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    Help! Something seems wrong here...

    On my setup I put a collared hole on my single wall pipe so I can slide a manometer probe to check pressure differentials and make sure that my stack...
    Post by: jdonna, Jan 3, 2013 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    Help! Something seems wrong here...

    I have to agree, year to year I am making improvements on our home. Every leak, new window area insulated and sealed changes the convection...
    Post by: jdonna, Jan 3, 2013 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    Burn times idea for overnight burns

    I packed the fireview to the gills at 11 AM yesterday before leaving with 4 year seasoned oak. Came home at 1 in the morning to find a pile of coals...
    Post by: jdonna, Dec 25, 2012 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    Sawbucks and gang cutting for small wood? Time saver or annoyance?

    I like the idea of aluminum, but when you have in experienced friends or relatives helping out, it can make for hell on your equipment. When I...
    Post by: jdonna, Dec 24, 2012 in forum: The Wood Shed
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    Anyone else notice that cleaning out ash in Fireview results in noticeable efficiency improvement?

    Good tip, I will have to try that. I do not mind several inches of ashes, does give a longer burn time if you are not around to feed the lion....
    Post by: jdonna, Dec 22, 2012 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    Piano vs Stove & other questions

    I have an antique baby grand in my house, it sits near three windows and is 20 ft from the stove. Has not suffered the least bit. Pianos like...
    Post by: jdonna, Dec 22, 2012 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    Sawbucks and gang cutting for small wood? Time saver or annoyance?

    I like it! Waste none/want none. I have no shame in piling in a bunch of branch wood in my stove, makes for a good hot fire on the first load of...
    Post by: jdonna, Dec 22, 2012 in forum: The Wood Shed
  8. jdonna
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    Sawbucks and gang cutting for small wood? Time saver or annoyance?

    I borrowed a grapple bucket once and stacked a huge pile in front my garage and lined up the ends even and climbed the stack and went at it for a...
    Post by: jdonna, Dec 12, 2012 in forum: The Wood Shed
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    Oak wilt/oak decline question

    This summers drought has been tough on the mature trees. I have a 5 foot diameter red oak that was lost half its top in a 90 mph wind storm 7 years...
    Post by: jdonna, Dec 12, 2012 in forum: The Wood Shed
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    Oak wilt/oak decline question

    alb has not been a problem around here.
    Post by: jdonna, Dec 12, 2012 in forum: The Wood Shed
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    Oak wilt/oak decline question

    So I have been in desperation mode to get the wood supply ahead again. Friend called up and said he had 3 red oaks dropped and cut up in the cities...
    Thread by: jdonna, Dec 11, 2012, 7 replies, in forum: The Wood Shed
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    Anyone burn cottonwood in a cat stove?

    Good to know. Off to the spillter I go. My fishing buddy keeps rubbing it in my face that the power company dropped off 4 semi loads of wood. I...
    Post by: jdonna, Nov 29, 2012 in forum: The Wood Shed
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    Runaway in the Endeavor

    Maybe you didn't have run aways earlier because of warmer air temps and less draft. When I was running my oakwood and having a tall stack, using a...
    Post by: jdonna, Nov 27, 2012 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    Fireview Air Settings

    Mines packed to the roof right now with two good splits and a bunch of ugly rounds. .75 air and cruising at 570 degrees. :) I was intimidated at...
    Post by: jdonna, Nov 27, 2012 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    Anyone burn cottonwood in a cat stove?

    South Centeral MN, not far from Kato.
    Post by: jdonna, Nov 27, 2012 in forum: The Wood Shed
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    Fireview Air Settings

    That actually happened last night, loaded up for an all night burn, flames died, cat was chewing up smoke and whoop, had a back puff. My air was set...
    Post by: jdonna, Nov 26, 2012 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    Will fixing these help draft?

    Looks like the local hardware store or big box stove pipe. I'd take it off and roll it on your knee or squeeze it by hand until it is close as you...
    Post by: jdonna, Nov 25, 2012 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    Anyone burn cottonwood in a cat stove?

    Good to hear. It was either push it in the burn pile or process it! Surprised to hear the colder than Minnesota Alaskans are burning it as...
    Post by: jdonna, Nov 25, 2012 in forum: The Wood Shed
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    Anyone burn cottonwood in a cat stove?

    Good idea on using it during the day time. I was thinking of splitting the larger rounds into 8-9 in pieces, maybe it won't out gas so fast. I'll...
    Post by: jdonna, Nov 25, 2012 in forum: The Wood Shed
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    Anyone burn cottonwood in a cat stove?

    Just took down a large cotton wood that was too close to the farm house. Probably 3 cords worth. Anyone burn cotton wood in a cat stove? How long...
    Thread by: jdonna, Nov 25, 2012, 11 replies, in forum: The Wood Shed
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