Full Belly Tonight

Glad to see someone with reasonably sized splits There's a picture on another forum someplace of eight splits filling my king rather nicely.

 

You and Solar know how to fill em. I look at stacks posted and often think the splits look like my kindling would look if I made any. I can usually fill the princess with 6-8 splits without cherry picking the stacks. When I see 12-14 splits in a stove I see a lot of extra splitting time.

 

Extra splitting time, less drying time. Some folks aren't on the 3yr plan yet.

 

True story! My first season my "big" splits were 3x4 rectangles.

 

Supposed to be 14* tonight so loaded her up. Even had a few fillers in the rack I could use.

 

Have to admit, alot of my wood makes a 20 split load in my princess. Still getting good burn times...... I split small 2yrs ago not knowing the 3+ year plan would come together so quickly.

 

I like 8x8s...conveniently the height of the wedge on my splitter. I think my record was somewhere around 130lbs of 3 year dried in one load. The BK magic is being able to choose to torch it in 12 or 40 hours with a predictable burn throughout.

 

LOL, you got hearthed

 

Saw the pic, good stuff

 

Actually these stove control the burn so well I don't see a dramatic difference with split size. Bigger splits just means less time handling/splitting.

 

I completely agree on the burn control but all else being equal, bigger splits let you get more weight in the stove.

 

Your both very right.

 

That's 4 loads worth for my Fireview. I can get a 12 hour burn on that size load ... 4 x 12 = 48 hours. Alien technology ha! I just need my stove to be 4 times its current size ... 4 x 475 lbs = 1900 lbs. OK, perhaps a bit on the heavy side. FYI - I have a BS in Mathematics ... so there is no point in disputing my calculations.

BTW, love those 8x8 splits ... don't think they would fit through my load door, but will need to measure to be sure.

 

Door is 8x8.5 but i think you would only get one in

 

Here is the Ideal Steel packed and ready to rock. I won't be home into 5:30. No worries. This load is mostly white ash

 

is that a 3d camera? neat pic
and the light from underneath looks evil...
[insert evil laughter here]

 

No special camera here. I just got home . It is still 73 degrees upstairs. It was 75 when I left this morning 11 hours ago. I have plenty of heat coming off the stove and huge coals. Life is good

 

12 hours + since the morning load. 77 in the stove room was 78 when I left, 69 on the t-stat in the hallway which was 70 when I left. High today was 19, weather.com shows current temp is 14 my outside thermometer shows 6 but that always reads low right after the sun goes away. Should make it a couple more hours before reloading.

 

Stove Jenga, I can do that.

 

Hit the tune up on last nights load wrong! The morning load didn't catch up so torching a quick load before tonight's load. Stove room was 72 after work and tstat was showing 65! Yikes!