Judging Firewood Moisture Content. Drolet Eastwood 1800, Eastwood 1800 DB03161

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• sounds dull,

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• damp, it is too wet,

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4.3 Manufactured Logs

You could buy a wood moisture meter to test your firewood. and damage your stove.

You can find out if some firewood is dry enough to burn by using these guidelines: to grey or yellow, bang two pieces of wood together; seasoned wood sounds hollow and wet wood split a piece, and if the fresh face feels warm and dry it is dry enough to burn; if it feels burn a piece; wet wood hisses and sizzles in the fire and dry wood does not.

You could buy a wood moisture meter to test your

Do not burn manufactured logs made of wax impregnated sawdust or logs with any chemical additives. Manufactured logs made of 100% compressed sawdust can be burned, but use caution in the number of these logs burned at one time. Start with one manufactured log and see how the stove reacts. You can increase the number of logs making sure the temperature never rises higher than 475 °F (246 °C) on a magnetic thermometer for installation on single wall stove pipes or 900 °F (482 °C) on

The thermometer should can lead to overheat

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