5 Woods That Set Chimneys on Fire. Number 2 Is Stacked Against Half the Houses in America.

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• DA

  @daleshewchuk3523 · 4 days ago

  Best informational channel on youtube! A trustworthy friend at your fingertips!

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• BE

  @bernardflood8289 · 4 days ago

  Greetings from Ireland. My chimney is 11'x3' at the bottom and taper's inward as it rises. It finally necks down to around 4'6"x12" at the very top. I burn a variety of coal and wood from old pallets (I learned about them from one of your videos, thanks) quite a lot of ash. I always burn my fire wide open, I don't mind a cool house in the morning. If the weather is extra cold I'll get up in the middle of the night and put more fuel on the fire and let it burn wide open. This works well for me but now I have new knowledge and that is always a good thing.

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• KY

  @kyleroenigk6530 · 4 days ago

  Ontario Canada. Soft maple and birch for quick hot fires and ironwood and hard maple for overnight. No elm on property we cut our wood from.

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• IS

  @islandrecycling7944 · 20 hours ago

  State of Maine. I&apos;ve burned mostly softwood spruce for the last 40 years. Some years we burn 7 cord if fuel oil prices are high. I usually clean the chimney a couple of times a season. It only takes 20 minutes or so.<br><br> I generally load the basement with five cord of seasoned sometime in the early fall. The fire is sometimes a little slow for the first couple of weeks and then you can almost start the stove with a match once the wood has been in storage with constantly dry air surrounding it.<br><br> There&apos;s not much talk about draft over the fire in this video. That varies with the wind, the air pressure, and the heat of the chimney &amp; stove.<br><br> Sometimes you have to all but close the air intake and damper on a windy day to keep your stove from running to hard.<br><br> Sometimes you have to open the air intake and damper wide on a dead calm day when the air pressure is low just to get any draft at all.<br><br> There&apos;s an art to it. Every stove and chimney combination is unique.

• RI

  @RickYager-d4s · 1 day ago

  Central Minnesota, white and red oak, hard maple, paper birch. I like to burn pine early and late. &nbsp;There are a lot of people I know that burn wood that do NOT use a moisture meter.

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• SL

  @slabROCKMAN · 1 day ago

  EASY &quot;PARTNER&quot;! Nothing wrong with burning cottonwood. It is the best for mixing in during the fall when temps are mild.

• JO

  @joesabol8652 · 4 days ago

  90^ oak, poplar for kindling and sometimes used early in the day during shoulder seasons. &nbsp;All my wood, all seasoned 2 years, all checked with moisture meter. &nbsp;No issues with my annual cleanings. &nbsp;And as you said, if you fark it up, the glass is a quick tell! &nbsp;Maryland, BTW, but started this wood thing in WV....

• MA

  @Mary-f8g9i · 4 days ago

  Colorado. &nbsp;Aspen and Pine pretty much are the woods grown and burned in our area. &nbsp;We us aspen.

• BL

  @blackened18019 · 17 hours ago (edited)

  Minnesota res.<br>Burn any dry wood at the right temperature, (~400-450 deg.f.) and you&apos;ll never have to clean your chimney. My wood stove has 35 years of burning oak, ash, black locust, maple, elm and yes, pine. My chimney has red from the firebrick still showing. Near zero creosote condensation. Have dead elms, will burn. Elm does leave the most ash in the firebox tho.

• MA

  @martinschulz9381 · 4 days ago

  No science, the key to safety and success is dry the wood properly. &nbsp; Simply stack it in the woodshed and manage the shed so you&apos;re always burning the oldest wood. &nbsp;If you see black wet looking buildup in your stove or pipe, the wood isn&apos;t dry enough. &nbsp; I can&apos;t believe in this day and age that people are still using kindling to start fires.

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• JO

  @johnhasse3995 · 3 days ago

  WV &nbsp; I burn everything. (and clean my chimney every other week)

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• NE

  @neverettebrakensiek8771 · 4 days ago

  Shingle oak good to burn ?