Fire Thread! - Stoves, Wood, Axes, Chainsaws

We weren't home for a couple of days and one of the woes of a victorian with high ceilings is how long it takes to heat up. Despite 3 cast/steel rad's belting out approx 20k BTU, need some fire power to help out and it's toasty again.

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Mercenary Keyboard Warrior said:
Recommend tortises videos on you tube.


In other news, I heard a strange noise and thought some kids had a quad bike out the front so went for a wander earlier on.
Turns out it wasnt it was a guy from the parish council who was moving some of the logs I had my eye on.
He said he was moving some for the school who wanted some for a wildlife garden but we are fine to take any logs we want!

So tomorrow is testing day to see what I can move and probabaly more limiting what I can get home before erindoors throws a wobbly!
Also, have decided to light the fire so running in now. I am pretty sure the cement will be set.
All the guides I have seen say leave it a week, its been 10 days.
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Thanks I did watch their videos a bit before we got it, very informative channel and we ended up getting the Woodpecker because of their review.

The problem ended up being fresh wood, I've had a different load delivered from somewhere else that is mostly ash with a bit of alder, and all seasoned since March 2023. No problems reaching temperature now, I suspect what I got the first time was still partly green. There were bits that I'd split for kindling that foamed and sizzled on lighting which I don't think is right. So the fresh batch went all the way to the back of the log store to season and completely surrounded by the ash which was about 1/3 of the price too.


Question I have now is whether a bit of primary air to keep flue temperature up is normal? If I totally close the primary, the flue thermometer drops into the creosote region and doesn't really recover even if I open the secondary air all the way. We just end up getting cooked approaching 25C+ but the flue is apparently still forming creosote. But a touch of primary air still open gets the temperature back up and we can still regulate the heat radiated into the room downward with the secondary. Is that something that sounds OK? What's more important - primary air totally closed or the (potentially unreliable) flue thermometer reading?
 
I don't know why but we seem to be hammering the log store this year and it's not even December.

On a side note - Has anyone got a Husqvarna chainsaw 44 - if so how does blade come off - It's just come into my possesson and it's a lot older than my last one. I had a quick go at it with no joy so left it till later . Don't even know if it will run.
 
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corum said:
Never had one but Hasn't it just got a nut on the side make sure the brake is off. Undo and remove cover
Have a look on you tube.
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Not exactly a nut but I did get the side off - normally the blade is loose and you take chain off but this blade doesn't do that so can't get chain off.
It could be broken and sitting in shed for years and just rusted up.
Going to hit google again.
 
Yeah the bar should fall off.i would give it a spray with wd40 and a wiggle or knock. The bar should adjust in and out to tighten or loosen the chain.
Usually a by a screw on the outside of the cover
 
Filled the small log/kindling store on the porch.

Was cleaning / jet washing and tidying the porch anyway and it's a nice "feature" so thought why not

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So then decided to do a batch of kindling for the next week or so

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I also had a few small oak offcuts from some limbs I've sent to the local wood turner to have made into keepsake boxes so thought I'd split them down too to mix in with the kindling

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MR_Punk said:
Any tips of getting the corners of my stove glass clean, I don't want to use anything abrasive incase I scratch it?
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A hot / rolling flame should "self clean" the glass

Failing that,.spit, ash and newspaper works well or,.if you want something a little more off the shelf, these work well :) (sure you can get them cheaper too!).

 
MR_Punk said:
Any tips of getting the corners of my stove glass clean, I don't want to use anything abrasive incase I scratch it?
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You shouldn’t be able to scratch glass.

Stove glass cleaner is available everywhere here, but Cilit Bang and a washing up sponge so do the trick.

I’ve used those razor/Stanley knife blade scrapers before without scratching anything before, but my stove and fireplace inserts just have bog standard fire glass in them without any fancy coatings.
 
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