How to Keep a Wood Stove Burning All Night Long 

Just stumble across this vid. I do the exact same thing, and have been for 15 years. Nice video!!

I grew up with wood heat and to this day I do this, I’m 56 years old now and I make sure I always cut an season rounds for this reason right here. It was always whoever got up first to pee had to add wood to the stove lol. It’s a way of life many ppl never get to experience .

I'll be cutting some disks tomorrow. Thanks for taking time to do the video sir

We used to cover hot coals with ash and barely crack the air intake. We call that “banking” a fire for later. You stir it around and put more wood on it 10, 12, or even more, hours later and it will fire right back up. No having to start a fire from scratch. It might not put out as much heat while it’s ash covered but it does put out enough heat to maintain already achieved comfort levels.

I saw this video a couple years ago and have been doing this in my stove since. Thanks for sharing, it definitely works!

I have been wondering how to get my 🔥 to burn longer. I am gonna try this. Great video.

My dwarf woodstove will burn just as long when I put full logs in it. It really does work.

Tried it last week at the Cabin, it works, first time I had hot coals in the morning. Thanks!

Been doing this in my outdoor wood stove for a couple years, works great

Thanks for the tip. Yup, all makes sense. Loved the dig at the beginning lol

Man I love my woodstove...nothing better than wood heat.

Good idea but man fix that door gasket

Thise rings hold their integrity and the air flow helps slow and steady the burn. I do a similar style. People who don't "live" with wood heat as a primary source of heat never learn these tricks. I married a lumberjack...it is just life lol.

This is called using "sleeper" logs - yeah, you need a hot stove to start with then control the draft. I'd suggest having something to move heat OFF the stove so less of it goes up the flue...IOW, a fan pushing air over that stove and moving it into the living space. A heat recovery unit on the vent pipe helps, too.

A time lapse video of this would be awesome. And you could sleep while it was filming!

You need some Lionel ritche singing all night long.

What kind of wood are you using? Is it a heavy, dense type of wood, or a lighter, less dense type of wood? While this might be a common thing that most people "should" know, I think it's an important thing to mention, especially for people browsing the internet who want a quick tutorial, but have never made a fire before.

Great video thanks

Works perfectly 👌 been doing this several years after seeing his video.

All depends on wood species that you use and the type of stove you have. I get 10 to 12 hour burns out of my lopi

The discs he used are white oak. Which in my experience burns longer than red oak. Burning in a disc like this you are burning cross grain which also helps burn time. You can burn burl or knots to also get long burn times. You can also cook a baked potato inside the wood stove,,, just saying. Lol

Fixing that door gasket will help with burn times also

Im one of those special needs so cheers for your patience mate

It all depends of your fireplace or stove. Mine wont stay more than 2/3hours with those logs.

Don't worry about The Short Bus Window Lickers. Their still trying to figure out how to work the thermostat on their central heat. Lmao.

The man knows his stove...... great idea with the wood hockey pucks.

Thanks , I think the damper and the flew is where I’m getting it wrong. I’ll keep working at it.

I know i'm a little late to the party, but I am wondering what temperature your flue gets up to burning that amount of fuel in one go? How do you keep the temperature in the safe zone? I know if I filled my stove up like that it would make the flue glow orange and burn my house down

CHARMCITY187, bro I greatly appreciate this video. I am looking forward to those long burns especially overnight. Those 2 bricks you put in and 5 hours later they still had life. 2 thumbs up to you. Thanks again.

When useing big ones I cut a slot to the center. When it drys the chain saw curf opens up. On big logs it can get like 2 in. wide. I slide a big dog in at bed time and it is still rocking when I wake up.

Thank you for this. Have two stoves now and one open FP. Look forward to trying it!!

Great video. I wouldn't try to explain to any trolls about them disrespecting you, they are just fools.

I run my little Vermont Castings stove the same way, and it goes overnight. I save the largest, thickest logs for the overnight burn and shut the damper most of the way down. In fact, my stove runs almost continuously from late October until March every year. It will only go out if I don't get up on time and tend to it in the morning.

Nice solid burn 🔥

Cool. My stove also goes eight hours. I get a nice coal bed like you did, I pack the heck out of it with big pieces and shut the intake and exhaust flaps. In the morning I open the exhaust and then the door. I have a warm house, stove, and a bed of coals. I put kindling in and fire up again. Every afternoon I let it die out. I clean the ashes, fire up, cook food and get the house warmed up as the temperature drops. At night pack it up again. Good for you and F your disbelievers, they can’t run their stove right and are pissed at how inept they are.

