leaf blower

[bull]

does anyone use the leaf blower trick for wood burning stoves if so please explain thanks. not pellet stoves

 

[LLigetfa]

Is that for emptying the ashes?

 

[Todd]

Cleaning the chimney? I sorta did it last year but I ran a brush down first. I told the wife to go outside and see if anything came out and there was a pretty good black dust cloud.

 

[BrotherBart]

Cleaning the chimney? I sorta did it last year but I ran a brush down first. I told the wife to go outside and see if anything came out and there was a pretty good black dust cloud.

Bet that sounded just grand in the house. :lol:

 

[LLigetfa]

Maybe they shove the leaf blower into the OAK inlet to turbocharge the combustion air so they can get wet wood to burn.

 

[littlesmokey]

You know I have followed several of the threads on the Pellet forum, and I don't get it. Besides creating a mess outside, you run the risk of screwing up the snap switches and baffles and dampers etc. I think it might be a trick, but I would like to know if the motor failure rate is greater if you do it. The advocates won't answer that question. As far as a woodstove goes, WHY? it doesn't need the level of cleanliness a Pellet Stove needs to operate. There seems to be no advantage if you maintain your stove and the downside is really mad neighbors for spewing all that stove crap on their property. I get enough flack from one of my neighbors who thinks I am covering his car with ash. I buy him off with a carwash three or four times a year. It's still friendly.

 

[BrotherBart]

I get enough flack from one of my neighbors who thinks I am covering his car with ash. I buy him off with a carwash three or four times a year. It's still friendly.

I love what Eric Johnson's dad says. "You want your creosote to end up on your neighbor's car. Not in your chimney.".