I need to research how to get better pictures of coals, if possible with a phone camera. Anyways..... Door open for picture only. We've been having morning fires for a week or so. On cloudy days, a longer fire. Good time to use up those chunks!
Yes sir , I am chunking it too. As much as they are a pain to store, they are great to burn. Easy loading , just open the door and toss a few in. Nothing goes to waste.
There was a complaint that the house was too hot yesterday… I’ll let the stove go cold for a bit… till people can appreciate it more. The oil burner thermostat is only adjustable by me…
I'm looking for some help in remembering how hot our stove had to be to do a hot burn and how long we should keep it there? We have a Woodstock Progress Hybrid Thanks for any help--we've started burning, but don't want to gunk up the chimney!
We've been running smaller fires almost all day and night now. No one's up stoking the fire at night, and it might go ojt during the day. We're burning uglies, a couple at a time, we have more of those in the shorts shed that I planned on. We still have hemlock and tulip left that we're working down. I fired up the furnace this week, just to make sure it still ran!
Exactly what I've done in the past only to chill even more. The burner is in a house that my old man and my mom use and they love it. Its a long time coming with that thing and I wish I knew better earlier.
My house is cooking, burning chunky stuff from the log yard. Temp is cool outside, but i be my furnaces wont kick on for another day or two. Pex tubing from the boiler runs the length of the crawlspace
Only chunkies this year so far. In fact, I've not even brought up the rack in the garage with full splits yet. Won't have to do that for at least another 2 weeks given the forecast. I love chunkie season!
I've only been having morning/early evening fires sporadically, and have been making it a point to use up the uglies and shorts first. Since the weather hasn't gotten the memo that it's November already, I won't be burning again until next week sometime. I still have a week's worth of white birch to rip through, then a couple weeks of red maple before I bring more in from the backyard and get into the heavier hitting species.
This reminds me of being in a stove shop a few years ago. The owner was out and a kid was running the floor, bragging to me how he got the stove up to almost 900 and it glows nicely.
