cableman
Minister of Fire
Yup the intake is lower rear center, maybe 3x1 or soI was prepared to do that if things got bad. Looked up the Shelburne and found the OAK connection is in the rear center I think.
Yup the intake is lower rear center, maybe 3x1 or soI was prepared to do that if things got bad. Looked up the Shelburne and found the OAK connection is in the rear center I think.
I would think (guessing) that you would want to do that more gradually than just cover it all at once. I would wonder if the pressure might create a large backpuff that would be more like a backboom. Just speculating as I have no intention of doing it to prove one of us right or wrong. Snuffing out a regular fire is one thing, an inferno might be like trading one monster for another. Thoughts?I suppose we could have told you to plug up the air intakes. On my old hearthstone there was a single 3" snout for all combustion air and blocking that would have snuffed the stove immediately. Do you know where your intake is?
If that last fire got your attention remember to start cutting air a little earlier before the temps get too high. That tends to limit the max temp you will see. It's easier to stop a stove from getting to hot than to cool an already hot stove.
Really though it sounds like it was a good hot burn. How long did you get from that load?
Sometimes that happens where you can just tell the fire wants to take off and cutting air down in stages isn't the best option like it usually is. Probably had a nice warm flue and maybe the wind was pulling more draft. Any way sounds like you did good Danial San-I think that's what saved me. I shut it all the way down 5 mins in. It looked like it was going to be a hot one. But it got as high as 550 and hung out there for a while (Saw most of the Karate kid -- wax on, wax off).
Don't really know how long it lasted. I went to bed once it started going down towards 500 again.
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