If there are no levers but for draft. How does the secondary work? It just burns and doesn't reburn till up to temp?
Bub381 said:So this is just secondary air it's not a reburn like as say a cat works?
Even Oak split small will dry out quicker than many say, single rows in the wind and sun plus as much time in the warmer months will get you useable wood, some of the people on here might give you the wrong ideas about how dry you can get your wood in one long summer.Bub381 said:Been drying a couple weeks. Very open here, windy and no shade near piles.Maple and softwood so far. Need a couple more cord of hardwood to dry SOON.
firefighterjake said:I suppose you can go by BeGreen and others' explanations of how secondary burns work or you can believe me . . . it works by pixie magic . . . invisible magical Norwegian pixies who can survive the high heat of the stove (their natural environment where they are caught is the Beerenberg Volcano) use their pixie magic when you are able to bring the stove up to a certain temp . . . once brought up to temp you cut back the oxygen flowing into the stove and the oxygen deprivation causes a sort of hallucinogenic high in the pixies and they end up passing fireballs out of their bums . . . since they are so small we cannot see these individual fireballs . . . to you and I they simply look like a secondary burn . . . sometimes the view is a lot like the Northern Lights as the flames at the top just look lazy . . . other times (especially if the pixies have had a lot of baked beans) it looks like a portal to Hell has opened up in the stove.
And there you have it . . . you can either believe all those other guys with their fancy schmancy explanations of how secondary burns work . . . or you can believe my explanation about magical pixies.
Mt Ski Bum said:firefighterjake said:I suppose you can go by BeGreen and others' explanations of how secondary burns work or you can believe me . . . it works by pixie magic . . . invisible magical Norwegian pixies who can survive the high heat of the stove (their natural environment where they are caught is the Beerenberg Volcano) use their pixie magic when you are able to bring the stove up to a certain temp . . . once brought up to temp you cut back the oxygen flowing into the stove and the oxygen deprivation causes a sort of hallucinogenic high in the pixies and they end up passing fireballs out of their bums . . . since they are so small we cannot see these individual fireballs . . . to you and I they simply look like a secondary burn . . . sometimes the view is a lot like the Northern Lights as the flames at the top just look lazy . . . other times (especially if the pixies have had a lot of baked beans) it looks like a portal to Hell has opened up in the stove.
And there you have it . . . you can either believe all those other guys with their fancy schmancy explanations of how secondary burns work . . . or you can believe my explanation about magical pixies.
So how about say Lopi/Avalon stoves... do they use pixies caught in the Cascade volcanos since they're made in Washington?
My Oslo heats my home said:I like the Pixie majic idea, I wonder if you've been smoking any of that dust Jake?
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