Forced air ,kind of

[Al_Smith]

I had a lapse of memory last night when I banked the fire in the wood stove.Left the damper wide open .Well of course this morning it was down to just  a few coals .Aha 1000 degree heat gun ,good one .Within about 3 minutes I could have melted a horse shoe .You put the air to dry white oak it gets pretty hot pretty quick . ;D

[SwampDonkey]

It does with rock maple and beech to. When I used to boil water for steam for bending wood, rock maple and beech was the best to get enough steam from my boiler barrel.

[Al_Smith]

Beech makes a good fire .

[John Mc]

Beech makes a good fire .

One of my favorite firewood species. Oak is nice, but it takes forever to dry. If I need to, I can cut, split and stack Beech in late spring and still have it down around 15% MC by the time heating season rolls around (and Vermont isn't exactly known for having a long, prime wood-drying season).

[thecfarm]

That chimney is clean now.

[submarinesailor]

The wife did that one time.  Yes the pipe was clean, but I had to repaint the outside of it because she burnt the paint off it.  Good thing I brought the thicker walled pipe.  The thin stuff most likely would have failed.

Bruce