What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

[thewoodlands]

The outside temp tonight is minus 0. 7 with a forecast low of minus 5. The basement temp started out at 77 with the temps up here 68 & 69.

The wood stove has 7 splits of beech in it for the overnight heat.

 

[stoveliker]

Flame

 

[all night moe]

Ash usually takes off like a rocket for me. A full load of ash is my hardest load to control. Beech is usually pretty good for ignition, but hard maple (sugar) not so much.

I loaded without thinking. Right side typically lights and burns better than the left and I put the pieces with more "strings" on the right and more solid on the left... User error.

Ash I have been primarily burning is black. Cut and bucked 11mons ago. Split and left outside in piles in Oct. Stacked in basement, with circulating air, starting in late Nov. I burn the oldest stacked first. Nice ring tone. Beech is in the same boat but split before the ash by about 2 mons. I don't have a lot of it. The sugar has 2 yrs on it CSS. It seems to take off well for me. I have some white ash on par with the sugar around a year and a half. The white takes off nicely too. Black ash has always been a bit slower in my findings. Even with the massive coal beds I get in the dragon. Which also contributes to most firewood quick ignition.

My issue with the black may be from lack of seasoning time? I do not have a meter but it does have a nice ring tone and a little bounce of the concrete floor. possibly the dragon just doesn't digest it well...LOL

 

[all night moe]

Flame

Nice show.

 

[all night moe]

Gave the dragon an overnight half hour ago. With a temp of 14*, real of -5*, and a low of 9* I fed her good.
2 beech, 3 white oak and a bunch of red, 1 honey locust, 2 black locust, and 1 pignut. In the middle of that mix are 3 black ash. Goal is for a good overnight heat load, and ample coals in the am for a quick restart before I'm off to ride the ball for the day.

@NickW another difficulty I may be finding is I get tons of black ash. I'm always rushing it.

 

[NickW]

My issue with the black may be from lack of seasoning time? I do not have a meter but it does have a nice ring tone and a little bounce of the concrete floor. possibly the dragon just doesn't digest it well...LOL

Probably. Depends on starting mc. White ash is a typically a highland tree and seasons quickly. Black ash usually grows in swamps so the trunks tend to be sopping wet until split and in my experience takes 2 years. White is also much better BTU's.

 

[thewoodlands]

We had a low of minus 9.6 this morning, I'm glad I set the furnace so it wouldn't run. The basement temp started of at 73 with the temps up here both 65.

The first load is all ash.

 

[NickW]

Full shoulder season load in.

 

[Dieselhead]

Last night was oak and maple. That left some nice coals for this am. I burned them down until 1030 and just loaded up a box of spruce for the remainder of the day. Lows last night were 22 todays high 29 with wind.

 

[thewoodlands]

The last I looked the outside temp was 8.6, the second load of ash is in the wood stove.

 

[weee123]

Few splits of oak and a stray aspen split for the night load.

 

[NickW]

4 ash, 3 beech and 1 birch tonight. Finally got some action on the house happening and are negotiating with 2 different potential buyers.

 

[MRD1985]

busy day at work today never got around to posting this mornings load before work. Oak and maple, the usual as of late.

 

[stoveliker]

At 9.30 am I added some oak shorties and uglies. At 9 pm I reloaded with reasonable length splits, but with some knots.

 

[all night moe]

Oak and maple, the usual as of late.

Would you like some maple syrup on your oakmeal?
Yunck, yunck, yunck.

 

[NickW]

Full shoulder season load went in over an hour ago. Wind advisory going into effect at 9am, but the sun is supposed to come out later. Trying to get the house temperature up a bit before the wind starts robbing me. Dropping to single digits tonight with close to -10 wind chill.

 

[thewoodlands]

I didn't have a fire last night, I woke up in the recliner at 1 a.m., I set the furnace and then called it a night. The first load this morning was all ash.

 

[Dieselhead]

Pretty much the same here, overnight hardwoods and spruce days. I guess a cold front is supposed to come in tomorrow. We had about an inch of snow fall this am and then changed over to rain. With the cold front it should freeze solid. I’m all plowed out so should be ok.

 

[stoveliker]

just added some 10" long pieces of oak and a few <1" branches

snow, sleet, freezing rain, fog here. Nasty.

 

[all night moe]

Nasty weather here as well. Been feeding the dragon mostly soft maples and river birch. Split or 2 of ash mixed in loads for mild booster BTUs. Conserving wood again.

 

[all night moe]

9 slits of black ash with 1 white, 1 river birch, and 1 big split of wild cherry.
All on top of a decent bed of softwood coals.

 

[thewoodlands]

The outside temp tonight is 29.8, the basement temp started out at 75 with both temps up here 69. The overnight load has four splits of beech with three splits of ash.

 

[NickW]

Cleaned out some ash after the morning shoulder season load. Full stove with 12 pieces of various sizes; mostly ash with a few birch, sugar maple and 1 ironwood round. 18 out with gale force winds, -1 wind chill. Lost power earlier, realtor sign metal base stake bent and the sign is on the ground, basketball hoop is laying in the driveway...

 

[MRD1985]

Just loaded up for the night. Oak and maple. I burned a piece of hickory in the mix earlier and those coals just don’t burn don’t. They just sit there no matter what you load the stove with after. Basically like rocks. That hindered my overnight capacity a bit, I’ll scoop some out tomorrow morning. Also never posted my morning burn so, which was also oak and maple.

 

[MRD1985]

More oak and maple this morning. E/W lengths this morning.