@@scottcoleman7304 Its to make sure its dry enough. But if done correctly one spring can suffice. Depends on the weather and how its stored. So two years is to make sure. Drier wood give more useful energy when burned.
great advice for the wealthy and healthy . me , i am not wealthy or healthy and dont have the get up and go to do all that extra work for nothing . i always let the chimney burn itself out , never had a problem yet , its double bricked with a concrete lining that has no cracks yet . i usually use my garbage plastic to get the fire going lol . why waste good heat right lol . oh and by the way , you will know if you have a chimney fire just by the sound , it will sound like a locomotive , huffing and puffing . i remember doing and experiment relining a chimney , built a square wooden insert and dropped it down the chimney and then poured concrete down the sides evenly . let it dry the summer and come winter just let the wooden insert burn itself out . worked perfect . was just a bit scary from all the bs about chimney fires . if you have a brick chimney make sure the attic part and roof part are checked from the top to make sure no cracks . thats where fire might creep through and start the roof . and yet you have a better chance of wining the lotto then a roof fire . most times the pipe before the chimney burns /rusts out and thats where it all starts .
I have an EPA stove and during the day with the flue open it burns clean, but at night i put on a few big one and dampen it down almost 90% and it will burn for 5 hrs or so, it it smokes at the chimney when I do that. Don't know how to get it to go low and slow without smoke.
An EPA catalyst stove should never be burned with the flue open. The smoke must pass through the catalyst. Make sure your wood is dry. When you load the stove for night let it burn on high for at least 15 minutes before turning it down. Turn it down about halfway to where you want it and let it burn another 10 or 15 minutes before finally turning it down to the night position. Where that is will vary stove to stove. You have to experiment, but the key is not to turn it down too fast. At this point you might see a red/orange glow, but not flames. Note that during this process there will likely be smoke coming from your chimney. Maybe quite a bit. The fire is producing more than the catalyst can handle. But once you get it turned down there will be little to none. If it's really cold you might see some vapor going straight up.
Like I told Dan (below). Remember, hot is clean. Super hot is Mr Clean clean. I always get everything well laid out (small on the bottom bigger on top) and give 'er a couple squirts of boy scout water (charcoal lighter). Then throw in a match from about ten feet away. Let 'er snort till the stove is cherry red and jumping around on the floor. Then, I give 'er a couple more good snorts of the boy scout water and try to slam the door shut but it never will shut because the instant that boy scout water hits the heat from the fire it vaporizes and now you're playing with a diesel engine on the combustion stroke. But just keep slamming it till the glass breaks and then you got a draft like you wouldn't believe. By that time both the stove and pipe are red hot and maybe the ceiling too. Don't touch anything red. Make sure you got a fire extinguisher in one hand and a phone in the other because you're gonna need an ambulance. And some solarcaine. Lots and lots of solarcaine. Maybe two ambulances if your wife or girlfriend is with you. Don't try this at home or anyplace else. Unless maybe you got someone you really really don't like and you enjoy the sound of frying bacon.
Try using an airtight container for your ashes. Those 2 or 3 pound Danish cookie tins work great. When you have two full, dump them into a 5 gallon galvanized trash can with lid stored outside. This is safe even when scooping hot ashes.
Let's recap: 1. Use only the freshest wood; the sap acts as fuel. 2. Leave the door closed for the first few minutes and then open to create radiant heat. 3. If you don't see smoke coming out of the chimney, you're doing something wrong. 4. Glossy paper and plastics are ideal fuels and should be used whenever possible. 5. Beware of so-called professional chimney sweeps; they're most likely a scam. 6. Make the most of your living space by using your wood stove as a coffee table. 7. Always fill the firebox to capacity for peak efficiency. 8. Gasoline is a terrific accelerant.
gasoline is key. sometimes combined with Oil soaked rags, and make sure you get the fumes going by reversing your Vacuum cleaner and blowing lots of fresh Air into the firebox , this will ensure a quick start when you light the match from across the room.
Lets recap: 1. If possible, burn coal not wood. 2. ??? 3. Profit! No. Sap does not act as fuel. In most hardwoods (which are what you want to burn), the sap is water based which makes the wood smoulder. Even with wood that contains flammable resin, you don't get a slow, high B.T.U. fire, you get a quick fire where the wood is consumed quickly. This does not address the risk of house fire from that. As far as solid fuel goes anthracite coal>low-volatile bituminous coal>dry seasoned hardwood>everything else.
