The last two nights we've been below zero. I'm burning a pre-EPA Timberline, with secondary air mods. I'm also heating with pine, and that's it. Last night I loaded the stove w/ 3 decent splits, and 1 -8"round. 11pm. to 7am. this morning, and the stove and flue were both at 400 degrees. OK, a fluke I thought, yet I did snort and giggle into my morning coffee. %-P So the wife leaves at 10:30 am, and throws two splits on prior to departure( United Airlines employee), and I come home 8 hours later, and the stove is still 200+ degrees. I load it E/W with 4 splits, to slow down the air draw from the two "air control knobs"on the doors, hence a slower burn, and the darn thing has idled @ 675 for two hours. The flue temp. and stove are running almost equal. To me, this should not be happening with Pine. I'm not really complaining, but still- I've been going 24/7 for the last couple of months, and have already gone through a cord+. Is this an outside temp. thing? Kinda weird, but wonderful.
I THINK THIS IS ODD
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I would guess it is pretty cold where you are, but it is still warm here. The other night I had a 13 hour burn or three year seasoned pine. Obviously I had the air choked pretty good because it was warm.
I get overnight burns with pine all the time. Just this a.m. had plenty enough coals to have stove top at 300 degrees, blower fan still running, and loaded stove chock full o splits. They were up and running within 3 minutes. Thats after 8 hours of warm peacefull sleep.
d.n.f. said:
No doubt. My homebrew boiler has a 5 cubic feet. Small for a boiler but plenty large for a wood stove, which it is.
Most of the lore about pine around these parts comes from people cutting and burning dead fall and dead standing pine that is for all intents and purposes punkey. That and they think that because it will burn almost immediately that it is ok not to let it dry. Good tight grained pine that was fresh cut and dried properly burns really well and longer than it gets credit for. Especially that tight grained stuff you have that was grown at high altitude.
I've got just over 8 cord split and stacked. It's been in the wind and sun for about 7 months now, and my new-fangled, weather center chingus has been showing my R/H at about 23% during the days, uo to 60% at night. Some of it was dense enough to really give my 22-T splitter a workout.
Ryan pointed out a few years ago that high altitude wood grows a lot slower than low altitude wood of the same or similar species. That packs the growth rings much tighter and makes for a very dense wood. My pine and your pine are different animals.
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