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The Importance of Burning a HOT Fire
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Heat transfers to cold spontaneously
When you start a fire, the heat rushes up to the top of the chimney. Once the fire is going well, the entire chimney becomes hot. In order to maintain a clean and safe chimney, you have to keep the chimney pipe above 212. Below 212 is when residue (creosote) adheres to the chimney surface. Because pressed wood smokless logs burn hotter than tree wood, the chimney stays above 212 and therefore remains clean longer.
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3195 Hwy 116 N. at Graton RD. by Bill's Market
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Processed wood products are easy to use, clean to store, provide more heat per pound and cut chimney emissions by as much as 55% over firewood. For people wanting a clean alternative to firewood, and an environmentally sound solution to fire-based heat, processed fuel is the answer.
Manufactured from lumber mill byproducts, processed fuel is tightly compressed dry wood shavings manufactured without chemicals or binders, making them safer for wood stoves and fireplaces. They are capable of producing over 300% more heat than conventional firewood, pound for pound, while being 96% combustible, leaving very little ash and little or no residue in your firebox or chimney.
2 Guys with a Big Truck guarantees our processed fuel products to be free of dirt, debris and binders. All logs and pellets are not created equal.
Try our logs...come by the store and purchase a few.
When you buy pallets, we'll deliver them to your home!
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Break a log into "cookies" - small, easily burnable pieces - by using a chisel or screw driver and hammer as shown in the drawing. Each "cookie" should be about 1" or so wide. |
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Place one "cookie" in the center of your fireplace or wood stove. Take a Fire-Starter from the package we provide with each pallet of logs, and place it in the center of the "cookie." Light the Fire-Starter with a match or wand butane lighter. |
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Place three more "cookies," leaning up against the first, in a triangle around the first horizontal "cookie" so that the flames touch their edges. Then place a 5th "cookie" on top of the pile in the center to pull the flames up. |
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 | 4. | When this small pile has begun to burn well, place 2 half-logs (split the way you did with the "cookies" above) leaning onto the angled "cookies" for support and with their rough edges places into the flames. |
| The Starter Fire should burn with 1 and 1/2 to 2 logs and heat the house for 2 and 1/2 to 3 hours. When the logs are red-through and beginning to crumble - add one or two logs to the red-hot bed of coals. Open the vents/air control to allow the new load to achieve a full flame before controlling the air once more.
WARNING: Pressed wood logs are moisture sensitive so MUST be stored in a dry place! |
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Keep all your vents fully open to fan the flames by keeping the air flow open until the wood is burning hot!
Pressed wood logs are 2 to 3 times denser than tree wood and therefore take longer to get hot. Allow the fire to burn vigorously until the stove and pipe are HOT! Make sure the log pile is totally consumed in flames. This could take 30 to 45 minutes from the time you start the fire.
When the fire is hot enough, control the air flow just to the point where the fire is still burning. You can go outside to see if smoke is rising from your chimney. If it is, open the vents enough to allow the fire to burn smokeless. |
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