I had to do my first cold start today since the beginning of december. Work schedules and some emergency dental work really messed up our reload system between the wife and myself.
I bought a small box of fatwood from home depot a few months ago and decided to give it a try. I built my usual top down fire that works great every time, only this time i used 3 pieces of the fatwood instead if the splitter scraps i usually use.
The fire took off with no problem, only the chimney was billowing black smoke and it turned the inside of my firebox,burn tubes and baffle black. that was about an hour ago and as soon as the temp started coming up the soot all burned off and its running just like normal. Im really not too worried about it, I'm just curious if this is normal with fawood???
I bought a small box of fatwood from home depot a few months ago and decided to give it a try. I built my usual top down fire that works great every time, only this time i used 3 pieces of the fatwood instead if the splitter scraps i usually use.
The fire took off with no problem, only the chimney was billowing black smoke and it turned the inside of my firebox,burn tubes and baffle black. that was about an hour ago and as soon as the temp started coming up the soot all burned off and its running just like normal. Im really not too worried about it, I'm just curious if this is normal with fawood???
