Dalmatian90
Addicted to ArboristSite
Burned probably 80% green last year.
As in I often was dropping the the week's wood on Saturday. At least 50% of that being red maple, a modest amount of ash, and the rest a mix of oak, box elder, hickory, and a wind fallen white pine.
Cleaned the chimney for the first time today.
About 1-1/2 cups of soot at the cleanout of the metal chimney on the outside of my house. More ash then creosote.
Almost nothing in the chimney. And most of that never made the bucket -- it was drifting away as dust from the bottom as I ran the brush up and down.
Now my stove for the time being is a cheap boxwood stove, which couldn't be less air tight if I hooked up a compressed air line to it. Still lots of times it burned cool for a long time trying to get the green wood going, lots of days I had it dampered down as much as it could just smoldering a few logs away.
BUT...most days it got up to a flue temperature of 600ºF once or twice. That probably helped boil off anything that had condensed in the pipe.
I don't recommend burning green but I can say green wood per se is doesn't cause creosote to build up.
(I do hope this is the last year burning green...I'm trying to get all of this year's wood at least dropped and blocked by December 1st so I can be cutting for next year the rest of the season. Debating whether I should buy a better stove this year if I keep commuting so I'm not home all day to tend it, or wait till I have a better wood supply before I try burning in an airtight stove)
As in I often was dropping the the week's wood on Saturday. At least 50% of that being red maple, a modest amount of ash, and the rest a mix of oak, box elder, hickory, and a wind fallen white pine.
Cleaned the chimney for the first time today.
About 1-1/2 cups of soot at the cleanout of the metal chimney on the outside of my house. More ash then creosote.
Almost nothing in the chimney. And most of that never made the bucket -- it was drifting away as dust from the bottom as I ran the brush up and down.
Now my stove for the time being is a cheap boxwood stove, which couldn't be less air tight if I hooked up a compressed air line to it. Still lots of times it burned cool for a long time trying to get the green wood going, lots of days I had it dampered down as much as it could just smoldering a few logs away.
BUT...most days it got up to a flue temperature of 600ºF once or twice. That probably helped boil off anything that had condensed in the pipe.
I don't recommend burning green but I can say green wood per se is doesn't cause creosote to build up.
(I do hope this is the last year burning green...I'm trying to get all of this year's wood at least dropped and blocked by December 1st so I can be cutting for next year the rest of the season. Debating whether I should buy a better stove this year if I keep commuting so I'm not home all day to tend it, or wait till I have a better wood supply before I try burning in an airtight stove)