My wife and I had to run to Long Island, NY on Monday. We have made this trip in the past and it has usually taken us 11-12 hours. Our destination this time was a little further out and the traffic was terrible. I cleaned the stove out Sunday night knowing I was going to need to pack it Monday morning. I was up at 4am and after taking care of the animals loaded the stove up. I had one large split of Birch left and all the rest was Mullberry. The stove was up to temp and running so at 5am I finished shutting the air off. Woke the kiddos up and we were on the road by 5:30. When we got home a little after 8pm we took care of the kiddos and the animals; I checked the stove, red coals! After raking the few coals to the front I re-loaded with some more Mullberry and within less than 5 minutes we had fire. We've been very pleased with the T5. We've only had to do one re-start since we started burning in the beginning of Decemeber. We've been burning 24/7 right from the beginning.
PE T5 Stretched It Out...16 Hours Between Re-loads
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We've been very fortunate with wood this being our first year. Scored 2 months worth of black birch that was 2 years seasoned and the Mullberry I'm hoping to stretch the rest of the season is 10+ years old, c/s/s. Has been sitting in one of the small out buildings on the property.
Please explain how you start a cold stove stuffed with hard wood? I have never been able to start my cold stove with hardwood splits. I always have to start it with kindling (soft woods), then gradually add hardwood splits, one at a time, letting each one catch real good before adding the next one.
Begreen or Stonefly, your directions and tips would be greatly appreciated.
thanks in advance.
Begreen or Stonefly, your directions and tips would be greatly appreciated.
thanks in advance.
Although it looks like a cold stove, I think that is the flash. I suspect the fresh load of hardwood is on top of some hot coals. If you look a the first picture you can see wisps of smoke forming.
DonNC
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Does EVERYONE fill their stove that high?!
The book on my stove said to not pack it past halfway on the glass. Seems to me you'd be melting the stove by packing it like that
The book on my stove said to not pack it past halfway on the glass. Seems to me you'd be melting the stove by packing it like that
I read his first post where he states he cleaned it out Sunday night, then loaded it up on Monday morning at 4am. I just don't know how he could clean out the stove Sunday night and have it stay warm the following morning. Did I read that wrong?JeffT said:
Todd
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When shopping for a new stove, after much research and reading countless reviews, I narrowed it down to the PE T-6 and BlazeKing. After seeing them in person and in action, I decided on the BK. I think I made a wise choice, although either one would be fine. It was a toss up.Todd said:
When the firebox in my small stove gets too full of ash/coals, I shovel it out into a large pale, take it outside and sift the mixture through a metal screen. Then I put the hot coals back in the pail and bring it in and dump them back in the stove. Is that what you meant? But even so I would have to put some kindling or softwood splits on the coals right away after putting them back in the stove in order to get another fire started. If I waited until next morning, the coals would have cooled too much to start another fire.JeffT said:
Close but just rake the coals from side to side exposing the ash and leaving the coals in the stove.
I tried that but my firebox is so small in current stove (1.3cuft) that I have to shovel everything out and sift, in order to get most of the ash out.JeffT said:
This should be different in the BK. Can't wait
Yes that's the impression I got from every one here. I am very appreciative of this forum and all the members.JeffT said:
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dafattkidd
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That is amazing! I have a hardwood and a 3.2 cf firebox. i don't think i could get that kind distance out of 1 load. That is really impressive. I'm tempted to test it one day when I'm not home. That is really a fantastic feat of the stove.
Sorry, I should have been a little more specific when I said I cleaned the stove out. I removed the majority of the ash and kept the red hot coals. I do this with a small stove shovel by pushing all the coals to the back right corner of the stove and start scooping out the ash. I always lose some coals with the ash but there has always been pleanty of coals left. Once I've cleaned out the ash, which goes into a metal bucket then the whole thing goes into the snow bank, I pull the coals forward across the front of the stove. I leave enough ash in the stove to cover the rest of the stove floor with 3/4" - 1" of ash and we're good to go. Load in the wood, make sure the air is all the way open and away we go.
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