One Sided Firebox

Y'all ever get those fires that are "all" on 1 side of the firebox and not the other???

I do my best to rake the coals forward evenly, and still I wind up with this phenomena at times!!!

It always burns over to the other side....................just a wondering!!

 

Door gasket leaking ?

 

Ive had that happen sometimes I chalked it up to the wood maybe being not very good? I dont know if one side of split can be more seasoned than the other?

 

Nope.

 

My king will do that. I figure it's the really wide firebox, and it's loaded n-s. Wherever it starts burning is where it burns. Seems like it is where it has the best airflow up thru a gap in the splits.

It is especially noticeable this time of year when I don't reload on very many coals.

 

This is an NC-13? What are the gaps-(if any) on the baffle material between the sides?

 

It's a fire with a mind of its own. Maybe a fireside chat will get it back to normal.

 

Both of the EPA stoves I've run have done that: always seem predisposed to light & burn on the right (east) sooner. Some wierd earth magnetism anomaly causes it, I suppose.

 

I'll throw this out there- If I recall correctly, a person on another "site" added a stick of welding rod covered in gasket material to close the gap between the baffle material and the side of the stove, in an NC-30. That closed about a 1/4" gap and made the stove run better. Check for gaps and see if that might help.

 

I see this happen on my VCs often.

 

I load N/S
On a new load, after it's full ,'
I lay a small piece, thin kindling size piece E/W
Right in front, on the bottom.
Falls down on or near the hot coals.
It lights off quick, & in a short time, it moves the fire/flames along the whole front.

pieces with a little birch bark , light & burn pretty fast
but all wood ones work too, just not as fast acting.

 

I do that sometimes to, a small piece across the front it works really good to help get it going quick but, my stove seems to like to burn on the right, East side first but sometimes it will burn up the middle first then go to the right side then left side, I think it depends a lot on the gaps between the wood , cuz also sometimes my stove will burn even all the way across

 

Could be...............I've been burning a lot of ug

One solid baffle pieced baffle. Snug to the back and on the sides, sitting level.

This doesn't happen all the time...............just occasionally.

 

Doesn't apply here, but on my OWB, I intentionally build the fire on either the left or right side just to use less wood. As the temps drop and it gets cooler, I have to give up this practice.

As far as the 13 goes, I have yet to experience what you are describing.

 

The Encore cat 2550 (no longer part of the family) would light and burn so heavily on the east side that I tried all kinds of things to counteract it. Mostly, shoving a the hot coals to the west and placing the load far east. That stove was imbalanced in other ways too.

 

Both of the WS Keystones I've had burned more on the left than right. I always just thought it had something to do with the construction of the fire box. The left side has 2 layers of soapstone while the right side has a single layer and loading door.

 

Some of that random Mother Nature's rules of physics.
Radom:
Air pressure, air temperature, stove temp, flu temp, wood type, wood moisture wood spacing , wood placement , wood dimensions
& the "butterfly effect "

 

The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle asserts itself inside our stove every burn. LOL.

 

+1

Add in "Human" variables. Could get scary if you thought about it much.