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Running them full-throttle about 30 minutes per week lessens the need to sweep them often.

Yearly or so.

Burn 3-4 year dried juniper, and usually a hot fire every week or so. Let the slow burning ones die out if we get a sunny day, clean out the ashes, then start her back up when the house starts to cool down in the evening. Burn a good hot one to get some coals going. The big chunks that burn for 3-4 hours.

Not much creosote and soot when we do clean it.

Geno

juniper

I got one of them out by the lamp post near the gate, the feral tom cat whizzes on it. lol

We have a small well insulated house,
heated with an add on wood/coal furnace.
Stack temp almost never gets to 300 degrees,
unless I'm doing the almost daily 500-550 burn out.

So, we get build up.

I like to brush before the first fire (didn't this year)
And what I figure is halfway through the winter.


I can tell if it's not drawing right, frequently the horizontal
pipe going to the wall gets a bit of build up.
Amazing how little it takes to affect draw.

The present chimney has only been in use for about 24 years and I burn it hot and wide open at least once a week. I've never swept it and have no plans to. The chimney is a 7 inch Selkirk about 20feet long. We heat with wood exclusively and burn mostly lodgepole pine and larch. GD

I usually add it to my summer to do list. ...and if we get a warm day or two "mid-winter," around January, I'll shut her down and give it a swab. Its always just a thin buildup of dry, crusty creosote that turns to dust when you swab the stack.

I burn seasoned hardwood: mostly maple and cherry, with a bit of ash, and oak. It's my primary heat source, so it burns nearly non-stop, late October through mid-April, give or take. I'm sure that helps to keep it clean.

Annually if burning tamarack (larch). Pre and mid-season if burning pine, which I don't do anymore. Have catalytic unit.

I get mine inspected/cleaned every year. Usually only about a cup of junk comes out of it. I could almost certainly go to every other year, but I do get some peace of mind knowing it's been inspected.

Usually burn off the screen every nickel bag.
Good clean screen hits and flows smooth
Pretty good nose hit from it also
Just dont hold it too close to your nose.
As far as the inside of the pipe assesmbly.
I let that resin up pretty good before i scrape it out.
That is excellent stuff to burn
But letting a bud sitting inside the smoke chamber getting resined up also affects smoke flow.
That is also really really excellent stuff to burn
Put a screen inside the intake also.
Alllows more resin absorption on a bud by slowing smoke and more time in the chamber.


Ahh the good ole days of the late 70,s and early 80,s.....
Lol!!!

Once a year as long as I’m burning well seasoned.

You unscrew the aerators out of the faucets in the public library? Those commercial deltas made the best bowl screens. Torch em blue hot one good time so you don't get a rentina migraine.

You two Tennesseeans are hilarious.

Smokin' resinous screens?

Sure, when I run outa cash to get good bud.

You guys prolly spiked your juice boxes with bong water too, so you could keep the high going at school.

Geno

Huh????
Thats what the dugout and brass pinch hitter was for.
Study hall,,,,,pretend your asleep.

Not.

Hold it till nothing exhaled.

LOL!!!

HELL......I had teachers ask what a pot pipe looked like in high school.
Showed my woodshop teacher my brass chamber pipe .
Had a lid with a fire hole on the bowl loaded up and ready to go.
Let him see it, examine it, explained it to him.
He handed it back.
It hit with my lighter right in front of him.
Big ole toke.....

LMFAO!!!


Same teacher also let me assembled a .50 cal trapper/ hawken pistol in wood shop.
Made a velvet lined and contoured foam padded red cedar box for it.
Went to take it all home.
He said bring in your powder, balls, caps and patches tommorow
We will test fire it behind the metal shop.
Had my history teacher , wood shop teacher, metal shop teacher, and asst principle all out their the next day shooting my pistol with me
Got the front sight filed down , didnt have ta drift the rear very much at all.
Bout 2 and half hours of us all shooting the thing during school hours

He also taught me how to properly sharpen knives with his stones during my freshman year.
He seen after a few times i had some skill putting an edge on steel.
Got to the point where deer season would hit and i would have knives to sharpen for alot of friends and teachers at school.
started refinishing gunstocks also in high school
Never charged anyone, teachers or friends for either
Kept me busy during woodshop.
During my junior and senior years i could sign into woodshop in leiu of study halls.
I had alot of study halls those years.
I jammed up my credits freshman and sophmore years.
Figured it all out early on how to jumble time to my advantage.

Also kinda made me untouchable in alot of peoples eye,s
I used the skills i had making and fixing schitt to my advantage at times in high school .not ashamed to admit it that at all



LOL!!!

That's some good goin's on there.

Never had the teachers act like that, they were mostly old folks and didn't go for the new ways.

Dugouts? nah, we used the handball courts (do they even have them things anywhere outside of the joint now?)

We did have a teacher that ran our summer archaeology program, let us take .22s on the digs.

Ah, the good ol' days, eh?

Geno

Don't burn wood anymore except at the remote cabin, but when I did, it was every fall. I gotta get rid of those two sets of brushes I have in the garage. I'll keep the one at the cabin- I use that every few years, as we aren't there much.

Dugout
Aka bout the size of a deck of cards
Hollowed out wooden container with grooved sliding lid
Compartment to hold herb in and another drilled out to hold small straight brass 3 inch smoking apparatus pressed into herb compartment easily to.fill

Very popular item in the 1970,s growing up in maine
Easily made in wood and metal shop
Some very well crafted .
Everyone had one or was asking people to make one for em.
I had like 5 or 6 hot cheerleaders while in high school come up to me on the sly asking me to make em a pretty dugout.

Never got in any of their pants, but it spread my influence around to my advantage.

Kinda like learning at an early age how to win over and influence people.

This^^^^
My Quadrafire burns clean.

Swept last week and a quart of dust came down 23' of pipe after three years.

When it needs it.
There are lots of variables.

If your fires are hot enough, it's possible it will never need cleaning.
If your fires are too cool and the chimney too small, it may need it every few weeks.

Once a year whether it needs it or not. Clean/inspect and check the roof Trying not to fall off.

Main thing is don’t fall off the roof