Creosote reducing logs in a wood stove

[Oldpath05]

And how does one get a hot chimney without a hot fire?納/COLOR]

Just keep on burning cool fires.!

Only way I know how to get a cool fire, is buy a $4,000.00 wood stove with a window in it.

 

[goeduck]

My wood is half dry at the start. I cut in Jan-March, bucked up in 2nd-3rd week in Oct, all 6 cord in my cellar by last the week-ish in Oct. My stove is down cellar so as I burn the dryer the wood gets. I thought Maine was bad with humidity but yours sounds worse, maybe whats needed in high humid weather is a kiln of some sort. A friend of mind at wok has a small one, holds 1-2 cord and he's constantly drying wood. Excuse me while I go throw some more water on my to dry wood.

We used to get cold dry days, but now we seldom have any weather below freezing, just what seems like months and months of 30 to 40 degree days at near saturation. Right now it is 91% humidity outside.

 

[Diggin It]

Cranked mine up yesterday for a while. Went to check on it and it was almost hard to be near it. Opened the door (no window) and it was varying shades of red, orange, yellow and ... white. I didn't have a battery in the Thermo Gun, but I'd say it was 'hot'.

Had to close the vent and damper to choke it off.

 

[CobyRupert]

I think that's a joke......right?

Never can be sure.

Excuse me while I go throw some more water on my too dry wood.

OK, now I'm pretty sure that this is in fact: a joke.....

Hey, some people want wood that snaps and crackles and want smoke coming out the cabin chimney....it fits their pastoral image.

(Pastoral (pas·to·ral): (of a work of art) portraying or evoking country life, typically in a romanticized or idealized form.)

 

[cqaigy2]

When I had my EPA insert installed I had the place that I bought it from install it to extend the warranty. I have a full masonry chimney and they installed a smooth wall stainless liner inside the chimney. I do not get a lot of creosote buildup , maybe a pint every two months, which is my cleaning cycle. At the time I asked about an insulated liner but was told they do not do that in my area. Now that I think of it, my bet is that my liner would get hotter and have even less creosote if it had been insulated. The masonry surrounding the liner is not going to insulate as well. The EPA insert takes so much heat out of the fire that at my chimney cap the gases are often just warm. I run it 24/7 including getting up every 2 hours at night to load wood, so there is no morning warmup where I let the fire flame up. I do periodically open the bypass when I need to generate some coals (if I let it burn down too far) and let it go for 30 minutes or so. The EPA stove takes more smoke out of the gases for sure but mostly on a Big Hot fire and that will drive me out of the house on moderate weather. I often run hot but small fires which does not get the CAT glowing. I only burn wood under 20% humidity. With our cool/cold damp climate our firewood only gets down to about 17% moisture when stored outside. We seldom ever have freezing weather, just damp day after damp day in the high 30s, 40s and 50s with air averaging 80+% humidity. How dry does everyones wood get?

We have similar weather here. I installed the stove and chimney. All stainless, and insulated pipe, except the part inside to the stove. Very little creosote when i do the annual cleaning, possibly 1/2 cup or less. Stove is sized so i can burn fairly hot without cooking us out of the house, but can be a little much if the temps reach the 50s, but then a short burn heats up the house and last all day.

 

[Dadnatron]

I burn one at the beginning of every season. I've heard they work... they are relatively cheap... and I haven't had a fire. NONE of which proves they are useful, other than I have a little more confidence in a relaxed state of mind.

 

[Oldpath05]

OK, now I'm pretty sure that this is in fact: a joke.....

Hey, some people want wood that snaps and crackles and want smoke coming out the cabin chimney....it fits their pastoral image.

(Pastoral (pasｷtoｷral): (of a work of art) portraying or evoking country life, typically in a romanticized or idealized form.)

Those people might want to start burning soft wood, you get more snap crackle pop out of soft wood. My son has bee burning mostly cedar labs and buttons from his shingle mill and that snaps crackles. I burn sawmill slabs in my garage, hemlock and pine and that snaps an crackles, hardwood not so much.

The first pic is what the wood looks like when first brought in Oct, sec pic is tonight before I add water :scratchchin:

 

[Oldpath05]

We used to get cold dry days, but now we seldom have any weather below freezing, just what seems like months and months of 30 to 40 degree days at near saturation. Right now it is 91% humidity outside.

In other words it's sprinkling outside,, yuck I hate high humidity, remind me never to move to WA..............Now after having sub zero weather here, tomorrow were'r going to get 110% humidity with 45* temps, high winds and down pours, back to a smoldering fires, then back in the deep freeze, open the stove back up so's to clean the carbon out, this is called yo yo firewood burning.

 

[Egon]

Pitch pine makes for nice snap, crackel and pop. It’s also nice to see the pitch pockets shoot out jets of flame and sizzle!

 

[Aquamoose]

...remind me never to move to WA

Why? I’m in WA and I don’t recall humid days at all.