That’s a really good idea. Thanks for sharing

I've used wood heat for every bit of my 49 years. The only source of heat in the house. Several things combine to give the burn time and heat output. 1) wood species (kind of tree the firewood is cut from), my personal favorite is Osage Orange/Boise D Ark/Hedge, all names for the same species of tree. Second is Hackberry. 2) size/diameter of the wood, and rather it's split or full round. 3) seasoned or green wood. 4) stove: damper position ( part that allows or restricts smoke going up the flue/chimney), vent position (part that allows or restricts air coming in to the fire), and how air tight the body of the stove is (leaks act as extra sources of oxygen for the fire). Bonus control can be from twisted or knot pieces of wood, as well as the crotch where limbs branched from each other. (They burn slower than straight grain pieces).

Excellent video, I am curious what kind of wood you were burning for this demo? Where the rounds oak or maple? Thanks!

And if it's not big enough, so you can get enough wood on it, it's not gonna go all night.You gotta get up in the middle of the night and throw wood on it.I am 64 years old and I've been burning firewood.For over forty yepretty simple pretty simple

I have a very small Drolet stove in a cabin. Just before bedtime I'll put one half-log on hot coals, then another large piece on top of the first one. That will last about 7 hours, leaving hot coals for a nice morning fire. In general for any stove, small pieces equal quick hot fires, large pieces equals slow cool fires.

Never thought of using hockey puck logs, makes perfect sense! Thanks

I have the Jotul that will provide efficient heating for 10hrs...the only thing I do is push the coals to the side and pile my rounds in the center...so its more of a top down burn cycle(maintains 300 until around 8 hr mark which is the optimum temp for my stove). I don't need lots of heat as my walls and roof are 10" SIPs....I think people are confused with wood heat terminology, If they don't see a flame they think its not producing enough heat...burn time definitions are different for everyone; For me its when my house temp drops below 65....which takes a very long time....(Canada)

Please can you do a minute by minute update through the night on your next video? I need to see if it works or not

So, if the disks burn so much longer, why not burn them all day like that? Or why don't you cut them 2 or 3x thicker?

Good vid. But you still didn’t show AM fire to totally prove your point. But. I’m stoked to try this. Good suggestion ! Will see if it works.

The bigger the log that you can fit in your stove the better. I feel split wood is only good for getting the fire started. Once it's started and nice and hot put in the biggest logs u can fit. Split wood burns through way too fast. I can fit 24" long by 24" diameter logs in mine. I throw one of those bad boys in there and burns forever. Plus I'm just loading one nice size log def a Time saver.

Mine last even longer with oak. I assume your was oak as well. I cut mine even thicker to last thru the night.

That's exactly how we do ours too. How often do you service your stove? Here lately been getting lots of backdraft really bad.

I burn 24/7 in cold WVa . I call them big cookies 4 or 5 in thick how ever round will fit and put a split or 2 on top or side burn al night with heat ! Also use what I call dog knots chunks that won’t split I chunk up with chainsaw,forks and knots .Full not split logs work 5 or 6 in rounds 2 or 3 bottom front to back smaller rounds on top whatever will fit . If you heat with a wood stove you will figure it out or be cold .That is ok to if you have a nice warm body to cuddle. So winter has its benefits! Stay safe, stay warm!

Great idea . Thanks from Manitoba Canada 👊🏻

I’m new to the wood stove thing so I appreciate this video! I have a damper on my stove pipe in addition to 2 vents on the front. Should the damper be wide open? And both vents open about an inch?

My Blaze King stove Will burn 8 10 hours a lot of people don't have the proper stove you have to have a deep well stove not a novelty stove that you have to load every 2 hours

Thanks for the great advice. Wonder if I could get this to work on a smaller scale for my ammo box wood stove for hot tent camping? Merry Christmas! thanks for the video.

I love that round idea. 👍

I like your Idea , I’m going to try it. Thanks , Man . 👍

Looks like a great idea. I'm going to try the discs. Thanks for the video.

I will guarantee that more than half the idiotic comments that are posted here come from know it all people that dont even have a fire place. Tell it like it is brother....

Special kind of dumb, I'm already interested, I have three wood stoves, it depends on the stove the wood and the air and I am still learning. There's no graduation on how to burn but we can get very good at it from experience.

I cool logs like that overnighters

HAHA!!! I miss the good old insults of the common day norm norm. "Special kind of dumb". Best I've heard in years and years.

Didn't show me anything. Thought it was to burn all night. Not just 5 hours. Tell the "somebody" to not mess with the wood heater and show me what you have at 6 in the morning.

Not a problem for me as I'm up all night pissing anyway!

It's pretty cool of you to address the same situation twice... At this point if they don't get it, just let them freeze brother...

nice video! Nice stove!!! Is it a catylitic stove?

