Load it up, burn all night....
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10:45, 650 on the stove top, air all the way down, and we are cruisin'.....
Jotul118
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A little sweat equity burns through many a night...
Looks like you've got'er right where you want'er!
Saddle Mander
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I'm giving it a go, but I can only stack E/W.
Left side is burning well. Waiting for the right side to catch....
Left side is burning well. Waiting for the right side to catch....
Jotul118
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10:45, 650 on the stove top, air all the way down, and we are cruisin'.....
Would love to have a glass door on the front of my 118!
Love to watch it on start up, but when everything is dialed down for an overnight burn, can't keep it open for too long.
Beer Belly
Minister of Fire
Ok, I put in a good load last night, most I ever put in, and the stove got very touchy with the adjustments......was good and hot, adjusted the air a little at a time.....got good secondary's....tried to bring it down a hair more (BIG secondary's)...BAM.....shut down....touchy, touchy, touchy
Saddle Mander
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cableman
Minister of Fire
I got up at 3am and the stove was glowing big coals and was 250* stovetop. I threw in 2 splits and opened it a hair, came down at 630 and it was all coals again. I think i could definitely get a better run if i pack shorter splits n/s. House was still 69
mass_burner
Minister of Fire
I would love to burn for 12+ hours. But for me this would be wasteful. Not that I could do it anyway with the horizontal stoves I have. At night we shut the one door separating the bedrooms from the common area (where the stoves are). This area usually makes it until 7:20 when I wake up without the furnace coming on set to 64.
Archer39
Feeling the Heat
My little blaze king stuffed full. I would show a picture of it after it starts to burn but that would be boring. 
Ansky
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Hogwildz, what's the depth of your stove? Just curious what size you cut your splits. Mine stove's firebox is 24" E-W and maybe 13" or so N-S. But most of my splits are 18". I'm wondering if I should start cutting up my logs to 12" so I can load the stove that way. It would be a lot more sawing, but probably easier splitting and more efficient burning.
Any advice is welcome. Just my 2nd season, so I'm still learning.
Any advice is welcome. Just my 2nd season, so I'm still learning.
Saddle Mander
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That's the next thing I'm gonna try. I put a lot more splits in last night than I have been, but it seems like I got about the same burn time with slightly lower temps. But I can't REALLY fill it E/W unless a lot is resting on the glass, which I don't want to do. So short N/S splits is my next experiment.
That will make my wife happy. She says that I don't spend enough time or thought on the stove.
(sarcasm face)Now that its back up into the 20's at night I let the fire go out, just a couple of days ago could not get enough heat out of it.
I have never had any trouble getting overnight burns with my Summit, Mulberry works well for overnight burns.
I have never had any trouble getting overnight burns with my Summit, Mulberry works well for overnight burns.
I want to say 20" x 20" or somewhere around that.
I can fit a 20" in if I remember correctly, but cut everything to about 18" to keep the splits away from the glass enough to keep them from offgassing on the glass and fogging it up.
I tried E-W and did not like it. It left splits in the back unburnt and just charred at best.
N-S makes it easier to load full, without the fear of anything rolling forward, and I feel makes for a tighter packed stove. I believe it burns hotter and faster N-S due to the air cavities being fed from the primary in front. More free flow of the air straight back, then smacking up against the side of the splits, it cruises between them.
At the burn times I am getting, I really can't complain about it burning down any faster.
These were made for N-S burning. Your appears made for E-W, but you may want to experiment and cut a few splits down to be able to load N-S and see how it performs. If it is doing the job fine as is, then I say go with what works,
Let the stove go out? What size place are you heating and how tight is it that you can let the stove go out in the 20s?
Look at all that wasted space, load that biach up tight & full man! LOL Its a BK, it will last for days!
Whats with the lumber?
What kind of real world burns you getting out of her?
Archer39
Feeling the Heat
It is!!... Kinda hard to see but it is packed tight the bottom row the pieces are solid all the way across then the next layer is up the shield below the cat. There are no gaps just looks that way. That's as high as you can go because of the cat.
The lumber is from my work. It's the blocking that comes on our bundles of metal for spacing. Around 12% MC burns great.
With these temps to keep the house warm (70's) I have to load every 8 hrs. I have some heat loss issues I have to addresses and vents to put in to circulate the heat better. I think after that I would be able to go 12-14 hrs. I am also burning some not so ideal wood right now. The good crap is behind the wet crap.
weatherguy
Minister of Fire
I do 3 loads a day too Archer in this frigid weather, sometimes I can get away with 2 depending on the wood.
Hogz, is the Summit insert box a 3cf like the free stander? I thought my Princess was 2.8 but turns out the insert's a bit smaller at 2.54.
Hogz, is the Summit insert box a 3cf like the free stander? I thought my Princess was 2.8 but turns out the insert's a bit smaller at 2.54.
2500 sq feet, berm house (walk in basement) with insulation on the outside of the block walls, big heat sink, below zero temps with a south wind are no fun though.
It was 61n the house this morning but both the wife and I like that temp for sleeping.
Yes 3cf, but that includes the baffle space too, so not true 3 for loading wood into.
So I guess in this weather, you ain't squeezing 24 hours out of a load? LOL
I guess you'll see some long burns in the shoulder seasons.
So is it a true berm, or just a walkout basement?
I can see the insulating value of being a good portion under ground, with the insulation around it.
Kudos to you. 20's round here with this place calls for burning.
I can see the insulating value of being a good portion under ground, with the insulation around it.
Kudos to you. 20's round here with this place calls for burning.
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