Redstone Wood Fuel

Anyone have any experience with the Redstone wood fuel sold at Tractor Supply? As I've already said in a couple of threads I am just about out of wood. I've been hunting for Bio-bricks, and have not hat any luck finding them. At a local Agway, I am on the list to get Hotbricks. Not familiar with them either. However; at this point I'm willing to try just about anything.

 

Ive used the tsc brand i cant remember if they are redstone or not though. My findings was they do ok they beat a snowball. It took quite a few to get a good fire going. They last a decent amount of time. I found mixing them with wood works best. All in all they not real bad.

 

Our Tractor Supply has them on hand. It's about a 25 minute ride. When I arrived, I couldn't find them. Online it says they have them. I asked and they have them stashed away as they are only allowing customers to buy 6 at a time. Now I were not planning on testing them, I'd be rather pizzed as the website says nothing of this. Plus the store did not have any sign to this effect.

Home now, and I broke open a bag. I've put two bricks in the wood stove. Room temp is at 80 right now. Left the air open a little too much on the stove. It's closed to normal operating temps, and the bricks are burning. I should add that after putting them on, there is no visible smoke coming out of the chimney. That is a nice surprise. Now to see if these will last longer as they suggest.

JB

 

Yes it will be warm before you know it, and yes Maine is much colder than RI. However; our family room only has a wood stove for heat. Need to stretch it out with bio bricks of some type or another. My other option which I mentioned in another thread is to get an electric heater to help finish out the heating season.

 

If we was closer I would give a couple loads

 

Just loaded the wood stove for the night with these Redstone wood fuel. I must say that I've not seen this kind of secondary burn with the semi-seasoned wood. It gives me promise that once I have my operation in full swing, my seasoned wood burns will give similar results.

I'll let you know how long this load goes overnight. Room was 64 when I went in to fill it for the night, and when I left it was 67.9. Hoping to find a good temp with good coals in the am.

 

I'm curious how his overnite burn goes. I bought a couple of bags of TSC bricks a few years ago just to try them out and they weren't too bad. They coaled a lot differently and the ash was much fluffier. Decent heat and burn times

 

I went to bed after midnight last night. My wife woke for work, and put some more on at that time. When I asked later how much was left over when she added more, she could not remember. The temp in the family room read at 74 she said. Good temp, not sure about the longevity. Normally I go to bed around 9:30 or 10 at the latest. From time to time I'll get reading something or watching something, and I'll lose track of time. That happened last night.


When I bank the stove tonight, I'll be the one to reload in the am tomorrow. I'll let you know about the longevity then.

Today I called Tractor Supply to see if they had more Redstone wood fuel, and they told me they had 5 pallets on hand. We drove the 25 minutes in the beginning of tonights snow storm to get some. Well guess what, I called the wrong store. The store I called is another 30 minutes north in Jewett City, Ct. About an hour ride from our home. The wife was not willing to make that trek with snow flying. Right now I have enough wood/Redstone wood fuel to get us to Thursday or Friday.


Hope everyone is enjoying their wood stoves on cold snowy February night.

 

I keep my open on Craigslist. There are a few out there that have posts for semi-seasoned cords. Which would be fine. However; I can't currently get it into my backyard. There is about 8" of snow on the hill to our backyard. Might just have to bite the bullet and have them drop it in the driveway and carry it up.