Correct ... Car Tires give the warmest Heat on a Cold December night , when snow is on the ground.. Steel radials seem to hold the heat better for overnight fires..
Jeff from Jersey PVC pipes are great, too. Nothing says "Christmas" like the cheery glow and aroma of a stack of PVC pipes burning merrily away in the fireplace. Great for marshmallow and weiner roasting, too!
That's how I've always checked it. I know guys who have fits worrying about moisture content, checking their wood with meters etc. All I really know is that I'm cold, and that's the wood I have. I like to use last year's wood, but if I'm out of that I burn this years! Since I cut in the spring it has at least dried over summer. Never had a problem. I clean my chimney once a year and never had any creosote, just loose ash and some flaky soot near the top.
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How to burn....? I tried very hard to avoid burning myself in or on my wood stove. When I was heating (?) a uninsulated shop in a upstate NY winter I used anthracite coal. Burned clean and very hot. I also used this coal under forced air for a forge. That fire was very hot. A friend filled an unused greenhouse with wet fire wood to see how fast it would dry. He controlled the vent fan with a humidity monitor. The wood dried in a few weeks, not months.
D Wetick fires always produce carbon monoxide. trick is to make sure your chimney venting is sized right for your stove..flue gas (smoke) after burning a second time in a hot stove above the baffle or in a catalyst, converts the carbon monoxide to other carbons and is vented out chimey top. its ok, just call a sweep company, cause you dont seem to know much about it.. dont play when you dont know the way. you wont last a day..🐑
Always have a carbon monoxide alarm/monitor in the room (but not too close to the stove, or it will set off when you open the door to add wood), and another in each sleeping area. Make sure door gaskets are tight. Close the loading door on a piece of paper about the size of a dollar bill in several spots around the door. Try pulling it out after latching the door. It should be very difficult to pull out. If it comes out easily, tighten or replace the gasket. If you consistently smell smoke or a smoldering wood smell long after opening the door to add wood, call a licensed chimney sweep to check the integrity of the chimney.
It depends. Most are now built in now. You can add bricks to your stove, it will retain it when fires-out and it will help at night too. Also depend on the stove, some are added to protect metal and create thermal-mass. Stoves without bricks burn hotter, but not constant.
This is like those user- written how-to columns anyone can write. How to make pancakes: 1. Gather ingredients 2. Mix ingredients together. 3. Make pancakes. lol.
Must cut to fourteen to fifteen inch lengths. Split no more than three to four inches across. Will not hold fire overnight. Have come out in middle of the night and found the fire out and unburnd wood In the firebox.
Burn Smart Program PGAQ #094 by Vic Steblin, Mar 03, 2009 Prince George, BC, Canada On Saturday, February 28, I attended the “Burn It Smart” workshop at the Civic Centre for the 2009 Wood Stove Exchange Program sponsored by the Prince George Air Improvement Roundtable (PGAIR) and various other organizations concerned about air quality. It was a useful and informative session, well-planned and very deserving of congratulations. I soon learned how burning wood properly is very complicated and expensive. Proper wood burning needs good equipment and has to satisfy a detailed set of regulations. The wood itself must be properly seasoned and stored so that the moisture content becomes less than 20%. There are vast differences between smoke production at various temperatures and a fire needs as much care as a pet. The difference between natural gas and wood is tremendous. A wood burner must be hard-working and conscientious to do things right. It seems almost impossible to burn wood properly. The only thing that I disagree with is that wood fuel is somehow free. Wood may seem free to the user but it is not free to the community. The health costs of particulate are long term and very expensive. I cannot see how any wood burner could continue upon realizing the hidden costs to others and the effort required to burn according to law.
Words of profound wisdom, Sir. Wood burning is very backwards. Wood burning is a great idea, but the reality is FAR worse than SINISTER. How can someone live while poisoning their neighbor`s children?
