Setting the stage:
After an overnight burn of 7 hours I was left with just a small bed of coals in the morning. I stacked four small splits around, it dropped a handfull or two of wood sweepings (I don't throw the floor mess away I put it in a pail and use it) and then put a couple more splits accross the top. In about two minutes I had a nice little fire and my stack temp was up at 500 already so I put in a nice size split, and dialed the air back as low as it would go. For about 3 minutes I had an incredible reburn comming out the airflow of the roof and then it setteled down to a nice hot glow of red with no flame.
This is where it gets interesting:
I am sitting in my chair right in front of it working on my laptop and can see in the stove over the top of the screen (Thats what I call working from home) Anyway the nice red glow has been going on for about 10 minutes when the stove FLASHED. I have seen a fire flash before but never inside of a stove and it flashed so hard that I heard a little bit of air get pushed out through the door with a short squeak, and it was then confirmed with that lovely telltale aroma of a wood fire. It was very cool, the entire inside of the stove was on fire, but only for about a half a second and then it settled back into just a small flame here and there.
After an overnight burn of 7 hours I was left with just a small bed of coals in the morning. I stacked four small splits around, it dropped a handfull or two of wood sweepings (I don't throw the floor mess away I put it in a pail and use it) and then put a couple more splits accross the top. In about two minutes I had a nice little fire and my stack temp was up at 500 already so I put in a nice size split, and dialed the air back as low as it would go. For about 3 minutes I had an incredible reburn comming out the airflow of the roof and then it setteled down to a nice hot glow of red with no flame.
This is where it gets interesting:
I am sitting in my chair right in front of it working on my laptop and can see in the stove over the top of the screen (Thats what I call working from home) Anyway the nice red glow has been going on for about 10 minutes when the stove FLASHED. I have seen a fire flash before but never inside of a stove and it flashed so hard that I heard a little bit of air get pushed out through the door with a short squeak, and it was then confirmed with that lovely telltale aroma of a wood fire. It was very cool, the entire inside of the stove was on fire, but only for about a half a second and then it settled back into just a small flame here and there.