hearthstone heritage. secondary burn??

[WV Homestead]

i have just installed my hearthstone. i filled it up with 2 year dry wood. started the fire keeping the door open for 10 mins untill things were going. shut the door air intake full open for another 20 mins. slowly start to shut off air intake (about a cm every 5 mins) but when i get to about have way there is hardly any secondary burn just fire in the box. until i shut the aire intake to about 3/4 and then the fire starts to die down with hardly any secondary burn. are my tubs cloged?!? how do i check? ty all for your help

 

[shoot-straight]

Sounds kinda normal to me. My hearthstone was quirky. Heck, all stoves are! The key pieces to getting it to run right was really really dry wood and a key a damper to slow my draft. What's your chimney setup?

 

[WV Homestead]

its a straight shot 5 feet to ceiling and then 11 ft no damper

 

[webby3650]

Under seasoned wood and draft will play a big role in secondary burn. You do not want a pipe damper with most new stoves, and can cause additional issues with a hearthstone.

 

[WV Homestead]

my wood has been sitting for 2 years covered just on top. im not sur ethe stove is used it had been sitting in a barn all i can think is a mouse or somthing made a nest in the secondary burn tubes

 

[shoot-straight]

One other thing I thought of. My stove needed to be really hot before I could get my secondaries really going. It took seemingly forever for it to get hot BTW.

Is this experiemce from a warm stove or cold start?

 

[webby3650]

It's possible that the primary air intake has been clogged by mice. I really doubt the tubes are clogged though. Under the stove you will see a 3" hole that allows air into the stove. When the stove is cold you could blow compressed air through the stove from there, or maybe first try to suck with a shop vac.