The ash itself is about 40% carbon... Well calcium carbonate anyway. Regarding the methane... It's real. And it's part of the natural breakdown...
Rotting may actually be worse as it creates methane...this is an even stronger green house gas. There's a lot to the science... Even the change...
How so? Nearly every stove or insert is designed with a firebox shaped like an old TV. Would not taller, narrow and modestly deep firebox work...
Oak typically splits so easy that you could probably use a wedge and a mallet to halve them
When you consider how effective the top down is I am surprised that the form factor of free standing stoves hasn't changed to support taller loading
No, it's the same...btu's have nothing to do with the stove. That's the amount of energy in the fuel.
You are just consuming the wood at faster rate, turning those btu's into heat. I think it is awesome that you can get a stove that will burn at...
Didn't know that. What does it do to the discoloration?
I disagree. The number of Btu's is not at issue here... Heat from the stove isn't the same as Btu's from the amount of wood loaded. The burn...
Any time you want along burning fire, top down is the best. Uses way less kindling too. A full firebox with hardwood and a top down fire will...
If it's near your house I would blast it with a mix of bleach and water. We had a week straight of rain here, and what started on the wood piles...