@@kamenridernephilim It is great to know others have come to learn what a filthy poison wood smoke and associated invisible fumes really are. Wood is a building material and a fuel for power failures. Spend a week in Anchorage or Dawson City during the winter. Cross your fingers that the damage to your health is only temporary. Get bummed out when you discover the damage is PERMANENT. Realize that Mr.Vic Steblin is a wise and learned fellow, indeed.
put wood on every half hour I don't see how not much sleep there that's all I got to say about it I took my in full to the gills last s about 8 - 12 hours endlessly green clean a chimney once a month and you're okay
Un fortunately, almost ALL "certified" Stoves are Square, so they need Fire Brick inside to keep the corners from splitting open. Fire Bricks block a lot of heat from going into the room, so, it goes right up the Flue. Round Stoves, (Made from something like, say, a large 16" - 20" Pipe), heat far more evenly, & need no crack protection, so they will put out far more heat. Because they are Round, the fire tends to fall into itself, making a much more efficient burn. I'd say the reason for all the square stoves is....Money. It's cheaper to mass produce Square stoves.
I have a square Jotul F8TD and it actually has the same type of cord or fireproof cloth that is around the door seals in each corner, the top and the bottom to keep it from cracking, It is cast iron. You do need to break in cast iron stoves when they are new with progressively larger fires followed by a complete coolong cycle. @@Hi-levels
that's funny. my fire place insert/wood stove was hand made in the 50's and still has original blowers but I can adjust the flue and air intake to make it smokeless. This is just smokeless for dumbies I guess.
no the stoves do not heat the way the older ones do making the person get up at 4 am or rely on the power company. This is lobbyist for the power companies.
you you had actually listened to the monologue, you would have heard him say that you can use a few sheets to start the fire ,but don't use the stove to burn refuse garbage paper. How would you start a fire?
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You do understand that cleanliness is a scale, right? That clean doesn't mean immaculate any more than cold means absolute zero? No, obviously you don't. Nuance seems a little beyond your ken.
Goodness me what an idyllic life some people live in some parts of the world. I'd love if possible to be able to 'Never burn garbage'....but alas some jurisdictions choose to show no worthy means to their citizens that would allow such citizens to dispose of garbage in a completely environmentally manner without a charge for doing so. If my local authority deem it appropriate to provide a community amenity site where I can dispose of my plastics free of charge, then I'll be delighted to take all my plastics there...until then, I'll use them to stoke my fire thank you...
Indeed burning plastic is a very bad idea. However, an even worse idea is suggesting that people that hate taxes or (Any size) Government are somehow not thinking right. That is akin to saying that forced theft is somehow supposed to be acceptable to a supposedly Free populace on the tax issue. And that it is somehow ok for one group of men to force their will on another group of men on the so called Government issue. This can only happen when men are slaves and are ruled over by masters. What you are suggesting is actually known as tyranny. And don't shoot the messenger if this is news to you, simply look up the actual definitions, which I did not create btw, and see for yourself. Actual Free men keep all that they earn and do not need to ask for permission or "By your Leave" from anyone. Slaves however have limited rights, and must do as they are told or face severe punishment.
Get a Blaze king, one of the very cleanest and the longest burning stoves in the world. A lot of what is in this video, although it is informative, does not apply to a modern catalytic stove. Forthcoming EPA regulations are going to doom all non catalytic stoves and that is a very good thing for anybody that breaths. ALL non catalytic stoves are horrid polluters at low fire as secondary burn can not exist at low temperatures. It must be over 1,000F to work. The physics of burning. Proper burning will always be very important with all wood stoves.
I see that we are on the same side! The EPA is out of control, ever enlarging and unaccountable. Stoves of the past (and perhaps a few of the present) wiped out expensive catalytic elements in short order as they were merely add-ons to existing stoves to clean them up. Many performed poorly and the controls had to be adjusted constantly. Fast forward many decades and, at least with the Blaze Kings, the catalytic burning system has been mostly perfected. The combustion rate is thermostatically controlled. If you to check out these stoves, you will be pleasantly surprised. I have used wood as the primary heat source for the past 46 years and have had several stoves. I have no connection with Blaze King and am just an owner of one. Fairbanks Alaska has become like the air in Los Angeles not from cars but wood burning stoves and they do have aggressive "smoke police". Here is the bottom line for wood stoves: Most stoves are operated 80% of the time at or below medium fire. If they don't, they were improperly sized for the house. This where secondary burn stoves commence to increase dramatically in particulates. An advanced catalytic stove's particulates drop as it is turned down-just the opposite!. A "cat" stove can burn 20-30% less wood for the same heat. Old stoves are "grandfathered". Hope this helps
Best way to start a wood stove. Get yourself a small Styrofoam cool fill it with wet kindling rap it in plastic iand lite your wood stove lol every one has the best way . The truth is , what works best for you . And if you dont know how to lite a wood stove , let someone else do it
the general advice here(sweden)is to season wood for at least two years.
that long? whats diff between seasoning for one full year compared to two full years in your opinion?
