Its starting to get to that time of year when we have to start throwing in some All Nighters. I usually get a good bed of coals going, then after about 3-4hrs of burning I will throw an All Nighter in. Just put a 22"inch long 9" inch in Diameter round of 2yr old Ash in. Probably weighed about 18-22lbs. Crank my damper down to about 3 and let her go. I get about 6hrs of burn time out of it and then another 2hrs or so of soft red coals. By the time I get up at 3:30amish..I can just add a few splits and flame on... I'm sitting on about 40 such pieces of different woods for this year.What about you guys? What's your favorite All Nighter woods. When do you usually throw them in...
Depends on your stove obviously. I lay out 4-5 shorty(12-14") oak/hickory splits N-S (stove isn't very deep) and then E-W longest bigger splits (8+" blocks)of red/white oak I have. Occasionally the "Yule Log" gets crammed in - any crotch/knot that would otherwise be reduced to splinters on the splitter
Right before bed, (11ish) I load with red/white Oak. Wait to get up to 400ish and engage the afterburner. Come 6 am I still get 250-300 deg air out of the blower and a thick coal bed. Sent from my Pixel using Tapatalk
I burn an ash /oak combination and will pack in what I can an hour before bed get them burning and shut the air down to very low. At bathroom break will check and fill if needed. I goota have a bathroom break - doesn't it p*ss you off. And then next day SHE shouts " did you miss the toilet ? " I shouted back " honey I missed half of the sixties and all of the seventies. You think I'am worried about purple rain " bob
The Oslo will give a good bed of coals after a full load, 8 to 10 hours later. I like to rake the coals from the back to the front, and then sit a nice big round of cherry, locust, ash, walnut or some such back there, Gat Dawg that's a nice feeling. I always tell my wife what's in the stove, you know, big fat rounder of ash in the back, and a split of cherry up front, dressed out on top with some slabs of walnut........she rarely, if ever, replies
I have a buck 80 CAT insert and about 8 PM I load 6 splits of read oak. At 10 I close the air down to about 1/8. I don't reload untill noon the next day. Then she gets 4 or 5 splits if soft maple, cherry or the like and I'm good untill 8 PM when I start all over again. As the days get colder I may add more splits at noon or I may add a couple earlier and a couple more later in the day. But it's Kentucky so it's not like the great frozen northeast.
Just about the same here only 10 ish fire up and 5 ish hot coal refire in the morning and it's usually ash/ maple/ cherry
I fill it up with locust and ash around 10pm and leave the air open a bit and have some nice bed of coals around 5am and reload it before work
We used to save the big gnarly twisted crotchy kinotted stuff for overnights and call them "baby-makers" back in the day. Because once you put them into the stove, you wouldn't have to get out of bed to fire up......
I was wondering what the subject was going to be before I opened the thread to look. It didn't turn out to have anything to do with what I have always called an all-nighter.
I have 25 or 30 big ash rounds stashed, they come from the small ash trees, good dry, ready to burn, I put a big in the middle on the bottom fill in the rest of the stove with Hickory and Oak
Best piece of advice I ever got for my stove was throwing a decent size piece EW in the back of the stove and load the rest NS. Come morning the EW piece is still burning and ready to heatup whatever coals may be left. I load up at around 9pm and most of the time now I get up around 1 and fiddle with the stove. Then back to bed till 3:32am.
I have mostly large splits. Overnight beasts are typically beech or sugar maple at worst, with ironwood or shagbark hickory for colder nights. Big ones for loading this stove North south are 18" long and typically 9-10" wide by 6-9" tall. They are many times around 20 lbs each. I try to fit 2 of those beasts on the stove, surrounded by wedge shaped splits and flat ones to fill much space as I can.
You made me laugh on that one....my Mom a couple years ago, mind you she is now 87 and Dad 92. She caught a snipit of a Cialis commercial and had to comment because it says something about if it lasts longer than 36 hrs call your doctor.....she says "could you imagine that thing sticking up for 36 hours" LOL...guess that's more than an all nighter that's Blaze King territory.
