Sooooo yesterday was my first time buying compressed logs and I put about 4 or 5 in there and let it rip. The stove got to a really high temp with the vent all the way down and its still smoking the next morning. Defiantly do not like these logs and maybe in the future ill throw in 1 with wood all around it. Can't belive how long they'll smoke for.
Burned about 4 or 5 compressed logs :(
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EbS-P
Minister of Fire
Temp guage on the top of my stove in the middle. I have a drolet escape 1200 and seen the temp go up to 800, I've heard that small stove run hotter but im usually in thr 600 - 700 degree range.
The smoke all night and especially next morning is just horrible. My neighbour's are probably pissed lol.
The smoke all night and especially next morning is just horrible. My neighbour's are probably pissed lol.
EbS-P
Minister of Fire
If it’s smoking then it’s not hot enough to burn. I found I need a bit of a coal bed to use the bio bricks efficiently. My best results were mixing in cord wood and the bricks/logs. Once you figure out how many to mix in they will hold a bit of heat through the night. But give them enough air /space so they don’t just smoke.
What brand were these logs? Normally, once they are burning there is very little smoke.
My guess is that 4-5 logs in a small stove is too much. It is likely overfiring the stove. Try no more than 3.
My guess is that 4-5 logs in a small stove is too much. It is likely overfiring the stove. Try no more than 3.
I really dont know they were given to me beaucse the person knew I had a wood stove lol. When they were burning it was good, a little too intense but the flame looked great lol.
The fire was down and low at 8pm at night and I closed down the shed and went to bed. When I woke up in the morning I seen smoke coming out of my chimney after an all night smolder, I couldn't believe it. I went back into the shed to stir thing up and open my air intake to get things buring faster and man oh man did it even smoke again.
Never have I seen that using just regular wood, if I let the fire die down before bed in the morning there's no smoke.
Ohh and also when I went to go poke the fire to get things going again the compressed logs stuck to my poker making it really annoying to stir it up and the fire instantly went crazy again.
I have a few more left and my plan is to use regular wood like I normally would and add one of these things on top of everything just to get rid of them.
And they made my glass door dirty as he'll lol, not much of a fan of those logs yet.
The fire was down and low at 8pm at night and I closed down the shed and went to bed. When I woke up in the morning I seen smoke coming out of my chimney after an all night smolder, I couldn't believe it. I went back into the shed to stir thing up and open my air intake to get things buring faster and man oh man did it even smoke again.
Never have I seen that using just regular wood, if I let the fire die down before bed in the morning there's no smoke.
Ohh and also when I went to go poke the fire to get things going again the compressed logs stuck to my poker making it really annoying to stir it up and the fire instantly went crazy again.
I have a few more left and my plan is to use regular wood like I normally would and add one of these things on top of everything just to get rid of them.
And they made my glass door dirty as he'll lol, not much of a fan of those logs yet.
Something is amuck. Good compressed logs don't smoke. They often burn cleaner than some cordwood.
I'd use them this way:
- coal bed,
- 3 logs
- don't stack them tight together
- sufficient air for the stove.
For me and my type of operation compressed saw dust logs burn with less heat, but longer than natural fire wood.
After burning down the logs, I will burn a small quantity of firewood again, the the next round of logs and so on.
- coal bed,
- 3 logs
- don't stack them tight together
- sufficient air for the stove.
For me and my type of operation compressed saw dust logs burn with less heat, but longer than natural fire wood.
After burning down the logs, I will burn a small quantity of firewood again, the the next round of logs and so on.
Woodsplitter67
Minister of Fire
I use the Redstone from TS. My stove is medium and I only use 1 at a time. When the first one burns down some i add another. The OP is obviously a little inexperienced. I'd never start off with 3. Probably an over fire. 3 logs is most likely a 4 hour burn so I think something went wrong.
Sure it was a compressed log and not something like a duraflame? I use compressed logs in my stove once in a while. I bought a pallet of them 4-5 years ago as a fail safe and i have never really seen much difference again cordwood. Ive had 5-6 in the stove when there was 12 inches of snow and i was lazy. lol
There's different combustion technology in a BK stove than in a tube secondary stove.
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