Ashes forming hard, brittle clumps

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Augie

Augie

Feeling the Heat
Nov 8, 2012
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North Of Canada
Okay so I think this is because I have been burning scrounge wood that has dirt on it. My guess is that just like you can melt a glass bottle in a campfire I am melting the silica mixed in with the wood I am burning. I take it as a sign that I am burning at hot temperatures. :cool:

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Yup, looks like the stove is doing its thing.
 
Cool! I never knew what that crap was or that it had a name! Thanks for posting!
 
Clinkers . . . now if you could only get things a little harder and apply some pressure you could get your Avalon to start producing diamonds! ;) :)
 
I've noticed quite a few clinkers this year. Must be the wood.
 
Augie, any new updates since you changed out your fire brick? Longer burns?
 
Cash for clinkers?
Maybe that was clunkers..lol.
 
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