goeduck
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What percent moisture* do you guys dry down to? We bottom out around 18% due to our marine climate.
*outdoor wood storage, not basement
*outdoor wood storage, not basement
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Gordon Gould
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I always figure that if I get half a 5 gallon bucket full or less when I clean the chimney things are good. I don't have a stove that requires bone dry wood. Just an air tight firebox with a damper control. Keep thinking it would be interesting to get a moisture meter just to see what I am burning but regardless of the reading I doubt I would do anything different. To me the 1/2 bucket rule and what the flue looks like glaze wise is more meaningful but I'm not up to date on stuff.
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groundcover
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Not just how dry it is but how hot you burn it . Dry wood that is damped down to a smolder will be building up creosote as well. Kind of like the new diesels, run em hot !
Sawyer Rob
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That's all I have too, just a fire box with a damper, with a stainless pipe that goes out through the basement wall, then turns and goes up...
Back when I couldn't get far enough ahead on my firewood I burned what I had, it just wasn't dried down enough. Those days I had creosote no matter how I ran my stove, but of course, I had more when I didn't run it hard.
These days, I don't have to run it hard to be creosote free, and what I do get, looks like completely burnt up ash just like the ashes in the bottom of my stove.
What I got out of my stove pipe on Saturday, I doubt would have filled a quart jar...
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I usually dry the wood down til it wont sizzle then if it gets to dry I spray water on it. Firewood that is to dry causes baldness....
Gordon Gould
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I fell it in the winter. Block it up, split it. and rough stack it in free air in the spring. Then put in the shed in August. It sits in the shed all winter and thru the next summer. Then it is ready to burn. So I am a year ahead and my shed holds two years worth. (Most years)
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robpm
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So it looks like you have a forced hot air furnace in the basement looking at the stairs etc. Growing up in the Lakes Region of NH my dad had obtained an old Sam Daniels wood forced hot air wood furnace and we burned about 12 cord of wood a winter. He had piped in a oil burner forced hot air furnace as well so that in the middle of the night it could take over if necessary. The house was over 200 years old at the time and it was an 11 room house and in the oldest parts it was a little breezy to say the least.
I just forgot to add one thing so I am doing an edit on this. The benefit of the hooking up the oil burner was that it was connected to the same central chimney. At one time we also had an additional wood stove hooked in to the same chimney as well upstairs. But the benefit of running the oil burner through the same chimney was that we never had any creosote so we never had to clean the chimney. At times we would burn some pretty wet wood as well.
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If you look more closely you will notice that he took a regular woodstove and built a heat collector on top. It achieves the same goal as what you describe though.
That's what you get when you cross a Yankee professional welder with the need to stay warm at the lowest price possible. :thumbsup:
robpm
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Yes it makes sense. New England Yankee ingenuity at its best.