East/West loaders with top sloping fireboxes

Gunner said:

Does anybody have a picture of the firebox banked for an overnight burn? Really interested to see how much wood you guys can fit in, seems like it would be hard to do with logs wanting to roll out or against the glass. Maybey a before shot of the wood to be loaded then loaded.

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No pics handy, but I'll take some if I remember.

However, I'm not sure what the confusion is. The bottom of the firebox is flat, and gravity still behaves properly inside the box. The slope of the "ceiling" (manifold, baffle, whatever) really doesn't come into play, except that you get a little more height in the front of the firebox than the rear. I don't think I'm taking any extra precautions to prevent logs rolling out than I would be if the top was flat (provided the stove was still an E/W loader)

-Hal

That is close to a full load but not quite, I could jamb another piece or two in there.

I get 8 hour burns easily with this stove.

I wouldnt have bought a stove that could only load from either the top or the front, I prefer to re-load from the side. More control IMNSHO
I start fires from the side and add to it and load overnight from the side.

Thats a packed box babas , If ya dont mind me asking what size are the splits ? From the pic they look tiny , do you burn large splits and rounds in your stove ? and what was your cf of the firebox brother.

I'll tell you what I've been doing lately, and I'll take a picture the next time I load it up this way. My firebox is around 12" high (more in front, less in back), 20" wide in front (tapering some in back) and 16" from back wall to glass (12" from back to the front burn tube/baffle). I only have a front door, so I have to load from the front. Since I scrounge already cut wood, I wind up with a lot of 10-12" logs. I feed them in north-south and pack the area under the baffle that way. Then I find a couple of relatively square 18-20" logs and stack them in the remaining space. They often do wind up falling against the glass, but they don't have far to fall so there's no risk of damage, just temporarily dirty glass. This method also seems to burn the wood in back more completely than pure east-west loading, where I often wind up with a lot of smothered charcoal in the morning (wood type might come into play here also).