east west or north south loading?

[RIDGERUNNER30]

before i purchased my stove i had already cut my wood 20inches for the stove i got ,but you can only load 20in splits east west, to load north south i have to have splits about 15inches long, I have burned both ways and to me my stove get alot higher temps on a north south load than a east west load, how do you guys like to burn? should i cut all my wood so that i can burn north south?

 

[BrotherBart]

Cut four or five one or two inch "runners" fifteen inches long to put n/s under the e/w load. That will light'er up. Or just use the poker and make a two or three inch channel in the center of the coal bed front to back before loading the e/w load.

 

[rdust]

I only load n/s, e/w just doesn't do it for me. The firebox on the Endeavor will load 18" either way but I stick with n/s. How much wood are you talking about cutting to load n/s? If it's the 7 cords in your sig. I think I'd be trying something like BB mentioned before cutting that much wood.

 

[RIDGERUNNER30]

thanks brother bart for the burning tip, that will get my stove the extra air it needs to get my fire up temp, I have got some small splits under the shed to do this with, I was sure going to hate having to recut most of my wood , thanks a bunch brother bart

 

[savageactor7]

We're NS burners and set in our ways so that's that and it's a #1 consideration in buying the stove. However your stove sounds like it was set up to burn EW so that's what I would do if it were me. BB has some good advice about getting some super charging air under the EW splits so try that out...way less cutting down to do.

 

[Fi-Q]

I hate Esat / West burning. And now, most of the stove are EW burner... anyway, I shop a lot and one of the reason why I bougth the stove I have now was because it's a N/S burner.

 

[Jerry045]

Hi Fi-Q; I thought that I was the only one from Quebec here. Nice to see you.

Jerry

 

[Fi-Q]

Hey Jerry045, Yep, I'm based in Gaspésie, Eastern Quebec, that'S where I pay taxes anyway... but I'm not there too often....... Oh, and how do you burn, East/ West or North / South

 

[Jerry045]

East-West Fi-Q; I know that you hate that, but anyway. I am been experimenting with the top down approach; and it is working for me.


Jerry

 

[Hogwildz]

Fornt to back here, nice and hot, plenty of air to make its way back for a more even burn.
East to West for me left too much coal & unburnt crap in the back.

 

[RustyShackleford]

I load EW during the day, because the BK takes longer pieces that way and
not all my wood is short enough for NS loading. For maximing burn-time
(e.g. overnight) I load NS, because I can get a lot more wood in that way.

 

[Ithaca]

With this cold weather I like to load N/S. I can get more wood in which gets up to heating temp faster and keeps putting the heat out for a longer duration. Also, I have a front loader and like not having to worry about logs rolling out with a N/S load.

 

[Jerry045]

I'll give it a try to the NS way, but not easy because of the length of my logs. I will see then if it is that different.


Jerry

 

[fossil]

E-W if I'm paying any particular attention to it, but since we're pretty "lazy" burners (toss a split it now and again during the time we're burning), I'd have to say that I'm really more of a SW-NE burner than anything else. Toss in some wood, maybe poke it around a bit, and get on with whatever I'm doing. Call me an Independent, or perhaps Agnostic, or maybe even an Apathetic on this particular issue. Rick

 

[summit]

this is why I love my summit: @ 20 in square firebox do it however U want... but i prefer n/s myself...

 

[drdoct]

N/S completely. I really don't see how y'all do it with E/W. But also I guess your firebox isn't so deep so it's not like mine where if I want to burn E/W I've got to stick a split back 18" over hot coals. Every now and then I may dump one back to make the splits level when I rake the coals to the front, but that's it.

 

[firefighterjake]

East West Burner . . . kind of have to do it this way due to the firebox configuration . . . it's not big deal. If I want a quick, hot fire I burn smaller splits -- usually softwood or poplar. If I want a long, lasting fire I use more and larger splits and rounds of the "good stuff."

 

[cycloxer]

EW. I also think the fire looks a lot better this way. I don't want to look at the end of a log burning, lol.

 

[Chargerman]

I have been burning mostly N-S but I had three 5-6" rounds of walnut that I burned last night and they were too long for N-S. I placed them E-W over a hot bed of coals and they burned quite well. I went to bed at 11pm after getting the fire going and the cat activated. My wife got up at 6am and the cat probe was still reading 500 degrees with the fan on high all night. Still had a charred round in back and a hot bed of coals in front.

House was at 70 degrees and it was 0 outside this morning.