I had put a log in the stove, the moisture was a little too high but i had no other alternative after 30-45 minutes the log was burning "ok" but something scared happened, the log kind of exploded, smoke went out from the closed door, going through the gasket and nearly stopped for good the fire. I was a few feet away, sitting in the coach and the "poof" and smoke did startle me a little bit. I assume there was steam stuck inside the log and the pressure got too high? anything like that happened to any of you before?
All I ever get is the usual snapping a popping of the pine I am burning. Some of the those pops get pretty loud sometimes.
Pine will do this. Pretty sure it is just a pitch or water pocket that has boiled and steamed and built up pressure and it just pops like a balloon. Can knock quite a bit of flame out when it does it. Like a really loud quick fart or poof. Then the fire slowly recovers. Oak will do it too but not as large and violently as pine.
I've had a few peices of wood that you would swear somebody shot a .50 BMG off inside the stove. Doesn't happened often, but the pucker factor is high
A really loud quick fart would cause a flame up. I had a roommate that did this one time. He lit his farts on fire. I laughed the hardest I have ever laughed. I cried and almost wet my pants. That was a really long time ago....sorry. I digress. Just had to throw that in there.
Never had one blow up. You buy the wood ? ....... Maybe was stolen wood from WV & resold, When back in WV, I've heard of folks making a few "HOT" splits, marked well. (after they've had wood stolen.) By putting a shotgun shell in one or 2 . Trying to catch whoever was stealing their wood ???? That'd clean your chimney.
