......your stove totally burns its load of wood (no bed hot coals in the morning).
Don't get me wrong, I love top-down burning - it's the "cat's meow"!!
But, when I wake up in the morning, and I am able to dig-up a decent bed of coals
to re-start my fire, top-down is out-of-the question - I need to build my fire conventionally.
Otherwise, I'm stuck scooping out a full bucket of mostly coals.
Doing it this way, I'm able to go for 3 days + between ash removal.
At that time, "top-down" is still the preferred method of "cold start".
Don't get me wrong, I love top-down burning - it's the "cat's meow"!!
But, when I wake up in the morning, and I am able to dig-up a decent bed of coals
to re-start my fire, top-down is out-of-the question - I need to build my fire conventionally.
Otherwise, I'm stuck scooping out a full bucket of mostly coals.
Doing it this way, I'm able to go for 3 days + between ash removal.
At that time, "top-down" is still the preferred method of "cold start".