Wood Plate in a Glenwood No. 8...Works Great
- Pancho
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Don't hate.
500F on the barrel, just shy of 200F on the stack in BB mode. I don't have it choked down, hence the high stack temp.
Just taking the chill off on this fine fall day.
500F on the barrel, just shy of 200F on the stack in BB mode. I don't have it choked down, hence the high stack temp.
Just taking the chill off on this fine fall day.
- D-frost
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Pancho,
Sooooppah!!! I got a wood plate from Wilson, when I brought the Herald 'Fireside' oak home. I'm planning on using that as soon as it gets a little bit cool at night.
Cheers
Sooooppah!!! I got a wood plate from Wilson, when I brought the Herald 'Fireside' oak home. I'm planning on using that as soon as it gets a little bit cool at night.
Cheers
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Just make sure your wood fuel is properly seasoned.....not sorda seasoned.
I've kept a small fire going all day with no issues and I do like the wood smoke smell.
I've kept a small fire going all day with no issues and I do like the wood smoke smell.
- BlueMountains
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Your not the only one who has committed the worste sin ever......wood burning in a Glenwood No.8, that thing rock and rolls with wood as well.
PS: not sure if I will put it in baseburner much because cleaning out the creo would suck in the bottom part of the stove.
PS: not sure if I will put it in baseburner much because cleaning out the creo would suck in the bottom part of the stove.
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- Pancho
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I burned it off and on for a couple weeks at the end of the last heating season....BUT USED PROPERLY SEASONED WOOD.....no creosote issues.BlueMountains wrote:Your not the only one who has committed the worste sin ever......wood burning in a Glenwood No.8, that thing rock and rolls with wood as well.
PS: not sure if I will put it in baseburner much because cleaning out the creo would suck in the bottom part of the stove.
Wilson burns wood in his range. If you can burn wood in a range, you can burn wood in anything.
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Correct Poncho, I talked with Wilson shortly after I purchased the wood plate from him earlier this year. He states that around 250-300 is what you need to keep creo from forming in your exhaust pipe with wood. If your buring in the Glenwood with Wood in baseburner mode your temps drop at or below 200 so the creo should and will drop out mostly in the baseburner sections. Guess im just happy (lazy) to get rid of my Hearthstone Equinox (worthless and soul sucking) and love getting blasted by the Glenwood in direct draft mode. Not trying to be greedy with baseburner mode with wood. I did try it and wow....impressed.
Blue
Blue
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It's not cold enough here to burn around the clock. Nice to have a fire to take out the chill/dampness at night. I stack my firewood outside on pallets(skids) . I re-cycle the oldest skids into firewood every season, when I put 4 cord into the wood shed, and mix with dry birch(1-2yr.) in the stoves. It makes a nice hot fire. 'Black rock' season usually starts here about mid December.
Cheers
Cheers
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She's a porker idn't she?.BlueMountains wrote:Correct Poncho, I talked with Wilson shortly after I purchased the wood plate from him earlier this year. He states that around 250-300 is what you need to keep creo from forming in your exhaust pipe with wood. If your buring in the Glenwood with Wood in baseburner mode your temps drop at or below 200 so the creo should and will drop out mostly in the baseburner sections. Guess im just happy (lazy) to get rid of my Hearthstone Equinox (worthless and soul sucking) and love getting blasted by the Glenwood in direct draft mode. Not trying to be greedy with baseburner mode with wood. I did try it and wow....impressed.
Blue
I love the fact that I can run it either way and then also, the temp range you can run with coal is incredible. Idle it so you can barely tell it's lit or turn up the wick and jump back.
My No 8 is my best purchase ever.
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Yeah, I didn't really need a fire yesterday....but it was cool and football was on so.....why the heck not?!?!.D-frost wrote:It's not cold enough here to burn around the clock. Nice to have a fire to take out the chill/dampness at night. I stack my firewood outside on pallets(skids) . I re-cycle the oldest skids into firewood every season, when I put 4 cord into the wood shed, and mix with dry birch(1-2yr.) in the stoves. It makes a nice hot fire. 'Black rock' season usually starts here about mid December.
Cheers
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Ya it was a damp day and I had a bunch of cement to cure on my fresh rebuild so I started playing with a wood fire last night and late Saturday as well after I got the pipe all hooked up. Last night I got it warm enough to use base mode for a half hour to try and cure the bottom pan. before I put big heat to this thing. I never got over 375-400 on the barrel and stack was around 200*. mica windows are dirty now !:mad: I cant wait for a chilly damp October weekend to play with my first load of coal.
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I should have added that im burning on the grates the wood plate was probably lost many moons ago.
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Wilson has plenty ofd those wood register plates. Pm him and have him send one out to you. Unless your in for a little road trip.
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Like the man says .... I refuse to gum up those base burner passages with the unseasoned stuff that is sold around here and pretends to be wood.My No 8 is my best purchase ever.
- Pancho
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.....which one?.coalnewbie wrote:Damn, I got one of those things with the #8. It makes a terrible cheese grater but is showing promise as a salad strainer. I wondered what it was for.
Like the man says .... I refuse to gum up those base burner passages with the unseasoned stuff that is sold around here and pretends to be wood.My No 8 is my best purchase ever.
And yes, I cannot emphasize enough......sorda dry doesn't count. Properly seasoned ONLY.
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I can vouch for what happens if the wood is not properly seasoned, and not burned with proper damper settings ! I wish the previous owner of my range knew as much about burning wood in a kitchen range as Wilson does !BlueMountains wrote:Correct Poncho, I talked with Wilson shortly after I purchased the wood plate from him earlier this year. He states that around 250-300 is what you need to keep creo from forming in your exhaust pipe with wood. If your buring in the Glenwood with Wood in baseburner mode your temps drop at or below 200 so the creo should and will drop out mostly in the baseburner sections. Guess im just happy (lazy) to get rid of my Hearthstone Equinox (worthless and soul sucking) and love getting blasted by the Glenwood in direct draft mode. Not trying to be greedy with baseburner mode with wood. I did try it and wow....impressed.
Blue
Melissa and I stumbled across our 1903 Glenwood range at a wood stove shop. Whoever owned it last had traded it in for a new wood stove. They obviously didn't know how to burn wood in an antique with base heater flues. They loaded the flues with a thick, tarry layer of creosote. Stunk so bad with that stale creosote smell that I had to keep the range out by the shop until I was able to scrape, chisel, and brush it out. Not an easy job to reach into the flues and do that !
Even with well seasoned wood, you don't want to be burning wood in a range if your not sure how to set the dampers to keep it burning clean !!!!
Here's pix of Wilson's 1879 Glenwood Sunny range running on wood. In the back ground is my #6 that he was getting ready to demonstrate for me - with wood.
In less than five minutes after he put a match to the kindling he had that #6 in base heater mode. I was pleasantly surprised at how quickly noticeable the heat output was. Plus, how it evenly distributed the heat down low. In oven (base heater) mode, my range doesn't throw that much heat below the knees as the #6 did while standing next to it !
Paul