brenndatomu
Minister of Fire
Yup, I agree, I've burnt plenty of boxelder and it's decent firewood...wish I had some now!
IMO it's main downfall is that it's a bit of a pain to process, kinda brushy and often twisty...the twisty makes it split oddly, and therefore doesn't make the pretty splits that stack nice... can be a challenge to get it all stacked in the stove and the door closed sometimes 😄
It can be dead n dry ready to burn often, or 1 summer can have it ready for sure...a live one would be decent in 1 year, superb in 2.
I've never run a Blaze King, but it sounds to me like they'd purr just fine on a belly full of BE.
And as for the cat replacement cost, unless you use the stove a lot more than you expect, or somehow lose a cat prematurely, you won't need one very often at all.
If there was a BK stove small enough to fit in our fireplace, I'd have one...but the Kuuma furnace does 99% of the work anyways, so our little Drolet 1400i is just fine.
IMO it's main downfall is that it's a bit of a pain to process, kinda brushy and often twisty...the twisty makes it split oddly, and therefore doesn't make the pretty splits that stack nice... can be a challenge to get it all stacked in the stove and the door closed sometimes 😄
It can be dead n dry ready to burn often, or 1 summer can have it ready for sure...a live one would be decent in 1 year, superb in 2.
I've never run a Blaze King, but it sounds to me like they'd purr just fine on a belly full of BE.
And as for the cat replacement cost, unless you use the stove a lot more than you expect, or somehow lose a cat prematurely, you won't need one very often at all.
If there was a BK stove small enough to fit in our fireplace, I'd have one...but the Kuuma furnace does 99% of the work anyways, so our little Drolet 1400i is just fine.
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