Blaze King Owners-Now that its getting warmer.....5 questions

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Hiram Maxim

Hiram Maxim

Minister of Fire
Nov 25, 2007
1,065
SE Michigan
1)What kind of burn times are you getting now?
2)What position are you running the thermostat at to achieve the same house temps?
3) what model Princess or King?
4) Most common wood used?
5)How much wood did you use this season?

Thank you,Hiram :cheese:
 
24 hours with junk but dry wood
2.25 - 2.5 on mild days, 3 with blowers whenever I want to heat the house up
King
Anything I can get my hands on. Been burning the short, the light and the ugly the past few weeks.
about 7 cord, maybe a third of which was good stuff.
 
1)12-18 hrs depending on setting
2)I have the princess, (settings go 1-9) my setting has been on 1 1/2 - 2, 3 fri night, its got down to 20
3)Princess
4)Ive used everything but oak, its still seasoning, Ill use it next year
5)Almost 3 cords
 
1)What kind of burn times are you getting now?
>> 8 hours burning 2-3 logs at a time

2)What position are you running the thermostat at to achieve the same house temps?
>> 2-3 keeps my house between 71 and 74.

3) what model Princess or King?
>> Princess

4) Most common wood used?
>> Now that shoulder season is here, I'm burning some elm, mulberry, poplar and misc. mystery wood.

5)How much wood did you use this season?
>> About 3 cords, approximately half of what I burned last season. I am astounded at how much wood I have left. I never even touched my good stuff.
 
been burning two year old oak and maple and some crap pieces.. loading at about 8 or 9 every night. setting the t stat on 1.5 after a burn off. for bout 10 hours then stir the coals and left over wood in there up in the morning let it heat up a bit and crank her down close to 1. house staying about 68 at night. and usually bout 70 when i come home from work. depends if the suns out or not. then when i come home from work rake the coals to the front again. crank her down low and then reload at 8 or 9 again. getting good solid 24 hour burns. the longest burn i got out of it so far was about 27 hours. i was burning a different stove at the begining of the year and had about a month break in the middle of the season. so i started the season off with about 3 cords. and i have about a little over a cord left over. im gonna say just under 2 cords. if would have started the season with the princess i think would have burned even less.
 
Well it must be getting warmer because the forum is starting to cool off!

Come on guys chime in! :cheese:
 
ecocavalier02 said:
been burning two year old oak and maple and some crap pieces.. loading at about 8 or 9 every night. setting the t stat on 1.5 after a burn off. for bout 10 hours then stir the coals and left over wood in there up in the morning let it heat up a bit and crank her down close to 1. house staying about 68 at night. and usually bout 70 when i come home from work. depends if the suns out or not. then when i come home from work rake the coals to the front again. crank her down low and then reload at 8 or 9 again. getting good solid 24 hour burns. the longest burn i got out of it so far was about 27 hours. i was burning a different stove at the begining of the year and had about a month break in the middle of the season. so i started the season off with about 3 cords. and i have about a little over a cord left over. im gonna say just under 2 cords. if would have started the season with the princess i think would have burned even less.
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Impressive burn times. I didn't think the smaller Princess could go that long.
 
I had to shut her down about mid march, but just before shutting down for the season I was getting 18 to 26 hours burn time depending on the wood. I'd run it on 2 - 2.25 overnight to keep it warm in the house then turn it down to 1 - 1.25 during the day so I didn't bake us out. I went through 4.5 cords this past winter compared to 7.5 the year before.
 
learnin to burn said:
I had to shut her down about mid march, but just before shutting down for the season I was getting 18 to 26 hours burn time depending on the wood. I'd run it on 2 - 2.25 overnight to keep it warm in the house then turn it down to 1 - 1.25 during the day so I didn't bake us out. I went through 4.5 cords this past winter compared to 7.5 the year before.
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Learnin,

3 cords is a huge difference! :bug:

And not to mention, this was your learning curve year.

Congrats, Hiram :)
 
Todd said:
ecocavalier02 said:
been burning two year old oak and maple and some crap pieces.. loading at about 8 or 9 every night. setting the t stat on 1.5 after a burn off. for bout 10 hours then stir the coals and left over wood in there up in the morning let it heat up a bit and crank her down close to 1. house staying about 68 at night. and usually bout 70 when i come home from work. depends if the suns out or not. then when i come home from work rake the coals to the front again. crank her down low and then reload at 8 or 9 again. getting good solid 24 hour burns. the longest burn i got out of it so far was about 27 hours. i was burning a different stove at the begining of the year and had about a month break in the middle of the season. so i started the season off with about 3 cords. and i have about a little over a cord left over. im gonna say just under 2 cords. if would have started the season with the princess i think would have burned even less.
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Impressive burn times. I didn't think the smaller Princess could go that long.
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yeahh itll do it. Theres just enuff coals left to get the new load goin. Im sure its not like what the king model has leftover after 24hours
 
