Skip lump and burn woodchunks

acs55812 · November 2009

Does/has anyone skipped burning lump as a primary fuel and burned small chunks of firewood for a primary fuel?

I am thinking of use the lump to get a coal bed but chunks of maple as a primary fuel.

I get maple by the loggers cord to heat the house, and it seems quite a waste of cash by comparison to pay a buck a pound for lump when maple is .27 cents per pound.

Little Steven · November 2009

It`s been talked about here and I think the result was too much ash and too much smoke flavour.

Steve

bubba tim · November 2009

Make your own lump with the maple. Fire it up and get it fully engulfed, then close the vents and come back the next morning. We do that with mequite all the time..

tjv · November 2009

I'm not sure you could control temps well enough to make it work for low and slows. The wood is to dense to keep an even burn with limited air intake. Let us know how it works out. t

Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker · November 2009

you can't burn wood as hot as you can lump....

seems counterintuitive, but it's the truth.

and your ash production will quickly become a problem.

there's a reason stone age man made charcoal insteada just using wood.

Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker · November 2009

that's true....

i'm sure most folks here have found that their unused wood chunks have become charcoal after they shut down.

it looks 'burnt' (as in 'used up') but isn't.

Skip lump and burn woodchunks

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