Never had a clinker

Never even heard of one before I got on the forums and have been around lots of wood stoves all my life.
I wonder why?

 

haha, very funny, veeeerrryyy funny funny man!

 

I guess I made a joke that I didn't even get . Glad you had a good laugh RMH (really)but it is a serious question.

 

Clinkers happen in pellet stoves. IT comes from incomplete combustion due to various reasons. What you end up with is a hard black chunk of crap that doesn't allow enough airflow for pellets to burn properly and can eventually cause the stove to either shut down, or not fire up depending on what cycle it's in.

So, being that you use a woodstove, I don't think you'll ever have a clinker

I thought you were just making fun of pellet stoves lol

 

I've seen lots of pics on the forums of wood stove clinkers, some where huge. I take it you've never seen a wood stove clinker either. Maybe its a regional thing.?

 

Seriously? Now I just feel like I got kicked in the groin lol. I guess I've never had a clinker in my woodstove either hahahaha

Well at least I know what a clinker is in a pellet stove.

I've had incomplete combustion in a wood stove but after starting a new fire the charred chunks were still always able to burn....

 

From google search

 

The stove in front of it is either a Quadrafire 800 or 1000 pellet stove, so you are in fact looking at a pellet stove clinker. That stuff does NOT burn.

 

Woops. I'll try again.

 

I've found a few posts about it on other forums so far, didn't know it was possible in a wood stove....

 

I always thought they were common in wood burners on the forums, maybe not.

 

I've never seen it first hand, that's for sure. I don't see why it would be impossible though. After working with fireplaces for 13 years or so I've never had a customer call me and ask me about a clinker in their woodstove. We have mostly pine here so maybe it's with certain types of wood?

 

I was reading a post while pic searching, guy in PA said he gets lots of them burning oak. I burn oak and have burned lots of other hard woods without getting one. Read once it was silicas from the soil absorbed into the tree. Maybe we have low silica soil.?

 

Maybe somebody is burning stump roots or something? lol

 

That sounds feasible. As a pellet stove owner, I will say I'm glad you don't get clinkers lol, they SUCK

 

Scotty Overkill is in PA burning lots of oak. Maybe he's had some clinkers.

 

It wouldn't interfere with the burning of a woodstove so they wouldn't have a reason to call, they would just shovel it out with their ash. I've had a couple in my old Princess, big hunk of what felt like a rock, just chucked it.