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Randy Acton · Jan 14, 2016

Clydeburner said:
Have you checked the door gaskets/seals? Do you have control of the fire? How do you load the stove, stuffed full or just a few splits?
View attachment 171858 this is my overnight load, like a puzzle finding splits that fit.

I load my Shelburne (2 cubic foot box) at 6 am on coals, again at 6 PM on coals (small splits) and again at 930 PM to carry it through to the 6 am re load.[/Quote]

I do similar to this and have similar results, load big splits in the rear and medium splits up front stuffed full, easily last till morning or until my wife or I get home. Plenty of coals for a fast re-light....

Some of your wood may take 18 mo or more to fully season and give adequate heat output, especially the harder woods.

I have the cast iron clydesdale 2.4cuft (Soapstone lined) and have a strong draft which definitely sucks the heat to the top of my chimney, even blued out my new chimney cap! I engineered a flue damper and a rod through the surround, this has vastly improved my burn and control. My cost was less then $5. My last cleaning showed little residue build up in the chimney. We will see now I am burning 24/7 hiw she looks when I open her up, I don't think it will be bad as the stove Burns great.[/QUOTE]

Sorry its been a couple hell days at work and haven't been able to respond.

Two nights ago I had the best burn ever in the Heritage. I completely cleaned the stove, emptied the ash pan, the firebox and cleaned the glass (soapstone was above room temp). I loaded the stove log cabin style, alternating N/S and E/W and dropped in three of my homemade firestarters.

This all happened about 4 p.m.I let the stove take off for about 20 minutes, closed the side door and let the stove do its thing. Stack temps hovered around 300 and shut air control off to about 50%. Outside temps hovered around 15f and interior temps climbed to 67f just before bed. Reloaded the stove at 9:30 and shut primary air down to zero. Woke up at 5 a.m, and room temps were at about 62,outside temps still at about 15, gas furnace still hadn't kicked on and I was able to relight from coals.

After 4 years this is the best I have been able to get....love the soapstone but still putting the order for the IS

Randy Acton · Jan 14, 2016

Clydeburner said:
Have you checked the door gaskets/seals? Do you have control of the fire? How do you load the stove, stuffed full or just a few splits?
View attachment 171858 this is my overnight load, like a puzzle finding splits that fit.

I load my Shelburne (2 cubic foot box) at 6 am on coals, again at 6 PM on coals (small splits) and again at 930 PM to carry it through to the 6 am re load.[/Quote]

I do similar to this and have similar results, load big splits in the rear and medium splits up front stuffed full, easily last till morning or until my wife or I get home. Plenty of coals for a fast re-light....

Some of your wood may take 18 mo or more to fully season and give adequate heat output, especially the harder woods.

I have the cast iron clydesdale 2.4cuft (Soapstone lined) and have a strong draft which definitely sucks the heat to the top of my chimney, even blued out my new chimney cap! I engineered a flue damper and a rod through the surround, this has vastly improved my burn and control. My cost was less then $5. My last cleaning showed little residue build up in the chimney. We will see now I am burning 24/7 hiw she looks when I open her up, I don't think it will be bad as the stove Burns great.[/QUOTE]

Sorry its been a couple hell days at work and haven't been able to respond.

Two nights ago I had the best burn ever in the Heritage. I completely cleaned the stove, emptied the ash pan, the firebox and cleaned the glass (soapstone was above room temp). I loaded the stove log cabin style, alternating N/S and E/W and dropped in three of my homemade firestarters.

This all happened about 4 p.m.I let the stove take off for about 20 minutes, closed the side door and let the stove do its thing. Stack temps hovered around 300 and shut air control off to about 50%. Outside temps hovered around 15f and interior temps climbed to 67f just before bed. Reloaded the stove at 9:30 and shut primary air down to zero. Woke up at 5 a.m, and room temps were at about 62,outside temps still at about 15, gas furnace still hadn't kicked on and I was able to relight from coals.

After 4 years this is the best I have been able to get....love the soapstone but still putting the order for the IS

LocustBurner · Jan 18, 2016

Randy Acton said:
After 4 years this is the best I have been able to get....love the soapstone but still putting the order for the IS

Congrats!
You will not be disappointed.

Huntindog1 · Jan 18, 2016

Some thing is not right I can get 12 hours and have coals in my 3..2 cu ft stove. I had a few years ago a 2.1 cu ft stove and got 10 hour cycle times.

Can you give us your stove top temps and your stove pipe temp around 18" up on the pipe?

What kind of wood are your using and how do you load it? How seasoned is the wood do you know the moisture level in the wood. Is it below 20 percent moisture fromm the face of a fresh split piece.

How long does it take to get the input air shut down to your all day or all night setting and a stove top temp around 500 deg?

I suspect if the stove is cold your doing restarts all the time. Max burn times are gotten from reloading on hot coals getting the heat built up fast
so as to get secondaries going fast and getting the input air shut back down to that all night setting fast.

STacking log cabin style isn ot what you want that makes the wood burn too fast. You want to stack the wood in tightly so at to have very little
air spaces as the hot coals will get the wood going fast if the wood is good and dry.

You can also use a fire starter along with the hot coals for a faster starter that leads to a fast shut down of the input air.

The quick startup and shut down is important for not burning up all your main wood laod to get the heat back up in the stove.

If your wood is not seasoned it take a long time to get heat built back up in the tove and alot of your wood gets burnt doing that and
thus shorter burn cycle times.

Good kindling and good firestarter helps this whole situation as well as dry firewood.

You may need a damper in your flue to help with the draft as if y our draft is too strong then then the wood supply burnns too fast but your temp readings will point to that if you can get us stove top temp and stove pipe temp 18" up.

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