Lopi Liberty longer burn times?

Still working to get the exact hang of things. I can get a steady 5-6 hours burns with good coals lasting 7-8. This is great when I'm home to adjust the air and reload the stove. On an average day I fill the stove up at 530-6 to have enough time to get it all set by the time I leave around 650am. Then I'm home again between 4 and 530 depending on the job for the day. On a day like that the stove has a few coals that I can restart with some very small kindling and the stove is cool enough that the blower is shut off on its own.

I load the stove e/w. And start shutting the air done as soon as I start seeing temps around 500. The stove top temps (read with an ir gun) run 750-800 and the stack temps read the same after things even out(double wall pipe with probe thermometer)

Last night I loaded the stove around 230. Brought it up to temp and cut the air almost all the way back. Temps leveled off at 750 with good secondary's. Here's a short video
At 730 in the morning the stove was at 250 with coals . . Last nights load was a mix of hard maple hickory and a split or two of oak.

lopiliberty said:

I actually get shorter burn times loaded E/W because I find I can't get it fully loaded like it would like to. How long are your splits? If you have room load the splits to on side and stick a split or two in N/S to completely fill the box. For a long extended burn I only load N/S averaging about 8 to 12 pieces depending on the size. I usually load between 8:30 and 11 at night and don't touch the stove again until around 9 the next morning (when there is no polar vortex) with a big pile of coals for easy reloading

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Most of my splits are 18 inches Some end up at 16. I have doe that when I have splits short enough to go n/s. On average I can fit 8 in. But that goes down as the ash builds up. Should I be trying to keep my splits bigger now as I split next years and on wood?

Here's a couple pics of my splits right now.

Saved up a bunch of the shorter splits I have come accrost to see how a load n/s does for burn times. Definitely fit more wood in loading n/s vs e/w. I can manage 8-10 18 inch splits going e/w. I got 20 15-16inch splits going n/s. Loaded the stove at 11:25. Stove top temps reading high 700's (with ir gun) 20 min in to the burn stack temp reading about 700 off the prob thermometer.


About 45 min in stove top temp are steady high 700 with a hot spot at 825-830 twords the back of the stove top. Got the air chocked all the way off With a load of mostly sugar maple, might be a slit or two of oak mixed in to. Blower is on high. Is there any other way to cool the stove top Dow a bit more or is that an ok temp. I know they say 800 is over fire just don't want to hurt the stove.

lopiliberty said:

If your getting 20 splits at a time in the stove I would say they are too small. Small splits off gas quicker and can lead to a runaway stove. This stove likes to run. Try using larger spits. That should keep your temps under control. Also burn the coal bed down as much as possible. I don't think twice about the stove cruising around 750 but if it starts to climb past that temp I start taking action to bring it back down. I have pegged my thermometer more times this year than I like to admit but no glowing steel other than the air tubes and baffle supports and not signs of damage to the stove

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Some of the splits we're know bad small. What do you do to try to cool the stove down if it starts running over 750? All I can think of would be turn the blower up more? I've not pegged my thermometer yet. Hope I never do. It reads up to 1600 degrees. I have seen 1000 a couple times. ( guess I didn't turn the air down quickly enough). I have never had the stove glowing either that I have seen other then the air tubes and baffle supports.

I did get a long burn time with good coals and hear. I adjusted the air at 9 hours With lots of good coals. Reloaded the stove at 10 hours. Probably could have gone another hour but I didn't want to let the stove cool to much.

I've been trying to keep my new wood to 16 in long split so they fit in n/s or e/w. So I'll have more larger splits in the future. Looking like I may be done with the stove for the season. 50's-60's for the extended future. Already miss feeding the stove.