HOW TO BURN FIREWOOD EFFICIENTLY - WOOD STOVE TIPS

[@thisismine1426]

Hi Anthony, thanks for the invaluable information regarding woodburner stoves. That may help fix my shop stove warming techniques for the next season. Happy Spring!

[@OntarioFirewoodResource]

We all have learned how to burn wood, but those technicalities add up!

[@colleensfarmadventures4176]

Good tips there Anthony!! I use a dry chunk of fence post to lean my kindling on so air can get to it underneath. I’m sure the environmentalist would approve!!🤣🪵🤪

[@OntarioFirewoodResource]

Gotta love those watermelons! I bring my kindling into the shop so it has plenty of time to dry even though it's damp and cold for many days of the year

[@adventurerhoades]

Big box stove that's nice. Good tips watching full play full burn. Stay warm.

[@OntarioFirewoodResource]

I scored this stove through my scrap business! Nice temps this week. Have a good day

[@pyroman6000]

Nice advice! Im partial to newspaper, oily paper towels, and empty cardboard tubes as tinder. Noodles too. I always collect dead sticks to use as kindling, and suppliment with spruce or poplar split into pencil sticks, and splitting debris. Works like a charm. If the wood isnt fully seasoned, ill add a nice piece of spruce/ pine to the initial fire lay, and use say soft maple as the first real wood i put on- after the kindling is going good. I burn outdoors in a grill, so creosote is not an issue. I personally like a variety of woods on hand, but use what you have. It all birns. Hard, dense stuff should go on later, once you have a hot fire, to avoid having it bank down and smolder and smoke. My preference is for varieties that i think smell good. Next is for stuff that burns nicely for the purpose. (Campfire vs cooking) overall, id say my top 5 all around varieties are: ash, hard maple, soft maple, walnut, and oak. For coals. Oak, honey locust, sugar maple, beech and white ash. For grilling. Sugar maple, apple, cherry, white/post oak and hickory. Ash, too. ( the flavor works surprisingly well with chicken!) Id love to try some sassafras on a campfire- it smells like root beer! Your mileage may vary- i live where theres a very diverse forest, with essentially all the hatdwoods. If you live elsewhere, youll have a different variety and different favorites.

[@OntarioFirewoodResource]

I would say easy from spruce and pine for starting cooking fires. Obviously using a small amount and having it burn off somewhat makes a difference. I'm sure I've burned dry pine with oak branches harvested drom the forest to cook my burgers in my early days camping up at the lake, but I'm a purist. I only due one flavour on my bbq. Last year I cooked on the fireout at the rental cabin but it tasted bad, probably because of all the garbage burned in it

[@pyroman6000]

@@OntarioFirewoodResource Yeah, people that burn garbage in those campfire rings etc. deserve to be booted repeatedly in the shins with steel toed boots.

[@littlegriffoffgridalberta6837]

Nice woodstove ! nice big firebox and good Idea to put stone or brick like you have there,

[@OntarioFirewoodResource]

Thank you! Got that stove and previous units all for free through my scrap metal business. I should've mentioned the bricks. Also I wss drying my submgar maple smoker wood chunks on top to keep up demand with a smokehouse customer 🤣

[@littlegriffoffgridalberta6837]

@@OntarioFirewoodResource Well if you going to be in the woods getting wood to sell you might just as well be using stuff others really don't want, I have built 5 different stoves in the last 15 years. you will see the long legs on my big shop stove so I don't have to bend to put the big blocks in,

[@jeffdutton2500]

I find it best to keep the coal bed hot and keep the fire ready to burn if it's not still flame when I add wood. But I like to have a couple inches of ashes in the bottom to keep the coal bed insulated and near the logs for burning.

[@OntarioFirewoodResource]

Ive always left the ashes for a few burns even before I thought of the insulation effect. I've had a few stoves over the years and some havent been airtight, while some have and there's hot coals the next day, sometimes not. Thanks for watching

[@DanielAtkinsFirewood]

Good information, Anthony..😁👍

[@OntarioFirewoodResource]

Thanks man, cheers!

[@ChappysTikiBar]

great tips 😎 full watching

[@OntarioFirewoodResource]

Thank you sir! I got that stove and the few I've had before from scrap!

[@firewoodathome]

👍👍

[@OntarioFirewoodResource]

There's wood burning, then there's doing it right!

[@johnbutler5208]

Try using rubbing alcohol in a cat food can works great and no smoke.

[@OntarioFirewoodResource]

I'll try that one day!

[@kolyakozlov]

I would add magic heat to your chimney that will be a lot better

[@OntarioFirewoodResource]

Magic heat? I've never heard of that

[@noelstractors-firewood57]

Great video Anthony. Watch out that the environmental nuts don’t come and take you away 😂😂🤣🤣 How wide is the stove. 29” deep in a big stove. Radiant heat is what burning your knees there Anthony. As I’m writing this my knees are hot from the stove door open. I’d tell what I burn in my stove, but then the environmental nuts might be after me. 😂😂🤣🤣👍🏻🇨🇦

[@OntarioFirewoodResource]

Thank you! Watermelons beware! Stove is probably about 18 inches wide

[@robertblacksmith4355]

Had to buy a new Woodstove this year with secondary burner! doesnt draw smoke like my old stove get some smoke in the room if not careful(has a flat brick inside with tubes)wife gets made!!Thats a big deep stove you have Anthony Bricks are for heat retention around the stove?

[@OntarioFirewoodResource]

The nee stuff has better designs as the science was implemented more. I've had a number of units starting with a Sears wood furnace, all of them acquired through my scrap metal business. My last one was a lot nicer and cleaner, gray paint. The top edge curled 90 degrees over the front with two rectangle vents under it located on the sides of the front section.