With my wife working into the evening and me being busy at work, I have been experimenting a little with my stove. I'm trying to get the elusive 2 loads per day down pat without making the house too hot during the day but still have something happening in there at the end of the day.
My experiment sounds strange but I'm happy with the results. When I load the stove I'm grabbing one 4" round of green maple and buring it in the back of the box under and behind otherwise perfectly seasoned mixed hardwood. I have a bunch of this round wood as I cleared some small but very tall/straight maple and oak trees this past summer. Rather than dealing with it in my stacks I'm just using it one stick at a time and I am very pleased with the results.
At the end of a given day, 12 hours after loading one green round and three good sized splits the round is still there but it is now like charcoal. When I bring it forward it's still red and lights a fresh load right up. House temp is perfect.......I get a lot of solar gain between noon and 4pm so I want a low fire then. From 4 to 6 the heating is being done mostly by the soap stone as the fire is really just one chunk of coal. Works great!
Anyway, what is the opinion........am I going to gum up my stack? Anyone else do such unconventional burning?
My experiment sounds strange but I'm happy with the results. When I load the stove I'm grabbing one 4" round of green maple and buring it in the back of the box under and behind otherwise perfectly seasoned mixed hardwood. I have a bunch of this round wood as I cleared some small but very tall/straight maple and oak trees this past summer. Rather than dealing with it in my stacks I'm just using it one stick at a time and I am very pleased with the results.
At the end of a given day, 12 hours after loading one green round and three good sized splits the round is still there but it is now like charcoal. When I bring it forward it's still red and lights a fresh load right up. House temp is perfect.......I get a lot of solar gain between noon and 4pm so I want a low fire then. From 4 to 6 the heating is being done mostly by the soap stone as the fire is really just one chunk of coal. Works great!
Anyway, what is the opinion........am I going to gum up my stack? Anyone else do such unconventional burning?