[Stoves] RE Lanny Henson's Center Fire Stove 01

[Crispin Pemberton-Pigott]

Dear Lanny

You wrote about the smoke:

>The exhaust was clear most of the time but there
>were to many whiffs of dark smoke.

Pine is a really smokey fuel so don't be too surprised.  The smoke cannot 
always be burned at the secondary stage.  It sounds like to have a decent 
fire most of the time.  I find that oven-dried wood is not realistic for 
testing because to burn it properly, you have to build the stove differently 
which is pretty pointless because no one is going to treat their wood like 
that before using it. The moisture moderates the burn rate and with a 
resinous fuel it makes a big difference smokewise.

>Sun dried pine chips burned more cleanly with only short
>period of a few whiffs.

My point exactly.

Regards
Crispin