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Missouri Frontier

Missouri Frontier

Feeling the Heat
Feb 5, 2013
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NW Missouri BFE north of KC
Good morning-
I have a BK Princess. All of my wood is split to 16". I load north/south. After loading this morning I was thinking, there sure is a lot of room in front of all those splits. I could get 2 or 3 more splits east/west in front of my normal load. As long as I don't interfer with the loading door, will this cause problems?
 
You can certainly give it a shot, the wood will burn and I can't imagine a problem. Be sure that you can close the door without touching wood to glass and be sure to load such that a log won't roll off and hit the glass which is the real risk.

Obviously, don't put a split in place to cover the cat inlet screen. Stay below the cat chamber.
 
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Highbeam said:
You can certainly give it a shot, the wood will burn and I can't imagine a problem. Be sure that you can close the door without touching wood to glass and be sure to load such that a log won't roll off and hit the glass which is the real risk.

Obviously, don't put a split in place to cover the cat inlet screen. Stay below the cat chamber.
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next load im going to give it a shot and see how it burns. I'll report back. thanks
 
Missouri Frontier said:
next load im going to give it a shot and see how it burns. I'll report back. thanks
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I also have sub 16" wood to be sure that I can fit the splits N/S on the very bottom. The tapered firebox means that there is quite a lot of space as you go up. I've centered the splits front to back and now I just slide them all the way back in hopes of keeping the glass cleaner. No luck with that.
 
Highbeam-
the only way I clean the glass is the once a day hot fire. Stays black in the bottom corners but, I can live with that. The wife still has enough viewing window the see the 2 hrs a day of actual flames the thing makes. Then again, the BK aint about the show.
 
Brutus-
Hadn't considered that. Good idea. I might run 16's north/south until I get above the brick then east/west in back and north/south in front until its full? A little complex but, hey it's all about packing it full right? If I do it with a Hedge/Oak mix the darn thing might run 40 hrs. Lol
 
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If you have a good coal bed it isn't much of a problem, but it does bock the inlet air from circulating down to the coals properly slowing the relight. Only a real issue if you are light on coals during reload and the cat isn't hot enough to deal with all the resulting smoke.
 
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I load them E-W in the back and put the N-S in front also. It's nice towards the end of the burn, seems to last longer with more heat.
 
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