New subscriber. Installed a Class A steel chimney liner and a DS Heatright coal stove last August. Burned anthracite coal last winter after starting the fires with wood. Do I need a chimney cleaning? To put it another way, do you need to clean the chimney liner if you are burning coal? Do coal gasses get rid of creosote?
I’m not as familiar with coal burners. But I think it would be best to clean it yearly anyways. The inner liner will last longer if it’s cleaned in the spring and has some of the year without build up on it. Hope that helps
why not start with smaller pieces of wood then you wouldnt need to this goofy top down burn crap thats gonna take forever to get going and make enough heat to warm a house or cook a meal yall brag about 11 years of knowledge but it sure isnt showing
Just curious, why would you be going through more shear pins with an inverted blower than a rear blower? I don't know either, I'm wondering why people would say that. Probably buying one in the next week or two so, would love your feedback.
Thank you so much. This is very helpful for me. I am preparing my walls with cement board and stove board shields. The floor is concrete but I am adding concrete pavers for extra protection.
In regards to the clearances: If I put in a proper heat shield, does the reduced clearance still measure from the combustible wall or the newly installed heat shield wall?
Can’t see or understand how this would work in New England? We get a lot of snow and it often is wet. On asphalt with downward hydraulics I’m sure it’s fine, but on gravel, guessing you would be shooting rocks into the woods until the ground freezes.
A video on tiny wood stoves if you have any knowledge would be so helpful. I really appreciate your tips in this video. I’m paranoid of burning my grizzly too hot, but I can see it’s necessary. Also wood types would be helpful. I’m trying to learn how to identify all of the trees so I can avoid creosote. Thank you! 😊
I have a dwarf stove (tinywoodstoves) and it's the cutest thing ever, but it's been a tough ride getting it up to temperature because it's so tiny. I am green in this area, but am trying to learn...even so, getting this stove up to even a burning (clean) temp is tough. It's so small of an area that it's tough to get enough wood in there to get the fire super raging in order to be able to "tamp it down". But it's likely more of an operator error thing. :)
@@GottaLoveGoats thanks for sharing your experiences with me. I have found that hardwoods like black locust work best. I am currently using compressed hardwood bricks and they burn the cleanest and last the longest. I got mine at a hardware store. I don’t need to clean the chimney nearly as much and they are reasonably priced. They are too big to fit in my stove, so I use a chisel and hammer to break them apart. Hopefully I will find some smaller ones to avoid having to break them. It’s great having my mini wood stove, and I’m working out the kinks! Hope yours runs smooth! 😊
@@DebbieNobodyneedstoknow1 thanks for the advice! I will have to look into black locust. Anything will help lol. I do have some of those compressed logs, so maybe I can be more strategic with those. :)
@@GottaLoveGoats some wood burns long and hot. Anything with sap or that isn’t dry enough really creates a lot of creosote. Small rounds, basically two to three inch diameter tiny logs that are really dry work nicely. I feel ya in the challenge to figure out what works best 👍
Thanks for your video! I just cleaned my chimney for the first time. It’s a grizzly cubic mini woodstove so it needs cleaning more. I did notice some flakes in the chimney rain cap. Thanks for your tips! 💐
Same thing is happening to ours. We had 50 and have lost 10 already. They are out on pasture but we have 3 more weeks till processing. So discouraging. We will try removing food..... but it might be too late. We might not have any left to butcher at this rate!
Actually when something is dead, but fresh and doesn't smell, and it didn't died of an infectious desies hazardous for people you can eat anything, won't make you any harm. It's an other question if you have the stomach for it but won't make you any harm.
Thanks so much for sharing. This is our first time raising meat birds and went out and found a dead one. No signs of any issue last night so was shocked to see a dead one. I gained a lot of info from this and appreciate you taking the time to film this. God Bless. 🙂
Super-kool handy-dandy "long-tine" grapple. Wondering what "vintage" it is? Sure looks like those " miricale wonder " R14 tires almost immediately needed those tire chains; l keep mine on ALL the TIME over Turf tires. "CHAIN-DRIVE" is the way to go! Thank you Sir for the Excelent vidio and happy safe tractoring. Best wishes with all your endeavours.
Do you have an outside chimney? A chimney that runs out the wall and is outside of the house? Outside chimneys are cold and that causes a down draft. They can be hard to light and often the house will smell of smoke even in the summer. There is not much you can do to fix it, but maybe you have a small stove that is not the best on it either. So having a larger stove that will burn hot for longer will keep the chimney warmer and be less likely to start back drafting when it cools down.
Help... I just moved into a house where my wood stove is the only source of heat. Ive slowly been learning how to use it properly. I am having one problem that I just can't figure out. It has happened 2 times where i get woken up in the middle of the night to the stove letting smoke back into the house. I had the pipe inspected and was told that it is very clean. It is just odd, the stove has let smoke back into the house around 2 AM after the wood is burnt up and is all coals. Does anyone know what the problem could be?
Good information. One of the best I've seen. I have a wood stove insert in my fireplace, and the chimney has a tile flue. My stove also has a catalytic combustor (all steel aftermarket). I have a chimney brush that I pull down with a rope, but maybe a pole screwed onto the brush would do a better job. Cleaning the chimney is a dirty job.
When you enclose a flue going in the house as single walled, you can use calcium silicate panels and isolate it, and adding 1 top and 1 bottom vents will make your upstairs hotter.
I have some big concerns about my wood stove It’s only 12 inches away from the wall at the rear, no shielding and it’s dry wall. The wall gets hot to the touch. I feel the man that sold us the house had this thrown in to help a sale but safety wasn’t considered with proper distances and shielding
I sure hope you bought a heat shield, I got my umpire heat shield for my walls from tractor supply, since no one down here in Texas was buying them I got them both for 84.00 out the door 😁 yeah I had to drive 40 miles one way but at the price they are now I drove it! Search around it will save you lots and not warp your walls or burn your home down
I have exactly the same issue, the salesman came out to our place prior to install said they'd do it as per specs and it will be fine. Unfortunately when the fire heats up, it heats the gyprock wall and fumes start coming out 😣