@@scottcoleman7304 Its to make sure its dry enough. But if done correctly one spring can suffice. Depends on the weather and how its stored.
So two years is to make sure.
Drier wood give more useful energy when burned.
In Germany too.
Wood should never be burned at all in any residential setting.
@@Bluesagebrush22 what the hell are you even talking about?
great advice for the wealthy and healthy . me , i am not wealthy or healthy and dont have the get up and go to do all that extra work for nothing . i always let the chimney burn itself out , never had a problem yet , its double bricked with a concrete lining that has no cracks yet . i usually use my garbage plastic to get the fire going lol . why waste good heat right lol . oh and by the way , you will know if you have a chimney fire just by the sound , it will sound like a locomotive , huffing and puffing . i remember doing and experiment relining a chimney , built a square wooden insert and dropped it down the chimney and then poured concrete down the sides evenly . let it dry the summer and come winter just let the wooden insert burn itself out . worked perfect . was just a bit scary from all the bs about chimney fires . if you have a brick chimney make sure the attic part and roof part are checked from the top to make sure no cracks . thats where fire might creep through and start the roof . and yet you have a better chance of wining the lotto then a roof fire . most times the pipe before the chimney burns /rusts out and thats where it all starts .
Oh, God, you're stupid. It's not for nothing. It's for getting more heat out of less wood. And chimney fires are reality, dickhead.
I have an EPA stove and during the day with the flue open it burns clean, but at night i put on a few big one and dampen it down almost 90% and it will burn for 5 hrs or so, it it smokes at the chimney when I do that. Don't know how to get it to go low and slow without smoke.
Honest Comments rr
An EPA catalyst stove should never be burned with the flue open. The smoke must pass through the catalyst. Make sure your wood is dry. When you load the stove for night let it burn on high for at least 15 minutes before turning it down. Turn it down about halfway to where you want it and let it burn another 10 or 15 minutes before finally turning it down to the night position. Where that is will vary stove to stove. You have to experiment, but the key is not to turn it down too fast. At this point you might see a red/orange glow, but not flames. Note that during this process there will likely be smoke coming from your chimney. Maybe quite a bit. The fire is producing more than the catalyst can handle. But once you get it turned down there will be little to none. If it's really cold you might see some vapor going straight up.
Good information. Thanks
Like I told Dan (below).
Remember, hot is clean. Super hot is Mr Clean clean.
I always get everything well laid out (small on the bottom bigger on top) and give 'er a couple squirts of boy scout water (charcoal lighter). Then throw in a match from about ten feet away. Let 'er snort till the stove is cherry red and jumping around on the floor.
Then, I give 'er a couple more good snorts of the boy scout water and try to slam the door shut but it never will shut because the instant that boy scout water hits the heat from the fire it vaporizes and now you're playing with a diesel engine on the combustion stroke. But just keep slamming it till the glass breaks and then you got a draft like you wouldn't believe.
By that time both the stove and pipe are red hot and maybe the ceiling too. Don't touch anything red.
Make sure you got a fire extinguisher in one hand and a phone in the other because you're gonna need an ambulance. And some solarcaine. Lots and lots of solarcaine. Maybe two ambulances if your wife or girlfriend is with you.
Don't try this at home or anyplace else. Unless maybe you got someone you really really don't like and you enjoy the sound of frying bacon.
How about getting your stoves air from outside? Otherwise its sucking outside air through windows and other air leaks in your house.
That's the British way.
See my video on heating efficiently with wood - my fireplace gets its air through the ash cleanout from outside the house.
