak? I know it seasons a little longer but looking at the BTU chart is 24 million vs 23.6 million BTU worth trying a wood that doesn't season as fast? I do have some Iron wood (Hophornbeam) that I'm planning on cutting up for next year or a couple from now along with some beech (same BTU/cord as red oak).

Oak is great, but, as mentioned, it can take up to three years to properly season. Ash seasons much quicker. If you have some, let it season for a while, and give it a shot. But, if you have access to an abundance of Ash...I'd go with that.

 

[Sully1515]

Last night, I got home from work early. I got some work done around the property, got in and loaded up the stove. I burned more red oak, some Shagbark Hickory (sparks quite a bit) and had some remaining Beech in the pile. Burned hot last night. Got the house up to temperature pretty quickly.

 

[Kevin Weis]

Continuing with Mulberry, Red Oak and some Ash. Love the Mulberry but when you open door or top load sparks go a flying and I don't mean just a few, it's like the Fourth of July when all that oxygen gets to it. But burns great though.

 

[EPS]

Nothing at the moment as we are on a warming trend, but I burned through some white birch, silver maple, white pine and some hardwoods all weekend until last night.

 

[thewoodlands]

It was 22 this morning so we loaded the stove up with red maple and some beech.

 

[Stinkpickle]

Still in the teens and I just loaded the box with oak and what appears to be a sneaky split of elm.

 

[thewoodlands]

We had 37 out this morning so the liberty received a load of soft maple.

 

[Kevin Weis]

Nothing now. Was 55 when I got up this morning. Just let the coals die out. and restart when I get home. Supposed to get down to 25 tonite.

 

[MissMac]

more birch. with a bit of jack pine mixed in just because. i guess 48 hours of reprieve is all we get up here...

 

[thewoodlands]

It's 22 tonight, we'll load up the wood stove with some yellow birch and some wood past its prime.

 

[Stinkpickle]

Overnight windchills are supposed to hit 30 below, so I just packed the stove with oak and am preparing to cuss at my morning commute.

 

[Todd67]

Another winter storm is raging outside today. Zero visibility, heavy snow, 15-25mph wind, over 2ft of snow forecast for today and tonight.

Burning more mixed mystery wood in the Fisher Mama Bear.

 

[thewoodlands]

Another winter storm is raging outside today. Zero visibility, heavy snow, 15-25mph wind, over 2ft of snow forecast for today and tonight.

Burning more mixed mystery wood in the Fisher Mama Bear.

We received only 2-3 inches here, I'm burning the last of the maples from rack number 1.

 

[thewoodlands]

We had 7 last night (7 degrees out) with the temp up to 15 this morning, we burned a bag of pellets last night and we're back running the wood stove today. Sugar & Red Maple are going in the liberty today.

 

[Stinkpickle]

We're sitting at 1 solid degree this morning, so I packed the hotbox with oak and ash.

 

[Dtcryan]

-5 sunshine,not a cloud in the sky,looks nice out. I'm going to stay inside with the beech and hard maple btu's.

 

[Todd67]

-1 this morning, -15 wind chill.

They are forecasting 3-4 feet on snow for us between today and Friday. Winter can't end soon enough!

Burning some real nice sugar maple in the Fisher.