I have had Douglas fir delivered, and have always burned it in my woodstove along with hard woods. I now have a HearthStone and buckets of bark, and I suppose that it would be fine to burn in my HearthStone stove, but I am wondering if it will affect the cat combustor?
burning bark in a cat stove
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If it's clean (all natural) bark, I think it should be fine.
However, bark can create more fly ash, which can clog up the cat, especially if you have high draft, which may well happen when you burn a load of (sappy, airy) bark
So I would mix it in with normal splits
However, bark can create more fly ash, which can clog up the cat, especially if you have high draft, which may well happen when you burn a load of (sappy, airy) bark
So I would mix it in with normal splits
I've found the bark burns ok with a hot fire, but it makes lots of clinkers, probably due to high silica content.
If the bark is in large slabs, they can make a dandy tiled roof for the wood stacks. I did this for a few years when we had big trees taken down on the property .
Yes, begreen! I use it to cover all the wood in my wood shed, and keep it there as the wood pile gets shorter.
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