Wood stove heat

[davidwyby]

Bellows FTW

 

[Kaveman]

I've always kept about 2 and a half feet of half inch or smaller copper pipe near the stove. One end is flared for a compression fitting, the other is flattened off, nearly closed. Makes a nice fan shaped pattern that helps wake the coals quite quickly.

A hand bellows is much better, but the copper pipe was always free, and gives the kiddos something to do to help.

 

[cory]

B, your bellows story reminds me of when my wife got me a 4 wheel wheelbarrow for Xmas. I was like r u feeling ok, I have 2 (regular) wheelbarrows already. Well sure enough it is awesome and I haven’t used a regular one in a few years. Great for firewood tasks.
Geez, women!

 

[Marc-Antoine]

What I dislike with the hand bellows is the air flow in surges and nothing in-between. The generated heat is blown away and inconsistent. I prefer a slow but steady flow by the lungs. It's still interrupted but that gives more time for the small flame or embers to thaw a given area.

 

[davidwyby]

I’ve used a cheap leaf blower

 

[Cobleskill]

Works good. Probably not great for indoors.

I heard about a guy sucking ashes out of his pellet stove with a shop vac. Tried to do it before waiting long enough. It was shooting sparks out of the exhaust. Whoopsie.

 

[Dave Shepard]

A high end event space/restaurant had a fire in several of their guest room in December. One of the guests was worried about leaving the ashes in the fireplace before going to dinner, so she shoveled them into the wicker wastebasket.

 

[SeanKroll]

Alcohol and fire are a dangerous combo.

Poor judgment and fire are a disaster waiting to happen.

I rented a room in my house one winter. She did Not use the wood stove.

 

[Cobleskill]

My neighbor dodged a big bullet doing something similar. The daughter cleaned out the Ben Franklin ashes into a paper sack. She set the paper sack out on the recessed front porch. In the morning the hot embers had a 1 foot diameter hole charred in the floor right where a bunch of floor joists came together in a configuration just like a fire starting tepee. Their was lattice on the underneath for good air circulation. Golden horse shoe was all I could say.