Is wood heat your primary burn source and how many wood discs do you take into the winter with you for a season typically on top of all your split stuff?

How can you leave the stove door open for such a while, doesnt it smoke inside the house?

The special needs people can't get their wood to last all night. 😆

What is the abortion around the door where seal goes?

3 AM, insult viewers one more time, then have another drink and go to bed, Mr Charm Man.

Great video, thanks. Seems pretty simple to me. Works great...

Whole logs do burn long. 4" longwise how about across? My stove is smaller. If I close it all the way, it goes out. It's tough to have exactly the right size logs.

Bigger chunk of wood will burn longer it is simple as that.If You can find stumps that fit in stove that is a win combo.

In the 30's here near the Oregon coast...will give this a go!

WAY TO GO..INSULT PEOPLE STR8 OFF LOL.

This past winter I build a deep bed of red coals an have in it going up the back wall of my fireplace insert. Last I threw a real knotty thick piece in. And packed it the rest of the way with any size. It burned hot and I mean HOT for 18hrs. No joke. 18hrs and it burnt hot the whole time. I then had to add more. I did it five time's this winter and and got an average of 10-15hrs of good heat.

I have a kerosene heater and a wood stove. I love the wood stove better. Kerosene is getting too expensive not to mention fumes. A wood stove is much more cozy and it's free heat! Nice video!!!

Now I just need to find tree rounds......

That is burning nice. I can see how this works because the logs on the top does get burnt for hours. the rounds have a long burn time. An old guy in my area does similar. He also claims that the glass stays cleaner longer. Great idea.Thanks for sharing.

love this guy

Time to change that gasket tough guy

Your camera man wanders a bit too much. Lousy focus. Fire him.

I just discovered this myself after burning for 12 years. I cut crotch sections like that and use them.

Why are my Smoke Detectors freaking blaring? I know my stove is tight...all the connections are good and I have a couple windows cracked but they are still blaring.......I don't want to take them out of the equation but....

The KEY to wood stoves: 1. Coal Bed * With a good coal bed DO NOT split your wood, no need to. I put 8" diameter (unsplit) by 16" logs into my wood stove, 2 at a time....

I do the same thing before bed.....when I get up I repeat, go to work.....repeat

That’s nice! But what about smoke? Is that a clean burn ?

you have no smoke out the door with this open like that??

Nice warm heat as the fire is longer enough to keep the house warm as the fire is going to keep burning as the wood is reduced to ashes...

Love your video 👌👌👌👌

DON'T BE A FOOL ! They tell you you don't need a big stove, and they never tell you how little heat will come from it when you need it. Just make sure you have a big enough stove that is efficient at burning wood, and definitely a fire will last 20 + hours as mine does, and that is in the winter, Go for a stove with a catalytic burner in it, Makes a difference, Winter time when it's 30 C below, I load my stove maybe 3 times a day, and that means I still got lots of burn before it is all burnt, Unfortunately it would be 28 C during the day in the house, if I'm loading it 3 times a day, so I load it maybe twice. And I have to open a window all to often, Don't get sucked into buying a small crappy stove as you will be labor intense putting wood into it all hours of the day, WAKING UP AT NIGHT TO KEEP THE FIRE GOING I can load my stove in the morning and go away all day and come back late at night and there is still lots of coals and the house is toasty warm,

Thanks Great video

Forget the f’tards bro, just do what you do. …. Great post!

If you get easily butt hurt ,don't watch this video.

Thanks for the tip!

Is his stove a regular stove with the secondary burn or does it have a catalytic chamber?

In the classic sense, you should place the wood tightly and "starve" the wood once it ignites. In other words, keep oxygen away from it to the point where it burns only slightly. This could extend the fire by 300%. I once made a fireplace fire with 3 logs (9"x24") and closed the vent nearly completely. Those 3 logs burned for 16 hours! (needed 1 restart...)

i can already tell the left disc is not the same as the first disc you put in on the left....

Your stove must seal perfectly. I'm going to try the nickel pcs. Thanks for sharing. the

I lay them in cut about 16" long not the same way CHARMCITY187 lay his end grain on the coals. The best I got out of a round was somewhat over 12 hours it was a large dogwood round. The problem dogwood is it kind of stinks as it burns. In my boxwood stove, I feed one small round (about the size of the fat end of a baseball bat) on a hot bed of coals with a large round (around the thickness of a coffee can). Them rounds burn nice and slow in my stove. Also, many of the rounds will split open on their own while drying and that is when you know that stack is good and ready to burn well.

Are you planning to provide the new rules for fireplaces?