Dalmatian90
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It's a boxwood stove. It'll burn anything, just a lot of it. Once you get the fire going.
Take your remaining best wood and split it small -- two, maybe three inches across. Stack it inside to finish force seasoning it. Use a few pieces to get the green stuff going. Bring in a couple days supply of green wood at a time...a couple days, a couple weeks won't make a difference once you get to splits that are the largest you can handle comfortably with one hand. Some scrap lumber for kindling to get the small splits going to get the big stuff going works really well too.
The stoves were never airtight to begin with. Go looking through photos of the Civilian Conservation Corps from the 1930s, you'll often see these stoves in the buildings -- burning wood they cut that year when they built the camp. With a short chimney, you don't get much of creosote build up because they're shoving a god awful amount of heat and air up the chimney so the creosote never gets a chance to condense out of the smoke.
Burning green wood became a major fire hazard with the airtight stoves of the 1970s that reduced the airflow and gave the smoke plenty of time to linger in the chimney as the fire smouldered away.
Since EPA stoves came out, the boxwoods legal to sell have been designed deliberately to use so much air they qualify as fireplaces and not woodstoves under the regulations.
When you can get ahead and have seasoned wood supply built up and can switch to an EPA stove, the improvement in efficiency should cut your wood useage in half, with longer burn times per load.
Take your remaining best wood and split it small -- two, maybe three inches across. Stack it inside to finish force seasoning it. Use a few pieces to get the green stuff going. Bring in a couple days supply of green wood at a time...a couple days, a couple weeks won't make a difference once you get to splits that are the largest you can handle comfortably with one hand. Some scrap lumber for kindling to get the small splits going to get the big stuff going works really well too.
The stoves were never airtight to begin with. Go looking through photos of the Civilian Conservation Corps from the 1930s, you'll often see these stoves in the buildings -- burning wood they cut that year when they built the camp. With a short chimney, you don't get much of creosote build up because they're shoving a god awful amount of heat and air up the chimney so the creosote never gets a chance to condense out of the smoke.
Burning green wood became a major fire hazard with the airtight stoves of the 1970s that reduced the airflow and gave the smoke plenty of time to linger in the chimney as the fire smouldered away.
Since EPA stoves came out, the boxwoods legal to sell have been designed deliberately to use so much air they qualify as fireplaces and not woodstoves under the regulations.
When you can get ahead and have seasoned wood supply built up and can switch to an EPA stove, the improvement in efficiency should cut your wood useage in half, with longer burn times per load.
