Tis the season

[Mainewoodchucker]

Well, been burning since October and looking like it will be another year of wood gobbling . Woke up to 3 degrees the other day and forecast is for single digits with highs in the low 30s .

Had a bunch of limb cuts and kiln dried pallet wood stacked up for early season but am already chucking big stuff in the stove . Have been using some Canawick bricks mixed in also . Great to get the fire going and stove up to temp .

The one thing that gets me about this stove is having a stovetop temp at 650 but flue temp just 2 feet up only 320 to 350 . Rare to get it to hit 400 . Using both temp guages and laser gun , so know that the temps are correct . Thought I would have a creosote problem with flue temps like that but only got a large foldgers can of fine fluffy ash when I did my pre startup cleaning .

As per all the suggestions here , I am heading back out into the woods to drop trees for 2016 through 2018 . Trying to stay 2 years ahead . If it will be a " normal" winter I should not have to dig into next years wood like I did last year . Going to add 1 or 2 cord to each years piles from now on , lol .

Hoping to get far enough ahead to swap out to a a BK Princess .

 

[nvanhar]

Curious how many cords you went through and what's your sq feet? This is my first year burning and I'm anxious about how much we might use.

 

[Grisu]

The one thing that gets me about this stove is having a stovetop temp at 650 but flue temp just 2 feet up only 320 to 350 . Rare to get it to hit 400 .

If that is single wall pipe the internal temp is about twice as much at 600 to 800 F. That's pretty good as you only need to stay above 250 F to keep water vapors from condensating on the flue walls. Only getting white, powdery stuff indicates a clean burn.

 

[Mainewoodchucker]

nvanhar , I heat a 14x70 trailer with 2x4 walls and some of the original windows . And the stove os located in a 18x20 addition with 9 1/2 foot cieling . Around 1350 sq feet . Went through over 4 cord last year . But it was a brutal year for cold . Grisu , are you saying at 350 eternal on my single wall pipe it is actually much higher inside the pipe ? Just wondering because many times the stove will cruise at 400 and the pipe temp is only 250 or so . Only way to get it into the so called burn zone on the temp gauge is to run 600 plus . Does seem to burn clean. Never see smoke at the stack unless stating up . Just heat waves .