Thanks for watching 👀 and commenting!! Glad you enjoyed it!!

ha ha me too. I thought I was the only one.

Thank you! I love this method!

Thanks for watching 👀 and commenting!!! I'm glad this worked out for you, and you like it!!

A bit of prep just like you do . Im building your fire just like you aswell I will never go back . Gets up to perfect temp on my thermometer so quick cheers pal . I've got video but can't seem to post it on here thanks again mate .

Thank you for your comments! I appreciate the input! I did not really address this in the video fully. There is always some degree of ash in the stove. I never remove everything entirely, say to vacuum it out perfectly clean or anything like that, for example. My stove manufacturer operator's manual also instructs to build directly on the fire brick bottom. I guess I've just always assumed the bricks are a consumable item that are going to wear out at some point and need replaced. I had to replace a few of the fire brick in my last stove at my previous residence after 3 or 4 seasons. Don't remember if it was 3 or 4. Just figured that was the average usable life, which didn't seem unreasonable to me. I guess with all that said, I've honestly really never put a ton of thought towards the brick aspect. Thank you again.

Thanks for watching 👀 and commenting!! It's a tad bit extra prep time, but it's so worth it!!

Thanks for Watching 👀 and commenting!! Love it! It's a great method, and even better with personal tweaks like yours.

I'm so glad to see this helped you! Thanks so much for watching and the comment!

Thanks for Watching 👀 and commenting!!! Thanks for the input!! We'll said!!

Thanks for mentioning the smoke backup. I failed to point that out. Another perk!

I've been starting bass ackwards thanks for info 👍

Yes sir! The quick hot ignition gets your draft in your chimney going pretty much immediately, and as the stack burns, each smaller layer feeds and ignites the next layer down. Thank you!

The radiant energy of the small fire on the top of the stack is what "cooks off" the layer below it, and that wood gas moves up into the fire and is burned, releasing heat from the smoke that would not usually get burned. So you are actually getting a hotter fire, because the smoke it burning fully.

Thank you! Thanks for watching 👀 and commenting!!

Thank you, sir! I greatly appreciate you watching and commenting!

Hope you find it valuable! I can't see wasting it myself. Thanks for the comment!

Thanks for the comments! I dont mind playing with the newspaper myself. However, your very valid point about sourcing newspapers will become an issue for me at some point for sure! For now, I have a stock pile of it that I have collected over many years, but it is slowly dwindling now that everything has gone digital. I just don't have the access I used to. With that said, another thing I do is to save tp rolls and nest them together into little logs to use as a starter.

I've been collecting the brown packing paper from parcels. Thankfully, many a parcel I get is stuffed with crumpled Kraft paper instead of those awful polystyrene chips. I make little twists with them and dunk the ends in molten wax from candle stumps and drips to aid lighting. Now I will be making knots in them as well. I find that more often than not two twists are enough as long as I use a handful of fine twigs. Birch or conifer twigs burn particularly well. As for the waxed cartons, beware, some of them are also have a plastic layer. I composted some of it once and later found the thin plastic film where the carton had rotted away from it.

You can get paper from junk mail, old catalogs, free sales papers given away at the local store, out of date phone books and paper pet food bags. Even if newspapers go away, there's still sources of paper to be found. Dry leaves will also work if you have no source of paper.

Thanks for watching 👀 and commenting!! I had to look your stove up online, as I did not know what that brand was. I see there are several sub-models of the "Clarity." Which do you have? I myself have always had large fire boxes, and I can see your challenge. Looks like you'd have to do everything in a "miniature" frame of mind. Smaller logs and splits of wood. I feel like this method could still be done on a smaller scale.

@@ridgemeadowhobbyfarm8658ekol clarity 5 I seem to babysit it a lot because I can only put one log on at a time if I squeeze two on which is difficult it goes way up to 700degrees and the installer told me to keep it in the 500 what do you think of the temperature or do you not bother about that

@Anna-jt3xu So, several things. To answer one of your questions, I do monitor my stove temperatures 🌡. I have a magnetic thermometer on it to see where it is at all times. I have a pretty large stove, and I can pack quite a bit of wood into it, and usually, my stove will run between 500 and 600. Now, depending on how much heat I want, I will use fewer logs if just to take the chill off. It will run cooler then. Secondly, I downloaded the user manual for your stove and read it. It looks like this is not meant to be a constant heat source. The manual actually says you will have to feed your fire about "every hour." Do you use your 3 air controls? From what I see, once your fire 🔥 is going well, I would try slowly closing your primary and tertiary vents to slow your burn rate. Leave the secondaries open for clean burn. I would experiment using one or the other first (primary or tertiary), then the other, then a combination of the 2 until you find the rate and temp you like. My stove only has one air control on it, so 3 seems like a lot to me... You may have to experiment with the 2 of them a bit. Just make sure you do not close any of them so much that your fire chokes and smolders. Also, the manual recommends no more than 1.4kg (3lbs) of wood per load in any combination of 1 to 4 logs. Definitely not a lot of wood. Typically, 1 larger log would take longer to burn than multiple small logs, as 1 has less surface area. Do you know what type of wood you are using? Wood 🪵 such as oak is denser and will burn longer and hotter. Less dense woods like maple or a soft wood like pine will burn quickly with less heat output. Your wood must be nice and dry also. Wet wood will make any stove run poorly. Hope all this helps!

@@ridgemeadowhobbyfarm8658 thanks for your reply yes my wood is kiln dried and I buy kindling dry it’s hard wood that I pay for £162 per pallet. I suppose it’s trial and error think I should have checked out the size before I bought it🇬🇧

@@Anna-jt3xu 👍 I spose once you find the "sweet spot" you'll get used to things. I feel like you could squeeze out over an hour between reloads. Good luck!🇺🇸