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by 63roundbadge » Sun. Jan. 27, 2013 2:15 pm
I've been burning pea forever, I'm experimenting with nut lately at a suggestion to produce more BTU's on these single digit nights.
What a learning experience this has been. I almost lost my fire 3 times so far. Nut volume is much less than pea due to larger and irregular size, a hopper full does not last as long for me.
MY 2 cents is that wherever there's ash, there's non-productive coal, and often for me the underfire air is going to take the path of least resistance through the ash and/or voids in the black coal instead of traveling through the red productive coal. Nut provides more voids for the air to take which does not fire the red coal. I also find that I can't let the ash be in the upper coal bed, only on the grate.
I hope this makes sense?