Try using an airtight container for your ashes. Those 2 or 3 pound Danish cookie tins work great. When you have two full, dump them into a 5 gallon galvanized trash can with lid stored outside. This is safe even when scooping hot ashes.
use bank managers as kindling
Let's recap:
1. Use only the freshest wood; the sap acts as fuel.
2. Leave the door closed for the first few minutes and then open to create radiant heat.
3. If you don't see smoke coming out of the chimney, you're doing something wrong.
4. Glossy paper and plastics are ideal fuels and should be used whenever possible.
5. Beware of so-called professional chimney sweeps; they're most likely a scam.
6. Make the most of your living space by using your wood stove as a coffee table.
7. Always fill the firebox to capacity for peak efficiency.
8. Gasoline is a terrific accelerant.
gasoline is key. sometimes combined with Oil soaked rags, and make sure you get the fumes going by reversing your Vacuum cleaner and blowing lots of fresh Air into the firebox , this will ensure a quick start when you light the match from across the room.
Lets recap:
1. If possible, burn coal not wood.
2. ???
3. Profit!
No. Sap does not act as fuel. In most hardwoods (which are what you want to burn), the sap is water based which makes the wood smoulder.
Even with wood that contains flammable resin, you don't get a slow, high B.T.U. fire, you get a quick fire where the wood is consumed quickly. This does not address the risk of house fire from that. As far as solid fuel goes anthracite coal>low-volatile bituminous coal>dry seasoned hardwood>everything else.
I prefer to start the fire with old plastic bags & a bottle of diesel to get the chuncks of car tyre to give of a good heat.
Correct ... Car Tires give the warmest Heat on a Cold December night , when snow is on the ground.. Steel radials seem to hold the heat better for overnight fires..
Jeff from Jersey PVC pipes are great, too. Nothing says "Christmas" like the cheery glow and aroma of a stack of PVC pipes burning merrily away in the fireplace. Great for marshmallow and weiner roasting, too!
Green wood goes 'clunk', dry wood goes 'clink'.
That's how I've always checked it. I know guys who have fits worrying about moisture content, checking their wood with meters etc. All I really know is that I'm cold, and that's the wood I have. I like to use last year's wood, but if I'm out of that I burn this years! Since I cut in the spring it has at least dried over summer. Never had a problem. I clean my chimney once a year and never had any creosote, just loose ash and some flaky soot near the top.
Thanks! This was helpful. What's the reason for leaving 1" of ash at the bottom of the stove?
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@@pscleanair You took the time to say all that crap but didn't answer the question. ?
Optimum performance.
@@pscleanair ban me ban me!!!!
It protects the fire bricks and helps get new fires started more quickly.
Thanks for the tips !
Good advice
No smoke coming from the chimney? The heater is not fucking on.
How to burn....? I tried very hard to avoid burning myself in or on my wood stove.
When I was heating (?) a uninsulated shop in a upstate NY winter I used anthracite coal. Burned clean and very hot. I also used this coal under forced air for a forge. That fire was very hot.
A friend filled an unused greenhouse with wet fire wood to see how fast it would dry. He controlled the vent fan with a humidity monitor. The wood dried in a few weeks, not months.
IKEA sells great kindling.
I put hot ashes in my flower bed and they caught on fire! It brings up a new meaning to "pushing up daisies "!!!
13BRAVO REDLEG that statement literally makes zero sense.
@Matthew Telle and you're a racist POS. What's your point asshole?
"Yooouu might be a redneck if........."
i think that would help a lot.
How do you adjust the air intakes so no Carbon Monoxide is produced?
D Wetick fires always produce carbon monoxide. trick is to make sure your chimney venting is sized right for your stove..flue gas (smoke) after burning a second time in a hot stove above the baffle or in a catalyst, converts the carbon monoxide to other carbons and is vented out chimey top. its ok, just call a sweep company, cause you dont seem to know much about it.. dont play when you dont know the way. you wont last a day..🐑
Always have a carbon monoxide alarm/monitor in the room (but not too close to the stove, or it will set off when you open the door to add wood), and another in each sleeping area. Make sure door gaskets are tight. Close the loading door on a piece of paper about the size of a dollar bill in several spots around the door. Try pulling it out after latching the door. It should be very difficult to pull out. If it comes out easily, tighten or replace the gasket. If you consistently smell smoke or a smoldering wood smell long after opening the door to add wood, call a licensed chimney sweep to check the integrity of the chimney.
Do you need fire bricks inside the wood stove?