This is perhaps a bit of a hijack but I was just wondering if getting all these great burn times means that the glass gets really dirty and needs a good bit of elbow grease to get off? I imagine it wouldn't be so bad if it was cleaned daily but after 1-2 weeks I'd expect it to be pretty thick? Thanks and sorry for the sort of offtrack Q. It just seemed like a good bunch of people to ask since you're going for those long, "low" burns now that I'd expect to be perfect conditions for glass build up.
 
even with the long burns. my glass still stays clear. maybe just a little in the corners. but only sometimes a little in the corners. plus once i do the burn off in the beginning it burns it all off. but my glass stays pretty much spotless even with the long burns. dry wood is key
 
eco said:
even with the long burns. my glass still stays clear. maybe just a little in the corners. but only sometimes a little in the corners. plus once i do the burn off in the beginning it burns it all off. but my glass stays pretty much spotless even with the long burns. dry wood is key
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Yep, what eco says. Dead standing pine,or spruce beetle kill, cut split and then sitting stacked for two years is real good fuel for this type of operation. Well thats what I feed mine anyways. :cheese:
 
north of 60 said:
eco said:
even with the long burns. my glass still stays clear. maybe just a little in the corners. but only sometimes a little in the corners. plus once i do the burn off in the beginning it burns it all off. but my glass stays pretty much spotless even with the long burns. dry wood is key
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Yep, what eco says. Dead standing pine,or spruce beetle kill, cut split and then sitting stacked for two years is real good fuel for this type of operation. Well thats what I feed mine anyways. :cheese:
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N of 60- Thanks for the reinforcement. Home computer went south for awhile, thanks for your replies in a previous post. Hiram- I think you're going through the "over-thinking-it" thing I am also going through. This will be a very good heater. I'm sure, one year from now, we'll both be slapping our foreheads and muttering to ourselves. In a good way. :)
 
Beetle-Kill said:
north of 60 said:
eco said:
even with the long burns. my glass still stays clear. maybe just a little in the corners. but only sometimes a little in the corners. plus once i do the burn off in the beginning it burns it all off. but my glass stays pretty much spotless even with the long burns. dry wood is key
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Yep, what eco says. Dead standing pine,or spruce beetle kill, cut split and then sitting stacked for two years is real good fuel for this type of operation. Well thats what I feed mine anyways. :cheese:
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N of 60- Thanks for the reinforcement. Home computer went south for awhile, thanks for your replies in a previous post. Hiram- I think you're going through the "over-thinking-it" thing I am also going through. This will be a very good heater. I'm sure, one year from now, we'll both be slapping our foreheads and muttering to ourselves. In a good way. :)
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I'm positive your right! ("over-thinking-it" thing) ;-)

This is our first shoulder season with multiple owners so I'm looking for low burn out-put and user input!

Wish I would have had more time and $$ so I could have enjoyed it this last Winter.....oh well.
 
Burning less than ideal light and uglies at low burn, my glass looks like this after 24 hrs. Glass is clear after the burn off after the reload and I never clean the glass.
 

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SolarAndWood said:
Burning less than ideal light and uglies at low burn, my glass looks like this after 24 hrs. Glass is clear after the burn off after the reload and I never clean the glass.
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Not exactly sure what light and uglies is. When you say it's clear after burn off do you mean you can see through it but it's got a very thin haze on it or do you mean perfectly clear like it would be if you gave it a good scrub/cleaning? Any pics of the after burn off glass?

Thanks
 
53flyer said:
Not exactly sure what light and uglies is.
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All my wood is scrounged. I burn the less desirable stuff, not straight or less dense, when there is less heat demand. I have never cleaned the glass so not quite sure what that looks like. But, those shadows in the lower corners are gone after the burn off and there is no haze. You can always see through it. The pic I took is about as bad as it gets and if you look close you can see the cat enclosure through the top of the glass.
 
SolarAndWood said:
Burning less than ideal light and uglies at low burn, my glass looks like this after 24 hrs. Glass is clear after the burn off after the reload and I never clean the glass.
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i hear ya on the uglies i got probably a half cord of unstackable of some huge oak and some elm i had to just cut up with the chainsaw cuz i could not spit it by hand. But its heat so none of it goes to waste.
 

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i have a whole other pile like that one to.
 
Burn those uglies with pride, that big square firebox makes it easy.
 
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