Stove Heat

We had a dusting once but it did not stick yet.

Pete

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I see your name is Pallet Pete
I am picking up some pallets in next couple of days.One place there are big ones with 4 by 4s
Have you ever just cut up pallets and burned em with nails in ??

Not to steal the thread but yes I have burned them too but only the untreated pallets. Treated pallets looked like a mini nova and I thought for sure my life was about to end lol! The whole neighbor hood was smoked and smelled up. We do our best to not use pallets though because so far they have not been as clean as cord wood is. As for the nail I left them in with no issue at all.

Pete

Pallet Pete said:

Not to steal the thread but yes I have burned them too but only the untreated pallets. Treated pallets looked like a mini nova and I thought for sure my life was about to end lol! The whole neighbor hood was smoked and smelled up. We do our best to not use pallets though because so far they have not been as clean as cord wood is. As for the nail I left them in with no issue at all.

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Thanks for that info.
Didn't know there were treated pallets,but I'm sure I could spot them.
Never burned pallets before.

Back On subject
Purchased a new Rutland Magnetic Stove Thermometer today (cuz I was at Tractor Sup),to see if it would be more accurate than the old ones I have, and it is about the same as one of the two older, Rutland Thermometers I already have, 80 to 90 deg, cool ,not a big deal, I guess, but I would like it to be accurate, so I will take the new one back and order a inferno/condar.

We have the condar chimguard thermometer and it runs about 25 degrees higher than the IR gun.

We keep a pot of water directly on the lower step of our step top and it goes through 128fl oz of water a day.

I've been cruising the stove between 400-500 when home and 300 when we are not home. Will probably raise this 100 degrees of so when dead winter sets in.

tfdchief said:

They are all mostly about the same. I have several and compare. When they all read the same, I figure they are fairly accurate. It is really too bad nobody makes a really quality one, that of course costs more, but it is a relative thing anyway. I just correlate what the stove is doing to what the thermo says and go from there. For a lot of years, I had no thermo and just went by my instincts. Still do I guess. The thermo is just kind of a novelty for me. When the stove is too HOT I know it.

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Steve, like you, we burned for many, many moons with no thermometer and got along just fine. I was also talking with Ray a while back and he could not imagine having a stove with no window. Shoot, this is our first stove with a window and the first time we ever used a thermometer. Never had a problem. You knew when the stove needed wood because you started getting cool. lol

Backwoods Savage said:

Steve, like you, we burned for many, many moons with no thermometer and got along just fine. I was also talking with Ray a while back and he could not imagine having a stove with no window. Shoot, this is our first stove with a window and the first time we ever used a thermometer. Never had a problem. You knew when the stove needed wood because you started getting cool. lol

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Yeah, us old timers had to do it the hard way But then we didn't freeze and we didn't burn the house down. I suppose we polluted the air once in a while and probably burned more wood, but we survived.

Be sure to check your owners manual re thermometer placement. On my F600 the manual has a pic showing proper placement is at any of the outside four corners. My Jotul often reads about 100 degrees lower at the corner versus dead center of the top insert panel.