Cleaning up the shop getting ready for some cabinet projects means a couple stove loads of nice dry pine cutoffs. Saw this this morning. Stove was "warm", but several pcs were not. Creosote - in real time - dripping off, very noticable, and very much creosote like. And in a couple minutes, a nice calm flame front consuming it all back again. That's it. I thought that was kind of interesting. It didn't seem very castrofic, just the opposite. (It also wasn't 1/4" thick and glazed either).
Just as an aside, I'm also a beekeeper, and beekeepers use "smokers" - a stainless tube, fueled by cardboard and wood pellets, and can, if done right (or wrong) can produce huge amounts of creosote. Inside, outside, draining down the sides, sticky and full of it. And if I pump the bellows good and hard, or take a torch to it, I could watch a mini chimney fire everyday if I wanted. Nice flame front, crackles an sizles a little, take a wire brush to it, the thing is20yrs old and good as new. Not really, but doesn't seem worse for wear by removing the liquid creosote. What I realize though, is that this stuff goes on all the time inside my stove pipe, sight unseen, and nothing to indicate it unless visible through the front glass (or like in the other case on the outside of a smoker). The chimney pipe here brushes out clean every year with little to no creosote buildup, but I'm not wondering where all the creosote goes from cool startups.
Just as an aside, I'm also a beekeeper, and beekeepers use "smokers" - a stainless tube, fueled by cardboard and wood pellets, and can, if done right (or wrong) can produce huge amounts of creosote. Inside, outside, draining down the sides, sticky and full of it. And if I pump the bellows good and hard, or take a torch to it, I could watch a mini chimney fire everyday if I wanted. Nice flame front, crackles an sizles a little, take a wire brush to it, the thing is20yrs old and good as new. Not really, but doesn't seem worse for wear by removing the liquid creosote. What I realize though, is that this stuff goes on all the time inside my stove pipe, sight unseen, and nothing to indicate it unless visible through the front glass (or like in the other case on the outside of a smoker). The chimney pipe here brushes out clean every year with little to no creosote buildup, but I'm not wondering where all the creosote goes from cool startups.
