I think carefully loading up any type of stove to the top is fine because within minutes the coal bed and wood shrinks down and leaves a gap at...
I start to reach my threshold in March. I get tired of burning wood and Winter for that matter by then so I may take a few days off and burn some gas.
One thing I miss about my old BK is being able to load those big uglies. Now I save them for the fire pit.
Only -10 this morning, looks like it may not go above 0 just like yesterday. Still toasty here inside. So far we're having an old fashioned snowy...
-20 this morning, burning hot hot hot, may be a four load day.
I'd love to try out a T-5, great stove! -20 tomorrow morning and it looks like the next couple days won't break 0! I'm pretty confident my little...
16 hours on a half load? That's Blaze King territory, impressive indeed.
Lake Wissota. Look closely you can see my tip ups I keep an eye on from the living room or porch. [ATTACH]
My little Jotul gas stove in my basement. I also have had a Regency, Hearthstone Homestead, WS Fireview, WS Keystone, and a BK Princess on that...
My living room [ATTACH]
One thing I noticed last year burning my Princess, I was more tempted to burn more often with more wood during the shoulder season when I probably...
Most cat probes measure the temps of the exhaust stream past the cat. If it's up over 500 and rising it means the cat is working, if it stalls out...
I wonder if you could squeeze out a 24 hour burn in the Sirocco with good hardwood? That 20 hour burn is with western Larch.
Truth is they are a great stove for the serious 24/7 burner that is more into function than form. The up and coming Ashford 20 may be my next...
I do have 3 of these fans but so far it seems one is working great. A day like today in the lower 20's I used to burn hotter and load 3 times per...
Yeah I took it off, it looked ugly under there.
Nope, not needed
Yeah, it acts almost like a blower, the heat just rolls out from all that brick, soapstone and iron mass.
30' is a long way for flue gases to travel and they will cool down some, especially being an outside chimney. I think I would insulate and also...
Your not anymore nuts than the rest of us Dennis. I have a 45 coming directly off my flue collar and if I take my IR gun around the top of it the...
