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Pardon me for being a little hard headed, but are you saying you blow out your chimney with a shot gun?Jared43758 wrote:I've had my chimney plug off a few times with creosote. I just stick my judge up the bottom and blast it out with .410 slugs and buckshot
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Chimney fires, or chimney blockages? Or both?Lightning wrote:Pardon me for being a little hard headed, but are you saying you blow out your chimney with a shot gun?Jared43758 wrote:I've had my chimney plug off a few times with creosote. I just stick my judge up the bottom and blast it out with .410 slugs and buckshot
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A "judge" is not a shotgun. It's a handgun that shoots shotgun shellsLightning wrote:Pardon me for being a little hard headed, but are you saying you blow out your chimney with a shot gun?Jared43758 wrote:I've had my chimney plug off a few times with creosote. I just stick my judge up the bottom and blast it out with .410 slugs and buckshot
I do not find this hard to believe at all from a wood burner.
When you purposely burn a fuel in a manner that is commonly known to plug up your chimney and catch on fire, how far away from that is shooting your chimney with .410 buckshot to clear out a creosote buildup?
When you purposely burn a fuel in a manner that is commonly known to plug up your chimney and catch on fire, how far away from that is shooting your chimney with .410 buckshot to clear out a creosote buildup?
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Wow. This is the first I've heard this technique. Does it take many shots? Which works better? The slugs or the bird shot?Jared43758 wrote: A "judge" is not a shotgun. It's a handgun that shoots shotgun shells
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When u tie a rope on a brick, and drop it down your chimney and it hits soild, you don't have a lot of options. Bird shot does not work well. Slugs took 4 shots. Kinda fun once u get past the nerviousness
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If your chimney is plugging up to the point that a brick won't bust through it, then you've got to change your firing technique before you have a major flue fire.
Also, you're gonna damage your chimney if you keep blasting through it with a shotgun.
For a longer consistent burn cycle, try using bigger sized coal (lump coal).
BTW, I was looking at buying a "judge" a couple years ago but didn't...maybe in the future
Also, you're gonna damage your chimney if you keep blasting through it with a shotgun.
For a longer consistent burn cycle, try using bigger sized coal (lump coal).
BTW, I was looking at buying a "judge" a couple years ago but didn't...maybe in the future
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When a firearm is fired straight up, it will likely come down close to the same spot. just saying...
Find something heavier than a brick, or clean it weekly. Something so you don't have to shoot up it. You will damage the chimney if you havent already. Please don't take this as a scolding as you gotta do what you gotta do, but look for another way, even if it isnt as fun.
Find something heavier than a brick, or clean it weekly. Something so you don't have to shoot up it. You will damage the chimney if you havent already. Please don't take this as a scolding as you gotta do what you gotta do, but look for another way, even if it isnt as fun.
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Sometimes it's plugged up...other times it's squeaky clean.Jared43758 wrote:When u tie a rope on a brick, and drop it down your chimney and it hits soild, you don't have a lot of options. Bird shot does not work well. Slugs took 4 shots. Kinda fun once u get past the nerviousness
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