It depends. Most are now built in now. You can add bricks to your stove, it will retain it when fires-out and it will help at night too. Also depend on the stove, some are added to protect metal and create thermal-mass. Stoves without bricks burn hotter, but not constant.
Granny has some pretty nicely developed arms. Chunky but not fat or masculine. Go, Granny!
This is like those user- written how-to columns anyone can write. How to make pancakes: 1. Gather ingredients 2. Mix ingredients together. 3. Make pancakes. lol.
hardwoods being sold is not even close to being dry in most cases....green wood being most peoples issue causing creosote
You need to think ahead, buy next year's wood this year so it has time to dry.
2:50 Do as we say, not as you see us do 1:51 😒😒😒
How about a non certified EPA stove?
Must cut to fourteen to fifteen inch lengths. Split no more than three to four inches across. Will not hold fire overnight. Have come out in middle of the night and found the fire out and unburnd wood In the firebox.
WFMSWAS! I never knew that!
Burn Smart Program
PGAQ #094 by Vic Steblin, Mar 03, 2009
Prince George, BC, Canada
On Saturday, February 28, I attended the “Burn It Smart” workshop at the Civic Centre for the 2009 Wood Stove Exchange Program sponsored by the Prince George Air Improvement Roundtable (PGAIR) and various other organizations concerned about air quality. It was a useful and informative session, well-planned and very deserving of congratulations.
I soon learned how burning wood properly is very complicated and expensive. Proper wood burning needs good equipment and has to satisfy a detailed set of regulations. The wood itself must be properly seasoned and stored so that the moisture content becomes less than 20%. There are vast differences between smoke production at various temperatures and a fire needs as much care as a pet.
The difference between natural gas and wood is tremendous. A wood burner must be hard-working and conscientious to do things right. It seems almost impossible to burn wood properly.
The only thing that I disagree with is that wood fuel is somehow free. Wood may seem free to the user but it is not free to the community. The health costs of particulate are long term and very expensive. I cannot see how any wood burner could continue upon realizing the hidden costs to others and the effort required to burn according to law.
They burn to keep warm and because you are lying environmental fascist that uses government as your hired thugs to overly regulate peoples' lives.
What are they lying about?
Words of profound wisdom, Sir. Wood burning is very backwards.
Wood burning is a great idea, but the reality is FAR worse than SINISTER.
How can someone live while poisoning their neighbor`s children?
@@kamenridernephilim It is great to know others have come to learn what a filthy poison wood smoke and associated invisible fumes really are.
Wood is a building material and a fuel for power failures.
Spend a week in Anchorage or Dawson City during the winter.
Cross your fingers that the damage to your health is only temporary.
Get bummed out when you discover the damage is PERMANENT.
Realize that Mr.Vic Steblin is a wise and learned fellow, indeed.
put wood on every half hour I don't see how not much sleep there that's all I got to say about it I took my in full to the gills last s about 8 - 12 hours endlessly green clean a chimney once a month and you're okay
Matt Wilczynski you need bigger pieces and slow the burn down by closing vent or flue a little.
dont burn your junk mail!! buhahaha 😂😂
Un fortunately, almost ALL "certified" Stoves are Square, so they need Fire Brick inside to keep the corners from splitting open. Fire Bricks block a lot of heat from going into the room, so, it goes right up the Flue. Round Stoves, (Made from something like, say, a large 16" - 20" Pipe), heat far more evenly, & need no crack protection, so they will put out far more heat. Because they are Round, the fire tends to fall into itself, making a much more efficient burn. I'd say the reason for all the square stoves is....Money. It's cheaper to mass produce Square stoves.
So many ones are square without bricks will they have cracks in corners?
I have a square Jotul F8TD and it actually has the same type of cord or fireproof cloth that is around the door seals in each corner, the top and the bottom to keep it from cracking, It is cast iron. You do need to break in cast iron stoves when they are new with progressively larger fires followed by a complete coolong cycle. @@Hi-levels
that's funny. my fire place insert/wood stove was hand made in the 50's and still has original blowers but I can adjust the flue and air intake to make it smokeless. This is just smokeless for dumbies I guess.
no the stoves do not heat the way the older ones do making the person get up at 4 am or rely on the power company. This is lobbyist for the power companies.
