Re: Burning pine,
its my understanding that softwoods have more volitile organic carbons in them that only burn at very high temperatures. Since most people don't like to run their stove hot enough to burn all the VOC's so they condense in the chimney as creosote creating a chimney fire hazard.
So its important to keep the temps up, but especially when burning softwood, given that your starting with a clean chimney. If you think your chimney is gunked up then clean it and then start having hotter shorter fires.
Ian
Doh! just realized that the previous post said everything I did...
Last edited by IndyIan; 10-16-08 at 02:25 PM..
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