Why does a wood stove ping and tick when heating up

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It's shameful to see a moderator joining in with the others to punk you. The sounds you are hearing are the souls of ancient, native people being frees from their woody prison. Expansion my ass. Ask yourself, have you ever seen a stove get bigger or smaller?
Damn right I have.
 
The sucking sound of it pulling air in through the draft.

The pings and ticks letting me know when things are heating up.

The smell when I don't pay close enough attention to the first too and things got a bit hotter than I like :D

The shadows the smoke casts on the ground as you're scraping ice off the walkway, and you look up to see the odd color smoke...just as your niece comes out to tell you the stove is really hot and you realize you're seconds away from a chimney fire o_O

The sounds of boiling creosote, and the sounds of the falling, dried-out creosote sloughing off the chimney walls as you stand there with the dampers shut tight letting the chimney cool off from a near fire.

Oh yeah, lots of information when you pay attention.

We're regular log-whisperers here. Sometimes the logs even talk back.
 
The sucking sound of it pulling air in through the draft.

The pings and ticks letting me know when things are heating up.

The smell when I don't pay close enough attention to the first too and things got a bit hotter than I like :D

The shadows the smoke casts on the ground as you're scraping ice off the walkway, and you look up to see the odd color smoke...just as your niece comes out to tell you the stove is really hot and you realize you're seconds away from a chimney fire o_O

The sounds of boiling creosote, and the sounds of the falling, dried-out creosote sloughing off the chimney walls as you stand there with the dampers shut tight letting the chimney cool off from a near fire.

Oh yeah, lots of information when you pay attention.

We're regular log-whisperers here. Sometimes the logs even talk back.
Good read and reply.
 

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