11/21/12, 11:35 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: IL, right smack dab in the middle
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Originally Posted by haypoint
The most efficient burning of wood does require UNLIMITED air, you are correct. Problem in application is that most of that heat is drawn out the smoke stack and that suction pulls the house's heat into the stove's air intake. Net result is a hot stove pipe and a cold house..
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Id say that would be a poorly designed stove. One of the things I like about the russian style stoves is that they capture so much of the heat from a fire and generate so little cresote..
My own stove that I built from a truck fuel tank Includes a Good smoke shelf .Basically there is a divider between the lower stove and the upper stove so that no mater where the heat is in the firebox it has to go to the far end of the stove then flow along the Entire flat upper surface of the stove BEFORE going up the stove pipe. That seems to scavange MOST of the heat.
Because I scavanged a commercial door with glass in it for the side(the GF wanted to see the fire) It does not have the ability to shut off the intake of air. The damper in the pipe does a good job of controlling the burn If I need to with no smoke backing out of the stove.
BUT like the Op You have to learn to build the right fire.
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