Pine Burners with a non cat EPA certified wood stove

[thewoodlands]

For those who burn pine with a non cat EPA certified woodstove how many times do you clean your chimney during the heating season?


Zap

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Zap, that all depends on the stove. All the stoves we had has burned pine with no problem. As for the chimney cleaning, that does depend a lot upon the stove. Our last stove was a hog and we cleaned the chimney a lot no matter what we burned. I recall some of the older stoves and we very rarely cleaned the chimney, but those burned a lot different than today's stoves.

As long as you season the wood you have nothing to be concerned with.

 

[Skier76]

First year with our Castine. I pulled the base plug of the chimney and cleaned it a few weeks ago. Now, again, first year burner with an EPA stove and I burned a lot of dry, but punky pine and had quite a few "boy that glass looks black" fires while I still learned. The only thing that came out was very light brown dust/ash.

As Dennis said...as long as it's seasoned, you'll be just fine. Just don't expect to get many coals out of the stuff. :lol:

 

[SolarAndWood]

Just don't expect to get many coals out of the stuff. :lol:

One of Pine's finer features. Throw a load in and it burns just about everything up in the bottom of your stove before you dump your ashes.

 

[fossil]

Once each summer after I'm sure the burning season's over. Some years the weather really fakes me out. Last year, after a few days in May in the 80's, I had my shop stove disassembled, waiting on firebrick to be delivered to my local Ace Hardware, then the temp plummeted. B-R-R! Anymore, I wait until July to do both stoves. I never do any sort of mid-season cleaning. Rick

 

[Pagey]

I burned four or five face cord of seasoned white pine last year, and it was some of the cleanest burning stuff that touched my Endeavor's fire box.

 

[precaud]

I burn pinon pine and clean once my chimneys once a year. Could easily get away with every other year. Easily.

 

[Bigg_Redd]

For those who burn pine with a non cat EPA certified woodstove how many times do you clean your chimney during the heating season?


Zap

Zero. The constant chimney fires keep it clean.

 

[stihltheone]

I clean mine every 3-4 weeks. I NEVER have to worry about anything then. Note, I run a BKK at it just idles a lot. I burn pine , and cottonwood as the 2 main woods, I attempt to get a 600 degree fire in the am to kinda clean it out a bit for 30 min or so. In 3 weeks, the top of the chimney is closing up a tad, just crusty nasty stuff. I can clean my chimney in less than 2 min, ladder is already there with the bush right there, just throw the steel catch bucket in the fire box, run up, brush, and take out the bucket. I just let it burn down to a bed of coals and go for it.

 

[Bigg_Redd]

I clean mine every 3-4 weeks. I NEVER have to worry about anything then. Note, I run a BKK at it just idles a lot. I burn pine , and cottonwood as the 2 main woods, I attempt to get a 600 degree fire in the am to kinda clean it out a bit for 30 min or so. In 3 weeks, the top of the chimney is closing up a tad, just crusty nasty stuff. I can clean my chimney in less than 2 min, ladder is already there with the bush right there, just throw the steel catch bucket in the fire box, run up, brush, and take out the bucket. I just let it burn down to a bed of coals and go for it.

You know you can skip the bucket and just reburn the chimney scrapings.

 

[myzamboni]

Once each summer after I'm sure the burning season's over. Some years the weather really fakes me out. Last year, after a few days in May in the 80's, I had my shop stove disassembled, waiting on firebrick to be delivered to my local Ace Hardware, then the temp plummeted. B-R-R! Anymore, I wait until July to do both stoves. I never do any sort of mid-season cleaning. Rick

Once. Usually in early Sept.

 

[madrone]

Same number of times as when I'm not burning pine. Once during the summer.

 

[ROBERT F]

I inspect the system every month, and average out cleaning it about every 3-4 months. Depends on how many times the MIL lets the fire smolder for hours.

 

[firefighterjake]

Well I'm not exclusively burning pine, but it seems like I've been burning a lot of white pine this Fall since I had two large pine branches come down last winter and it's like the proverbial loaf of bread and fish . . . it seems like I have a never-ending supply of pine . . . something my wife has commented on.

I treat seasoned pine like any other wood when it comes to cleaning . . . since I'm anal retentive and would never hear the end of it from the guys at work if I had a chimney fire, I check and clean the chimney monthly regardless of whether it needs a cleaning or not . . . since I do cleaning from the bottom it's a 10-minute "chore."

 

[billb3]

Cleaning the chimney ?

I must be doing something wrong.
When I look up/down there all I ever see is a tiny bit of grey dusty stuff.

 

[ChrisNJ]

After burning 8 cords last year, my first, we had a chimney guy come over and he ran his thing up the flue and pulled out nothing, saying it was clean :-O And I had lost sleep over that with worry of a chimney fire. I suppose it was clean due to my wife throwing wood in as fast as she can to make the house get to the high 70's during the day. I think we burn it too hot and waste a lot of wood but keep the chimney clean.

 

[Ratman]

burn the best wet hardwood and worry
burn any dry wood and relax