I burn mushrooms only
I bought plans from wood prix and I made it very fast.
Nah, screw that, we're going to keep burning paper trash.
Question: How to burn correctly in your wood stove, saving money and reducing air pollution ?
Answer: Use a rocket stove...
Just like that.
I started with Woodglut plans.
They said not to burn newspaper, but they showed somebody doing it.
you you had actually listened to the monologue, you would have heard him say that you can use a few sheets to start the fire ,but don't use the stove to burn refuse garbage paper. How would you start a fire?
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good viedo good advice
3:00
Melissa0774 is only to starte
20% wont burn good
There will always be smoke.
You can make it yourself, just loook and learn from woodprix .
DUH!
"Clean" burning is that like a "safe" cigarette?
Desmodus your an idiot
Nah, bro. You're.
You do understand that cleanliness is a scale, right? That clean doesn't mean immaculate any more than cold means absolute zero? No, obviously you don't. Nuance seems a little beyond your ken.
I like smoke
Goodness me what an idyllic life some people live in some parts of the world.
I'd love if possible to be able to 'Never burn garbage'....but alas some jurisdictions choose to show no worthy means to their citizens that would allow such citizens to dispose of garbage in a completely environmentally manner without a charge for doing so.
If my local authority deem it appropriate to provide a community amenity site where I can dispose of my plastics free of charge, then I'll be delighted to take all my plastics there...until then, I'll use them to stoke my fire thank you...
Let me guess. You also most likely hate taxes and want small government. Others should subsidize your waste disposal? Will you subsidize theirs?
Indeed burning plastic is a very bad idea. However, an even worse idea is suggesting that people that hate taxes or (Any size) Government are somehow not thinking right. That is akin to saying that forced theft is somehow supposed to be acceptable to a supposedly Free populace on the tax issue. And that it is somehow ok for one group of men to force their will on another group of men on the so called Government issue. This can only happen when men are slaves and are ruled over by masters. What you are suggesting is actually known as tyranny. And don't shoot the messenger if this is news to you, simply look up the actual definitions, which I did not create btw, and see for yourself. Actual Free men keep all that they earn and do not need to ask for permission or "By your Leave" from anyone. Slaves however have limited rights, and must do as they are told or face severe punishment.
Do you love woodworking? Try the Stodoys plans.
Get a Blaze king, one of the very cleanest and the longest burning stoves in the world. A lot of what is in this video, although it is informative, does not apply to a modern catalytic stove. Forthcoming EPA regulations are going to doom all non catalytic stoves and that is a very good thing for anybody that breaths. ALL non catalytic stoves are horrid polluters at low fire as secondary burn can not exist at low temperatures. It must be over 1,000F to work. The physics of burning. Proper burning will always be very important with all wood stoves.
I see that we are on the same side! The EPA is out of control, ever enlarging and unaccountable. Stoves of the past (and perhaps a few of the present) wiped out expensive catalytic elements in short order as they were merely add-ons to existing stoves to clean them up. Many performed poorly and the controls had to be adjusted constantly. Fast forward many decades and, at least with the Blaze Kings, the catalytic burning system has been mostly perfected. The combustion rate is thermostatically controlled. If you to check out these stoves, you will be pleasantly surprised. I have used wood as the primary heat source for the past 46 years and have had several stoves. I have no connection with Blaze King and am just an owner of one. Fairbanks Alaska has become like the air in Los Angeles not from cars but wood burning stoves and they do have aggressive "smoke police". Here is the bottom line for wood stoves: Most stoves are operated 80% of the time at or below medium fire. If they don't, they were improperly sized for the house. This where secondary burn stoves commence to increase dramatically in particulates. An advanced catalytic stove's particulates drop as it is turned down-just the opposite!. A "cat" stove can burn 20-30% less wood for the same heat. Old stoves are "grandfathered". Hope this helps
Best way to start a wood stove. Get yourself a small Styrofoam cool fill it with wet kindling rap it in plastic iand lite your wood stove lol every one has the best way . The truth is , what works best for you . And if you dont know how to lite a wood stove , let someone else do it
i think there full of crap.
It's time for clean air agencies to stop helping the hearth industry to sell stoves. It's time for clean air. New wood stoves are not clean.
It's time for wood-burning bans in populated/residential areas.