OPERATING YOUR DROLET WOOD STOVE
FUEL
Your stove was designed to burn wood only. No other type of fuel should be used. Waste and other flammable materials are prohibited. Any type of wood may be used in your stove, but specific varieties have better energy yields than others. Please consult the following table in order to make the best possible choice.
AVERAGE ENERGY YIELD OF ONE AIR DRIED CORD OF CUT WOOD |
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High Energy Yield |
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Oak | 29 | Sugar Maple | 28 | Beech | 26 |
Medium Energy Yield |
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Yellow birch | 25 | Ash | 24 | Elm | 23 |
Larch (Tamarack) | 23 | Red Maple | 23 | Douglas red fir | 23 |
Silver birch | 22 |
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Low Energy Yield |
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Alder | 18 | Poplar | 17 | Hemlock | 17 |
Spruce | 17 | Pine | 17 | Bass | 16 |
Fir | 13 |
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Data provided by Energy, Mines and Resources - Canada
It is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT that you only use DRY WOOD in your wood stove. The wood must have dried for 9 to 15 months, so that the humidity content is reduced below 20% of the weight of the log. It is very important to keep in mind that even if the wood has been cut for one, two or even more years, it is not necessarily dry, especially if it has been stored in poor conditions. Under extreme conditions, it may even have rotten instead of drying. This point cannot be overstressed enough; the vast majority of the problems related to the operation of a wood stove is caused by the fact that the wood used was too damp or had dried in poor conditions. These problems can be:
-Ignition problems.
-Creosote
-Low energy yield.
-Blackened glass door.
-Incomplete log combustion.
-Etc.
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