Top down done right with a short chimney and dead cold stove..... Load kindling in a valley on top of smallish splits and i cheat and light with a torch.... Two photos of 5 minutes of progress, door closed about 30 seconds after lighting. and a 15 minute progress pic
I do a mix. I put a piece of fatwood up top, then one mid stack. Light the top one, then the bottom one. The woodstove has a so/so chimney setup, so getting the draft going is always a bit of a challenge. Usually requires opening a door. It's always interesting coming up on a Friday night and getting the stove going on a cold winter night.
Top down and pine!!?? Your gonna have to brush it from the top down then use a soot eater from the bottom up to make sure you get both kinds of creosote.....lol
I remember a stove. Made in Canada I think that operated on a similar but different theory. The fuel was on top but the combustion occurred in a separate chamber. It was like self feeding. As I recall they stuffed it with leaves, dried corn husks and other crazy stuff. Because none of the smoke ever left without being brought through the constricted fire it burned quite clean. I fully realize there are many stoves that operate like this. Some very old. There’s also a term for this but my memory isn’t calling it up. I wis I could find that stove again. It was neat.
Bah. Pine burns fine and clean in a new stove. And a load of it does not just evaporate in a few minutes. I have burned plenty in years that we weren't floating in a sea of hardwood thanks to the eab.
Lol I was just kidding around, I myself burn at least a cord of pine a year, great shoulder season wood
Yep that’s pretty much what it was. Thanks for the memory jog. From my knowledge gasifiers are mostly used in furnace/ boiler type appliances. This one was just a woodstove. Not particularily handsome either. Seemed like it would work good though. There were older air on top woodstoves more designed for a top down fire also.
