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What can I say? I'm a work in progress so no promises (first year with EPA insert).
Yesterday tried starting off using some cherry and cedar of dubious provenance because the locust can be hard to start with. Sucky day, took acouple hours before things were rolling. Not that I needed a lot of heat but wasn't one of my better moments.
Today went back to the good stuff with good kindling and voila. I think I need to let the stove stretch its legs a little too. Not real comfortable with the high temps yet and I had a scare a couple weeks ago but the extra heat really makes for better action with the secondaries as you were just discussing in another thread.
In some ways I'm looking forward to burning 24/7 . . . in many ways it is far easier to just keep things rolling vs. starting a fire from scratch like I am now . . . on the plus side . . . I like the outside temps right now.
In some ways I'm looking forward to burning 24/7 . . . in many ways it is far easier to just keep things rolling vs. starting a fire from scratch like I am now . . . on the plus side . . . I like the outside temps right now.
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