What do you burn in your stove?

[GUMPY]

as title really. 

Do you stick to smokeless fuels and dried wood or are you an anti social B'stard

[Athy]

A somewhat biased question!

I ticked smokeless coal and "seasoned wood" because even though it wasn't felled 2 years ago it certainly isn't wet - current stock was felled and cheesed up about 6 months ago. This is in our home, not boat, stove, as we rarely use the one in the boat.

[cuthound]

There is no option for diesel (I have a oil drip stove) ?

[Athy]

No provision for a "write-in candidate" either!

[rusty69]

I usually leave it to Mrs Rusty. She's burning chicken tonite,chicken tonite.......chicken tonite!

[tree monkey]

Smokeless coal, I used to burn 100% seasoned wood, no coal at all.

Wood doesn't always need 2 years to season by the way

[mrsmelly]

3 minutes ago, tree monkey said:

Smokeless coal, I used to burn 100% seasoned wood, no coal at all.

Wood doesn't always need 2 years to season by the way

You dont burn wood cos it would be murder!!

[dor]

I used to burn well-seasoned wood as well as smokeless fuel, but gave up using wood as it clogged up the flue too much and on top of the baffle plate, which was a real pain to remove.  Still need to clean the flue and the junk on top of the baffle plate, but nowhere near as often.

 

Edited to clarify what i was giving up (see mrsmelly's post below)!

Edited October 2, 2018 by dor
clarification

[Dr Bob]

I put conkers in mine last week and they smelt nice.

[mrsmelly]

4 minutes ago, dor said:

I used to burn well-seasoned wood as well as smokeless fuel, but gave it up as it clogged up the flue too much and on top of the baffle plate, which was a real pain to remove.  Still need to clean the flue and the junk on top of the baffle plate, but nowhere near as often.

What did you give up?

[rusty69]

3 minutes ago, Dr Bob said:

I put conkers in mine last week and they smelt nice.

Try sweet chestnuts.Much tastier. Eating conkers is just bonkers (specially if you don't peel em first)

[Dr Bob]

1 minute ago, dor said:

I used to burn well-seasoned wood as well as smokeless fuel, but gave it up as it clogged up the flue too much and on top of the baffle plate, which was a real pain to remove.  Still need to clean the flue and the junk on top of the baffle plate, but nowhere near as often.

I agree with this. The problem I find is that as the boat is a very small volume, the stove is usually in tick over mode to generate the heat needed. Ok in the very cold weather, you turn up the wick but it is in tick over more than not. This then causes an issue as the 'tars' distilling out of the wood - even in well seasoned stuff - condense on the flue. Ours is a lot cleaner with coal - but I do burn some wood but certainly not overnight like I used to do on our house stove years back.

[dor]

12 minutes ago, mrsmelly said:

What did you give up?

Good point!

It was the wood I gave up.

 

(previous post now edited)

Edited October 2, 2018 by dor

[Guest]

No option for those compressed wood logs/discs.

 

We have tried them with good results.

[cuthound]

8 minutes ago, Dr Bob said:

I put conkers in mine last week and they smelt nice.

 

Why, was there spiders living in your stove? ?

[Dr Bob]

2 minutes ago, cuthound said:

 

Why, was there spiders living in your stove? ?

Ha!

No, the duck had collected them to play conkers but was having a problem holding the string. I thought I would improve the ambience (speeling?) of the cabin.

[tree monkey]

1 minute ago, MJG said:

No option for those compressed wood logs/discs.

 

We have tried them with good results.

Storage is the problem I think, let your coal or logs get rained on not ideal but no big deal, the compressed brickett things tend to explode

 

5 minutes ago, Dr Bob said:

I agree with this. The problem I find is that as the boat is a very small volume, the stove is usually in tick over mode to generate the heat needed. Ok in the very cold weather, you turn up the wick but it is in tick over more than not. This then causes an issue as the 'tars' distilling out of the wood - even in well seasoned stuff - condense on the flue. Ours is a lot cleaner with coal - but I do burn some wood but certainly not overnight like I used to do on our house stove years back.

Agreed, well seasoned wood is a great fuel but the fire and flue needs more cleaning than purely coal use, especially when slumbering 

[rusty69]

7 minutes ago, cuthound said:

 

Why was there spiders living in your stove? ?

Cos there was no room left on the ecofan.

Edited October 2, 2018 by rusty69

[Athy]

21 minutes ago, MJG said:

No option for those compressed wood logs/discs.

 

We have tried them with good results.

I'd forgotten about those.  We had a couple of bags of them about two winters ago (can't remember the brand name) and they were a good stand-by if we didn't hav eany actual wood left. Having had a 50' weeping willow pollarded this spring, there should be no such shortage this winter.

[Detling]

Currently royal oak blocks. Off cuts from a oak framed barn on Prince Charles's estate. He supplied the oak from his woodlands and it has been seasoned for 10 years. It burns beautifully, very little ash and no smoke. Unfortunately I only have a bit left now and there is no more.

[GUMPY]

I understood willow was only useful for cricket bats not for burning!

 

[mark99]

Coal on bote with occaisional seasoned log for boost.

 

Seasoned hardwood at 'ome. But we are smokeless in Lahndon.

 

I got some smokeless coal from B+Q - utter crap.

 

 

 

 

Edited October 2, 2018 by mark99

[tree monkey]

1 minute ago, Detling said:

Currently royal oak blocks. Off cuts from a oak framed barn on Prince Charles's estate. He supplied the oak from his woodlands and it has been seasoned for 10 years. It burns beautifully, very little ash and no smoke. Unfortunately I only have a bit left now and there is no more.

Now that would have been an interesting project

1 minute ago, Loddon said:

I understood willow was only useful for cricket bats not for burning!

 

Nope, it's a fine timber to burn if seasoned properly 

[Sea Dog]

There should be a "Dead Badgers" box in the survey. I'm convinced there's quite folk a few burning those judging by the smoke, smell and trails of goo down the side of boats I've passed.

 

[mark99]

This is a smoking topic.

 

Branches?

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-45718990

Edited October 2, 2018 by mark99