We emphasized the need for burning seasoned wood at the Decathlon Q&A session. There needs to be a much wider audience for this message.
Cut down some poplar. It's yellowish green inside.
We emphasized the need for burning seasoned wood at the Decathlon Q&A session. There needs to be a much wider audience for this message.
I was sitting next to you and blamed it on the manufacturers, and lived.
And the whole time they are telling you this on their iPhone while driving down the road in their 40 MPG car and wanting to end the call so they can turn the sat radio back up.
We guarantee all our wood sold is less than 20% moisture content which we achieve by the use of solar kilns.
Those who burn wet timber end up with stoves full of tar which can lead to chimney fires.
On this side of the ocean , we have lots of people who like to blame creosote on softwoods like pine (nonsense).
Or who like to blame creosote on the failure of their new-fangled stoves to work properly (nonsense).
Some, to prevent accidental chimney fires from surprising them, choose to periodically clean their flues with on-purpose chimney fires.
We even have a few people who actually burn seasoned wood. But not (other than myself) in my immediate neighborhood. And I myself only learned what REAL seasoned wood was by coming to hearth.com a few years back. For me and everyone I knew, having wood season for over a year (let alone six months) only happened by accident!
Dont want to get hung up about drying times but we achieve below 20% moisture content in our solar kilns in less than 3 months during the summer and 6 months during the winter.
the trick is getting folks to understand that need for dry wood to get proper performance for just the reasons you noted.
if we made the manuals out of fireproof paper we'd probably get quite a few back claiming "couldnt get the first fire started"
It like the guy who brought his chainsaw back to the shop because he finally decided it wasn't cutting to his expectations or satisfaction: the dealer starts it up and the guy jumps back and says, "What's that noise!?"
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