Posted by Brian G. NY on February 15, 2021 at 09:23:51 from (45.56.154.146):
In Reply to: Is Firewood O/T? posted by JD in da UP on February 14, 2021 at 07:23:35:
Brett and JoBird, I cut this ash a little finer than usual this year because it was not perfectly seasoned when I stacked it...almost but not quite.
I burn nothing but totally seasoned wood which accounts for me not having had to clean my chimney in 12 years.
I cut it fine so I can pack more into my soapstone stove which provides almost all the heat in my 1,500 Sq Ft house.
Finely cut wood does not burn any faster than bigger wood in a properly maintained "airtight" stove. You control how hot the fire burns with how much air you let into the stove. A thermometer enables me to monitor the fire for best efficiency. I bring the temp on the top of my stove up to 500 deg. as soon as possible each time I load it and then keep it as near to that as I can by using the stove inlet damper. I use an in-pipe butterfly damper as well during really cold weather when there is a very strong draft in the chimney.
Long gone are the days when people threw large wood in the stove so it would burn slower and sometimes threw in a little green wood as well to make it burn all night.
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