Do you get any smoke spillage on reload Cribbed? The coals lasted so long it was unreal. I was very happy. I'm not 100% convinced yet the pipe damper is what caused (or helped) that issue so we'll see.
If I don't get in a hurry, and open the primary air and the bypass damper for 10-15 seconds, hen crack the door, for another 10 seconds, smoke spillage is minimal. If I get in a hurry, spillage is more, but not unreasonable. If I am loading on a good bed of coals, and don't get in a hurry, I can load about 4 splits, get them fully engaged, and when I open it to finish the load, I sometimes get some minimal smoke spillage. Probably need to crack the door for 20 seconds at that scenario.
Let's do this. I want to know also. Pic is my coals from a 7:30 am reload just now at around 3:00 pm. I load N/S and these are log forms at the back 1/2 of the stove. I leveled them out (too many to pull all to the front yet), opened the primary air all the way, and left the bypass damper closed. I will check periodically and report in. Loaded with oak and beech this morning. Edit: 24 deg this am. 35 deg now.
Sam, most folks do not but we do. I simply use furnace cement as it is quick and easy plus easy to clean up. It certainly does no harm to make sure it is sealed good.
Burning down the coals 1 hour later (4pm) Raked as many as I could to the front. It was really hot in there. Closed the door and the primary air still wide open.
Missed the 5 pm update. Went to Wally World to get some staples. Coals at 6:00 pm. Coals raked to front 6:00 pm. Reloaded and about to set the primary air 6:15 pm. About 3 hours to burn down the coals and reload. 10.5 hours between reloads on my setup.
Very nice! In threw three medium splits in this morning around 7 and the wife didn't have to touch the stove all day. Got home and relit directly off the remaining coals. Near instant flamage and the primary is now back to nearly 100% closed. So 7pm to 515-530 or so. Dang near the same performance although I'm sure mine was throwing heat like your nice load there but the wife didn't want to get cooked out either. She worked from home today and would normally be tending to the Lopi pretty steady.
Remember, my Myriad is in the basement, like your Daka. Sounds like we are pretty close. Now for me to deal with the coals on the Drolet 1800i upstairs. I do have the screen for that unit. It does help to burn the coals and also provides much heat while it is burning the coals.
Can't wait to hear how it works for you Dan! I highly suggest smoking it off outdoors for the first burn if you can but be careful so you don't over-fire it like they warn against in the manual. Mine still stinks if I get it up over 600ยบ on the stove top temp but they say that subsides after a while. Luckily I don't need that high of a stt to heat right now.
Very good. Excellent price also. Both of mine were at least $200 more at Northern. Let us know how it works for your setup.
A great comparison is yesterday when my wife worked from home. I loaded the Myriad in the morning with 3 splits, so about half full, got them mostly charred and closed the primary air down. It was 76 when I left at 7:30am and 74 when I got home 5:30pm. She commented on how she didn't have to touch the stove all day and that it was probably still a little too warm in the house for her liking. Granted it was a nice day yesterday with a high of around 30 but brisk winds. Anyway, I opened the primary air and the bypass, stirred the coals and pulled them forward, threw one piece of kindling EW on top of the coals and loaded one large split kind of cross-ways since it didn't want to quite fit NS. Got that mostly charred over before I left for poker night and closed the primary air again at 630pm. Got home at 10pm to the house at 76 still and that one big split "ghosted" in coal form. Did the stir and drag forward routine and loaded 3 of the biggest splits that would fit, charred them, closed the primary air, and went to bed around 1115pm. Got up this morning to the house at 71 and more than enough coals for a relit and a similar routine! Keep in mind that this is all happening just on the main floor of my home and I'm still running the Daka for heat in the basement. So tl;dr - I'm getting at least a 2 hour longer burn than the best the Answer could do and up to 4 hours under the right condition. Am I burning less wood while doing this? The jury is out so far on that one but it sure seems like it. Are "we" more comfortable and happy, heck yes.
2 to 4 hours more time you don't have to screw around with stove, that's good. When the temperatures get up to 40 or 50 are you going to be doing small loads are just running one wood burner?
You guys are doing such a good report me and mama are going after one Thursday. We looked at one today after we got out of her Dr. visit but we didn't have the trailer with us. We drove to a dealer that was selling Blaze King but they was closed. I peeked At a Regency 5100 and the 3000 model but they wanted 3200.00 for the 51 and 2600.00 for the 3000 model.
That is exactly it HD, less time messing with it is a good thing for sure, even if I burn an equal amount of wood. When it starts to warm up I'm probably going to burn smaller fires upstairs with some combination of one or no fires (a day) in the Daka. If for no other reason than the Myriad is right in the living room and easier to do the relit from cold with kindling and all that stuff.
While I would LOVE to have any one of those cat stoves you named, for the money it's going to be hard to beat the Myriad/Austral, in my opinion.
Just a little hint here but me thinks you are mistaken about the coals. It looks to me there is still lots of wood in there and that is normal. There is lots and lots of heat to get out of that load.
I absolutely and wholeheartedly agree, for sure. Normally I do not touch the stove at this point. Sam was bewildered with the amount of his coals, and the length of time to burn them down. The Myriad will produce lots of coals during the heat cycle. We discovered the coals were normal, and they burned down relatively quickly, if you are patient. When I reloaded at 6:15 pm, I did not touch the stove until 8:30 am. Had enough coals to restart, quickly. That process is what I normally do. I really did not know how long it would take to burn down the coals, intentionally, on the Myriad so I tried it.
