Cleaned and ready

Here is the first 10 face cords that went through our Alderlea T5 le. Swept the liner, dropped the baffle, vacuumed the box, used a sandbox shovel to retrieve the coffee grounds from my tee from inside the house. Newspaper fire to verify the chooch is choochin proper.

 

Looks like alot of creosote to me.

Good to have it cleaned out,

 

I get about that amt per year from my old inefficient stove burning less than dry wood.

 

I think it says a lot about the wood.

 

Although it isn't too very much, it could be better.

 

I have the 3 year plan in effect. The future wood inventory will be more gooder. This pile is from my humble beginnings. Doubt I’ll get this much again

 

Once on 3 year plan with dry wood;you won’t get that much creosote in 3 years! Good on you for learning we all started there!

ok not all of them but I did!

 

Gotta start somewhere, you'll be amazed how little comes out once you start burning dry.

 

Your flue system and burn habits will play a big role. For example, I have an uninsulated liner in an exterior chimney, and I restart my stove twice a day during most of the burn season. Both of those factors increase the amount of buildup.

 

That looks like alot whats your flue temperature usually at?

 

Usually running hot. 800 is pretty normal. And btw, how much do you love the 7310 ? I just got mine on Friday

 

I used to get more trying to burn super low, slow, long-lasting fires. Especially shoulder season.
Apparently really pushing the limits on what the stove was capable of.
Changed to shorter, hotter, have several fires a day letting it go out in between burns fires and cut back the build-up a LOT.
I swear changing to burning pine for the short hot burns helped a LOT, too.
Especially the short horizontal run of pipe before the T.

 

It's good you got all that removed before kicking off the burning season. I was procrastinating for a couple weeks but finally got up on my roof and cleaned mine on Sunday. Every year I find less and less creosote in there, and I concur with what billb3 said about burning pine. Last year I mixed quite a bit of spruce in throughout the season, and was amazed at the minimal amount of creosote that came out when I cleaned my chimney.