What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

[thewoodlands]

We have a outside temp of 19.4 at the moment, the basement temp started out at 73 with both temps up here 68.

The first load is some not so great maple.

 

[NickW]

0 degrees with -9 wind chill, house is getting chilly, full load of ash.

 

[thewoodlands]

0 degrees with -9 wind chill, house is getting chilly, full load of ash.

Keep that chit out in your area.............please! C, I can B nice.

 

[MRD1985]

We want to see more flames @MRD1985 !

It decided to really take off there so I closed down the air more right after that picture haha. Definitely looked liked a raging inferno!

 

[MRD1985]

Loaded up a little before 7 with a huge piece of cherry, a large split of oak, and 2 medium splits of oak. Barely had enough coals to get it going after 8 hours without any help or kindling . N/S loads definitely last longer. Although there was only 3-4 big pieces of wood in last nights load with 3 small cut offs, so really not bad for 8 hours.

 

[Pinesmoke]

Last night I loaded the normal overnight oak. At some point, I think, a coal dropped off and must have blocked the air inlet. I woke to a huge pile of big coals. Racked it around and enjoyed blue flames for an hour. Now I have some room I dropped a big yellow pine split and it's off to the races.

18 this morning typing to 45 so it's time later to move some wood I bucked yesterday.

Stay warm y'all.

 

[MRD1985]

Just reloaded with some oak, a piece or 2 is a bit punky. 200-225 STT

 

[NickW]

Solar gains helping upstairs, up to 67; but the morning load of ash that had the downstairs up to 74 has burned down enough that downstairs has dropped back down to 70. 3 chunks of shoulder season wood on a big pile of coals for a quick burst of heat and burn down the pile of coals. Probably do it a couple more times yet.

 

[stoveliker]

Last night's 8.45 mixed load of maple, cherry, and oak is done after 17 hrs.
Burning some locust bark now (that low-BTU bark is so thick that I think the volume it takes in the firebox negates the increase in BTU from the wood itself with respect to oak... so I am now debarking locust so I can cram more BTUs in when needed).

 

[Dieselhead]

I had a somewhat ugly load last night of assorted hardwoods. It was a loose load of twisties and shorties. Not pic worthy. That did pretty good overnight with a 4” coal bed this am. I threw in a load of daytime spruce that took off too fast to snap a pic. It’s been sunny and the house is at 74 currently with a fair amount of that spruce left simmering away. I could have left 3-4 pieces out for the weather I suppose I over shot it a bit. Probably will be a 9pm+ reload at this rate.

 

[stoveliker]

I threw in a load of daytime spruce that took off too fast to snap a pic.

What do you mean... see @MRD1985 at https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads/what-is-in-your-stove-right-now.149774/post-2753951
Or is your window too dark to take a pic with the door closed?

 

[MRD1985]

What do you mean... see @MRD1985 at https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads/what-is-in-your-stove-right-now.149774/post-2753951
Or is your window too dark to take a pic with the door closed?

Noting my ugly fire? Lol

 

[stoveliker]

Nice fire!

 

[NickW]

Temps dropping upstairs and downstairs, a little ash out, full shoulder season load in... Man, the upstairs temperature dropped 4 degrees in an hour once the sun went down.

 

[all night moe]

Dragon has been feasting mixed hardwoods since about 3:30. House was just a little chilly from after the mornings load. Still had a good bed of coals though.

 

[thewoodlands]

It looks like I'll need a few splits of something in the wood stove so I'll have coals for the overnight load, I have some smaller splits of ironwood so they'll go in. The load is in, more then I had planned but we need the heat.

The outside temp at the moment is 18 with some wind, the basement temp is 77 with the temps up here 69 & 70.

 

[MRD1985]

Reloaded a little before 6. Some more oak, with one big semi punky piece. Currently 26 with wind chill of 16. 73 in the main rooms.

 

[thewoodlands]

Reloaded a little before 6. Some more oak, with one big semi punky piece. Currently 26 with wind chill of 16. 73 in the main rooms.

Nice looking fire.

 

[Dieselhead]

What do you mean... see @MRD1985 at https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads/what-is-in-your-stove-right-now.149774/post-2753951
Or is your window too dark to take a pic with the door closed?

Fair point. I have not had black glass since December. I have tried to take pics through the glass in the past and got some pretty bad results. I only clean it once a year (in the spring when I sweep) so I think even though it’s “clean” it still has a haze and is nowhere as spotless as @MRD1985’s aquarium of fire.

 

[stoveliker]

The high was 31 today. Currently 29. The low is forecast to be 21 tonight.
69 upstairs and a load of maple in the bottom (right side split slightly too long so it didn't fit between the bricks ..) and oak shorties on top.

Not enough coals left after dinner so it took a bit to get going.

 

[MRD1985]

The high was 31 today. Currently 29. The low is forecast to be 21 tonight.
69 upstairs and a load of maple in the bottom (right side split slightly too long so it didn't fit between the bricks ..) and oak shorties on top.

Not enough coals left after dinner so it took a bit to get going.

Now that is a full load!

 

[all night moe]

Now that is a full load!

Kinda looks like the stove was put on it's back to load ..... it's so full.

 

[stoveliker]

Actually not so much. The right hand maple split had a 2" space under the front (leaning on the brick, it was too long), then there was a good tight stack of oak shorties in the back, but the front row had a lot of space behind it. A proper n/s split load of the proper length gets me more lbs in there.

As was to be expected the shorty on the left keeled over. I came down to it leaning against the window, and the stove going harder than I need (it got windy and colder).
So I moved the thermostat by less than 1/30 of an inch, heard the flapper close and the second video was the result.

I'll have some ashes falling out when I open the door tomorrow....

 

[thewoodlands]

We have an outside temp of 17.2 tonight, the basement is starting off at 77 with both temps up here at 69. The overnight load has five splits of beech on the bottom row, two splits of ironwood and two of maple filling out the top row.

 

[MRD1985]

Oak and a little maple for the night. Might have been a piece of ash too, was dark so didn’t get a good look at all the wood. Currently 24 feels like 12. 71 inside.

Cruising at 730 STT