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What is this EPA y'all keep speaking of?

Buford: If you get a moisture meter, and your wood is, indeed, dry, then maybe I am not as smart as I thought. Any wood should be dry in seven years. Do you have it stacked under a roof, or what?

If that wood is dry then please go over to hearth.com and see what they say.

I'll go check that site out. Thanks for the link.

I do plan to get the moisture meter but my wood is in a woodshed that has a roof and is only open on one side. The floor is gravel. The wood is stored in the back, stacked on pressure treated lumber so it is not on the gravel floor.

For the record, I enjoy my stove. I use it for auxiliary heat. Usually, it is fine for Alabama cold (think 30 degree nights followed by 65 degree days). I'd enjoy it more if I could keep the heat pump from ever coming on.

Thanks for the info.

The reason I responded to your post in such a fashion, the same thing happened to me. After years of burning various old time stoves, including the 55 gallon drum, I got my first EPA approved stove in 1999. Waterford stove made in Ireland. Cost $1400.

I cut and split the wood in March as usual, fired up the Waterford in November, and the coals wouldn't burn down! In 3 hours the damn thing was stacked 2/3 full with red hot coals. Eight month old dried wood had always worked before. I was as puzzled as you are.

I got on to hearth.com and they straightened me out, and I got a moisture meter, and it has been smooth sailing since, now, with the pricey Norwegian stove.

Simonkenton7: That is a great site. I plan to spend a bit of time there. Thanks.

Here is one thread discussing what I mentioned: https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads...-to-open-discussion.191546/#post-2572534

I've got a lot of learning to do. That's half the fun, though.

A question regarding pellets.

Can you keep them for several years unused or will they collect moisture?

well I've got an outdoor wood boiler. put it in I think 05 have done very little maintenance some but not much. actually heats our hot water as well as the heat for the house. we actually burn wood 365 days a year. it doesn't take much wood at all for the hot water you feel the wood box like every 10 days to 2 weeks at the most. of course when it's cold weather in the winter just feel it twice a day even sometimes that ain't necessary. wood cutting does get old. but all of our wood is free just go outside and start cleaning stuff up and cutting very selling do I cut new trees down there's enough dead standing and deadfall to take care of everything.
if I've had anything to change I will damn sure have a water softener put in front of the system to fill this boiler. we have very hard water here and liming can be an issue.