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More air. Let the coals roll for a good forty minutes before adding logage.Yoooo. Question here. Now that I'm retreaded, I'm burning a lot of wood everyday. And I'm happy to report btw that my wood supply is working out quite well I think bc I made sure to cut all pieces reasonably short to help with the 100% hand splitting and I split all pieces a lot as in no big chunks. Those 2 factors I believe facilitated faster drying in my large stacked pile covered only on top with one sheet of clear plastic.
The problem I'm having is with coals. When I load up the empty firebox in the morning I get great heat out of the resulting roaring fire. Eventually of course, the logs burn down and the heat output lowers some and I then add more logs and the output rises again. Rinse and repeat. But after about 5 hours of this, eventually the level of red hot coals builds up quite high in the fire box thus physically limiting the amount of room available to add in more logs so therefore I get a reduction in heat output despite the box containing a large amount of coals.
No doubt you wood stove savants have some answers...
I do that.
I've tried both.
Yup, did that but the heat output is alot lower compared to logs burning
Thanks for the responses, all. I will examine further.
treebilly
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I’ve also heard to choke it down tight and try to schedule this for right before bed time
What kind of wood?
Too many coals?
A friend asked this on another forum. “The problem I'm having is with coals. When I load up the empty firebox in the morning I get great heat out of...
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Nah pic a link n hook
You hook one end to one end of the chain and wrap the bungee around and hook it to whichever link works on the other end. The chain is just for size adjustability.
I did it a little on smaller wood. Pretty efficient. Keeps the mess together, throw it in the wheelbarrow or whatever, take the bungee off.Simple method. I'm not sure I've ever seen the need for tire or chain/bungee, but aside from that, seems a reasonable trick.
I do something similar when I split on the press. I split the round 99% apart and shove it off into a crate where it falls apart. No chasing stuff around.
Nutball
TreeHouser
You may have a bad design of stove, depending on what "full" of coals is to you. I get some of the best heat when mine is full of coals. What I don't like is w thorough mix of ash and smaller coals, which is immadiately solved by either scooping it out, or frequently stirring the ash while the air is wide open. Sometimes I put in a small piece to keep heat output up while stirring the ashes every few minutes. It is proactively solved by pushing the ash back and raking the coals into a mound around the air inlet each time you go to put in more wood, or let them burn down like that before putting more wood in if there's a lot.That was interesting, thx for posting! Lol when I started skimming there OP I was like, 'omg this guy is having the exact same problem as me!'
I don't have any soft wood to throw in, but Imma keep thinking on it
The problem is newer stoves don't have lower air inlets, or they totally seal off in an attempt to burn the wood gas only, so all you end up with is coals and little ash. My dad had 2 different models of a newer stove, and both seemed to have poor performance in many ways. The EPA wants your fire to burn hot and clean, they don't care so much about how well it heats your house.
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