HOLY CRAP.............

Gotta keep those hands nice for the job at hand. He is probably right about not keeping the door open so long. Door open too long means wasted heat as it all goes up the chimney.

in refueling my little jotul front load, sometimes i'll get one to roll forward but the andiorns keep it from rolling out. it does get your attention when one starts to roll though.

cass

GAMMA RAY said:

I watched my husband's technique last nite and he cracks the door for a little bit, when it catches, he shuts the door, goes about his business, and the mother burns like no tomorrow. He said not to stress over every single piece of wood, that it will all burn. I think I leave the door cracked too long? I am not messing with it anymore, I work with my hands at my job and you can't inject people and start iv's with stumps.......

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Good news, bad news . . . The good news is your husband is right about not stressing over the wood . . . eventually all the wood will burn . . . you're often better off just letting the fire and the wood do their thing once the fire catches and gets going . . . several hours later it will all be ash . . . learned my lesson a few times by deciding to add more wood to the fire or adjust things once the fire was going . . . sometimes with scary results.

The bad news . . . your husband is wrong about just shutting the door once the wood catches and going about his business . . . you really need to monitor the heat and then start shutting down the air control . . . again . . . learned my lesson not once, but twice when I got things going, left the air control open and took a "quick" shower only to come out to find the fire roaring and the temp in the stack really, really high . . . now I wait . . . and watch . . . or if I'm really anxious start doing small tasks like brush my teeth, shave or make my lunch . . . checking frequently . . . no 10-15 minute long showers to distract me.

I get chunks falling out from time to time and I sometimes move whole pieces in the stove around to make room or to get a better burn......no big deal.

I do wear welding gloves for each and every stove opening. My current pair must be replaced and soon, the right thumb is burned all the way thru. I'm getting used to them, I only grab stuff lefty now but for a while there I was burning my thumb every time. Gotta get a new pair!

Sometimes I have trouble getting that 13th piece of wood in the King, but so far, I haven't had a log roll out on me yet. :lol:

Yeah I have done that as well. It's deceiving with the cat and baffle that sit fairly low compared to the height of the door.