I cut around 10 cords of standing dead ash and elm this fall, 5 for me and 5 for the land owner, and I'm burning it now. Some of the stuff down...
I'm still not seeing the "gas burner" effect from the secondaries that I see in other video's and pic's but I'm getting the lazy hoovering flame...
So I installed a stove pipe damper Sunday night after letting the stove cool off all day. Today my wife was working from home so I re-kindled and...
This entire thread makes me so jealous! What I wouldn't give for a 24 hour burn! I'm lucky to get 8 hours on low-glow with the Lopi.
Yep, they are currently 3-sided. In these pics the open side is facing the door way to the furnace room where all of this is now stacked! I found...
Well, I finally got to unload one of my firewood carrying pallets into the add-on furnace room last night. I didn't have very far to carry it...
Well it's back to burning chuglies here with it hardly getting down into the low 20's at night. Luckily splitting elm produces plenty of them!!
I think I mighta had a version of this the other night...fell asleep while waiting for the stove to get going after arriving home late at night....
Pretty much the only time when I have trouble getting a decent draft when it's really cold out is if I've let the house get cooler as well, as in...
I have found that temperature differential affects my stove draft but I'm not sure if that's directly proportional to barometric pressure as well...
The way the bark was peeling off in that last pic it makes me think of the standing dead elm that I've been cutting.
Tossed in like that I suspect you're right around 1/2 cord. I figured when I stacked with no sideboards I was getting a solid 2/3, sneaking up on...
This thread is a little old, and I don't personally have this issue, but I thought I might suggest that the cotter pin idea is what I'd go with. I...
Welcome to the forum! That splitter is pretty shiny, is she brand new? Nice saw as well!
A bit of a hi-jack but what do you guys think of making an old RAS ('70's monkey-wards) into a limb bucker? I happen to have one that I can't sell...
I've heard of folks throwing in a quart of tranny oil right before an oil change. It's really high in detergents as well. I wouldn't drive...
The wife and I were gone for a long weekend and the live-in SIL stayed home to watch the animals. She didn't seem like she wanted to learn how to...
I've got approximately the same amount of chimney as you Chestnut and a crazy strong draft as well. I'm more and more convinced that a damper is...
We had temps in the upper 40's near 50° here yesterday so I let the stove go cold to do a complete clean out. I took the firebrick baffle down and...
I'm guessing I've burned right at 1/2 cord. A good portion of that has been chunks/uglies/shorts so I'm not too broken up about it. I haven't...
